Word: moynihans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiations had become deadlocked over the proper mix of tax increases (generally favored by Democrats) and benefit cuts (generally favored by Republicans). The final days of deliberation had all the hallmarks of shuttle diplomacy. A coterie of four prominent commission members, Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, Moynihan, Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York and former Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball, huddled repeatedly with Baker, Budget Director David Stockman and other Administration officials to hammer out a package of compromises. Half a block away, at the commission's offices, five conservative members, headed by Republican Senator William Armstrong...
...meet its Jan. 15 deadline for agreement on proposals to save the ailing Social Security system was a photo finish. "You may be collecting your Social Security before we finish this commission, but I assure you it will be there when the time comes," quipped Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York as he entered Blair House, the capital's official guest residence for visiting statesmen, where the eleventh-hour negotiations took place. Administration officials, led by White House Chief of Staff James Baker, conferred on and off with various combinations of commission members throughout the panel...
Backstage, Cornelia's principal co-star swings in: Maura Moynihan, 25, a Harvard graduate and only daughter of New York's Democratic Senator...
Afterward, Maura Moynihan, in her leather miniskirt and cowboy boots, scrambles straightway to the top of an 8-ft.-high pedestal and works off her postperformance nervous energy by go-go dancing. Cornelia, all smiles, steps off the stage to be kissed and congratulated by her mother and brother, by Roberto, by Fashion Photographer Francesco Scavullo, by one of her agents and by half a dozen trim, middle-aged men in business suits who have been buzzing around...
...woke up this morning and saw the President in the mirror." Glenn's chances have obviously improved, though many political strategists say that the former space hero must somehow shed his bland image. Potential candidates Arizona Representative Morris Udall, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers and New York Senator Pat Moynihan have put out feelers. Colorado Senator Gary Hart's campaign was already under way. California Senator Alan Cranston portrayed himself as the logical liberal successor to Kennedy...