Word: moynihans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cohen, took in less than $1,000 selling hay from his Maine farm, but an impressive $12,390 in royalties on his book of poems, Of Sons & Seasons. Vermont's Pat Leahy made a $1,500 sale of photographs he shot in China. New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, on the other hand, dropped $9,000 in the commodities market after guessing wrong on pork-belly futures...
...loudest complaints were voiced by Democratic Governor Hugh Carey of New York. He urged Carter and Senator Edward Kennedy to release their delegates to permit a "totally open convention." Democratic Senator Daniel Moynihan of New York agreed. Said he: "To choose between the two of them [Carter and Kennedy] is hardly going to help us put together a ticket that has a chance to win in November." Other Democrats have talked wistfully, but unrealistically, of drafting Vice President Walter Mondale. Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson of Washington, who was soundly trounced in the 1976 presidential primaries, has claimed that "people...
...Moynihan said the USSR has pursued a military policy of "the more the better," while the U.S. has followed a "second strike" philosophy. He added, "The USSR now has military and strategic superiority, and they want to turn it into political superiority," and said he is beginning to find the argument for a defensive system more attractive...
...illustrate his argument, Moynihan described a scenario in which the USSR could destroy all U.S. missiles using only half their own, thus leaving the United States powerless to retaliate, even with a second strike force...
...Moynihan said that what had started in the '60s as an agreement between superpowers that nuclear weapons must not be used had dissolved into a structure that merely "disguised the failure of the original objectives...