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The Political Interest: Pat Moynihan's Healthy Gripe
Slowly but surely, Bill Clinton's health-care plan is headed for the triage unit. Joining the growing list of doctors, economists and business leaders voicing...
DIPLOMACY: A FIGHTING IRISHMAN AT THE U.N.
On one wall in the drawing room of Daniel Patrick Moynihan's apartment in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers hangs a painting of General Custer on a tightrope over...
DIPLOMACY: What Next for Pat Moynihan?
"Pat carries his own precipice around with him under his arm." With that somewhat surrealistic metaphor, an old friend describes Daniel Patrick Moynihan's...
DIPLOMACY: For Now, Standing Pat at the U.N.
The most talkative and talked-about ambassador the U.S. has ever sent to the United Nations would not be muzzled. That was stated clearly last week as Daniel...
How Russert Became Russert
It's a measure of his success as a journalist that few people remember Tim Russert was once the Democratic Lee Atwater — the smartest, toughest, most...
Farewell to Those Who Left
BOB HOPE "He gets laughter wherever he goes, from men who need laughter." JOHN STEINBECK, novelist, in a 1943 newspaper column praising the comedian's...
Real Babies, Illegitimate Debates
If she followed the welfare-reform debate, Anita Hill must be having post- traumatic flashbacks. Here we have a collection of important white males, including...
The Political Interest: Still Waiting for Bill's Call
"NOT SINCE NOVEMBER," SAYS PAT MOYNIHAN SADLY. "Not a single call. Not from the President or any of his top people. I would have thought someone would have...
Flies in the Ointment
Last September, economist Henry Aaron was preparing to meet Bill Clinton to talk about health care when he got a call from a Clinton aide who said abruptly,...
NEW YORK: Scar Tissue All Over the Place'
Bella Abzug: He's Nixon's favorite Democrat. Pat Moynihan: She stands for the politics of ruin. Abzug: He's a political opportunist, an intellectual...
