Word: moynihan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prominent political science professor wrote at the time, "The moral fiber of America itself stands revealed." Just as the Iran-contra hearings began as a road-show Watergate, it is easy to find other 20th century parallels to today's eviscerated ethics. As New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan puts it, "If you want to read about Tammy Bakker, read Sinclair Lewis. If you want to read about insider trading, read Ida Tarbell...
...tempting to argue, as Moynihan does, that the current scandals are mostly linked by coincidence. Ethical introspection, after all, is at odds with the pragmatism of the national culture. It is not accidental that the country's favored metaphor is sports: a factual world of detailed rules and final scores, where armchair disputes can be resolved by instant replays. Questions of what constitutes right and wrong are far more troubling, but there comes a time in the life of a nation when they must be addressed, not avoided...
...candidly exploring the social pathologies -- drug use, crime, teen pregnancies, welfare dependency and other destructive behavior -- evident in the inner cities. Discussion of these catastrophic ghetto problems by liberals has been stifled, he says, ever since black scholars raised a storm over the 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the breakdown of the black family. In the absence of forthright research from liberals and blacks, writes Wilson, right-wing scholars like Charles Murray (Losing Ground) gained influence with the Reagan Administration by asserting that welfare programs had become so lucrative that they provided greater economic incentive for poor families...
...current push for welfare reform, led nationally by New York Senator Daniel Moynihan and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, is the best example of this approach. It is based on two truths: that unconditional aid leads to long-standing dependency and that the impoverished children of this nation cannot merely be abandoned. The new approach -- being tried with some success in states such as Massachusetts, California, New Jersey and New York -- is to require recipients to enter training and job-placement programs. In some of the proposals, the Federal Government would become the employer of last resort...
...prominent politicians and anti-nuclear groups. Last Tuesday, Dukakis and N.Y. Gov. Mario Cuomo testified in Washington D.C. against the NRC proposal. Also at the NRC hearing and voicing opposition to the proposal were Senators Edward M. Kennedy '54, (D-Mass.), John F. Kerry, (D-Mass.), and Daniel P. Moynihan...