biography
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Moynihan, Daniel P(atrick)
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| Academic and politician, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He studied at the City College of New York and Tufts University, then taught at Syracuse, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served in the administrations of Presidents Johnson and Nixon, acquiring notoriety as the author of The Negro Family: the Case for National Action (1965), which held that many of the educational problems of African Americans could be traced to the instability of black urban families, and urged a programme of reform. He was ambassador to India (1973–4), and won a seat in the US Senate as a Democrat in 1976. Widely regarded as an important senator and influential policy thinker, he is the only person in American history to have served in four successive administrations. He retired from the Senate in 2001. |
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