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Moynihan's scholarship in the 1960s, long before he became a senator, can be summed up his famous quotation:<ref>''Family and Nation'' (1965)</ref>

Moynihan's scholarship in the 1960s, long before he became a senator, can be summed up his famous quotation:<ref>''Family and Nation'' (1965)</ref>

{{Cquote|:There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in [[broken families]], dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to [[male authority]], never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos... And it is richly deserved.}}

{{Cquote|There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in [[broken families]], dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to [[male authority]], never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos... And it is richly deserved.}}

Moynihan had little influence in his Democratic Party.  A Catholic, Moynihan disapproved of the promotion of [[abortion]] by Democrats, declaring early in his career that "you women are ruining the Democratic Party with your insistence on abortion."  Moynihan supported prohibition of [[partial-birth abortion]] with this observation:<ref>Human Life Review at 13 (Summer 2003).</ref>

Moynihan had little influence in his Democratic Party.  A Catholic, Moynihan disapproved of the promotion of [[abortion]] by Democrats, declaring early in his career that "you women are ruining the Democratic Party with your insistence on abortion."  Moynihan supported prohibition of [[partial-birth abortion]] with this observation:<ref>Human Life Review at 13 (Summer 2003).</ref>

:I think this is just too close to [[infanticide]]. A child has been born and it has exited the uterus. What on Earth is this procedure?

{{Cquote|I think this is just too close to [[infanticide]]. A child has been born and it has exited the uterus. What on Earth is this procedure?}}

In the mid-1900s, Moynihan chaired an important [[Commission on Government Secrecy]] which opened and examined many secret files from the [[Cold War]].  In his book about his discoveries Moynihan concluded the following about [[Alger Hiss]]:<ref>Moynihan, Daniel Patrick,  ''Secrecy: The American Experience'', pp. 145-147 (Yale Univ. Press: 1998) ISBN 0-300-08079-4</ref>

In the mid-1900s, Moynihan chaired an important [[Commission on Government Secrecy]] which opened and examined many secret files from the [[Cold War]].  In his book about his discoveries Moynihan concluded the following about [[Alger Hiss]]:<ref>Moynihan, Daniel Patrick,  ''Secrecy: The American Experience'', pp. 145-147 (Yale Univ. Press: 1998) ISBN 0-300-08079-4</ref>

:Hiss was indeed a [[Soviet agent]] and appears to have been regarded by Moscow as its most important.

{{Cquote|Hiss was indeed a [[Soviet agent]] and appears to have been regarded by Moscow as its most important.}}

==Commentary==

==Commentary==