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Review of The Primary Guide to Growing Up, Relationships and Sex for The School Library Association
'Unusually, this package is presented as a video DVD – useful because you do not need a computer to run it, as it will work perfectly on a DVD Player. The presentation is simple and easy to move around, and there is a lot of content – probably everything you would need to teach and reassure primary-aged children on what can be a challenging area for non-specialists. On the disc, you will also find some excellent lesson plans (35 pages of them) which guide even the most anxious teacher through delivering the content. There is also a twenty-five page set of viewing notes, which proved very useful prior to lessons.
Once you are in, there is a short menu, which splits the content into four sections, plus a 'Help and advice' link. The only slight issue we found here is that the 'mechanics' of sex is covered in the section on Pregnancy, rather than the one labelled 'Sex' – as long as you've read the viewing notes, however, this won't come as a surprise!
Choose a section, and you get a view of two people on a sofa – Bobby and Sonia, who are the guides through the whole thing. Some of the people I showed it to thought that the 3D animation on these specific parts did not work very well, and would have preferred either 'real' people or more traditional animation. I thought it was fine, and because Bobby and Sonia do not look totally 'real', it makes the sections where they're nude less embarrassing than they might otherwise be.
The voiceover and subtitles are excellent for younger children – the language used is appropriate, and simple enough for most children to understand. It also offers 'vernacular' terms for parts of the body as well as the scientific ones.
I also like the way it is very clear about what is acceptable, and what isn't – with particular reference to consent and unwanted advances, with the overriding message that your body is yours, it's private, and that saying 'No' if you don't want to do something is OK.
It also goes through potentially problematical (in teaching terms) topics like homosexual relationships in a calm way, presenting the facts, rather than opinion – in fact, that is a theme throughout. You are consistently being given detailed, reliable and reassuring facts, rather than anyone's opinion.
I showed the disc to our PSCHE coordinator, and she was very impressed, and thought it would be great for Key Stage 2 – particularly if the teacher was concerned about teaching the content.
Overall: great value, excellent content that has obviously been thought about. Interesting presentation, which engages children. It is the sort of resource most schools might only use once or twice a year per year group, but when they get to teaching it, they will be really glad they made the investment. It is a no nonsense, high quality, in depth and reliable guide through the minefield of growing up. Highly recommended.
Adrian Thompson , ICT, Communications & Library, Sandal Primary School.
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Review of The Primary Guide to Growing Up, Relationships and Sex for the British Association of Teachers of the Deaf
'Before I trained as a ToD, I spent a term working in a school for the deaf. As the newbie, I was given several unenviable tasks, one of which was to teach sex education to the fifth form. My teaching resources comprised a large blob of blu-tack (to represent an ovary) and two balloons (no, really, it's true!)
I wish I had been offered a copy of this DVD!
The DVD is divided into five chapters; Growing up; Looking after yourself; Sex; Pregnancy; and Help and Advice. Each chapter is sub-divided further with the smaller parts lasting around three or four minutes. It's presented by two rather androgynous, cartoon-type characters, which actually made the "naked" scenes much more bearable – much less squeamish. The only disadvantage of this is that there is no lip reading possible. The characters' mouths move, but not in any identifiable way.
The DVD is quite clear about what is and is not acceptable behaviour and re-iterates several times that this is what will happen, this is what is normal, this is private etc. and suggests talking to a teacher, parent, carer or doctor if the young person is unhappy about anything. It also offers clear guidelines about saying, "No" and that it's OK to say "No" in many circumstances. "Your body is yours" is the over-riding message.
There are several helpful inclusions such as a wide range of "slang" for different body parts; homosexual and lesbian relationships, contraception – although only condoms are mentioned; caesarean sections, and breastfeeding. There is also a very clear message about sex being illegal under the age of 16. The actual mechanics of the sexual act are included on the section on pregnancy – which may confuse initially.
This DVD would be helpful to use with junior aged children, or the lower end of secondary school. It uses accessible language, and provides clear subtitles, but is not signed.
I occasionally wonder if my ill-conceived (no pun intended) attempts to teach a group of teenage boys about sex and relationships was successful – or whether they all went on to have large, unplanned families. This DVD would have helped me to be more sure that they knew and understood the consequences of what I was trying to teach them, and were aware that there are choices to be made, both by them and by their partners.'
Corinda M Carnelley Peripatetic Teacher of the Deaf
Review of The Primary Guide to Growing Up, Relationships and Sex - disabled children and young people's feedback, The Children's Society
'The DVD is clear and easy to use and has excellent 3D animations, making it an excellent learning tool. It can be used by pupils alone or as part of a group and is a good starting point for discussions. There is a good range of topics and forms a great introduction to the 'The New Guide to Relationships and Sex' DVD produced for older pupils.
The Children's Society
'This is a fantastic resource to be used with everyone including people with learning disabilities. It is clear, concise to the point and can be used in sections'.
Review of The New Guide to Relationships and Sex, Derby Community Health Services - Health Promotion Resources
You, Your Body and Sex, made by Life Support Productions, all the resources from this company are highly recommended for their quality and appeal to youngsters and their parents'.
Catherine Collingwood, Speakeasy Resources
'You, Your Body and Sex focuses on the sometimes difficult subject of sex education and is aimed specifically at pupils with learning disabilities - there is a great emphasis on the need for consent and the importance of informing carers but maybe useful in PSHE in Year 7 and 8. The graphics are clear and explicit and the characters interaction with the pupils provides a direct and comfortable approach to a sensitive subject area. The topics covered include growing up, periods, masturbation, keeping clean, relationships, love and affection, loneliness, consent and meeting someone, safer sex, condoms, saying no and sex and people's attitudes.'
Review of You, Your Body and Sex schoolzone.co.uk - curriculumonline.gov.uk
'Sensitively and explicitly covers sexual development and relationships. Excellent for LD pupils. Covers intimate care, unwanted advances, masturbation and sexual development..'
Review of You, Your Body and Sex, AQA Education
'This clear, sensitive and well-balanced sex education video emphasises safe sex, personal choice and the right to say 'no' to unwanted sexual advances. Topics include personal hygiene, love in a relationship and masturbation. The cartoon-style computer-animated drawings make it easier to the view the more explicit scenes without embarrassment. An excellent teaching aid.
Review of You, Your Body and Sex Read Easy 2 Book Trust
'You, Your Body and Sex: the DVD has been produced by Life Support Productions and uses animated characters to guide the viewer with a learning disability through topics including personal hygiene, keeping well (e.g. who to tell should you notice anything unusual), growing up and puberty, periods, pre-menstrual tension, masturbation, loneliness, meeting someone new, appropriate touch, love and sex (mentioning that this can be with some of a different sex or the same sex), consenting to sex and how to say 'no', how to respond to unwanted attention and obtaining and using condoms.
The language used is simple and repetitive, whilst the graphics are modern and with enough detail to be interesting but not distracting. This impressive resource has been carefully and considerately produced'.
Mandy Wood, Sexuality and Relationship Education for people with Down Syndrome, (Down Syndrome news and update - The Down Syndrome Educational Trust)
'Although sexuality is commonly addressed in educational and rehabilitation programs, and a number of good resources are available, there is always a need for further educational materials. A new DVD by Life Support Productions entitled You, Your Body and Sex is a worthwhile addition to available resources.
The content and format of this DVD has been developed with attention to the special characteristics of people with learning difficulties. Each section is brief, yet tackles the essential features of the topic under consideration. The verbal text is accompanied by animated images that clearly demonstrate the behaviour being described. These images are appropriately explicit. After each section is presented, the viewer returns to the menu, thus enabling immediate review of the topic or selection of a new topic.
The curriculum generally covered in sex education programs is extended in this DVD to include topics such as the importance of self-examination, monitoring of the menstrual cycle, premenstrual tension and the need to rinse soap off genital areas. Individual differences are emphasized throughout the topics and particularly with respect to appearance, experience, sexual preference and other choices. It is also appropriate that frequent reference is given to the importance of seeking advice if there are any causes for concern.
People with learning difficulties often have deficits in their ability to interpret social cues. Although they may understand aspects of consent, it is often difficult for them to fully appreciate consent from the perspective of both the individual who seeks consent as well as the person from whom it is sought. Another positive feature of this DVD is that it gives consideration to both components i.e. how to seek consent and respond if it is not obtained, as well as how to communicate that you are not wanting to participate in a particular activity or in further contact with someone who makes an approach.
In conclusion, this DVD is a very useful addition to sex education resources for individuals with learning difficulties. Providing that it is presented in the context of a broader sex education program and access to experienced professionals, I believe that it has much to recommend it.
Review of You, Your Body and Sex, Jane McGillivray Sexual and Relationship Therapy, (Journal of the British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy - Volume 18 Number 4)
Young people found it entertaining and fun and appreciated the interactive aspect of being able to control what they viewed. Workers similarly found it useful to be able to quickly look at a particular topic and involve the group. Like the video, we all felt that although designed with young people with learning difficulties or special needs in mind, the DVD was accessible and fun for all. Like the video, this was found to be the most popular resource and to deal with sexual health topics in an interesting, fun and educational way. Everyone found it easy to use, well designed & non-threatening.
This resource represents an excellent new aid for those working with all types of young people in the field of relationships, self esteem and sexual health. Young people love the hi-tech aspect - workers loved the quality information and presentation. We would strongly recommend this resource for other teams in the field.
Review of You, Your Body and Sex, Morag Reid Outreach & Education Manager, Wirral Brook
'This video covers your body, masturbation, use of condoms and most importantly that sex is a private activity and that it is something you only do if you want to. You can say no and you can say yes. The video is in a computer animated format and uses very clear images as well as words. It is well paced and so does not overwhelm the viewer with too much information. It is an excellent resource for work with people with learning difficulties on sexuality and relationships'.
Review of You, Your Body and Sex, Family Planning Association


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Review: The King of Fighters XIII (Microsoft Xbox 360)
Mark B. | December 13, 2011 | Archive, Top Story, Video Game Reviews, Xbox 360 | 1 Comment
Genre: Fighting
Developer: SNK Playmore
Publisher: Atlus
Two years ago, SNK Playmore brought us The King of Fighters XII, a game that was supposed to signal the rebirth and revitalization of the franchise, but instead nearly flushed it down the toilet. Boasting improved visuals for the next generation consoles, the game was visually and aurally sound, but between the massive regression in both character variety and character movesets, the reduced play options, the sloppy netcode and the sheer feeling that the game was an overpriced tech demo did the game no favors. Well, SNK seems to have taken those criticisms to heart, and while it falls to Atlus to bring the game to the States, The King of Fighters XIII seems, at first glance, no poorer for this thing. Featuring a larger character roster, an actual advancement to the plot, a larger depth of gameplay modes and some theoretically solid gameplay tuning, The King of Fighters XIII seems like everything its predecessor should have been and then some. All is not joy and sunshine, however, as some old flaws return to plague the game and some new issues rear their heads, but make no mistake: while not perfect, The King of Fighters XIII is both everything its predecessor should have been and a strong sign for the future of the franchise.
The King of Fighters XIII returns to and concludes the Ash Crimson storyline started back in The King of Fighters 2003, which left off officially in The King of Fighters XI with Ash having stolen Iori's and Chizuru's power, leaving only Kyo Kusanagi as the final obstacle in whatever plan he's aiming to complete. Another game means another tournament, instigated by "R" once again, though while the symbolism is familiar, it's another Bernstein behind the tournament: Rose, daughter of eternal pain Rugal, is the host of this year's King of Fighters tournament. All is not as it seems, obviously, and Rose, Ash, Kyo and the rest are all smaller pawns in a much bigger game that, well, you'll have to ruin a bunch of teams to see through to completion. Astonishingly, King of Fighters XIII has an actual in-depth storyline to it, not merely an Arcade Mode and a bunch of endings, which allows for a lot more plot exposition, and for the most part, what's here isn't bad. Ash is a pretty divisive character amongst the fanbase, but his plotline comes to a fairly satisfying ending here and ties up a lot of loose ends for the inevitable sequels, and the game ends on a pretty open note for the next game, whatever it may be. The game doesn't simply add in a plot, however, as there are now a whole bunch more modes to play with. You're offered an interactive Tutorial to learn the basics, the standard Arcade and Versus modes to fight the CPU and local friends, the aforementioned Story Mode and Xbox Live play so you can take it to online opponents in Ranked or Player Matches or check your standings on the Leaderboards. You can also save and download replays of fights to study and review, plow through Mission Mode, which offers Time Attack, Survival and Trial options, fill up the Gallery with images by playing through the game, and customize your character colors as you see fit. To sum up, OH YES there are a lot more options here than in The King of Fighters XII, and right off the bat, we're already batting at a much higher average.
As with its predecessor, the visuals and the audio in The King of Fighters XIII are basically fantastic. Visually, King of Fighters XIII still looks basically fantastic in every way imaginable. The character sprites are fluid and lifelike, and there's a significant amount of detail in their movements and animations that make the fights come alive on-screen. The special move effects are bright and lively and bring some serious excitement to the battles, and the backgrounds are also well animated and colorful. The weird light sourcing effect from the prior game is also a lot less noticeable, and while it still seems to pop up here and there, it's a lot less awkward and noticeable, to the extent that it's either no longer in play or done much better. The character designs from the prior game are once again in play, for both old and new characters, and for the most part, the redesigns are winners, though not always. Most of the cast has remained unchanged from prior games or has changed for the better (Vice, Mature, Elisabeth, Kyo), though redesigns from the prior game that were, frankly, stupid looking then (Leona, Athena) look no better now, and Mai's bent-over pose is just goofy (though, I suppose, accurate, given the kind of damage her chest is likely doing to her back). Additionally, nine of the characters feature additional costumes that can be accessed with the Back button while choosing their color, and while only a couple are obviously different (Kyo gets his school uniform back, Elisabeth beings back the cleavage), they're all fine additions that celebrate the franchise history. Aurally, the game once again has some strong, energetic tunes that are fun to listen to while fighting it out, and the sound effects are as powerful and painful (in a good way) as ever. The voice work in The King of Fighters XIII only offers a Japanese language track this time around, which is fine in the sense that the English voices weren't amazing and it helps keep the cost down, but disappointing in the sense that the voices weren't bad either, and it would have been nice to have the option. Still, most of the Japanese voice work is either from the original game cast or close enough that it hardly matters, so fans will approve, at least.
So, in case you've never played a King of Fighters title before, let's borrow the description I've been using for them from the past few reviews: imagine Street Fighter, with four buttons, different strategies, and teams of three fighters, and that's the most basic explanation one can give. King of Fighters XIII more or less follows that tradition; if you've played a 2D fighting game in your life, you can figure out reasonably quickly how it works. You're given two strong and weak punches and kicks to work with, and aside from the standard combos that can be strung together with those, all of the characters have their own special and Desperation (super) moves to work with. If you're a Ken and Ryu fan, Ryo, Robert, Terry, Andy and Kyo should fit you okay. Like Guile? Kim, Leona, or Ash might do you fine. More of a Zangief fan? Try Goro or Raiden. Love Chun-Li? Benimaru, Mai and Athena have you covered, to a point. This is not to say that these characters are identical maps of the mentioned Street Fighter counterparts so much as it is to say that they fit into similar play styles; the characters in King of Fighters XIII all have their own unique and interesting ways that they can be played, and part of the fun is finding the characters you work best with.
The three-on-three team aspect is a big part of what makes any King of Fighters game work as well as it does, however; in King of Fighters XIII, you put together a team of three fighters to do battle against one another, and when one team member is eliminated, you move to the next one. While you can use Story Mode as a way to adjust to the teams as they're formed, since you can't change up your teams there, you'll find that in all other modes you can customize your team as you see fit, so Story Mode is a good way, along with Practice Mode, of testing characters when you have to, but eventually you'll likely be mix and matching teams with little trouble. At first, this is a simple matter of simply assembling a team of three members who you happen to like, but the longer you play the more of a mental chess game the experience becomes, to the point where you pick out characters because of what sort of opposition they can shut down and counter as much as you pick them because of their play style. There's a significant amount of strategy involved in picking characters, not just for their effectiveness, but for their effectiveness against others, as it's generally not a good idea to bring someone slow in against someone with projectiles and speed who can dodge around them and shut them down, unless you're really skilled, for instance. King of Fighters XIII also retains a lot of the techniques from similar games, such as Emergency Evasion (dodging, essentially), Fallbreakers (recovery when falling to the ground), and Super Special Moves (formerly known as Desperation Moves).
Now, King of Fighters XIII basically is its own brand new game from its predecessor in the sense that a lot of the mechanical changes made in the prior game were ripped out almost entirely and replaced with mechanical changes that are both more familiar and, frankly, less annoying. Critical Counters and attack cancels are gone entirely, while the EX system, Drive Cancels, and Hyper Drive were added, and the game is better overall for it. The EX system can basically be described as "Darkstalkers specials"; by doing a special or super move motion and pressing BOTH attack buttons you will burn an additional bar from the super meter (defined as ONE for EX Specials and TWO for EX Supers), and deal extra damage with the regular move. Drive Cancels and Super Cancels are exactly what they sound like: you can cancel from one special or super move into another, allowing for additional combo options. Further, the Hyper Drive system fills a second gauge above the super bar in the normal "take/receive damage" fashion, and when full, you can burn it to go into Hyper Drive mode, allowing Drive Cancel options that aren't normally viable, and further allowing for massive combos in a short period of time. The game also adds a multilevel super bar mechanic similar to that of King of Fighters "Ëœ97 and beyond, where the super bar maxes out at three levels to start, but each teammate you lose adds one to the maximum level. Finally, in addition to the standard super moves, characters now all have NEO MAX supers that burn three bars and deal massive damage, and as an added bonus, with enough super bars stocked, you can cancel from a super into a NEO MAX super if you're so inclined for big damage.
Arcade Mode, as in the prior game, sees you blow through a series of matches, to get to the end, but now grades you on several categories for scoring, and offers up Target Actions for you to complete, such as "perform a Drive Cancel" or "hit a special move" which give you added bonuses in battle. Each match also features little conversations between opponents now, which is cute, though it doesn't affect anything. There's still no boss battle to complete in Arcade Mode this time around, but you can potentially earn fights against Ash, Sakai and Billy Kane depending on how you perform at least. Story Mode is basically a sequence of storyline events that you can make a couple of minor choices during, and this is the only mode with true boss battles (two of them, in fact), though it's a lot more rigid than Arcade Mode and once you clear it out you'll likely go back to Arcade Mode. Versus Mode is the same as ever, allowing two players to battle it out in single or team matches locally, and Online is also mostly similar, though Arcade Matches have been excised in favor of the simple Ranked or Player Matches one would expect. Mission Mode, however, is expanded significantly; while you can take on missions for the different characters if you want to learn their more intricate combos, you can also jump into Time Attack to see how fast you can clear enemies or Survival Mode to see how long you can go against the CPU, both of which are excellent additions that immediately add more to the single player experience from the start. The options to save and view replays, check player stats and view online leaderboards are nice for those who like to step up their game, and they're fun to fool around with even if you're not a tournament level player. The Gallery and character color palette customization options are also pretty novel and, while they're unlikely to keep you hooked, they are cute and add variety to the game. The game also features a much expanded roster of thirty three characters (thirty one unlocked, two hidden) and announcements of two fan favorite DLC characters, "Iori with the power of flames" (AKA Normal Iori) and "Nests Saga Kyo" (AKA technically Orochi Saga Kyo, but whatever), as well as a fairly expansive amount of Achievements to clear, giving fighting game fans their money's worth and then some.
Unfortunately, we're then stuck coming back to the "except for the fact that online play is painful" discussion, because as with its predecessor, King of Fighters XIII has some pretty painful netcode. Now, if you're jumping into a three or four bar match you SHOULD be able to play a match against someone easily, but those match-ups aren't frequent (and, again, I'm speaking as someone using open NAT on a high speed FIOS connection), and two bar connections and below feature some OBVIOUS and PAINFUL lag issues. The online experience isn't AS bad as in the prior game, but it's still really hurtful given various other online fighting games on the market and how well they respond, comparatively, and while Atlus is promising this will be fixed sooner or later, it's a problem now. Further, while it's nice that the roster has increased significantly, why are we in a position where the characters still play like older versions of themselves? It's great that we're getting the updated version of Kyo, even if it's five dollar DLC, but many of the characters are still using old and awkward control styles or using older movesets. King still has Double Strike as a super instead of a normal move, Terry is still missing Power Dunk, Mai is basically working with a stripped down moveset, and after the numerous improvements we've seen in the characters up to King of Fighters XII it really seems like more could have been done to bring the characters back to where they were instead of where they were ten years ago. Also, the actual missions in Mission Mode are significantly less friendly than in something like, say, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, starting you out with multi-hit combos that are a pain from the get-go instead of simple combos that work up to more advanced concepts. Oh, and as a final note, the game should also probably use more universal terminology when discussing certain things, as it will instruct you to use a Desperation Move in Target Actions but won't reference what this means (super move) in the command list or the manual. This is fine for experienced players who have seen the term before, but for new players, it's annoying and frustrating.
King of Fighters XIII, even with its flaws, is a major improvement over its predecessor, and while it's not quite at the level where it can universally compete with other top-tier franchises just yet, it's certainly getting there, at the very least, thanks to some excellent additions all around and some ultimately beneficial mechanical changes. The storyline actually reaches a resolution for the Ash Crimson saga here, and the game does more with it than simply explain it in team endings, and between this and the addition of several useful single player modes on top of the solid multiplayer modes from the prior game, there's some solid variety the game needed from the start. The visuals and audio are as clean and solid as ever, and the gameplay feels as solid as it ever did but is backed up by some strong mechanical changes that make the game feel like a big improvement over its predecessor. There's a good amount of content to the game, from the larger character roster to the new modes and unlockables, as well as the promise of DLC that's either already available or in the works, to keep the game in your console for a while as well. The netcode for the game is problematic, unfortunately, and while a patch is on the way, for the moment the game is still a bear to play online except against those with the best possible connections. The game also still features characters with nerfed movesets that feel like a big step backwards from earlier games in the series, the Mission Mode missions are unfriendly to new players, and the game uses inconsistent terminology at times that makes for some weird moments for new players. Once the netcode is patched, King of Fighters XIII will likely be much easier to recommend, but at the moment it's still a massive improvement and a good indication that the series is heading in the right direction again, and genre and franchise fans will have a lot more fun with this game than King of Fighters XII.
Story/Game Modes: GREAT
Graphics: GREAT
Sound: GREAT
Control/Gameplay: GOOD
Replayability: GREAT
Balance: ABOVE AVERAGE
Addictiveness: GOOD
Appeal: GOOD
Miscellaneous: BAD
FINAL SCORE: GOOD GAME.
King of Fighters XIII shows that SNK paid attention to the critics of the prior entry in the series, and while it's still got some noticeable flaws, it's a significant improvement over King of Fighters XII in almost every way that matters. The Ash Crimson storyline wraps up here in solid fashion, in a way that the franchise hasn't really tried until now with a devoted Story Mode, and a bunch of added single player content is attached to the game from the start to improve the experience from the get go. The visuals and audio are still strong this time around, and the game is mechanically similar to prior franchise entries, but features several new mechanics and the removal of less useful mechanics to make for a game that's generally better to play all around. There's also a strong amount of content to the game, from the larger roster to the added modes to the unlockable Achievements and promise of DLC, and anyone who wants their fighting games a little more robust will find that King of Fighters XIII has your hook up here, if nothing else. The netcode in the game is presently unpleasant, though, leaving players with anything less than a great connection fighting against heavy lag, and while a patch is on the way, for the time being the game is hard to really enjoy online. Further, some of the characters still feel nerfed compared to prior versions of the same characters, the Mission Mode missions are hard to step up to and could have used some "easing in" for new players, and the game mixes terminology in ways that will be confusing for new players. Once the netcode is fixed up, King of Fighters XIII will be a much easier game to recommend, but as it is, it's still a major step up from the prior game and a good fighting game overall for fans of the genre and the franchise to drop their cash on.
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Jack Rogers	 December 14, 2011 Reply
SNK. I think we finally may get back up there (Sobs) Fight my friend, fight…………..
… Uh.. oh yea, sorry. Great review!


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Daniel Patrick Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 and served as an adviser to President Richard Nixon.

Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Moynihan moved at a young age to New York City. Following a stint in the navy, he earned a Ph.D. in history from Tufts University. He worked on the staff of New York Governor W. Averell Harriman before joining President John F. Kennedy's administration in 1961. He served as an Assistant Secretary of Labor under Presidents Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, devoting much of his time to the War on Poverty. In 1965, he published the controversial Moynihan Report. Moynihan left the Johnson administration in 1965 and became a professor at Harvard University.

In 1969, he accepted Nixon's offer to serve as an Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and he was elevated to the position of Counselor to the President later that year. He left the administration at the end of 1970, and accepted appointment as United States Ambassador to India in 1973. He accepted President Gerald Ford's appointment to the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations in 1975, holding that position until early 1976; later that year he won election to the Senate.

Moynihan served as Chairman of the Senate Environment Committee from 1992 to 1993 and as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee from 1993 to 1995. He also led the Moynihan Secrecy Commission, which studied the regulation of classified information. He emerged as a strong critic of President Ronald Reagan's foreign policy and opposed President Bill Clinton's health care plan. He frequently broke with liberal positions, but opposed welfare reform in the 1990s. He also voted against the Defense of Marriage Act, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the Congressional authorization for the Gulf War. He was tied with Jacob K. Javits as the longest-serving Senator from the state of New York until they were both surpassed by Chuck Schumer in 2023.

Early life and education
Moynihan was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the son of Margaret Ann (née Phipps), a homemaker, and John Henry Moynihan, a reporter for a daily newspaper in Tulsa but originally from Indiana. He moved at the age of six with his Irish Catholic family to New York City. Brought up in the working class neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, he shined shoes and attended various public, private, and parochial schools, ultimately graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem. He was a parishioner of St. Raphael's Church, where he also cast his first vote. He and his brother, Michael Willard Moynihan, spent most of their childhood summers at their grandfather's farm in Bluffton, Indiana. Moynihan briefly worked as a longshoreman before entering the City College of New York (CCNY), which at that time provided free higher education to city residents.

Following a year at CCNY, Moynihan joined the United States Navy in 1944. He was assigned to the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Middlebury College from 1944 to 1945 and then enrolled as a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps student at Tufts University, where he received an undergraduate degree in naval science in 1946. He completed active service as Gunnery officer of the USS Quirinus at the rank of lieutenant (junior grade) in 1947. Moynihan then returned to Tufts, where he completed a second undergraduate degree in sociology cum laude in 1948 and earned an MA from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1949.

After failing the Foreign Service Officer exam, he continued his doctoral studies at the Fletcher School as a Fulbright fellow at the London School of Economics from 1950 to 1953. During this period, Moynihan struggled with writer's block and began to fashion himself as a "dandy", cultivating "a taste for Savile Row suits, rococo conversational riffs and Churchillian oratory" even as he maintained that "nothing and no one at LSE ever disposed me to be anything but a New York Democrat who had some friends who worked on the docks and drank beer after work." He also worked for two years as a civilian employee at RAF South Ruislip.

He ultimately received his PhD in history from Tufts (with a dissertation on the relationship between the United States and the International Labour Organization) from the Fletcher School in 1961 while serving as an assistant professor of political science and director of a government research project centered around Averell Harriman's papers at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Political career and return to academia
Moynihan's political career started in the 1950s, when he served as a member of New York Governor Averell Harriman's staff in a variety of positions (including speechwriter and acting secretary to the governor). He met his future wife, Elizabeth (Liz) Brennan, who also worked on Harriman's staff.

This period ended following Harriman's loss to Nelson Rockefeller in the 1958 general election. Moynihan returned to academia, serving as a lecturer for brief periods at Russell Sage College (1957–1958) and the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (1959) before taking a tenure-track position at Syracuse University (1959–1961). During this period, Moynihan was a delegate to the 1960 Democratic National Convention as part of John F. Kennedy's delegate pool.

Kennedy and Johnson administrations

Moynihan first served in the Kennedy administration as special (1961–1962) and executive (1962–1963) assistant to Labor Secretaries Arthur J. Goldberg and W. Willard Wirtz. In 1962, he authored the directive "Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture", which discouraged use of an official style for federal buildings, and has been credited with enabling "a wide ranging set of innovative public building projects" in subsequent decades, including the San Francisco Federal Building and the United States Courthouse in Austin, Texas.

He was then appointed as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Policy, Planning and Research, serving from 1963 to 1965 under Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. In this capacity, he did not have operational responsibilities. He devoted his time to trying to formulate national policy for what would become the War on Poverty. His small staff included Ralph Nader.

They took inspiration from historian Stanley Elkins's Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959). Elkins essentially contended that slavery had made black Americans dependent on the dominant society, and that such dependence still existed a century later after the American Civil War. Moynihan and his staff believed that government must go beyond simply ensuring that members of minority groups have the same rights as the majority and must also "act affirmatively" in order to counter the problem of historic discrimination.

Moynihan's research of Labor Department data demonstrated that even as fewer people were unemployed, more people were joining the welfare rolls. These recipients were families with children but only one parent (almost invariably the mother). The laws at that time permitted such families to receive welfare payments in certain parts of the United States.

Controversy over the War on Poverty
Moynihan issued his research in 1965 under the title The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, now commonly known as The Moynihan Report. Moynihan's report fueled a debate over the proper course for government to take with regard to the economic underclass, especially blacks. Critics on the left attacked it as "blaming the victim", a slogan coined by psychologist William Ryan. Some suggested that Moynihan was propagating the views of racists because much of the press coverage of the report focused on the discussion of children being born out of wedlock. Despite Moynihan's warnings, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program included rules for payments only if no "Man [was] in the house." Critics of the program's structure, including Moynihan, said that the nation was paying poor women to throw their husbands out of the house.

After the 1994 Republican sweep of Congress, Moynihan agreed that correction was needed for a welfare system that possibly encouraged women to raise their children without fathers: "The Republicans are saying we have a hell of a problem, and we do."

Local New York City politics and ongoing academic career
By the 1964 presidential election, Moynihan was recognized as a political ally of Robert F. Kennedy. For this reason he was not favored by then-President Johnson, and he left the Johnson Administration in 1965. He ran for office in the Democratic Party primary for the presidency of the New York City Council, a position now known as the New York City Public Advocate. However, he was defeated by Queens District Attorney Frank D. O'Connor.

Throughout this transitional period, Moynihan maintained an academic affiliation as a fellow at Wesleyan University's Center for Advanced Studies from 1964 to 1967. In 1966, he was appointed to the faculties of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education and Graduate School of Public Administration as a full professor of education and urban politics. After commencing a second extended leave because of his public service in 1973, his faculty line was transferred to the university's Department of Government, where he remained until 1977. From 1966 to 1969, he also held a secondary administrative appointment as director of the Harvard–MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies. With turmoil and riots in the United States, Moynihan, "a national board member of ADA incensed at the radicalism of the current anti-war and Black Power movements", decided to "call for a formal alliance between liberals and conservatives", and wrote that the next administration would have to be able to unite the nation again.

Nixon administration
Connecting with President-elect Richard Nixon in 1968, Moynihan joined the Executive Office of the President in January 1969 as Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy and executive secretary of the Council of Urban Affairs (later the Urban Affairs Council), a forerunner of the Domestic Policy Council envisaged as an analog to the United States National Security Council. As one of the few people in Nixon's inner circle who had done academic research related to social policies, he was very influential in the early months of the administration. However, his disdain for "traditional budget-conscious positions" (including his proposed Family Assistance Plan, a "negative income tax or guaranteed minimum income" for families that met work requirements or demonstrated that they were seeking work which ultimately stalled in the Senate despite prefiguring the later Supplemental Security Income program) led to frequent clashes (belying their unwavering mutual respect) with Nixon's principal domestic policy advisor, conservative economist and Cabinet-rank Counselor to the President Arthur F. Burns.

While formulating the Family Assistance Plan proposal, Moynihan conducted significant discussions concerning a Basic Income Guarantee with Russell B. Long and Louis O. Kelso.

Although Moynihan was promoted to Counselor to the President for Urban Affairs with Cabinet rank shortly after Burns was nominated by Nixon to serve as Chair of the Federal Reserve in October 1969, it was concurrently announced that Moynihan would be returning to Harvard (a stipulation of his leave from the university) at the end of 1970. Operational oversight of the Urban Affairs Council was given to Moynihan's nominal successor as Domestic Policy Assistant, former White House Counsel John Ehrlichman. This decision was instigated by White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman, a close friend of Ehrlichman since college and his main patron in the administration. Haldeman's maneuvering situated Moynihan in a more peripheral context as the administration's "resident thinker" on domestic affairs for the duration of his service.

In 1969, on Nixon's initiative, NATO tried to establish a third civil column, establishing a hub of research and initiatives in the civil area, dealing as well with environmental topics. Moynihan named acid rain and the greenhouse effect as suitable international challenges to be dealt by NATO. NATO was chosen, since the organization had suitable expertise in the field, as well as experience with international research coordination. The German government was skeptical and saw the initiative as an attempt by the US to regain international terrain after the lost Vietnam War. The topics gained momentum in civil conferences and institutions.

In 1970, Moynihan wrote a memo to President Nixon saying, "The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of 'benign neglect'. The subject has been too much talked about. The forum has been too much taken over to hysterics, paranoids, and boodlers on all sides. We need a period in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades."  Moynihan regretted that, as he saw it, critics misinterpreted his memo as advocating that the government should neglect minorities.

US Ambassador
Following the October 1969 reorganization of the White House domestic policy staff, Moynihan was offered the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations (then held by career Foreign Service Officer Charles Woodruff Yost) by Nixon on November 17, 1969; after initially accepting the president's offer, he decided to remain in Washington when the Family Assistance Plan stalled in the Senate Finance Committee. On November 24, 1970, he refused a second offer from Nixon due to potential familial strain and ongoing financial problems; depression stemming from the repudiation of the Family Assistance Plan by liberal Democrats; and the inability to effect change due to static policy directives in the position, which he considered to be a tertiary role behind Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger and United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers. Instead, he commuted from Harvard as a part-time member of the United States delegation during the ambassadorship of George H. W. Bush.

In 1973, Moynihan (who was circumspect toward the administration's "tilt" to Pakistan) accepted Nixon's offer to serve as United States Ambassador to India, where he would remain until 1975. The relationship between the two countries was at a low point following the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971. Ambassador Moynihan was alarmed that two great democracies were cast as antagonists, and set out to fix things. He proposed that part of the burdensome debt be written off, part used to pay for US embassy expenses in India, and the remaining converted into Indian rupees to fund an Indo-US cultural and educational exchange program that lasted for a quarter century. On February 18, 1974, he presented to the Government of India a check for 16,640,000,000 rupees, then equivalent to $2,046,700,000, which was the greatest amount paid by a single check in the history of banking. The "Rupee Deal" is logged in the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's largest check, written by Ambassador Moynihan to Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

In June 1975, Moynihan accepted his third offer to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations, a position (including a rotation as President of the United Nations Security Council) that he would only hold until February 1976. Under President Gerald Ford, Ambassador Moynihan took a hardline anti-communist stance, in line with the agenda of the White House at the time. He was also a strong supporter of Israel, condemning UN Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism to be a form of racism. Moynihan's wife Liz later recalled being approached in the UN galleries by Palestine Liberation Organization Permanent Observer Zuhdi Labib Terzi during the controversy. He made a remark of which she later did not remember the exact phrasing, but rendered it approximately as 'you must have mixed feelings about remembering events in New Delhi', which she and biographer Gil Troy interpreted as a threatening reference to a failed assassination plan against her husband two years earlier. But the American public responded enthusiastically to his moral outrage over the resolution; his condemnation of the "Zionism is Racism" resolution brought him celebrity status and helped him win a US Senate seat a year later. Moynihan opposed the resolution because he thought it was completely false and perverse. Also, his years in New York sensitized him on a pragmatic issue: "resolution against Zionism not only affected Israel but every Zionist people, which included the majority of American Jews", which became clear when that community promoted a touristic boycott against Mexico as a consequence of its vote for the approval of the Resolution. In his book, Moynihan's Moment, Gil Troy posits that Moynihan's 1975 UN speech opposing the resolution was the key moment of his political career.

Perhaps the most controversial action of Moynihan's career was his response, as Ambassador to the UN, to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975. Gerald Ford considered Indonesia, then under a military dictatorship, a key ally against Communism, which was influential in East Timor. Moynihan ensured that the UN Security Council took no action against the larger nation's annexation of a small country. The Indonesian invasion caused the deaths of 100,000–200,000 Timorese through violence, illness, and hunger. In his memoir, Moynihan wrote:

Later, he said he had defended a "shameless" Cold War policy toward East Timor.

Moynihan's thinking began to change during his tenure at the UN. In his 1993 book on nationalism, Pandaemonium, he wrote that as time progressed, he began to view the Soviet Union in less ideological terms. He regarded it less as an expansionist, imperialist Marxist state, and more as a weak realist state in decline. He believed it was most motivated by self-preservation. This view would influence his thinking in subsequent years, when he became an outspoken proponent of the then-unpopular view that the Soviet Union was a failed state headed for implosion.

Nevertheless, Moynihan's tenure at the UN marked the beginnings of a more bellicose, neoconservative American foreign policy that turned away from Kissinger's unabashedly covert, détente-driven realpolitik. Although it was never substantiated, Moynihan initially believed that Kissinger directed Ivor Richard, Baron Richard (then British Ambassador to the United Nations) to publicly denounce his actions as "Wyatt Earp" diplomacy. Demoralized, Moynihan resigned from what he would subsequently characterize as an "abbreviated posting" in February 1976. In Pandaemonium, Moynihan expounded upon this decision, maintaining that he was "something of an embarrassment to my own government, and fairly soon left before I was fired."

United States Senator from New York (1977 - 2001)
In November 1976, Moynihan was elected to the U.S. Senate from the State of New York, defeating U.S. Representative Bella Abzug, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer and businessman Abraham Hirschfeld in the Democratic primary, and Conservative Party incumbent James L. Buckley in the general election. He also was nominated by the Liberal Party of New York. Shortly after election, Moynihan analyzed the State of New York's budget to determine whether it was paying out more in federal taxes than it received in spending. Finding that it was, he produced a yearly report known as the Fisc (from the French). Moynihan's strong support for Israel while UN Ambassador inspired support for him among the state's large Jewish population.

In an August 7, 1978 speech to the Senate, following the jailing of M. A. Farber, Moynihan stated the possibility of Congress having to become involved with securing press freedom and that the Senate should be aware of the issue's seriousness.

Moynihan's strong advocacy for New York's interests in the Senate, buttressed by the Fisc reports and recalling his strong advocacy for US positions in the UN, did at least on one occasion allow his advocacy to escalate into a physical attack. Senator Kit Bond, nearing retirement in 2010, recalled with some embarrassment in a conversation on civility in political discourse that Moynihan had once "slugged [Bond] on the Senate floor after Bond denounced an earmark Moynihan had slipped into a highway appropriations bill. Some months later Moynihan apologized, and the two occasionally would relax in Moynihan's office after a long day to discuss their shared interest in urban renewal over a glass of port."

Moynihan continued to be interested in foreign policy as a Senator, sitting on the Select Committee on Intelligence. His strongly anti-Soviet views became far more moderate when he emerged as a critic of the Reagan administration's hawkish tilt in the late Cold War, as exemplified by its support for the Contras in Nicaragua. Moynihan argued there was no active Soviet-backed conspiracy in Latin America, or anywhere. He suggested the Soviets were suffering from massive internal problems, such as rising ethnic nationalism and a collapsing economy. In a December 21, 1986, editorial in The New York Times, Moynihan predicted the replacement on the world stage of Communist expansion with ethnic conflicts. He criticized the administration's "consuming obsession with the expansion of Communism – which is not in fact going on." In a September 8, 1990 letter to Erwin Griswold, Moynihan wrote: "I have one purpose left in life; or at least in the Senate. It is to try to sort out what would be involved in reconstituting the American government in the aftermath of the [C]old [W]ar. Huge changes took place, some of which we hardly notice." In 1981 he and fellow Irish-American politicians Senator Ted Kennedy and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill co-founded the Friends of Ireland, a bipartisan organization of Senators and Representatives who opposed the ongoing sectarian violence and aimed to promote peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland.

Moynihan introduced Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which cost certain professionals (like computer programmers, engineers, draftspersons, and designers) who depended on intermediary agencies (consulting firms) a self-employed tax status option, but other professionals (like accountants and lawyers) continued to enjoy Section 530 exemptions from payroll taxes. This change in the tax code was expected to offset the tax revenue losses of other legislation that Moynihan proposed to change the law of foreign taxes of Americans working abroad. Joseph Stack, who flew his airplane into a building housing IRS offices on February 18, 2010, posted a suicide note that, among many factors, mentioned the Section 1706 change to the Internal Revenue Code.

As a key Environment and Public Works Committee member, Moynihan gave vital support and guidance to William K. Reilly, who served under President George H. W. Bush as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Early in his career in the Senate, Moynihan had expressed his annoyance with adamantly pro-choice, pro woman groups petitioning him and others on the issue of abortion. He challenged them saying, "you women are ruining the Democratic Party with your insistence on abortion."

Moynihan broke with orthodox liberal positions of his party on numerous occasions. As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee in the 1990s, he strongly opposed President Bill Clinton's proposal to expand health care coverage to all Americans. Seeking to focus the debate over health insurance on the financing of health care, Moynihan garnered controversy by stating that "there is no health care crisis in this country."

On other issues though, he was much more progressive. He voted against the death penalty; the flag desecration amendment; the balanced budget amendment, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act; the Defense of Marriage Act; the Communications Decency Act; and the North American Free Trade Agreement. He was critical of proposals to replace the progressive income tax with a flat tax. Moynihan also voted against authorization of the Gulf War. Despite his earlier writings on the negative effects of the welfare state, he ended by voting against welfare reform in 1996, a bill that removed unemployment benefits. He was sharply critical of the bill and certain Democrats who crossed party lines to support it.

Public speaker
Moynihan was a popular public speaker with a distinctly patrician style. He spoke with a slight stutter, which led him to draw out vowels. Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg compared his speaking style to that of William F. Buckley, Jr.

Commission on Government Secrecy

In the post-Cold War era, the 103rd Congress enacted legislation directing an inquiry into the uses of government secrecy. Moynihan chaired the commission, which studied and made recommendations on the "culture of secrecy" that pervaded the United States government and its intelligence community for 80 years, beginning with the Espionage Act of 1917, and made recommendations on the statutory regulation of classified information.

The commission's findings and recommendations were presented to the President in 1997. As part of the effort, Moynihan secured release from the Federal Bureau of Investigation of its classified Venona file. This file documents the FBI's joint counterintelligence investigation, with the United States Signals Intelligence Service, into Soviet espionage within the United States. Much of the information had been collected and classified as secret information for over 50 years.

After release of the information, Moynihan authored Secrecy: The American Experience where he discussed the impact government secrecy has had on the domestic politics of America for the past half century, and how myths and suspicion created an unnecessary partisan chasm.

Personal life
Moynihan married Elizabeth Brennan in 1955. The couple had three children, Tim, Maura, and John, and were married until Moynihan's death at Washington Hospital Center on March 26, 2003, from complications of a ruptured appendix, ten days after his 76th birthday.

Moynihan was criticized after reportedly making offensive comments towards a woman of Jamaican descent at Vassar College in early 1990. During a question-and-answer session, Moynihan told Folami Grey, an official at the Dutchess County Youth Bureau, "If you don't like it in this country, why don't you pack your bags and go back where you came from". This incident caused a protest in which 100 students took over the college's main administration building in response to his comments.

Moynihan's daughter, Maura Moynihan, was also criticized for racism. She was recorded on a cell phone camera in March 2021 berating a Korean-American couple in New York City. She told the couple to "go back to Communist China" and "you do not belong here" during the COVID-19 pandemic. His son, John Moynihan,  a writer, died in 2004.

Death
Moynihan died March 26, 2003, due to complications of a ruptured appendix.

Career as scholar
As a public intellectual, Moynihan published articles on urban ethnic politics and on the problems of the poor in cities of the Northeast in numerous publications, including Commentary and The Public Interest.

Moynihan coined the term "professionalization of reform", by which the government bureaucracy thinks up problems for government to solve rather than simply responding to problems identified elsewhere.

In 1983, he was awarded the Hubert H. Humphrey Award given by the American Political Science Association "in recognition of notable public service by a political scientist." He wrote 19 books, leading his personal friend, columnist and former professor George F. Will, to remark that Moynihan "wrote more books than most senators have read." After retiring from the Senate, he rejoined the faculty of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where he began his academic career in 1959.

Moynihan's scholarly accomplishments led Michael Barone, writing in  The Almanac of American Politics to describe the senator as "the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson." Moynihan's 1993 article, "Defining Deviancy Down", was notably controversial. Writer and historian Kenneth Weisbrode describes Moynihan's book Pandaemonium as uncommonly prescient.

Selected books
 Beyond the Melting Pot, an influential study of American ethnicity, which he co-authored with Nathan Glazer (1963)
 The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, known as the Moynihan Report (1965)
 Maximum Feasible Misunderstanding: Community Action in the War on Poverty (1969)
 Violent Crimes (1970)
 Coping: Essays on the Practice of Government (1973)
 The Politics of a Guaranteed Income: The Nixon Administration and the Family Assistance Plan (1973) .
 Business and Society in Change (1975)
 A Dangerous Place coauthor Suzanne Garment,  (1978)
 Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year, 1980 (1980)
 Family and Nation: The Godkin Lectures (1986)
 Came the Revolution (1988)
 On the Law of Nations (1990)
 Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics (1994)
 Miles to Go: A Personal History of Social Policy (1996)
 Secrecy: The American Experience (1998)
 Future of the Family (2003)

Awards and honors
 In 1966, Moynihan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
 In 1968, Moynihan was elected to the American Philosophical Society
 The 5th Annual Heinz Award in Public Policy (1999)
 Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Tufts, his alma mater.
 1989 Honor Award from the National Building Museum
 In 1989, Moynihan received the U.S. Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service by an Elected or Appointed Official, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
 On August 9, 2000, he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Clinton.
 In 1992, he was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame, considered the most prestigious award for American Catholics.
 In 1994 the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation awarded Moynihan its Lone Sailor Award for his naval service and subsequent government service.

Honors
 The Moynihan Train Hall, which opened in January 2021, is named for him. It expanded New York Penn Station with a new concourse for Long Island Rail Road and Amtrak passengers in the adjacent, renovated James Farley Post Office building. Moynihan had long championed the project, which is modeled after the original Penn Station; he had shined shoes in the original station as a boy during the Great Depression. During his latter years in the Senate, Moynihan had to secure federal approvals and financing for the project.
 In 2005, the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs of Syracuse University renamed its Global Affairs Institute as the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
 The federal district courthouse in Manhattan's Foley Square was named in his honor.

Quotes
 "I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. I guess that we thought we had a little more time."– Reacting to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 1963
 "No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty."– The Politics of a Guaranteed Income, 1973
 "Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is."– Secrecy: The American Experience, 1998
The quote also adds, "The Soviet Union realized this too late. Openness is now a singular, and singularly American, advantage."
 "The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect."– Memo to President Richard Nixon
 "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."– Column on January 18, 1983 The Washington Post. Based on an earlier quote by James R. Schlesinger.
 (In response to the question: "Why should I work if I am going to just end up emptying slop jars?") "That's a complaint you hear mostly from people who don't empty slop jars. This country has a lot of people who do exactly that for a living. And they do it well. It's not pleasant work, but it's a living. And it has to be done. Somebody has to go around and empty all those bed pans. And it's perfectly honorable work. There's nothing the matter with doing it. Indeed, there is a lot that is right about doing it, as any hospital patient will tell you."
 "Food growing is the first thing you do when you come down out of the trees. The question is, how come the United States can grow food and you can't?"– speaking to Third World countries about global famine
 "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."
 "Truman left the Presidency thinking that Whittaker Chambers, Elizabeth Bentley were nuts, crackpots, scoundrels, and I think you could say that a fissure began in American political life that's never really closed. It reverberates, and I can say more about it. But in the main, American liberalism—Arthur Schlesinger, one of the conspicuous examples—got it wrong. We were on the side of the people who denied this, and a president who could have changed his rhetoric, explained it, told the American people, didn't know the facts, they were secret, and they were kept from him."– Secrecy: The American Experience, October 1998

See also

 List of U.S. political appointments that crossed party lines
 Benign neglect
 The Public Interest

References

Further reading
 Aksamit, Daniel. "How the pathology became tangled: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the liberal explanation of poverty since the 1960s." PS: Political Science & Politics 50.2 (2017): 374-378.
 Andelic, Patrick. "Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the 1976 New York Senate Race, and the Struggle to Define American Liberalism." Historical Journal 57#4 (2014), Pp. 1111–33. online.
 Fromer, Yoav. "Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Politics of Tragedy." Review of Politics 84.1 (2022): 80-105 online.
 Geary, Daniel. Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy (University of Pennsylvania Press; 2015)
 Heath, Karen Patricia. "Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his 'Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture' (1962)." PS: Political Science & Politics 50.2 (2017): 384-387. online
 Hess, Stephen. The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House (2014)  excerpt
 Hodgson, Godfrey. The Gentleman From New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan – A Biography  (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 2000) 480 pages.
 Hower, Joseph E. "'The Sparrows and the Horses': Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Family Assistance Plan, and the Liberal Critique of Government Workers, 1955–1977". Journal of Policy History 28.2 (2016): 256-289. online
 Rowe, Daniel. "The Politics of Protest: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Great Society Liberalism and the Vocal Minority, 1965-1968". PS, Political Science & Politics 50.2 (2017): 388+.
 Sánchez, Marta E. "One 'in bed' with la Malinche: stories of 'family' á la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis." in Shakin'Up" Race and Gender (University of Texas Press, 2021) pp. 23–38.
 Weiner, Greg. American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan (University Press of Kansas; 2015) 189 pages;
 Wilson, William Julius. "The Moynihan Report and research on the black community". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621.1 (2009): 34–46.

Primary sources
 Robert A. Katzmann, ed. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life  (Johns Hopkins; 2004)
 Steven R. Weisman, ed. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary  (PublicAffairs; 2010) 705 pages; primary sources
 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. The Negro family: The case for national action(US Government Printing Office, 1965) online.
 Rainwater, Lee, William L. Yancey, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Moynihan report and the politics of controversy; a Trans-action social science and public policy report (1967).
 About the Daniel P. Moynihan Papers (Manuscript Reading Room, Library of Congress)

External links

 Ambassador Moynihan's 1975 Address to the United Nations General Assembly

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Rob Nothman has been a Sports Broadcaster and Producer for BBC Radio for over 25 years.
He's reported from Olympic Games, World Cups, Wimbledon, been a member of BBC Radio's Test Match Special team, and has covered all the golf majors, interviewing sporting personalities such as Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, Pele, Shane Warne and Lester Piggott.
He's well known for a particular confrontation with the golfer Colin Montgomerie at the 2002 Open Championship at Muirfield. Martin Johnson of the Daily Telegraph described it thus:
"With a display of courage which brought gasps of admiration from all those gathered outside the 18th green media enclosure, Radio 5 Live's Rob Nothman stepped fearlessly into the path of a man considerably larger than himself, and announced: 'And now I'm here live with Colin Montgomerie.' The more squeamish onlookers swiftly looked away, on the basis that there was a pretty good chance that our man with the microphone wouldn't remain live for very much longer. Nothman had first attempted to commit suicide 24 hours earlier, when, offered the choice between leaping from the Forth Road Bridge or attempting to interview Monty after a 74, he plumped for the latter. He barely survived the experience, and returning to the scene of the accident so quickly was the kind of thing which wins journalistic awards."
Rob is popular on the after dinner circuit, with anecdotes from the worlds of sport and broadcasting. He is also a capable player himself having once made three birdies in a row on the back nine at Augusta and so is a popular choice for Corporate Golf days (but don't ask him about Augusta if you want to leave before midnight¦).
Rob Nothman has been a Sports Broadcaster and Producer for BBC Radio for over 20 years. He's covered Olympic Games, World Cups and Wimbledon, however Golf is his real passion having covered Ryder Cups, all the golf majors and interviewed the likes of Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus.
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Working with Jo had such a lovely flow to it. There was ample time and opportunity to talk and correspond with Jo about all aspects of creation. It was also very collaborative and my creative process and aesthetic were respected and valued. Jo listened to what I wanted for the brand and for my prospective customer.
Each phase of creation was clearly communicated so I understood where we were at all times in the creative process.
Jo is generous with her time and intention in that she wanted me to love the outcome. Which I most certainly did. I even had little tears of joy as i opened the final draft as Jo had so beautifully translated my hopes and dreams into a tangle outcome.


When traveling, I frequently buy a few bottles of the local wines and/or spirits, seduced by their unavailability in Chicago. Especially when the dollar was stronger, vinous ballast would accumulate in my suitcases until the handles buckled and the seams began to unravel.
My greatest triumph was to return from Italy with no fewer than 13 bottles of hooch divided between my checked bag and carry-on. It was January 2002 — a dollar bought 1.15 euros, and you could bring as much liquid as you damn well pleased onto the plane. Blessed memory.
Since then I've managed to bring my booze-buying addiction under control, partially through self-restraint but mostly through the depredations visited upon the U.S. dollar by noted economists George W. Bush and Barack Obama. I memorably escaped from Burgundy — Burgundy — with just six bottles, and more recently, I returned from Vietnam with one lonely bottle of snake wine.
Despite my best efforts, I still have numerous travel treasures collecting dust on my wine rack, which is decidedly not temperature or humidity controlled. All too often, I allow the wines to moulder there too long, exposed to our non-air conditioning for years. Some troopers make it, but I've lost more souls than I care to admit.
Most recently, I decided it was high time to uncork a 2005 Vinakras Izbrani Teran I'd found on a trip to Slovenia. It featured a charmingly old-fashioned parchment label and a cork sealed with red wax. I wanted to compare this Slovenian Teran to the Croatian Piquentum Teran I would shortly be sampling (read the Piquentum Teran post here).
It wasn't much of a contest. After grinding through the charming-but-frustrating red wax and extracting the cork, I poured a couple glasses of brick purple liquid. It smelled of metal, as many Terans do, but there was something else… Ah yes — dung. Feeling not particularly encouraged, I took a sip. I might as well have been sucking on a rusty iron ingot dipped in vinegar.
I had waited too long. Half-soaked in wine (or whatever was now in the bottle), the cork had lost some integrity. What a shame! This bottle of wine, carried all the way from Slovenia, carefully stuffed inside three socks for protection during the journey, made it safely all the way to Chicago only to spoil on the rack.
This wine died a gruesome death, but others have languished in my collection in silence, becoming weaker and weaker until their structure and fruit simply slips away. I resolved to clean out my wine rack and drink anything older than 2006 at the first opportunity.
I encourage you to do the same. What good does that special wine do sitting on the shelf? Unless you have a dark, cool closet in your basement, most wines won't thank you for aging them more than a year or two. Make a romantic dinner, go out to a nice BYOB restaurant or have an "Open That Bottle" party, as former Wall Street Journal wine writers Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher liked to suggest.
The wine itself is a celebration — don't wait until it's in the nursing home and too old to party.
2005 Vinakras Izbrani Teran: This wine was probably good at some point, but now it tasted of rust and vinegar and smelled of feces.
Grade: I can't fairly judge the wine, but I give myself an F for overaging.
So what bottles have you been saving for a special occasion, and how did they end up in your collection?
This post is brilliant! And how true– no point in spending money on good wine if you can't appreciate it… a fair assessment of many things in life!


original art piece created in "your turn" workshop.
Join us Friday, August 4 at 5pm in celebrating collaborative art pieces created in our two "your turn" workshops! This opening reception will feature original artwork created with game boards and a mix of other recycled materials and traditional art-making techniques.
Jacinta Bunnell and Cindy Hoose, two Hudson Valley-based artists who have been collaborating for over a decade on various artistic projects, led the two workshops with a spirit of play and adventure. Participants took turns, chances, developed trust, and learned to make art without judgment. Work from Bunnell and Hoose's "your turn, dear" will also be on display.
The reception will be in the community room of the library, which is wheelchair accessible. The exhibit will be up through Labor Day in the community room of the library.
This program is made possible with public funds from the Decentralization Program of the NYS Council on the Arts, administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts through the Community Arts Grants Fund.
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More than 50 top managers from international companies in the transport and logistics sector attended the event. This is the third time that the PR agency KaiserCommunication has taken part in the InnoTrans international trade fair.
From 23rdto 25th October 2018, a Russian-German Cultural and Economic Forum will be taking place in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk. The PR agency KaiserCommunication GmbH is an official partner of the forum in Germany.
On 7th September, the Russian Gastro Week was held in Munich, having already attracted a broad cross-section of guests in South Korea, China, and Indonesia. Now it was Germany's turn, and the event was accompanied by its strategic partner KaiserCommunication GmbH.
PR agency KaiserCommunication invited journalists from Germany, Austria, France, Italy, USA, UK, Iran, Portugal, Colombia, Serbia, Israel and other countries to attend the 6th International Media Forum "It's Time for Moscow".
KaiserCommunication organized a press tour for international journalists. The main focus of the trip was "Pluralistic Society: Role of Media in Germany".
PR-agency KaiserCommunication supported the International Railway Forum "Strategic Partnership 1520: Central Europe", which took place February 20 to 22 in Vienna.


SCANDAL Say 'HELLO WORLD' With International Album and World Tour | Japan Underground | JPU Records Ltd.
Japan's all-girl guitar group SCANDAL mark their international debut with a special edition of their sixth album HELLO WORLD, out now from JPU Records, including two exclusive bonus tracks for the CD edition.
Living up to its name, HELLO WORLD will also be supported with a headline world tour, including a show at France's Le Bataclan in Paris on 25 April 2015 (tickets), London's O2 Islington Academy on 26 April 2015 (tickets), Germany's Weststadthalle in Essen on 30 April 2015 (tickets) – plus headline dates in the USA, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan and a stadium show in Hong Kong.
Since becoming the crowned winners of the New Artist category at the 51st Japan Record Awards, SCANDAL's momentum has blasted the girls' cute, pop-punk tunes to the very top of Japan's music industry. All five of their prior albums have made it into the top five of Japan's official album chart, and 17 of their singles in to the top 20 Singles Chart – six entering at position five or higher! Their music has featured in a host of popular TV shows and films, including hit anime series Bleach and the latest Pokémon film.
HELLO WORLD sees the girls return with one of their strongest, most determined records to date and sees them collaborate with legendary icon Tetsuya Komuro; "the most successful music producer in Japanese music history" (The Guardian).
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Wilfred Rodriguez: Boca Raton, Florida Advisor Barred by FINRA
A disciplinary action taken by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority against former Boca Raton, Florida broker and investment advisor Wilfred Rodriguez (CRD# 2504369) barred him after finding he failed to cooperate with an investigation into allegations he converted customers' funds and concealed his activities by falsifying account documents. A former representative of Wells Fargo Clearing Services, Rodriguez was barred from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with a broker-dealer firm.
According to a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (No. 2018059379401) dated October 2018, FINRA sent Wilfred Rodriguez a request for documents and information on August 20, 2018 in connection with its investigation into allegations he converted foreign clients' funds and "provided falsified account statements with inflated account values" to those customers. According to FINRA, he failed to comply with the request by the requested date, September 19, 2018. FINRA sent a second request on September 20, 2018, requesting production by September 28, 2018. Rodriguez indicated via email on September 26, 2018, that he had received the request, and on the following day his counsel informed FINRA that Rodriguez "would not produce the requested documents and information." FINRA found that this refusal constituted violations of FINRA Rules 8210, which states in part that FINRA may require associated persons to provide information connected to its investigations, and 2010, which concerns high standards of commercial honor. As a result of the foregoing alleged conduct, he was barred from association with any FINRA member in all capacities.
Wilfred Rodriguez is currently not registered as a broker or investment adviser. His employment history includes Morgan Stanley in Boston, Massachusetts; UBS Financial Services in Boston, Massachusetts; Wachovia Securities in St. Louis, Missouri; Prudential Securities in New York, New York; Loeb Partners; Hornblower Weeks Noyes & Trask; and Hornblower & Weeks – Hemphill Noyes. He currently holds zero state licenses and has passed three securities industry qualification examinations.
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As campers awoke in their respective campsites they knew that today would be yet another beautiful day in the Catskills.
Backpackers awoke in their lean-to to rays of sun filtering through boughs of hemlock. After breakfast they put on their backpacks and hit the Cornell-Wittenberg-Slide Trail. They hiked the four and a half miles to Woodland Valley where they met up with the Giant's Ledge-Panther Mt Trail an 8 mile hike in all.
Bikers started early again and continued to explore the carriage roads of Minnewaska and Mohonk Preserve. At this point their probably expert bikers!
Eat. Sleep. Climb. Repeat. As experienced crag rats our climbing mini trip campers know the drill. And they are LOVING IT!!!!! Today was filled with seemly endless routes of the Shawangunk Sedimentary.
Our canoeing mini trip is continuing to make history as they paddled through the Pepacton Reservoir. They paddled about 7 miles today.


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Jordanian Officials Face Decision on Saving Ancient Baths in Amman
FILE PHOTO -- Ruins of a Roman archaeological site discovered during works to install a water drainage system, are seen in downtown Amman, Jordan, December 27, 2020. (REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed)
A government committee in Jordan is facing a difficult question. How can it save the country's ancient past while planning for its future?
The committee, set up two weeks ago, is considering the issue after the discovery of ancient Roman baths. The ruins were found during a dig for a building project, an underground canal that will help control flood water that comes into Amman, Jordan's capital.
The ruins have the remains of furnaces, a sign of a complex heating system. Experts believe that the discovery is the first of its kind among the remains of the ancient city of Philadelphia on which Amman now stands.
Yazid Elayan is head of Jordan's Department of Antiquities. "We will balance the needs of the city - to protect it from flooding - to preserving antiquities under the streets," he said.
"Amman was one of the biggest Roman cities and it has one of the largest baths...Wherever one excavates in Amman, antiquities can be found," he told Reuters.
Excavate is a term that means to dig out and remove soil.
The work on the canal system has been suspended while the government committee makes its decision.
Amman is an old city where ancient Roman structures can still be seen. It has an Amphitheatre that seated around 6,000 people. It has the Nymphaeum fountains and the Temple of Hercules, too.
Building problems and irregular urban design have been important issues in the large city of four million people.
It is built on many levels of history, from the Ammonites, Moabites, Romans and Greeks to the Islamic period.
City officials have already expressed concern that delaying the canal project could raise water levels in central Amman. They say it could flood again during the winter.
The formerly quiet city now has one of the Middle East's largest city centers.
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canal – n. a waterway for draining or irrigating land
furnace – n. an enclosed container in which heat is produced
preserve – v. to keep (something) in its original state or in good condition
antiquities – n. plural objects from ancient times
fountain – n. a structure or device that provides water which, in some cases, sends a stream of water into the air
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