Pat Moynihan was respected by everyone is Washington. Even William F. Buckley, whose brother lost his Senate seat to Moynihan in 1976, spoke well of the late Senator. I could never figure Moynihan out. He'd talk conservative for a while. He's talk liberal for a while. He blasted Clinton for lying to the Grand Jury and then voted not to convict him in the impeachment. He then supported Hillary in her election to his old seat. The conclusion to this story is worth reading even if you skip the article.
Moynihan had "this uncanny ability to know who to trust about any particular subject," said Tim Russert of NBC, for years a Senate aide to Moynihan.
Russert recalled preparing the senator to appear on a New York talk show the day the Yankees were to play the sixth game of the 1977 World Series -- a subject the cerebral Moynihan knew nearly nothing about.
On the air, Moynihan predicted with confidence a Yankee championship: "If the Yankees don't do it today, (pitcher) Mike Torrez will do it Tuesday," he declared.
"I fell out of my chair," Russert recalls. "How did you know about Mike Torrez?" he asked afterward.
Moynihan's reply: "I didn't know who it was. I was sitting in the makeup chair and this little kid with a Yankee hat and a ball and glove comes in. ... I said, `Hey, tiger, the Yanks going to win today?' He said, `If they don't win today, Torrez will do it Tuesday.'
"If you can't trust a 10-year-old with a Yankee hat, you can't trust anybody."'
The Yankees won the World Series in six games.
That is a great worldview. I'll forgive him for Hillary,
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