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The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

Maura Moynihan remembers the Moynihan clan: 'Dad always reached across the aisle'

The Chuck ToddCast: Meet the Press

Chuck Todd

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4.12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Moynihan, who had become known for managing the Senate campaigns of her husband, the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.), passed away on Nov. 7 at age 94 — 20 years after him. Their daughter Maura joins Chuck to detail their legacy and how the family's longstanding values of fairness and bipartisanship can inform America in its time of political division.

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0:00.0

Hello there. This is Chuck Todd. Welcome to another episode of the Chuck Todd

0:08.7

cast. I'm going to do a little, you know, one of the things I wanted to do is I'm in the solutions

0:13.5

business these days right we want to talk about how can we sort of get rid of this

0:19.8

divide that we have is there a way to knit communities back together, knit the country back together,

0:26.3

get people to call themselves Americans before they call themselves Democrats or Republicans

0:31.0

or MAGA or whatever you want to describe these days.

0:34.0

Well, I'm going to do that a little bit differently today.

0:38.0

My guest coming up is Mora Moynehan.

0:42.0

She is the daughter of Daniel. My guest coming up is Mora Moynehan.

0:42.6

She is the daughter of Daniel Patrick Moynihan

0:46.0

and Elizabeth Moynihan.

0:47.8

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

0:50.0

is best known for being a United States senator from New York for a couple of decades.

0:55.2

He's also somebody, as you will learn from his daughter, Mora, who is probably the only person

1:00.9

who served four consecutive administrations

1:03.0

two D's two ours.

1:06.1

That's not something that you see very often.

1:08.4

I believe he left the Ford administration

1:10.4

to run for the United States Senate as a Democrat.

1:12.2

So that just tells you sort of the mindset he always had.

1:16.3

And in fact, it was talking about bipartisanship

1:18.8

as you learn as to what inspired then President Nixon to try to convince a young Daniel Patrick Moynihan to join

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