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Moynihan’s Widow Endorses Obama
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Jan 30, 2008 10:48pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, January 31, 2008 04:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Elizabeth B. Moynihan, the widow of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who shepherded Hillary Rodham Clinton as his successor in the United States Senate, has endorsed Barack Obama, Mrs. Clinton’s chief rival for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In a statement she sent to the Obama campaign, Mrs. Moynihan said her husband, who died in 2003, “loved the Senate and would have been unhappy when close Senate friends he respected were competing for the nomination, as is Hillary Clinton, who succeeded him and has become a very good Senator.”
Mrs. Moynihan added:
I know he would have become excited, as I have, to see Barack Obama rekindle hope in our young as he encourages them to participate in the political process, and I know Pat would approve, applaud and encourage me to join Caroline Kennedy in supporting Barack Obama’s candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States.
Mrs. Moynihan said she was inspired by an Op-Ed piece by Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, published on Sunday in The New York Times, and was also dismayed by the hostility Bill and Hillary Clinton have shown recently to Mr. Obama’s candidacy.
Mrs. Moynihan said she has never met Mr. Obama, but has followed his career, speeches and his performance in the presidential debates. She has never been particularly fond of Mrs. Clinton, according to recent biographies written about both the Moynihans and the Clintons.
Senator Moynihan, who represented New York from 1977 to 2001, often had a difficult relationship with Bill Clinton, but he strongly supported Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy, introducing her when she announced her campaign on Feb. 6, 2000.
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