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<DIV>If you doubt that Moynihan was a neoconservative, I suggest you read the book by Steinfels on Neoconservatism that came out in the late 1970s.</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR><BR>> Really? When I talked to Moynihan, he ferociously denied that he was <BR>> then or had ever been a "neoconservative." <BR>> <BR>> Brad DeLong <BR>> <BR>> >Your timing and history are a off. Neoconservatism emerged well <BR>> >before the late 1970s and well before some of them broke with the <BR>> >Democrats - some, such as Daniel Patrick Moynihan never did.. For <BR>> >instance, Perle and others, identified with Democrat Senator Scoop <BR>> >Jackson in the 1970s. Steve <BR>> > > <BR>> >> Is Norman Birnbaum a professional idiot? Neo-conservatives are those <BR>> >> who broke with the Democratic Party in the late 1970s because it was <BR>> >> insufficiently aggressive in attacking the Soviet Union and defending <BR>> >> Israel. Larry's no more a neoconservative than Norman Birnbaum is a <BR>> >> ballerina... <BR>> >> <BR>> >> <BR>> >> Brad DeLong <BR>> >> <BR>> >> ___________________________________ <BR>> >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk <BR>> > <BR>> >___________________________________ <BR>> >http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> ___________________________________ <BR>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>