Daniel Moynihan, former U.S. senator, dead at 76

Thursday, March 27, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York City shoeshine boy who became an iconoclastic scholar-politician and served four terms in the Senate, died Wednesday. He was 76.

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