Cord Byrd: “today, March 16th, marks the birthday of a man whom Shakespeare could have been describing when he said in ``Henry…”

“today, March 16th, marks the birthday of a man whom Shakespeare could have been describing when he said in ``Henry VII,'' ``He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one, exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading.'' The man whom that description fits like a glove is the respected senior Senator from New York, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who today celebrates his seventy-first birthday. O, to be 71 again. O, to be 71 again. I have to rejoice in Senator Moynihan being only 71 today. I am pleased to offer Senator Moynihan my best wishes for a very happy birthday, and my thanks for the intellectual vigor, the stubborn veracity, the scrupulous accuracy and the wise counsel that Senator Moynihan has brought to the Senate. Senator Moynihan's curriculum vitae is as widely known as it is broadly based--his humble beginnings, his climb up the academic ladder which, despite being interrupted by World War II, culminated in a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; a period of teaching economics--wouldn't I like to have sat in his class--a period of teaching economics, sociology and urban studies at Harvard and at the Joint Center for Urban Studies; and a distinguished series of positions in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations before winning election to the Senate for the first time in 1976. Few Senators come to this body with so much academic and practical experience.”