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Following a stint in the navy, he earned a Ph. He worked on the staff of New York Governor W. Averell Harriman before joining President John F. Kennedy 's administration in Johnson , devoting much of his time to the War on Poverty. In , he published the controversial Moynihan Report on black poverty. Moynihan left the Johnson administration in and became a professor at Harvard University.

In , he accepted Nixon's offer to serve as an Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and he was elevated to the position of Counselor to the President later that year. He left the administration at the end of , and accepted appointment as United States Ambassador to India in He accepted President Gerald Ford 's appointment to the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations in , holding that position until early ; later that year he won election to the Senate.

He also led the Moynihan Secrecy Commission , which studied the regulation of classified information. He emerged as a strong critic of President Ronald Reagan 's foreign policy and opposed President Bill Clinton 's health care plan. He frequently broke with liberal positions, but opposed welfare reform in the s. He was tied with Jacob K.

Javits as the longest-serving Senator from the state of New York until they were both surpassed by Chuck Schumer in Brought up in the working class neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen , [ 4 ] he shined shoes and attended various public , private, and parochial schools, ultimately graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem.

He was a parishioner of St.