Moynihan has had a rocky relationship with the administration. He described the first lady's health care plan as "fantasy" in 1993, and later he became the first Democratic senator to call for an independent counsel to investigate Whitewater. But today, after meeting with her in the one-room schoolhouse where he has written 18 books -- and wryly noting that an 1856 inventory of the schoolhouse library included "Paradise Lost" and "Pilgrim's Progress" -- he offered a short but warm endorsement of "the candidate."
"I hope she will go all the way," Moynihan said. "I mean to go all the way with her."
After the event, they walked off arm-in-arm, Moynihan looking gaunt in his blue oxford shirt and bright white pants and Clinton looking vibrant in a navy pantsuit. It was a poignant moment that suggested a changing of the guard.
I haven't been able to find what else he said or did to support her candidacy.
On travelgate and the rest, it's not clear to me how much of the commentary was factual, nor how much of it was misunderstanding how the system worked. It's also not clear that the travel office [link|http://archives.cjr.org/year/96/2/travelgate.asp|didn't have problems]. Note that there were no indictments as a result of the investigations...
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.