"NOT SINCE NOVEMBER," SAYS PAT MOYNIHAN SADLY. "Not a single call. Not from the President or any of his top people. I would have thought someone would have gotten in touch by now. I just don't get it."
For the Senator from New York, a giant intellect who has succeeded Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen as chairman of the powerful Finance Committee, these few whispered words are a warning shot at least the equal of the spontaneous outpouring of public outrage that doomed Zoe Baird last week. Finance's domain, Moynihan rightly says, "covers everything the President cares most about -- economic recovery,...