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On November 10, 1975, the overall Assembly of United Nations passed Resolution 3379, which declared Zionism a kind of racism. Afterward, a tall man with long, graying wild hair, horned-rim spectacles, and a bowtie stood to speak. He pronounced his words with the curved tones of your Harvard academic, but his tone shook with outrage: "The United States rises to declare, prior to the General Assemblage of the United Nations, and prior to the world, that it does not acknowledge, you won't abide by, it'll never acquiesce in this infamous take action." This speech made Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a celebrity, but as Gil Troy shows in this convincing new booklet, it also proclaimed the surge of neo-conservatism in American politics - the start of a more confrontational, national-interest-driven international policy that flipped away from Kissinger's detente-driven approach to the Soviet Union--which was behind Resolution 3379. Moynihan acknowledged the quality for what it was: an harm on Israel and a totalitarian assault against democracy, encouraged by anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism. While Washington distanced itself from Moynihan, the general public responded enthusiastically: American Jews rallied to get Israel. Civil protection under the law market leaders cheered. The speech cost Moynihan his job - but soon triumphed in him a U.S. Senate seats. Troy examines the occurrences before the quality, vividly recounts Moynihan's speech, and traces its impact in intellectual circles, insurance plan making, international relations, and electoral politics in the ensuing ages. The middle-1970s symbolize a low-water symbol of American self-confidence, as the united states, mired in an economic slump, battled with the legacy of Watergate and the humiliation of Vietnam. Moynihan's Moment in time captures a turning point, when the rhetoric began to improve and a more muscular foreign insurance plan began to find expression, an insurance plan that is constantly on the shape international relations even today.
