Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Moynihan in 1998
United States Senator
from New York
In office
January 3, 1977 – January 3, 2001
Preceded byJames Buckley
Succeeded byHillary Clinton
Chair of the Senate Finance Committee
In office
January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1995
Preceded byLloyd Bentsen
Succeeded byBob Packwood
Chair of the Senate Environment Committee
In office
September 8, 1992 – January 3, 1993
Preceded byQuentin Burdick
Succeeded byMax Baucus
12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
In office
June 30, 1975 – February 2, 1976
PresidentGerald Ford
Preceded byJohn Scali
Succeeded byBill Scranton
10th United States Ambassador to India
In office
February 28, 1973 – January 7, 1975
PresidentRichard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Preceded byKenneth Keating
Succeeded byBill Saxbe
Counselor to the President
In office
November 5, 1969 – December 31, 1970
PresidentRichard Nixon
Preceded byArthur Burns
Succeeded byDonald Rumsfeld
White House Urban Affairs Advisor
In office
January 23, 1969 – November 4, 1969
PresidentRichard Nixon
Preceded byJoe Califano
(Domestic Affairs)
Succeeded byJohn Ehrlichman
(Domestic Affairs)
Personal details
Born(1927-03-16)March 16, 1927
Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
DiedMarch 26, 2003(2003-03-26) (aged 76)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse
Elizabeth Brennan
​
(m. 1955)​
Children3
EducationCity College of New York
Tufts University (BS, BA, MA, PhD)
London School of Economics
Military service
AllegianceUnited States
Branch/serviceUnited States Navy
Years of service1944–1947
RankLieutenant (junior grade)
UnitUSS Quirinus (ARL-39)
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's voice
Moynihan speaks on the discontinuation of public sales of Black Talon ammunition
Recorded November 22, 1993

Daniel Patrick Moynihan (March 16, 1927 – March 26, 2003) was an American politician and diplomat. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as an adviser to President Richard Nixon, and as the United States' ambassador to India and to the United Nations.

Born in

War on Poverty. In 1965, he published the controversial Moynihan Report on black poverty. Moynihan left the Johnson administration in 1965 and became a professor at Harvard University
.

In 1969, he accepted Nixon's offer to serve as an Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy, and he was elevated to the position of

United States Ambassador to the United Nations
in 1975, holding that position until early 1976; later that year he won election to the Senate.

Moynihan served as Chairman of the

Jacob K. Javits as the longest-serving Senator from the state of New York until they were both surpassed by Chuck Schumer
in 2023.

Early life and education

Moynihan was born in

longshoreman before entering the City College of New York
(CCNY), which at that time provided free higher education to city residents.

He also had a half-brother, Thomas Joseph Stapelfeld, born on June 28, 1941 to Margaret Ann (née Phipps) Moynihan and Henry Charles Stapelfeld.

Following a year at CCNY, Moynihan joined the

Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
in 1949.

After failing the

Foreign Service Officer exam, he continued his doctoral studies at the Fletcher School as a Fulbright fellow at the London School of Economics from 1950 to 1953. During this period, Moynihan struggled with writer's block and began to fashion himself as a "dandy", cultivating "a taste for Savile Row suits, rococo conversational riffs and Churchillian oratory" even as he maintained that "nothing and no one at LSE ever disposed me to be anything but a New York Democrat who had some friends who worked on the docks and drank beer after work." He also worked for two years as a civilian employee at RAF South Ruislip.[6]

He ultimately received his PhD in history from

Averell Harriman's papers at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.[7][8]

Political career and return to academia

Moynihan's political career started in the 1950s, when he served as a member of

Averell Harriman's staff in a variety of positions (including speechwriter and acting secretary to the governor). He met his future wife, Elizabeth (Liz) Brennan, who also worked on Harriman's staff.[9]

This period ended following Harriman's loss to

Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations (1959) before taking a tenure-track position at Syracuse University (1959–1961). During this period, Moynihan was a delegate to the 1960 Democratic National Convention as part of John F. Kennedy
's delegate pool.

Kennedy and Johnson administrations

Moynihan first served in the Kennedy administration as special (1961–1962) and executive (1962–1963) assistant to

Arthur J. Goldberg and W. Willard Wirtz. In 1962, he authored the directive "Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture", which discouraged use of an official style for federal buildings, and has been credited with enabling "a wide ranging set of innovative public building projects" in subsequent decades, including the San Francisco Federal Building and the United States Courthouse in Austin, Texas.[10]

He was then appointed as

War on Poverty. His small staff included Ralph Nader
.

They took inspiration from historian Stanley Elkins's Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959). Elkins essentially contended that slavery had made black Americans dependent on the dominant society, and that such dependence still existed a century later after the American Civil War. Moynihan and his staff believed that government must go beyond simply ensuring that members of minority groups have the same rights as the majority and must also "act affirmatively" in order to counter the problem of historic discrimination.

Moynihan's research of Labor Department data demonstrated that even as fewer people were unemployed, more people were joining the

welfare
rolls. These recipients were families with children but only one parent (almost invariably the mother). The laws at that time permitted such families to receive welfare payments in certain parts of the United States.

Controversy over the War on Poverty

Moynihan issued his research in 1965 under the title The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, now commonly known as The Moynihan Report. Moynihan's report[11] fueled a debate over the proper course for government to take with regard to the economic underclass, especially blacks. Critics on the left attacked it as "blaming the victim",[12] a slogan coined by psychologist William Ryan.[13] Some suggested that Moynihan was propagating the views of racists[14] because much of the press coverage of the report focused on the discussion of children being born out of wedlock. Despite Moynihan's warnings, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program included rules for payments only if no "Man [was] in the house."[15][16] Critics of the program's structure, including Moynihan, said that the nation was paying poor women to throw their husbands out of the house.

After the 1994 Republican sweep of Congress, Moynihan agreed that correction was needed for a welfare system that possibly encouraged women to raise their children without fathers: "The Republicans are saying we have a hell of a problem, and we do."[17]

Local New York City politics and ongoing academic career

By the 1964 presidential election, Moynihan was recognized as a political ally of Robert F. Kennedy. For this reason he was not favored by then-President Johnson, and he left the Johnson Administration in 1965.[citation needed] He ran for office in the Democratic Party primary for the presidency of the New York City Council, a position now known as the New York City Public Advocate. However, he was defeated by Queens District Attorney Frank D. O'Connor.[citation needed]

Throughout this transitional period, Moynihan maintained an academic affiliation as a fellow at

Black Power movements", decided to "call for a formal alliance between liberals and conservatives",[18]
and wrote that the next administration would have to be able to unite the nation again.

Nixon administration

Moynihan in 1969

Connecting with

Domestic Policy Council envisaged as an analog to the United States National Security Council. As one of the few people in Nixon's inner circle who had done academic research related to social policies, he was very influential in the early months of the administration. However, his disdain for "traditional budget-conscious positions" (including his proposed Family Assistance Plan, a "negative income tax or guaranteed minimum income" for families that met work requirements or demonstrated that they were seeking work which ultimately stalled in the Senate despite prefiguring the later Supplemental Security Income program) led to frequent clashes (belying their unwavering mutual respect) with Nixon's principal domestic policy advisor, conservative economist and Cabinet-rank Counselor to the President Arthur F. Burns.[19]

While formulating the Family Assistance Plan proposal, Moynihan conducted significant discussions concerning a

Basic Income Guarantee with Russell B. Long and Louis O. Kelso
.

Although Moynihan was promoted to Counselor to the President for Urban Affairs with Cabinet rank shortly after Burns was nominated by Nixon to serve as Chair of the Federal Reserve in October 1969, it was concurrently announced that Moynihan would be returning to Harvard (a stipulation of his leave from the university) at the end of 1970. Operational oversight of the Urban Affairs Council was given to Moynihan's nominal successor as Domestic Policy Assistant, former White House Counsel John Ehrlichman. This decision was instigated by White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman,[20] a close friend of Ehrlichman since college and his main patron in the administration. Haldeman's maneuvering situated Moynihan in a more peripheral context as the administration's "resident thinker" on domestic affairs for the duration of his service.[21]

In 1969, on Nixon's initiative, NATO tried to establish a third civil column, establishing a hub of research and initiatives in the civil area, dealing as well with environmental topics.[22] Moynihan[22] named acid rain and the greenhouse effect as suitable international challenges to be dealt by NATO. NATO was chosen, since the organization had suitable expertise in the field, as well as experience with international research coordination. The German government was skeptical and saw the initiative as an attempt by the US to regain international terrain after the lost Vietnam War. The topics gained momentum in civil conferences and institutions.[22]

In 1970, Moynihan wrote a memo to President Nixon saying, "The time may have come when the issue of race could benefit from a period of 'benign neglect'. The subject has been too much talked about. The forum has been too much taken over to hysterics, paranoids, and boodlers on all sides. We need a period in which Negro progress continues and racial rhetoric fades."[23] Moynihan regretted that, as he saw it, critics misinterpreted his memo as advocating that the government should neglect minorities.[24]

U.S. Ambassador

Following the October 1969 reorganization of the White House domestic policy staff, Moynihan was offered the position of

Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger and United States Secretary of State William P. Rogers.[25] Instead, he commuted from Harvard as a part-time member of the United States delegation during the ambassadorship of George H. W. Bush.[25]

In 1973, Moynihan (who was circumspect toward the administration's "tilt" to Pakistan) accepted Nixon's offer to serve as

Guinness Book of World Records for the world's largest check,[27] presented to India's Secretary of Economic Affairs. [28]

In June 1975, Moynihan accepted his third offer to serve as United States Ambassador to the United Nations, a position (including a rotation as President of the

US Senate seat a year later.[32] Moynihan opposed the resolution because he thought it was completely false and perverse. Also, his years in New York sensitized him on a pragmatic issue: "resolution against Zionism not only affected Israel but every Zionist people, which included the majority of American Jews", which became clear when that community promoted a touristic boycott against Mexico as a consequence of its vote for the approval of the Resolution.[33] In his book, Moynihan's Moment, Gil Troy posits that Moynihan's 1975 UN speech opposing the resolution was the key moment of his political career.[34]

Perhaps the most controversial action of Moynihan's career was his response, as Ambassador to the UN, to the

UN Security Council took no action against the larger nation's annexation of a small country. The Indonesian invasion caused the deaths of 100,000–200,000 Timorese through violence, illness, and hunger.[35][36]
In his memoir, Moynihan wrote:

The United States wished things to turn out as they did, and worked to bring this about. The Department of State desired that the United Nations prove utterly ineffective in whatever measures it undertook. This task was given to me, and I carried it forward with no inconsiderable success.[37]

Later, he said he had defended a "shameless" Cold War policy toward East Timor.[38]

Moynihan's thinking began to change during his tenure at the UN. In his 1993 book on nationalism, Pandaemonium, he wrote that as time progressed, he began to view the

realist state in decline. He believed it was most motivated by self-preservation. This view would influence his thinking in subsequent years, when he became an outspoken proponent of the then-unpopular view that the Soviet Union was a failed state
headed for implosion.

Nevertheless, Moynihan's tenure at the UN marked the beginnings of a more bellicose,

British Ambassador to the United Nations) to publicly denounce his actions as "Wyatt Earp
" diplomacy. Demoralized, Moynihan resigned from what he would subsequently characterize as an "abbreviated posting" in February 1976. In Pandaemonium, Moynihan expounded upon this decision, maintaining that he was "something of an embarrassment to my own government, and fairly soon left before I was fired."

United States Senator from New York (1977–2001)

In November 1976, Moynihan

federal taxes than it received in spending. Finding that it was, he produced a yearly report known as the Fisc (from the French[41]). Moynihan's strong support for Israel while UN Ambassador inspired support for him among the state's large Jewish population.[42]

In an August 7, 1978 speech to the Senate, following the jailing of M. A. Farber, Moynihan stated the possibility of Congress having to become involved with securing press freedom and that the Senate should be aware of the issue's seriousness.[43]

Moynihan's strong advocacy for New York's interests in the Senate, buttressed by the Fisc reports and recalling his strong advocacy for US positions in the UN, did at least on one occasion allow his advocacy to escalate into a physical attack. Senator Kit Bond, nearing retirement in 2010, recalled with some embarrassment in a conversation on civility in political discourse that Moynihan had once "slugged [Bond] on the Senate floor after Bond denounced an earmark Moynihan had slipped into a highway appropriations bill. Some months later Moynihan apologized, and the two occasionally would relax in Moynihan's office after a long day to discuss their shared interest in urban renewal over a glass of port."[44]

Moynihan continued to be interested in foreign policy as a Senator, sitting on the

ethnic nationalism and a collapsing economy. In a December 21, 1986, editorial in The New York Times, Moynihan predicted the replacement on the world stage of Communist expansion with ethnic conflicts. He criticized the administration's "consuming obsession with the expansion of Communism – which is not in fact going on." In a September 8, 1990 letter to Erwin Griswold, Moynihan wrote: "I have one purpose left in life; or at least in the Senate. It is to try to sort out what would be involved in reconstituting the American government in the aftermath of the [C]old [W]ar. Huge changes took place, some of which we hardly notice."[45] In 1981 he and fellow Irish-American politicians Senator Ted Kennedy and Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill co-founded the Friends of Ireland, a bipartisan organization of Senators and Representatives who opposed the ongoing sectarian violence and aimed to promote peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland.[citation needed
]

Moynihan introduced Section 1706 of the

Joseph Stack, who flew his airplane into a building housing IRS offices on February 18, 2010, posted a suicide note that, among many factors, mentioned the Section 1706 change to the Internal Revenue Code.[47][48]

As a key Environment and Public Works Committee member, Moynihan gave vital support and guidance to William K. Reilly, who served under President George H. W. Bush as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.[49]

External videos
video icon Tribute to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Wilson International Center for Scholars, March 17, 1997 (part one), C-SPAN
video icon Tribute to Moynihan at the Wilson Center, March 17, 1997 (part two), C-SPAN
video icon Panel discussion on Moynihan's life and career, held at the Museum of the City of New York, October 18, 2010, C-SPAN

In the mid-1990s, Moynihan was one of the Democrats to support the ban on the procedure known as

partial-birth abortion. He said of the procedure: "I think this is just too close to infanticide. A child has been born and it has exited the uterus. What on Earth is this procedure?" Earlier in his career in the Senate, Moynihan had expressed his annoyance with the adamantly pro-choice interest groups petitioning him and others on the issue. He challenged them saying, "you women are ruining the Democratic Party with your insistence on abortion."[50][51]

Moynihan broke with orthodox liberal positions of his party on numerous occasions. As chairman of the

Senate Finance Committee in the 1990s, he strongly opposed President Bill Clinton's proposal to expand health care coverage to all Americans. Seeking to focus the debate over health insurance on the financing of health care, Moynihan garnered controversy by stating that "there is no health care crisis in this country."[52]

On other issues though, he was much more progressive. He voted against the death penalty; the

flag desecration amendment;[53] the balanced budget amendment, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act; the Defense of Marriage Act; the Communications Decency Act; and the North American Free Trade Agreement. He was critical of proposals to replace the progressive income tax with a flat tax.[citation needed] Moynihan also voted against authorization of the Gulf War.[54] Despite his earlier writings on the negative effects of the welfare state, he ended by voting against welfare reform in 1996, a bill that removed unemployment benefits. He was sharply critical of the bill and certain Democrats who crossed party lines to support it.[55]

Public speaker

Moynihan was a popular public speaker with a distinctly

William F. Buckley, Jr.[56]

Commission on Government Secrecy

Main article: Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy

In the post-Cold War era, the 103rd Congress enacted legislation directing an inquiry into the uses of government secrecy. Moynihan chaired the commission, which studied and made recommendations on the "culture of secrecy" that pervaded the United States government and its intelligence community for 80 years, beginning with the Espionage Act of 1917, and made recommendations on the statutory regulation of classified information.

The commission's findings and recommendations were presented to the President in 1997. As part of the effort, Moynihan secured release from the

Venona file. This file documents the FBI's joint counterintelligence investigation, with the United States Signals Intelligence Service
, into Soviet espionage within the United States. Much of the information had been collected and classified as secret information for over 50 years.

After release of the information, Moynihan authored Secrecy: The American Experience[57] where he discussed the impact government secrecy has had on the domestic politics of America for the past half century, and how myths and suspicion created an unnecessary partisan chasm.

Personal life

Moynihan married Elizabeth Brennan in 1955. The couple had three children, Tim, Maura, and John, and were married until Moynihan's death.

Moynihan was criticized after reportedly making offensive comments towards a woman of Jamaican descent at Vassar College in early 1990.[58] During a question-and-answer session, Moynihan told Folami Grey, an official at the Dutchess County Youth Bureau, "If you don't like it in this country, why don't you pack your bags and go back where you came from". This incident caused a protest in which 100 students took over the college's main administration building in response to his comments.

Death

Moynihan died at

ruptured appendix,[59] ten days after his 76th birthday.[60]

Career as scholar

As a

public intellectual, Moynihan published articles on urban ethnic politics and on the problems of the poor in cities of the Northeast in numerous publications, including Commentary and The Public Interest
.

Moynihan coined the term "professionalization of reform", by which the government bureaucracy thinks up problems for government to solve rather than simply responding to problems identified elsewhere.[61]

In 1983, he was awarded the

George F. Will, to remark that Moynihan "wrote more books than most senators have read." After retiring from the Senate, he rejoined the faculty of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where he began his academic career in 1959.[63]

Moynihan's scholarly accomplishments led Michael Barone, writing in The Almanac of American Politics to describe the senator as "the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson."[64] Moynihan's 1993 article, "Defining Deviancy Down",[65] was notably controversial.[66][67] Writer and historian Kenneth Weisbrode describes Moynihan's book Pandaemonium as uncommonly prescient.[68]

Selected books

Awards and honors

Honors

Quotes

  • "I don't think there's any point in being Irish if you don't know that the world is going to break your heart eventually. I guess that we thought we had a little more time."
    – Reacting to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 1963[79]
  • "No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty."
    – The Politics of a Guaranteed Income, 1973[80]
  • "Secrecy is for losers. For people who do not know how important the information really is."
    – Secrecy: The American Experience, 1998[81]
The quote also adds, "The Soviet Union realized this too late. Openness is now a singular, and singularly American, advantage."
  • "The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect."
    – Memo to President Richard Nixon[82]
  • "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."
    – Column on January 18, 1983 The Washington Post. Based on an earlier quote by James R. Schlesinger.[83]
  • (In response to the question: "Why should I work if I am going to just end up emptying slop jars?") "That's a complaint you hear mostly from people who don't empty slop jars. This country has a lot of people who do exactly that for a living. And they do it well. It's not pleasant work, but it's a living. And it has to be done. Somebody has to go around and empty all those bed pans. And it's perfectly honorable work. There's nothing the matter with doing it. Indeed, there is a lot that is right about doing it, as any hospital patient will tell you."[84]
  • "Food growing is the first thing you do when you come down out of the trees. The question is, how come the United States can grow food and you can't?"
    – speaking to Third World countries about global famine[85]
  • "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."[86][87]
  • "Truman left the Presidency thinking that
    Arthur Schlesinger, one of the conspicuous examples—got it wrong. We were on the side of the people who denied this, and a president who could have changed his rhetoric, explained it, told the American people, didn't know the facts, they were secret, and they were kept from him."
    – Secrecy: The American Experience, October 1998[88]

See also
  • List of U.S. political appointments that crossed party lines
  • Benign neglect
  • The Public Interest

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Further reading

  • Aksamit, Daniel. "How the pathology became tangled: Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the liberal explanation of poverty since the 1960s." PS: Political Science & Politics 50.2 (2017): 374-378.
  • Andelic, Patrick. “Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the 1976 New York Senate Race, and the Struggle to Define American Liberalism.” Historical Journal 57#4 (2014), Pp. 1111–33. online.
  • Fromer, Yoav. "Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Politics of Tragedy." Review of Politics 84.1 (2022): 80-105 online.
  • Geary, Daniel. Beyond Civil Rights: The Moynihan Report and Its Legacy (University of Pennsylvania Press; 2015)
  • Heath, Karen Patricia. "Daniel Patrick Moynihan and his 'Guiding Principles for Federal Architecture' (1962)." PS: Political Science & Politics 50.2 (2017): 384-387. online
  • Hess, Stephen. The Professor and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon White House (2014) excerpt
  • Hodgson, Godfrey. The Gentleman From New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan – A Biography (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 2000) 480 pages.
  • Hower, Joseph E. "'The Sparrows and the Horses': Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Family Assistance Plan, and the Liberal Critique of Government Workers, 1955–1977". Journal of Policy History 28.2 (2016): 256-289. online
  • Rowe, Daniel. "The Politics of Protest: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Great Society Liberalism and the Vocal Minority, 1965-1968". PS, Political Science & Politics 50.2 (2017): 388+.
  • Sánchez, Marta E. "One 'in bed' with la Malinche: stories of 'family' á la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis." in Shakin'Up" Race and Gender (University of Texas Press, 2021) pp. 23–38.
  • Weiner, Greg. American Burke: The Uncommon Liberalism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan (University Press of Kansas; 2015) 189 pages;
  • Wilson, William Julius. "The Moynihan Report and research on the black community". The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621.1 (2009): 34–46.

Primary sources

  • Robert A. Katzmann, ed. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: The Intellectual in Public Life (Johns Hopkins; 2004)
  • Steven R. Weisman, ed. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait in Letters of an American Visionary (PublicAffairs; 2010) 705 pages; primary sources
  • Moynihan, Daniel Patrick. The Negro family: The case for national action(US Government Printing Office, 1965) online.
  • Rainwater, Lee, William L. Yancey, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Moynihan report and the politics of controversy; a Trans-action social science and public policy report (1967).
  • About the Daniel P. Moynihan Papers (Manuscript Reading Room, Library of Congress)

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Political offices
Preceded byas White House Domestic Affairs Advisor White House Urban Affairs Advisor
1969 		Succeeded byas White House Domestic Affairs Advisor
Preceded by Counselor to the President
1969–1970
Served alongside: Bryce Harlow 		Succeeded by
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to India

1973–1975 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
United States Ambassador to the United Nations

1975–1976 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by
Class 1)
1976, 1982, 1988, 1994
 Succeeded by
Preceded by
Class 1)
1976, 1982, 1988, 1994
U.S. Senate
Preceded by
Jack Javits, Al D'Amato, Chuck Schumer
 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chair of the Senate Environment Committee
1992–1993 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Chair of the Senate Finance Committee
1993–1995 		Succeeded by
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