While managing the Senate campaigns of her husband, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, she achieved wide renown for her decades of fieldwork in India.
Elizabeth B. Moynihan and her husband, U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, right, greet Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton outside the White House in 1988. , a cerebral politician ever ready with a bon mot, once raised a glass at a celebration and toasted “the other man” in his wife’s life. He was referring not to a paramour or an old flame, but to the 16th-century emperor Babur, founder of the Mughal dynasty in India.Elizabeth B. Moynihan, who died Nov.
In the following years, Mrs. Moynihan identified and documented several other gardens built by Babur. She was the author of the book “Paradise as a Garden: In Persia and Mughal India” and edited the volume “The Moonlight Garden: New Discoveries at the Taj Mahal” . Elizabeth Therese Brennan was born in Norwood, Mass., on Sept. 19, 1929, and grew up in nearby Stoughton. Like her husband, she came from an Irish family of limited means, with their fathers largely missing from their lives. Mrs. Moynihan’s mother went to secretarial school and later edited a local newspaper.After high school, Mrs. Moynihan enrolled at Boston University but dropped out, partly because she ran out of money and partly because she was eager to move to New York., a Democrat.
During their years in Washington, the Moynihans kept a home on Capitol Hill. But they lived for much of their lives in a 19th-century farmhouse in the Upstate New York community of Pindars Corner, where the senator wrote books from an old schoolhouse on the property and Mrs. Moynihan pursued her research in a converted woodshed. On the wall of the shed hung a handwoven Indian cloth bearing the seal of Babur.Daniel Patrick Moynihan died in 2003 at age 76 of a ruptured appendix.
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