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Mario Cuomo dead at 82

by Meteor Blades
Thu Jan 01, 2015 at 04:55 PM PST


Governor Mario Cuomo in 2007.

Larry McShane at the New York Daily News reports:
[ http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-dead-82-article-1.2063258 ]

Ever-eloquent Mario Cuomo, a son of Queens who rode his rhetorical gifts to three terms as New York governor and tantalized Democrats by flirting with a run for President, died Thursday, two sources close to the family said. He was 82.

Cuomo passed away six hours after his oldest son, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was sworn-in to a second term in Manhattan. […]

Cuomo's speech at the 1984 convention is ranked as one of the great political addresses of the 20th Century. Some in the crowd were reduced to tears.

Cuomo, who received two curtain calls, passionately illustrated the distinction between the haves and the have nots in his "Two Cities" address.

"A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portico of the White House and the veranda of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well," Cuomo said.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/01/1355127/-Mario-Cuomo-dead-at-82