Word: cuomo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Does he really want to be President? Cuomo was asked. He paused for a moment. The question troubled him. He seems unable to deal with his own ambiguous feelings. He and Matilda have never had a single conversation about the presidency, Cuomo said. Slowly he rubbed his fingers over his chin. "I see that job as a burden," he answered, "not as an opportunity." He glanced over at Lincoln's bronze hands. He views the job much as Lincoln did, Cuomo said, and as Lincoln did, he muses on the biblical phrase "Let this cup pass...
...does Mario Cuomo stack up against other Democratic presidential possibilities? To measure his national appeal, TIME commissioned a poll of 1,013 Americans last week by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulman. Democrats and independents were asked about their familiarity with Cuomo and other political figures, their impression of them, and whom they would prefer right now as a Democratic presidential nominee.* The list included 1984 Presidential Candidates Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, as well as Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and the right-wing fringe...
...Cuomo does best with those who know him well. Familiarity with Cuomo is highest in the Northeast...
respondents there were familiar with him, and 71% of those rated him favorably. But Cuomo's familiarity rating is just 26% in the South, 35% in the Midwest and 34% in the West...
Mario Matthew Cuomo, 53, the Governor of New York, is both of these men, the man of strenuous action and the man of otherworldly contemplation. Like the titans he frequently invokes--Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt--he is a man who battles inwardly between passion and reason, between his ambition and his doubts. Some believe that out of this man's head and heart may come the soul of a new Democratic Party, and perhaps the strength to lead it to the White House...