Word: cuomo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...times, the reporter felt that he was being cross-examined by Cuomo. Says Ajemian: "He is always ready to pounce, eager to challenge a fuzzy assumption or murky language." In the course of his reporting, he followed the Governor through a wide range of activities, from visiting a supporter dying of AIDS to conducting meetings of his senior political staff. Cuomo eventually allowed Ajemian to read passages from his personal diary, which only his secretary had seen. "They are a fascinating look at another side of the man, someone quite different from the one the public sees," says Ajemian...
...Governor's mansion is silent and mostly dark. It is 5, an hour before dawn, as Mario Cuomo sits alone in the small upstairs study writing longhand entries in his diary. It is a discipline Cuomo has engaged in for almost 15 years. Outside, the streets are empty. His wife Matilda is still asleep nearby, and on the floor above, two of their children, Madeline, 21, and Christopher, 15, have two more hours before they wake...
...voluminous diaries provide a glimpse into Cuomo's well-camouflaged self. For despite his hearty exterior, almost no one really knows him. Even as a boy, he moved with a neighborhood group but always kept a certain distance. Until he left home, Cuomo says, he never had a single lengthy discussion with his father. Over the years, he has made few close friends. "No one," he observes with a trace of pride, "really knows what I'm thinking...
...Thus Cuomo writes his innermost thoughts in these diaries--which now fill four fat black notebooks--wringing out his feelings, probing his often masked motives. In public, Cuomo's belligerent words often land like karate chops. In the diaries, he is far less defiant. Hence, a recent entry agreed with a newspaper columnist's criticism. "His reference to my legalisms and pedantry," wrote Cuomo, "is an accurate one." Another entry tried to analyze the change of his mood: "I felt an unhappiness again the last few days, not a depression but a sense of emptiness. It usually comes after...
That such contradictions exist in the gifted and complex man from Queens is not all that puzzling. For the querulous Cuomo is often at odds with himself. At 53 he still wrestles with unanswered questions about the direction and purpose of his life. Whether to run for President is but one of even more transcendent self-doubts. "What does God want of me?" Cuomo wrote one day in the diary, "But how serve...