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...last Thursday evening Mario Cuomo resolved his inner debate and quietly announced a stunning decision. As he was settling in at the cramped studio of a New York City radio station for a state-wide call-in show, the moderator told Cuomo he wanted to ask him whether he was going to run. "Go ahead," said Cuomo. "I may surprise you. Ask at the end of the program." With four minutes left, the moderator did so. Cuomo put on a pair of glasses, took a typewritten statement out of his pocket and began to read. "In my opinion," he said...
...announcement surprised even his staff. At a news conference the following day, Cuomo seemed to boast of his insular decision-making process: "I did it without telling anybody. The children didn't know." He was so concerned about secrecy that he had told his trusted secretary, who typed the announcement, that a different, noncommittal version was being typed up by someone else...
...Cuomo, in a biblical paraphrase he has often used in interviews, "let the cup pass"? Was it, perhaps, timing? "When you are second in the polls and you haven't even gotten in the game yet, there isn't any reason to be discouraged," said a wry and relaxed Cuomo the next day. He emphasized the difficulties of campaigning for the presidency while holding another office. "You can't win without going to Iowa and New Hampshire. One of the candidates has been in Iowa for 50 days. I can't say, 'Hi, I'm Mario Cuomo. I'm only...
...Cuomo has been irked by newspaper stories questioning whether the law firm of his son Andrew, 29, his closest political confidant, has inappropriately benefited from family connections. Friends who talked to the Governor after the announcement say that he knew scrutiny of Andrew and other members of his family would become even more unrelenting in a presidential campaign...
...Without Cuomo, the race to become an alternative to Hart develops into even more of a free-for-all. Both former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt feel that the absence of a top-tier battle between Cuomo and Hart will open the way for dark-horse candidates to pick up support and financial backing. Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis will no longer be thought of as the poor man's Mario Cuomo. If he enters the race, he will be the only candidate of the urban Northeast, and can carry the flag of pragmatic liberalism. Dukakis says...