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...Humorist Art Buchwald saw it, White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan had given supporters of New York Governor Mario Cuomo reason to rejoice. How? By lambasting Cuomo as a "glib, fast-talking lobbyist for a reactionary liberalism" in his campaign against President Reagan's tax-reform plan. And by branding the Democrats' star performer a "welfare statist" who belongs to an "American Left" whose "dirty little secret is that it is interested in power, not people." Such choice abuse, in Buchwald's view, added up to the "kind of endorsement from the White House" that "a Democratic candidate...
Buchwald's satirical assessment appeared close to the truth last week. The attacks from the White House provided Cuomo with the biggest splurge of public attention and sympathy he has received since his "Shining City" keynote speech transfixed the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco last July...
...Cuomo, to be sure, routinely disclaims any ambition for the White House, insisting that he is a candidate only for re-election as Governor next year. * But he has more than welcomed fresh attention as point man in the gathering campaign against the Administration's tax-reform plan. In that role, Cuomo had been popping up all over the place last month -- on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley, on PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour, at Harvard's Class Day, at the New York University commencement, before the congressional Joint Economic Committee. Still, his crusade seemed to be struggling...
Buchanan cleared his attack ahead of time with White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan. As a former aide to Richard Nixon, though, he should have realized that he was doing Cuomo the same sort of favor that President Lyndon B. Johnson inadvertently did for Nixon. In 1966 the former Republican Vice President was gadding about (with Aides Pat Buchanan and William Safire in tow) trying desperately to get some national attention, when one day he had the good luck to say something about Viet Nam that angered L.B.J. Johnson lashed out at Nixon as a "chronic campaigner" who "never...
...Saturn project has triggered a frantic bidding war among states for the 6,000-worker plant that GM will build to assemble the car. In all, 25 Governors, including Mario Cuomo of New York and James Thompson of Illinois, have made pilgrimages to GM in hopes of getting the facility for their states. The scramble has become a distraction and something of an embarrassment to GM, which hopes to pick a location this summer...