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NOMINATED. ANDREW CUOMO, 39, son of New York's ex-Governor Mario, as Housing Secretary; ALEXIS HERMAN, 49, White House aide, as Labor Secretary; FEDERICO PENA, 49, the Transportation chief, as Energy Secretary; and RODNEY SLATER, 41, Federal Highway Administrator, to replace Pena; by President Clinton; in Washington...
Thus I was surprised last Thursday, the day he resigned, when he tracked me down as I was waiting to go on the Charlie Rose TV show. It was an odd moment: sitting with another controversial consultant, Ed Rollins, and former New York Governor Mario Cuomo (who were also waiting to go on the show), watching President Clinton give his acceptance speech on TV while listening to Morris on the phone complaining about our cover and then offering us another interview...
...Check it out--Mario Cuomo is stuffing his pockets with cold cuts...
Many admirers referred to those qualities last week, but Mario Cuomo's son Andrew probably captured them best when he recalled a visit to Los Angeles in March 1993, when Brown and Cuomo were delivering an aid package to the city. Outside a sporting-goods shop staffed by former gang members, Cuomo and Brown played basketball with the ex-gangsters for the benefit of the TV cameras. "The gang people were big," said Cuomo. "This was not going to be much of a contest. So Ron took the ball, and with the cameras rolling, he set up at half court...
...list of the characters matched with their real-life counterparts. Around page 90 I gave up in exhaustion, having deciphered three dozen names (an insider's Who's Who that includes Grunwald, James Carville, Harold Ickes, David Wilhelm, Stan Greenberg, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas and Mario Cuomo). Some of the portraits are so deliciously vicious, I can only assume the author is settling personal scores. Take this description of the fictional stand-in for Hillary's much feared close friend Susan Thomases: "She was awful beyond imagining. She was one of those people with no sense of human...