Word: koch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlike the city's two former three-termmayors, Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Robert F.Wagner, Koch maintains that his fall from officehas cost him none of his popularity...
While the national media have focused on NewYork as a center of racial tensions anddrug-related crimes, Koch maintains that theseproblems have often been exaggerated...
...though, if people are poor, they'regoing to take drugs," Koch says, and immediatelycounters, "Rich people take drugs. And all poorpeople do not take drugs. Most poor people do nottake drugs. Most poor people don't commit crimes...
...hindsight, Koch still defends his outspokenstyle as mayor. The people of New York, he says,demand that a mayor take a vocal stand on almostevery issue, even foreign policy matters...
...That doesn't mean race relations are what theyshould be," Koch cautions. "They're obviously not,but they're far better in New York than they arein Boston or Chicago, or L.A. or Washington D.C.But in New York City we constantly talk about itso that the rest of the country thinks its aboiling cauldron...