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Such as it was, the Governor's thinking had less to do with politics than with his self-image, with his concern that a giant poised to lead a crusade might ultimately appear small and personally ambitious. Strange thoughts for a politician. Par for the course for Mario Cuomo...
More than anything, a trial lawyer fears being unprepared. And more than anything, Mario Cuomo remains a trial lawyer. "You've got to know your brief 110%," Cuomo explained several years back. "Unless I know it all better than anyone, my performance is flat. I may never get the questions that expose my weaknesses, but if I know they're there, waiting to be discovered, then I can be as mediocre as anyone. So I have to know it all. I never pretend. I'm too afraid of making a mistake...
...obligation to resolve New York's fiscal crisis. At another level it was politics, pure and simple. Cuomo knew what an aide to George Bush confided only a few hours before the Governor announced that he would not run in 1992: "We don't want to face Mario. But if he goes, the Republicans in Albany will tie him up for months. His budget will never be resolved, and he'll look like he's put his personal desire for the presidency before his public responsibility. It'll kill...
That Republican "got it right," says a Cuomo adviser. "Mario would have tortured himself about appearing to abdicate his first obligation. He would have seen himself as small and petty. That's really why he decided not to run, but he had to look deep inside to figure...
...from Mario...