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...York Gov. George E. Pataki gave Whitehead only 48 hours to decide whether he would head the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC). Immediately, Whitehead received phone calls from prominent politicians and community leaders encouraging him to take the position...
...powers that be are moving at a pace that we're having a hard time keeping up with," says Iken. "The families are going to become very vocal about how they're feeling." As much as anything else, it's election-year politics that is driving the process. George Pataki, New York's Republican Governor, is seeking a third term. Andrew Cuomo, the front runner among Democratic contenders, has been criticizing Pataki's management of the rebuilding effort. Pataki's aides say he's indifferent to Cuomo's taunts. The Governor is well ahead in the polls. But he also...
...players in this uneasy game are not at war yet; they are prepared to imagine a rough consensus. The job of mediating among them has fallen largely to the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, a panel formed by Pataki to oversee rebuilding issues, including a design for the memorial. To head the group he chose John Whitehead, a former cochairman of the Goldman Sachs investment firm, who understands that whatever emerges at the site must not only satisfy the owners, the leaseholders, the locals and the families. It must also be superb. In what is now one of the most profound...
...GEORGE PATAKI (R., N.Y.): In the past three years, the media-friendly Governor has starred in some $50 million worth of state-funded ads for museums, baseball teams and health care, the latter airing during such prime-time events as the Oscars. After criticism, he said he always planned to stop six months before the election...
...gathering wrapped around the Capitol as people congregated to hear nearly four hours of speeches from prominent individuals including former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and New York Gov. George Pataki...