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Historically, New York was the cradle of presidential candidates. Two of the first politicians to spot the state's potential were Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. In the spring of 1791 they took a vacation from their jobs as Secretary of State and Congressman to make a tour of New...
Franklin Roosevelt's unsuccessful opponent in 1944, Thomas Dewey, ran again in 1948, when he famously did not defeat Harry Truman. And then the parade of New York presidential candidates stopped. A number of ambitious New York politicians looked like presidential timber, but Governor Nelson Rockefeller, New York City Mayor...
First, he had to prepare the Ebertians for his depleted appearance. "To paraphrase a line from Raging Bull, I ain't a pretty boy no more," he wrote in a pre-festival note on his website. "What happened was, cancer of the salivary gland spread to my right lower jaw...
He also played a role in the unsuccessful effort at creating universal health care, laying much of the blame for the legislation’s demise at the feet of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, who had led the effort.
Student calls for divestment during the early 1980s proved to be largely unsuccessful; besides a pittance in Citibank holdings, the University refused to sell its investments in companies such as Carnation Co. and the Manufacturers Hanover Trust bank.