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Friend in Need. Robert Wagner Sr. and Morris Javits were faceless in the arriving masses of the 1880s. But, like millions of other groping, bewildered, lonely immigrants, they found a friend in the New York County Democratic organization: Tammany Hall. Whatever its sins-and they were many-Tammany provided a vital service to the U.S. It met the immigrants at the docks, helped them, fed them, found them jobs, guided them through the first terrifying years in their new world. Tammany asked only their vote-which they gladly gave...
...drives and tensions, the racial currents and religious crosscurrents of New York politics take form in the persons and careers of Bob Wagner, 46, and Jack Javits, 52, the one a Catholic who was born to the political manor and now holds one of the world's biggest-and most cruelly difficult-political jobs; the other a Jew who rose from squalor to become the highest elected Republican official in the state today...
Steak by Mistake. Far more than is usually the case with father and son, young Bob Wagner's career had its genesis in old Bob's career. The first few years had not been easy for the German immigrant lad, who had settled with his parents in Manhattan's Yorkville section, a sort of East River Frankfurt. The social center for Yorkville's Vereinsmeier was Tammany's 16th District Democratic Club, and Robert Wagner became an eager, active member. To get an education he took on any and all odd jobs, while his own father...
...Wagner met and married Margaret Marie McTague, the Catholic daughter of Irish-born parents (during their courtship he almost lost her by taking her to Feltmans Restaurant on Coney Island and ordering steaks-only to be briskly informed that it was Friday night). When their only son was christened, Tammany District Leader Mike Cosgrove stood in as godfather-and Young Bob has never since been far removed from political influences...
...father-and-son relationship became even closer after Margaret McTague Wagner died in 1919, when young Bob was just nine. Old and young Bob hiked together in the Lake Placid woods, made the first of Bob Jr.'s seven trips to Europe, traveled together on political business to every nook and cranny of New York State (Bob knows upstate New York as do few city politicians and-more important to this year's Senate campaign-upstate New York knows him). Recalls Wagner: "Sometimes Father would show signs of fatigue as we'd ride along. But the minute...