Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light

Mario Up Close

His ambition for himself wasn’t great enough (he should have run!), but his ambition for America was as noble as a politician’s could be.

Published Jan. 4 2015 6:45AM EST

articles/2015/01/04/mario-cuomo-always-moving-us-toward-the-light/150103-barnicle-mario-cuomo-tease_xxtscd — Courtesy of The New York Governor's Office

I looked up to Mario Cuomo the first time I ever met him. He was standing in the batter’s box at Joe DiMaggio Park in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco on the July morning of the day he was scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the 1984...

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Mario Cuomo, Always Moving Us Toward the Light

His ambition for himself wasn’t great enough (he should have run!), but his ambition for America was as noble as a politician’s could be.

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