Mario Cuomo, three-term NY governor, dead at 82

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In an era when liberal thought was increasingly discredited, Mr. Cuomo, a man of large intellect and often unrestrained personality, celebrated it, challenging Ronald Reagan at the height of his presidency with an expansive and affirmative view of government and a message of compassion, tinged by the Roman Catholicism that was central to Mr. Cuomo’s identity.
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He was a tenacious debater and a spellbinding speaker at a time when political oratory seemed to be shrinking to the size of the television set. Delivering the keynote address at the 1984 Democratic National Convention in San Francisco, he eclipsed his party’s nominee, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, seizing on Reagan’s description of America as “a shining city on a hill” to portray the president as unaware of impoverished Americans. “Mr. President,” he said, “you ought to know that this nation is more a ‘tale of two cities’ than it is just a ‘shining city on a hill.' ”
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I would rather have Roosevelt in a wheelchair than Reagan on a horse.

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⁍ Cuomo was governor of New York from 1983 to 1994
⁍ He died aged 82 Thursday, just after his son was sworn in for second term
⁍ Nancy Pelosi was among politicians at his wake, on Madison Avenue
⁍ Joe Biden and Bill and Hillary Clinton expected to attend funeral Tuesday
⁍ Mayor Bill de Blasio ordered flags to fly at half staff for 30 days

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