nytimes.com - 12/3/2008
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ALBANY Under the lofty ceilings of the State Capitol’s Hall of Governors, the official portrait of George E. Pataki will be unveiled early next year, to be displayed alongside gilt-framed paintings of Franklin and Theodore Roosevelt , Martin Van Buren and a jowly Grover Cleveland, among ...
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Portraits of Mario
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Mario Cuomo, one of America's most entertaining political figures, has refused to sit for his official portrait ever since leaving his post as New York governor in 1995. "“I went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning," Cuomo tells the Times. Fair enough. Lucky for us, illustrator Thomas Fuchs has made ...
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The Monkey Cage —
... asked about it, although Andrew M. Cuomo would not comment for this article.
The former governor, in an interview, suggested he found the whole idea pompous. He also said he had no patience for posing: “I went to electric razors so I would not have to look at myself in the morning.”
Others, of course, see simply stubbornness, a quality they say they know well from Mr. Cuomo’s days as governor.
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