This national fascination helped Cuomo become, through the eighties and into the nineties, the master of New York politics, isolated from the pack by his deliberate hermetic style, a recluse in Albany whose intelligence and rhetorical passion were seen only in glimpses.
His speech at the 1984 Democratic Convention transformed this onetime unarticulated presidential murmur into so persistent a question it became, both at home and occasionally across the country, a Democratic preoccupation. And almost from the moment he became governor, there was an extraordinary undercurrent about the dignified and brilliant Cuomo that marked him as a man who might be President. What made Cuomo such an unusual government target for Trump was that when he defeated Ed Koch for governor in 1982, he ran against virtually every monied interest in New York politics, most of whom, like Donald, rallied to Koch because of his 30- to 40-point lead in the early polls. Other than Tese’s golf dates with Donald in Florida and New York, there was little of a personal touch to the mutually beneficial Cuomo/Trump arrangement. Donald’s penetration of the Cuomo inner circle was a textbook case in seduction, and his compromising relationship with the administration would last even into the months of Trump’s collapse in 1990. And the Urban Development Corporation’s supine performance for Trump had its equivalents in other state agencies on matters wholly unrelated to the stadium, especially at the State Transportation Department, which championed Trump’s agenda in planning improvements on the West Side Highway, adjacent to Donald’s 60th Street yards.ĭonald had long had a special knack for ingratiating himself with public officials, but Mario Cuomo was not just another inviting political target. Vincent Tese was no renegade commissioner, in fact no one in Mario Cuomo’s government was in closer touch with him. Blue Origin plans to launch them to the Kármán line, about 62 miles above the ground - higher than the 53.5-mile mark Branson got to.īranson made it to the edge of space during the hourlong round trip on Sunday, telling CNN it was "far more extraordinary" than he "could ever, ever have imagined.The most disturbing mystery surrounding the saga of Donald’s brief career as a football phenom was the questions it raised about his curious, yet unmistakably compelling, influence at the highest levels of the Cuomo administration. They'll be accompanied by the 82-year-old aviator Wally Funk and an unidentified bidder who forked over $28 million for a seat on the flight.
In 2015, Bezos leased a launchpad in Florida from the US Air Force for an orbital launch vehicle.īezos is set to take off from Texas on July 20 with his brother Mark in a capsule on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket. His agreement to be the anchor tenant at the facility, managed by the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, dates back to 2011, way before Trump took office in 2017.īezos operates Blue Origin's space ventures from a 165,000-acre parcel of land he purchased in West Texas years ago. Branson was already forging ahead with rocket testing in 2014, when he used the Mojave Air and Space Port to launch the VSS Enterprise.īranson blasted off on Sunday from a commercial facility called Spaceport America in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where Virgin Galactic relocated its spaceplane testing more than a decade ago.
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