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I learned about hour kind of democracy from my father. and i learned about our obligation to each other from him and my mother. they asked only for a chance to work and to make the world better for their children. >> and that speech made mario cuomo a hero to millions of democrats. a voice for liberalism for the great new deal tradition at the height of the reagan era at the darkest hours. american liberalism has ever known. mario cuomo could have done what barack obama did. he could have turned...

An electrifying can note speech to the democratic national convention. >> there is despair, mr. president, in the faces that you dont see, in the places that you dont visit in your shining city. >> the address launched him on the the short list of front runner frs the democrat nom las vegas in 8 and 92. >> hes the italian stallion of democrat party politics at the moment. he has strong feelings about the roots of this country and the roots of the democratic party. >> he wavered over the presiden...

>> there is despair, mr. president, in the faces that you dont see. in the places that you dont visit. >> e hs an old fashioned, ste - winding orator with the roots of the democratic marty. >> he earned the nickname ham less on the hudson. he even kept a plane idling on the tarmac while he debated whether to run or stay in new york to deal with the states fiscal problems. >> its my responsibility to

Convention. >> there is despair in places that you dont see, places you dont visit in your shining city. >> reporter: the address launched him on the short list of front runners for the democratic nomination in 88 and 92. >> hes the italian stallion of democratic party politics at the moment. hes an old fashioned with strong feelings about the roots of this country and roots of the democratic party. >> reporter: he kept a plane idling on the tarmac hours before the filing deadline while he debat...

Struggling in their grocery store, being helped by a government and a country that believed in people like them. sort of rekindling peoples belief in that style of government at a time when it totally had gone out of fashion politically. when mario cuomo was at the best. something about the nobility of a lost cause. his political career began running for mayor of new york city in 1977. 1977 was the year of the son of sam. there was a mass murder on the loose on new york city. what was mario cuom...

You dont visit in your shining city. >> reporter: the address launched him into a short list of front runners in 88 and 92. >> italian stallion at the moment. an old fashioned eded with the roots of the democratic party. >> reporter: he even kept a plane idling on the tarmac hours before the filing deadline while he debated whether to run or stay in new york to deal with the states fiscal problems. >> its my responsibility as governor to deal with this extraordinarily severe problem. were it not...

>> hes the italian stallion of democrat politics at the moment. he has strong feelings about the roots of this country and the roots of the democratic party. >> he earned the nickname hamlet on the hudson. even kept a plane idling on the tarmac while he debateds about running or staying in new york. >> its my responsibility as governor to deal with this extraordinarily severe problem. were it not, i would travel to new hampshire today and file my name as a candidate in this presidential primary....