Mayor Robert Wagner’s wife knew being NYC’s first – Latest News
Stand by your Mam
NYC’s new mayor-elect — a true mazel tov for 8 million taxpayers — has a wife. She to this point hasn’t stated a phrase. Susan Wagner, whose husband Robert F. was first elected mayor in 1953, instructed me, “No enjoyable place to be.
“Our official car wasn’t safe. Springs were broken. Picking up dignitaries like General de Gaulle with wind blowing in on both sides? It always broke down.”
Tall, blond, good-looking, stylish blue swimsuit that she stated, “I bought on sale,” instructed me: “Politician’s wives need a sense of humor. Plus patience, thick skin and inability to hear remarks like, ‘I’ve seen that dress on her before.’ I answer, ‘And you’ll see it again!’ ”
Robert F. Wagner and his wife Susan casting their votes at a polling place in Manhattan on Nov. 3, 1953. Photo by New York Post Archives /(c) NYP Holdings, Inc. through Getty Images
From a assembly in progress subsequent door, stray commissioners wandered by way of whereas a secretary stored handing her messages. And a maid dusted close by images of Nehru, Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth. Meetings continued to her left, telephones went off throughout.
“Politics are vicious. I anticipated it could be not fairly this horrible. I’m OK as a result of it’s my husband’s life. Our son was upset listening to his father attacked. He’s seen his father misquoted. He missed college days.
“I want we had some non-public time. Meetings are fixed. Once, first in weeks, we had dinner home. But he dashed out afterward to make a speech. Everybody’s attempting to supply him at too many locations. If I look fast I can see him throughout a dais. It will get lonely. I’m marooned upstairs however we’re by no means collectively. I can’t even breakfast with him as a result of who is aware of who’s going to be right here.
“And how in regards to the food payments? A pushier particular person possibly this wouldn’t have an effect on however I’m delicate. Bills add up while you’re not spending your own money. Nobody mentions Parks Department workers and police who grab large meals right here noon. Plus bacon and eggs each morning.
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“It’s constant official entertaining. Aside from big affairs with 1,500 on the lawn, we clock about 600 a week — not counting the men who meet him on business.”
Yeah . . . effectively, lotsa luck, Mrs. Mamdani . . . That’s additionally what we expect.
Lately there’s dialogue about genetically altered fruits and greens. Food specialists — one who says he’s attempting to splice a head of cabbage with a razor blade — is seeking to grow coleslaw.
OK by me. I don’t care. But I’ve a buddy who says they higher not begin playing around with the Jolly Green Giant’s niblets.
Oy. Only within the Food & Drug Department, children, solely within the Food & Drug Department.
