I met Tim Russert when I was a 27 year old just put in charge of press for a statewide campaign in NY. In 1982, I was press secretary for Lt. Governor candidate Carl McCall, who was running in the primary with Mario Cuomo; this was Cuomo's first run for the Governor. He was successful. Carl lost.

Carl was an African-American candidate running in a NYS still obsessed with ethnic and racial politics. Tim was running Senator Moynihan's re-election campaign at the time.

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