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Showing posts with label new york state. Show all posts

Monday, March 17, 2008

Gov David Paterson's Swearing-In Speech



This is Governor David Patterson's rousing and historic speech given today after he was sworn in as the new Governor of New York. Patterson takes over for the resigned Eliot Spitzer; he's the first African American and Blind Governor in New York history. In the speech, he sited the problem of the meltdown of Bear Sterns as an economic challenge for New York.