If someone asked you “who saved New York”? How would you respond? According to former state senator and head of CUNY Seymour Lachman, the answer is Hugh Carey. In a new book detailing Carey’s deft management of the New York City fiscal crisis of 1975, Lackman and his co-author argue that Carey was underappreciated while in office, but history looks at him as a great leader. Lachman joins us in this half hour. Then, history and politics are usually two different animals, but right now there is a bill awaiting the Governor’s signature that will make a few historians like Doris Kearns Goodwin, Joe Persico and Henry Louis Gates very happy with the political process. New York State Archivist Chris Ward sits down with Lachman, Lise Bang-Jensen of the Empire Center and me to discuss the so-called Governor’s Records bill.
 

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