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Article: Hail to a King Time is failing Kevin White, but history won't.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 4, 2008
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BOSTON UNCOMMON/ PIERCED
Dear Kevin White:
Sorry to hear about your recent fall, and I'm even sorrier to
hear about your continuing battle with Alzheimer's. I have been
around that merry-go-round with my father, three uncles, and an aunt
already. It is not the easiest ride in the world. That I know. When
I got to Boston 30 years ago, you were still the mayor, but your
profile was on the wane. You had been one of those great, sleeves-
rolled-up mayors of the 1960s and '70s, like John Lindsay in New
York, full of ideas of how again to make cities places where people
wanted to live. You'd surrounded yourself with brilliant, ambitious
cutthroats like Barney Frank, who believed in that as much as ...
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