“To those New Yorkers who have yet to meet me, I say this – you may not know me. But I know you,” the State of New York’s first female Governor Kathy Hochul said in her debut public address after being officially sworn in early Tuesday.One of her favorite speeches, by Theodore Roosevelt, she said, refers to “the man in the arena, who is marred by dust and sweat and blood, in stark contrast to the timid souls on the sideline.
Today, for the first time in New York history, a woman will enter that arena as governor.” (The speech is called The Man In The Arena, from 1910.)Hochul made her appearance a few hours after Andrew Cuomo had his special International Emmy rescinded.
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