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Wed Apr 14, 2021, 09:35 PM Apr 2021

Cuomo, top aides worked on COVID book alongside publisher's reps at Executive Mansion

Source: USA Today

ALBANY – On a Friday afternoon last summer, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo convened his closest aides and advisers at the Executive Mansion for a project that would take up much of their weekend.

At that time, with the state five months into the coronavirus pandemic, it was not an unusual request: Cuomo's inner circle frequently met at the Albany mansion, his official residence, to prepare for a press conference or work on the latest COVID-related issue that had cropped up.

This was no ordinary brainstorm session.

When they arrived, Cuomo's senior aides were greeted with printed-out copies of a manuscript that would become the governor's best-selling book that fall, American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, which were laid out next to table settings in the dining room.

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2021/04/14/andrew-cuomo-aides-book-american-crisis/7194791002/

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