Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
In New York state’s long history, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller’s influence in state politics takes a back seat to none: not the Roosevelts or the Clintons (that’s George and DeWitt), not William Seward or Martin Van Buren.
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