https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Tue, 12 May 2009 22:05:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/4288 Sun, 03 May 2009 12:25:25 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=4288 As becomes a citizen, I have occasionally run for public office. As Edouard Herriot, four times Prime Minister under the Third Republic, said whenever he was running for anything, from conseilleur municipal to President de la Republique, "I have placed myself at the disposal of my friends and the]]>