Irish American Mayors

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    The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I pledge you—I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)