Basil A. Paterson

The funeral for New York political and business giant Percy Sutton is today. Basil Paterson, former New York Secretary of State and father of Governor David Paterson, C. Virginia Fields, former Manhattan borough president, candidate for mayor, and currently president of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, and Elinor ...

Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, citing "an ominous political trend" in Albany, endorses the Democratic ticket for Governorship of Arthur Goldberg and Basil Paterson, both of whom speak afterward.

(The day before, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, increasingly estranged from Mr. Lindsay, urged him to "sit out" ...