Voters in 1960 elected the first Catholic president. In 2012, I voted to reelect the first African American president. Each was a vote for a man of principle and character, for a man who had proved himself capable and courageous and who would lead our country with a combination of dignity, compassion and toughness along a path of progress.

Electing the first Catholic president, my grandfather, in 1960, did not mean that religious intolerance disappeared from our land.

It's true what they say: Nothing tastes quite like the East River.

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