Golden shakes hands with then-Governor Mario Cuomo. It was the
second time they met. Their first meeting was at approximately
seven o’clock on a Sunday morning outside the Governor’s
Mansion on Eagle Street in Albany. Golden was researching a novel
and studying the façade of the mansion, when he heard someone
call out from a car, “Can I help you?” It was the governor,
and after Golden told him what he was up to, Governor Cuomo, much
to the chagrin of his security detail, invited the writer in for a
private tour. His only warning was: “Keep it down. We don’t
want to wake up my wife.”
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Max M. Fisher. Fisher was
among the most notable back-door diplomats of the 20th century.
Golden wrote his biography, and upon the occasion of the publication of
the Hebrew translation, Rabin gave a lecture on the book. Of all
the world leaders Golden interviewed, Rabin had the most varied career,
and he gave him the most time, well over two hours.
A decade after Golden first interviewed Richie Havens, and
thirty-five years after he first saw him at Carnegie Hall, his son
took this picture in Homer, New York, October 15, 2005.
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