George Elmer Pataki is an American politician who served as the 53rd Governor of New York from 1995 to 2006. He previously served in the State Legislature from 1985 to 1994, and as the Mayor of Peekskill from 1981 to 1984. Pataki was the third Republican since 1923 to win New York's governorship, after Thomas E. Dewey and Nelson Rockefeller.
Pataki greeting President Ronald Reagan in 1987
Pataki and philanthropist Yuko Nii
Alfonse Marcello D'Amato is an American attorney, lobbyist, and politician who served as a United States senator from New York from 1981 to 1999.
President Ronald Reagan presenting Al D'Amato and other New York leaders with a check for Westway Project Funds, September 1981
D'Amato with President Ronald Reagan in 1986
D'Amato, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Pete Domenici announce an agreement on mass transit funding legislation in 1998