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Mario Cuomo wake, funeral draw thousands

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo comforts his mother Matilda following the funeral mass for former Gov. Mario Cuomo at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan on Jan. 6, 2015. Photo Credit: John Roca

In a heartfelt eulogy delivered by his son, former Gov. Mario Cuomo was remembered Tuesday as a poet and philosopher who gave no quarter in debates or basketball, a working-class politician who didn’t like day-to-day governing, and a pragmatic liberal who became the “keynote speaker for our better angels.”