Maurice Hinchey Quotes
The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
Hinchey, Maurice. "Remarks on the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area." Congressional Record, U.S. Government Publishing Office, 1996.
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt first came to Washington, he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He often visited the historian who lived across from the White House.
He was discussing his unprecedented steps that as Federal Reserve Chairman he took to cope with the Great Recession after the Meltdown of 2008. He had, as a graduate doctoral student, studied the economic history of the Great Depression of 1929 and the government attempts to ameliorate some of the effects. He was one of the few people in government who had this historical perspective.
Maurice Dunlea Hinchey was a U.S. Representative from New York. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He retired at the end of his term in January 2013 after twenty years in Congress.