

A reporter gets to insinuate that de Blasio was hiding something from someone without even bothering to try to prove it with evidence. Hernández, sought out “hundreds of pages of records” and undertook “more than two dozen interviews,” discovering that “ time as a young activist was more influential in shaping his ideology than previously known.” One is tempted to ask, “Previously known by whom?” But that’s what so wonderful about using the passive voice. Apparently, at the time, the burly, bearded fellow “opposed foreign wars, missile defense systems and apartheid.” The paper’s reporter, Javier C. The folks at The New York Times think it’s front-page news that back in 1988, when he was 26 years old, Democratic mayoral candidate and current New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio spent 10 days in Masaya, Nicaragua. Chirlane I.Did Bill de Blasio force his friends to say “Neek-a-rog-wha” once upon a time?

1948), a journalist in Seattle, Washington Absent from his children, he suffered from inoperable lung cancer and committed suicide on July 28, 1979. In 1968, he left the home for good, and a year later, his wife divorced him. As a war veteran, angry and embittered, he descended into alcoholism, especially when his youngest son, Bill de Blasio, was born in May 1961. He found work in the private sector, but his integrity had been impugned and his career derailed. But when another allegation about his Yale days surfaced in 1953, he left government service. With assistance from distinguished law, he rebutted each allegation and kept his job. officials were Soviet spies, charged that his wife demonstrated communist sympathies. Most damaging, Whittaker Chambers, the Time editor who had testified in 1948 that Alger Hiss and other U.S. Informants reported that at Yale, he had belonged to the American Student Union, which included communists. At a July 1950 hearing, he answered allegations generated by months of FBI investigation.

Like many civil servants of that era, Wilhelm was soon ensnared by the federal employee loyalty program, established in 1947 to counter claims that the Truman administration harbored communists. After the war, the couple married and started a family in Washington, DC, where Wilhelm found a job as an economist in the Bureau of the Budget. He served in the Pacific Theater and lost a lower leg in the Battle of Okinawa. In 1942, after learning he was too tall for the U.S. When World War II broke out that year, he looked to serve, especially after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. He joined the editorial staff at Time, where he met his wife, Maria de Blasio. Wilhelm graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University in 1939. Wilhelm was born on Septemin New York City as the son of Donald George Wilhelm and Nina Warren. Warren Wilhelm (SeptemJuly 28, 1979) was the father of Bill de Blasio, the Mayor of New York City (2014-present).
