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Mangano: We don't need sleep, we need Ronald Reagan

Nassau County executive-elect, Ed Mangano, meets with the

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Nassau County executive-elect, Ed Mangano, meets with the Nassau County executive, Thomas Suozzi, in Mineola. (Dec. 2, 2009)

Edward Mangano started his first official day as Nassau County executive-elect at 3:30 a.m. And that was after going to bed a little after midnight.

But it wasn't anything unusual for Mangano, who says he routinely subsists on three or four hours' sleep. "That was a good sleep," he said Wednesday, referring to his 3 ½ hours of rest. "We don't sleep. This is the burn-the-midnight-oil crew."

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