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How LI caterer's political 'duck' presser went viral
Photo credit: Newsday/ Audrey C. Tiernan
U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer had a lot to do with arranging the big swearing-in luncheon in Washington, D.C., last Tuesday as chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies. But despite a good deal of New York-centric stuff, the symbolic Long Island duck was dropped in favor of bison from South Dakota. Overall, wrote Dana Milbank of the Washington Post about the luncheon, “It...
