It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

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Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan, along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David.

Good morning. And we also have the Man of the hour Ralph Nader low Ralph

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And before we start, though, we want to pay tribute to a few people we've lost in the past couple of weeks.

Some great people, and Ralph, you want wanted to pay tribute to two in particular,

Francis Golden and Nick Cots. Tell us who they are. Well they've received

wonderful obituaries given their life's commitment to public interest in the New York Times recently.

Francis Golden was a remarkable civic activist in lower Manhattan for decades. She took on Robert Moses who wanted to bulldoze huge areas of the

Lower East Side and dispossess all these people saying it's a blighted neighborhood and she beat

them with a coalition which is unheard of I mean Robert Moses is like the

unelected dictator of development in New York City she started a literary agency representing a lot of good authors and she was just

indefatiable in heralding the cause of people who were maliciously prosecuted and put away for a long time in jail, wrongfully

convicted, which is more than a few around the country.

So Francis Golden should have a biography written of her.

Anybody's listening, anybody knows someone who's doing a PhD in history or

sociology or economics, it would be a great biography.

He touched a lot of bases and we can't do justice to her life now, but a biography can't.

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