Jack kept going. giving speeches. attending benefits. and still practicing the art of legislatingthis time. on the outside. as a lobbyist for issues he believed important. No one who talked to Jake or heard him speak during those last few years. could fail to be touched by his strength and indomitable spirit. Perhaps his courage came from his roots in a poor section of New York city. His father was a tenement janitor and Tamany Hall worker. his mother was an immigrant from what was then Palestine. Growing up in poverty. Jake had to work hard to overcome the barriers of the innercity ghetto.
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