from left: Mayor of New York John Lindsay, Archbishop Terence Cooke, Vice President Spiro Agnew, Governor of New York Nelson Rockefeller, and Dr. Thomas O. Paine (NASA) at the 1969 Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria
from left: Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Cardinal Terence Cooke, President Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon at the 1968 Al Smith Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria