Byline: GEORGE WILL
BOSTON -- William Weld adorned the governor's office with a portrait of a predecessor, the always raffish and occasionally felonious James Michael Curley. Paul Cellucci, who acquired the office when Weld resigned in boredom to accept nomination as ambassador to Mexico, replaced Curley's portrait with that of John Volpe, the state's second Italian-American governor (the first was Foster Furcolo). Volpe came close to being the first Italian-American president.
In 1968 Richard Nixon narrowed his vice presidential choice to two governors, Maryland's Spiro Agnew and Volpe, and eliminated Volpe because he had run poorly as a favorite-son candidate in the Massachusetts primary. But for that, …
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