Addressing a meeting of the State Democratic Committee, the governor said his time in office amounted to "a beautiful story to tell".
The remarks, in response to questions from reporters in the Oval Office, amounted to a shift for the White House.
Roy Smith, a professor of finance at New York University and a former Goldman partner, said the pledges announced by Mr. de Blasio's office amounted to grandstanding.
Critics, particularly those in the Progressive Movement that had been vital to other political reforms, argued that shrinking the gap in time between elections and taking office amounted to an immediate call to public service.
The documents reveal that one FBI investigation, run from its Houston field office, amounted to "substantial non-compliance" of Department of Justice rules that govern how the agency should handle sensitive matters.
While other major figures in the pension investigation had already resolved their cases and Mr. Rattner had been expected to reach a settlement with the S.E.C., the charges from the attorney general's office amounted to a public showdown between Mr. Cuomo and a man who is not only a prominent figure on Wall Street but also a powerful Democratic fund-raiser.
Instead, the space for the new stores was created when Amy's Bread moved most of its baking operations off-site, leaving thousands of square feet open that, along with the conversion of a loading dock and an office, amounted to about 5,700 square feet of space, he said.
The £46bn in annual interest being paid on debts run up during Labour's time in office amounts to enough to buy an extra four aircraft carriers, 10 destroyers, 50 cargoargo planes and 300 Chinook helicopters, fund 13,000 extra soldiers and still have enough left over to revolutionise forces accommodation, he said.
Jan Witold Baran, a leading Republican election lawyer, told the Supreme Court today that any limits on how much direct help political parties could give candidates for federal office amounted to a "clear, direct and substantial infringement" of the parties' right of free speech.
He maintained that, after Taylor's election had been certified by the Board of Elections, he was legally the governor of Kentucky, and the attempt by the legislature to oust him from office amounted to an arbitrary and despotic use of power, not a due process, as the federal constitution required.
