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a decision to withdraw one third of u.s. troops from the country and white house is acting against the advice of top military commanders who want a much smaller troop reduction. in london is accused of harboring foreign fugitives after it was revealed the x. egyptian finance minister is living openly in britain this part of thirty year jail sentence back home use of boutros ghali was convicted of corruption and power abuse for personal profit but fled. that brings up that for the moment i'll be back with more news for us and thirty minutes from now in the meantime richard daley the long term marriage chicago has helped turn a city once in decline into an attractive cosmopolitan urban hard girl finds out now if she has some special advice for moscow that's in spotlight next.

hello again and welcome to spotlight bay i'm fairly sure. i'll bring all ben today my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left office for twenty two years and the trip he managed to turn the declining address tell city into a destination city pushed through immigration reform and massively dealt with racism issues winning support of the black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what advice does the scariest mayor have a mustache my guest today is a veteran u.s. political war of course and the longest serving mayor of chicago richard daley. richard daley was the patriarch of a very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was told it

is the best mayor out of the cities of us from a to chicago business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party is one of barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william white house chief of staff. all of us availing thank you very much all the thank you very much a pleasure having you be here right now in moscow the petersburg we will be talking about. chicago illinois off the first question i want to ask you you like to go on record breaking politician i so how difficult was the decision to leave but it was your decision you you decided to quit enough as it was it was it made you want feel kids who maybe didn't know know you. what happened is that i enjoy public life i was a mayor for twenty two years and prior to death ten years the state's attorney i

was a full time public servant for thirty two years and are today eight years as a state senator which was a part time and so i enjoyed my public career and i was a public servant and enjoyed every minute of it and i sacrificed but i thought if they have time that many times in wherever you are in life if it looks too easy to get so easy it's a disservice to myself or to the public and i thought of the best decision i could make that i could could run again and went and all that but i just felt that it was time and people would try to figure that out you just you just wake up and you realize that what you've made your family happy now well they were happy before because you have they were a wonderful family for wonderful children and wife and friends and all that and you know and so it's a part of public life was there or so it wasn't like a burden you know i enjoyed it but people think that being a mayor is such a big cities even is even more time consuming than being president of the units

while it is because it's yes because you have to have passion and you have to love people even though they say things and do things and you're still in the four hours a day and think about a garbage so your is your burden people call you like twenty four i don't have the love out there that they somebody told me don't have a mono but you have moved well then you would know i never did know because the decision when i drove around the city i took notes every day is sauce things differently and i never micromanage people i say you have to have passion you have to love people and you have to have a desire to improve the city in the first thing i did one of the first things i did is you know that while cleaning up the city and have people be part of it be block of community organizations and the business community and the realization that the greatest gift i could give to any child is a good education if i give it it challenge. good education i give a gift for life but if i fail they become a burden upon their family and society or another generation you're giving people

a good education is god complex so what's the you know did you know it's the teachers there's no no that's not the future is the role of the mayor so it's not in you say you're really giving education you take responsibility and so that the only mayor in the country took responsibility and i quote so myself they'll lie i want to have the system in you're the mayor you're responsible they're going to hold a responsible that i hold to they hold the mayor responsible in chicago and so what do you want to do we want to give our we're give them an edgy but it isn't just like to do schools all day oh you get into the program into the clouds ground into exams here's no no here's an exam we here's an example we teach arabic we take russian and we teach. chinese said it was a year or two decision it was it was not a political decision it was an education decision to give young people opportunities to realize the world is changing and now only understand the language accustomed to history in traditions so that you have to you can't leave that to me

size that we build sixty beautiful libraries in the city he said you have to have a learning environment in the home and in the community it isn't just going to school you learn there it has to be the whole community says this is a learning environment and so that's what we have to do this is the only use or pass you found from for the use of six students were terms enough this is one of the fundamental principles of american democracy and democracy in a lot of countries in the world shouldn't be applied to to the post of the mayor and i was you put your name up you say you want to left here now that's it that's the first one with it i think people say well the public is that they're smart we have to limit terms the public just smarter than anyone else they can say we like you or reject the way to do with the presidential term well i don't know i. i know the american people elect barack obama for the fifteenth and i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't mind me i think any president should run but when you start limiting

people that means you say the public doesn't have enough education or enough confidence or were thought to understand whether or not you're doing a good job and so my belief is you run for your run for election and if they accept you the accept you then you carry that out well maybe maybe they just think that when you are in office you've got too much of what we call the administrative resources i mean you can you you can you can pull more and more money more resources to being relaxed you've got them to go after the no more time because if you just weren't really elected and you're not worried about doing your job then you can't be reelected most people worry about that maybe they can accumulate money i get my campaign going and they forget about doing their job and so the mayor is more it's not a partisan job the mayor is about people and that's what a mayor's office is about ok what's your biggest achievement what makes you kid kids proud of you as a mayor who i think is is giving them a good quality education striving to do that and i pointed out because you could do

everything in a city but if you don't educate your children then you have really failed as a society and so the number one responsibility of government is to educate children and that includes the family and includes everyone is that just the we lead the way but it requires everybody behind you you are credited for saving she cardew from a decline suffered by other rust both centers like detroit for example what exactly has been done to revitalize the the the the industrial small this he should call is a public private partnership a business so on the mayor we are elected officials we work with a private business we say what you need to cities always change we said the chicago stockyards always they have chicago huge industries and it changes so city has to be willing to change if it doesn't change it was in the past. and it gets why you have to change our public private partnership we court the business come along so what do we need in the workforce how can i put raise money in order to provide

a better education how can i do affordable housing what we can do for the environment so you build a business community and not for profit and academic community as a leader and say let's work together deficit mean we have a difference of opinion so our public private partnerships has helped the city tremendously one of the newer city in america chicago was. in the woods with this person through the prince for segregated neighborhoods went through divisive racial politics you tried hard to break these barriers but do ethnic divisions stupid you really have when some ethnic divisions you have like a german community you have a polish community and you have segments of that the soul of witchery a generation intermarriage people being educated in so you have a total different generation you have more immigrants coming from the middle east you have more immigrants coming from north africa or immigrants coming from asia and so that when you try to do is you provide

a good education and you diversity is good but also it can create its problems so we're a very diverse city we're followed by immigrants jean baptist do sabo is french haitian he fell in the city and today we welcome immigrants from all over the world into our great city and so that you huge diversity is it has the strength but also going to have its weakness and i say whatever happens in the rest of the world it should not bother you here in america and that doesn't mean there's ethnic religious or racial differences there will be but you try to really work at it we form the human human rights commission human relations so they're very pro active in any activity in the city of chicago so they're out there with i have an asian community and i'm going to span a community. community i have. an arab community. every chinese agent we have all different committees set up so we can help new immigrants who arrive in the city of chicago is old also known in russia to movies

as a gangster which. again says in chicago are are a legend today well in moscow the gangsters are still alive and st petersburg even as it is right now it was once labeled the gangster capital of russia couple of years ago so did you did you see some similarities with the chicago you you saw in the movie and i know how compelling was nine thirty and i know that anybody was alive and it was like nineteen thirty and so late a touchable zur always played so. in you know where the university of chicago we were great university medical to sions a you know just a great city and so i'm going to watch untouchables there's about here you know he met most commuters again and you know he's been going some advised me to discuss something where we ought to start said there was a panel and of course many people said talk about traffic and traffic is a problem for all the urban areas in the next ten or fifteen years almost eighty

percent or more people live in urban areas it takes one hundred years of america to be urbanized this world to urbanize in less than twenty five years or thirty years and that is amazing we talked about environment we talked about how the environment is economic sense and vironment of the land the air in the water which is really important for a city we talked about traffic we talked about economic development housing you talked about the emergency police and fire and other things and mayors get together we talk about best practices what works and what doesn't work and the mayors are closest to the people and so they have to do a lot of passion and you can't solve everything well at least in striving to solve them. says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving mayor of all chicago retired just in may spotlight will be back shortly ride out there breaks out don't go away stay where you are.

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think you're the target. here this street still keeps secrets of the times revealed that the soviet files on oxy. welcome back to the spotlight on are we not and just to remind them that my guest today is richard daley a veteran u.s. politician and the longest serving mayor of chicago the guy did a lot for the city for the environment universities for for for the racial problems but mr daley things that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids good education the razor leadership program marginal leadership and be

a spokesperson for education ok now one of your best pupils your personal best pupils was michelle obama was she yes you're the guy who advocated it to go well all know leadership and not michelle obama came from oh she was you're you're you're you're going to your advisor or she played in a garment she's she's that well educated woman and a brother and came from a wonderful family who parents again when they strive for education she was in the mayor's office yes she worked in the mayor's office and of course she was your assistant or it will go she was in a plane in the garden office and. and she was a wonderful boy and she had a passion and dedication about it and of course president obama was a former community organizer a state senator u.s. senator and now we're very proud of him to be our president and he really we flex america the first african-american mayor but he was elected on that alone he was elected and his competency and in his passion

a willingness to look at people and see people in a different light he sees and looking at them and trying to give them a whole in a better world and a better country that's your opinion today when your time there's your opinion still counts in the democratic party while everybody counts i mean you know everybody counts i mean if you look good i mean you're you're right well i don't think i think you listen to everyone it's not just those in government or have an opinion it's you have to really listen to the people that's i did all my life the people have more to say and then just political leaders well. we have today a u.s. president from illinois he's not exactly from chicago but from illinois it's a very special place do you think that being from illinois made a bama special oh it's time you know he came he lived in chicago and he represented chicago and not only that but he has a different feeling from the midwest and the values and he understands the closest

you have to be the people and he never lost as president yet and he has certainly great feeling to people when people meet him one on one it's amazing they'll tell you about and of course very successful campaign young people felt that he's making changes and even today what a deep recession and tough recession he's still very optimist and you have to be optimistic because everyone is that we're go through a recession so you have to know there's light at the end of the tunnel but we're going to get there and when people rush to the often compare bama to kennedy. well you would of course say that difference can't compare people because if you start to kind of each one has their own identity their own character they're all ideas of what the president should do but most importantly they understand the great sacrifice that former presidents have made to the country and i can't speak for him but he's taken a part of all of them that someway have made

a wonderful contribution all the presidents to our country in the world do you think michelle obama has political ambition could could could could she be like right hillary clinton number two well she's well educated in she's the first lady and she's making her voice heard and many of the issues confronting children in families and and not just in the country but in the world and she's a wonderful spokes person as the first lady around around the world and you see a wonderful family keep their family life even in the white house so soon as her influence the president will just say well i would know i would know how much stronger influence that they have what they're loving couple that they're respect each other and and she has a great education background and well respected well is it more than the tea party or less than the tea party what do you think that the tea party in general how do you really a challenge what remember people get a lot of frustrated you have a party give a beer party have a tea party have

a coffee party whatever party you run it in a democracy you know people form different things to get it and so like anything else there had to be heard in so you listen to them where they say in their freighted that they're afraid that america's going into bankruptcy so you have to listen to everyone and it's the through out that's part of democracy in the person it was willing to listen and he's making great strides of cutting back various programs or cutting back red tape and efficiency listening to the business community trying to understand how people can get hired that new jobs and we have to train for so he's. there are responding to people well a bomber would what was a great hit when he was elected well i mean worldwide but his popularity has been has been frankly pretty pretty dramatically for the last the last months or so and many many say it's be is because of the economic problems the leaders did you believe this is i doing so because they're the only reason no noise every president

for two years hit all time high then all of a sudden in the mid-term elections midterm elections of any president they lose every president if you look back so they lose but in a recession when there's a recession you know it and people worry they start worrying about economic development and jobs and what's going to happen to their parents or what's going to happen to them or when they graduate everybody is looking for opportunities but he's he's hailing that straight out any he's looking at the eyes of the only says listen we're trying to do everything possible nothing's perfect we're going to come through it's challenging there's a hardship and he's out there if you watch him almost every day talking to the american public and not running for ducking from these issues what a chance it is in two thousand and twelve harman's you see the chances of a bomb in two thousand and twelve oh i think they're good i think i think he's done a very very good job and in difficult circumstances he's now pointed his finger back and said i'm taking responsibility you know when you get elected to take

responsibility and that's what he's done he's not blamed anybody he's saying this i have done this and this is how i'm moving forward and people want vision they want they want to lead or they have passion and understanding at this same time to this economic problem is all over the world so it's not unique and united states is look at what's happening in europe today and this year in china and other places and the recession is affecting everyone so illinois still supports the ports of gravity i think it's a whole. lot like what his stronghold there you know i think you know one of president hails from from. specular bill clinton hail from our art and so on jimmy carter hailed from georgia and. bush one to hail from texas and they're very proud of that so you get that identity from chicago known or we're very proud that he hails from there. you mentioned meeting people you've told me when you came into the studio today that that you use

a television like he used to giving their like for and he was conferences that we easily you must kill me russian politicians are this scale they make like once one a here do you envy them or should they envy you well you know one thing you know i am bound not to talk about whatever the moscow or it was in petersburg but i made it a point that you know three or four days and even saturday i came i worked every saturday to make sure because the public is not working so this one america should be out in so i know you're different not jewish and i was not there all the time and working in so that press always had access to me so that was that was something i was proud of and they ask any question any any question whatsoever and so that's all part of communicating with the public as well will the press but they do give you a hard time i mean let me add these to do it in the state and we were for example

your your your governor mr blagojevich yeah well he's he's shown as an example of patronize corruption and things like that while you know he it's funny he's already convicted of perjury and retrying him but he was he was somebody that. young man is once a kid one injury lawyer well educated in a just he didn't understand what public services apart but that's it doesn't reflect all people and it doesn't reflect everyone there are people who are corrupt in every facet. life in the public and private sector academic community of not for profits is one of the failures of society it's it's one of the failures of people that have it isn't it sort of also traditional and she can order from the times of al capone in the now you wouldn't think so i mean you take if i had to describe what europe was all about you wouldn't want to live there i guess you know i mean

there are there are issues there in europe and it would i want to get into on. the market is because we like me talking about germany and that's you know we're trying to fight corruption here in moscow with everybody in russia and many people are saying this is difficult because it's a tradition this is what the russian russian business russian what this is what it is all about you do you never go to a doctor without caring about chocolate or a bottle of our community a briefcase i mean i mean this is how it works but it can't because you can't survive on that because it's a it's a world that is changing rapidly. the st petersburg conference atreides about the russian investment fund where the russian government is putting up money for foreign investment to come here and the first question open she transparency corruption all the issues the legal system and all that that's the first thing they're asked certainly so if it is a tradition you think it's doomed anyway why has to be because it benchley like anything else it affects the quality of service and the quality of service of

government into any place in the world it could be any place in the world thank you thank you very much for being you enjoyed you being here in moscow and st petersburg and i wish the people of russia the best the in the future and to say we have wonderful embassador burly he's done a tremendous job representing united states russia come again bring your family i want to thank you thanks just to remind you that my guest today was richard daley vote for the u.s. politician had longest serving average chicago for the two years these. in the church that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have yourselves part life or if you have someone in monte you think i should be next time to drop me a line at algernon r.c.t. need jobs are year and let's keep the show interactive we'll be back with more until then stay in our seat take care.

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