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hello again and welcome to start the i.v. into the shelf. i'll bring all ben today my guest is richard daley. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left our first part of the twenty two years and which he managed to turn the declining addressed city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and masterly 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 out for must have my guest today is a veteran u.s. political warhorse and the longest serving mayor of chicago richard daley. richard daley was the patriarch of very influential political family often compared to the kennedys he was just the best mayor out of the five largest cities are you

ass from a chicago business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party he supported barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william the current 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 from moscow the petersburg we will be talking about monsoon. let's start. with the first question i want to ask you like a record breaking politician so how difficult was the decision to leave office but it was your decision you you decided to quit like a nothing was it or was it maybe a wife kids who maybe didn't you know. what happened is that i enjoyed public life i was a mayor for twenty two years and prior to their ten years as state's attorney i was

a full time public servant for thirty two years and prior to that 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 in and i sacrifice but i thought of the a time that many times in our life if it looks too easy it gets too easy it's a disservice to myself or to the public and i thought of the best decision i could make or could i 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. or a happy before because you have you were. a wonderful family four wonderful children and wife and friends and all that and you know 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 such a big cities even is even more time consuming than being president of the unit ron

is because it's true 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 original then people call you like twenty four and get there you go there that they somebody told me do not have mono what you. 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 and you have a lot of 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 having people be part of a 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 a child. good education i give you good for life but if i fail they become a burden upon their family and society or another generation and you're giving

people a good education is not complex the way it's going to you know it is you know it's the teachers is no no no it's not yours the role of a mayor says not when you say you're really giving education you take responsibility and so i'm the only mayor in the country or took responsibility for myself that lie i want to have the system in you're the mayor you're responsible they're going to hold you responsible in a hole and they hold the mayor responsible in chicago and so when you want to do we want to give or we give them an edgy but it isn't just like legion schools or good oh you get into the program into the clouds into exam here's no no here's an example we here's an example we teach arabic we take russian and we teach. chinese and it was a little 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 the custom the 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 and he said you have to have a learning environment in the home and in the community it isn't just going to school to 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 person who founded farm for the use of six through his work well two terms in office is one of the fundamental principles of american democracy and democracy in a lot of countries in the world so shouldn't be applied to to the post of the mayor or you know if you put your name up you say you want to elect the or not that's it that's the firewall affair 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 you what you do with the presidential term well i don't know i. the american people elect their academic for the fifteenth and i would love i wouldn't i wouldn't mind 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 they accept you then you carry that around 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 who want more money more resources to being relaxed that never got a new one because if you just weren't really elected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't be reelected most people worry about that maybe they have accumulated 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 in a pointed out because you could do everything and

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 cargo from a decline suffered by other rust though centers like detroit for example what exactly has been done to revitalize the the the question of the role the sea should call is a public private partnership a business so on the mayor we are elected officials we work with the private business we say what you need the city's always change we said the chicago stockyards always they have chicago huge industries and it changes so city has me willing to change if it doesn't change it was in the past. and that's why you have to change our public private partners so we cart the business come along and so what do we need in the workforce how can i 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 that doesn't mean we have a difference of opinion so our public private partnerships has helped the city tremendously one than any other city in america chicago was. in the wood through this person through the prints for segregated neighborhoods one for devise that really should produce you tried hard to break these barriers good do ethnic divisions still clearly louis have when some ethnic divisions you have like a german community have a polish community and you have segments of that but slowly but surely a generation intermarriage people being educated and so you have a total different generation you have more immigrants coming from the middle east you have more immigrants coming from north africa more immigrants coming from asia and so that when you try to do is you provide a good education and you and diversity is good but also it can create its problems

so we're a very diverse city were founded by immigrants jean baptist do saba was french haitian he found a 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 formerly human human rights commission human relations so they're very proactive and any activity in the city of chicago so they're out there will have an asian community i mean a span of community i have it l g b l g b community i have. arab community. every chinese agent we have all different committees set up so we can help new immigrants who arrive in the city chicago is all we're also known in

russia to movies as they gangster which. again stars 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 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 l o l compose nineteen thirty eight look i don't know that anybody was alive then it was like nineteen thirty and so late a touch of rules are always played so beyond that and you know we have university of chicago we're great university medical institutions and you know just a great city and so you know people to watch untouchables you know there's about here you know you met most commuters to be and you know if you want some advise do you discuss something where we ought to start so there was a and on of course many people said talk about traffic and traffic is a problem for. big 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 you're going to rise 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 environment 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 and 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 if you have a lot of passion and you can't solve everything but at least you're striving to solve it. says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving mayor of chicago and retired just in the spotlight will be back shortly right after breaks out don't go away stay where you want.

to. you know the military in ninety sixty six i got over because the things i saw the things i was doing and this reason we were given for doing them there was a personal protests. during the vietnam war an antiwar movement emerged that altered the course of history of this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in barracks and on ships it penetrated elite military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefields of vietnam. today few people know about the g.i. move against the war in vietnam. after the army and we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant the fire.

play. welcome back to spotlight on a mound we're not in just a reminder that my guest today is richard daley a veteran u.s. politician and the longest serving mayor on chicago the guy a lot for the city for the environment universities for. the racial problems but mr daley things that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids a good education the racial leadership and leadership of the a spokesperson for education ok now one of your best pupils the personal best pupils was michelle obama was she yes this is were you the guy who advocated it to begin with the leadership of the show mama came from she was you're you're you're you're going through your advisor or she planned in advance when she's well educated woman and

her brother and came from a wonderful family who parents again when they strive for education she was in the lives of yes she worked in the mayor's office and of course she was your assistant when you know she was in the plane in development office and she was a wonderful ploy she had the 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 any thoughts america first african-american mayor but he was elected on that alone he was allotted and his competency and in his passion a willingness to look at people and see people in a different light he sees in looking at them and trying to give them a whole in a better world and a better country this is your opinion today when you're a time there's your opinion still counts in the democratic party while everybody counts i mean you know everybody counts i mean even look at i mean you're you're

right no 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 what i did all my life the people have more to say and then just political leaders well. we have today 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 of bama special his style 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 to people and he never lost it as president yet he has a great feeling and 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 with a deep recession and

a tough recession he still very optimistic you have to be optimistic because everybody that we're going through a recession so you have to know there's light at the end of the tunnel but we're going to get there people rush to the off and then bam it's a kennedy and well you would of course say that difference can't compare people because if you start planning for each one has their own identity they're all character they're all ideas of what their president should do but most of courtly 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 sort of own political ambitions could she be like like 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 and families and and not just in the country but in the world and she's

a wonderful spokesperson as the first lady around around the world and you see and a wonderful family keep their that's. family life even in the white house her strongest influence on the president was you say why would no i would know how much stronger influence they have but their loving couple respect each other 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 of the tea party in general how do you really a challenge what remember people get a lot of frustrated have a party gives a beer party have a tea party have a coffee party whatever party you want in a democracy you know people form different things they 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 this is the right that's part of democracy in the person it

was willing to listen he's making great strides of cutting back their 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 we have to train for so he's out there are responding to people well a bomber won't win was a great hit when he was elected well i mean worldwide but his popularity has been has been falling pretty dramatically for the last the last months and many many say yes but it's because of the economic problems that lead us to do believe this. because he only reason you know annoy every president for two years hit all time high then all of a sudden in the midterm elections midterm elections are going to be president they lose every president if you look back so they lose but in a recession when there's a recession you know in people worry they start worrying about economic development and jobs or what's going to happen to their parents or what's going to happen to

them when they graduate everybody's looking for opportunities and what he's he's hailing that straight out any he's looking at the eyes of the people and says listen we're trying to do everything power. 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 or ducking from these issues what a chance it is in two thousand and twelve harming as you say 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 and he's now the point is finger back he said i'm taking responsibility you know when you get elected you take responsibility and that's what he's done he's not blamed anybody he says saying yes i have done this and this is how moving forward and people want a vision they want they want to lead or they have passion and understanding at the same time to this economic problem is all over the world so it's not unique to united states is a look at what's happening in europe today here in china and other places and the

recession is affecting everyone so illinois still supports or it's a grammarian think it's a whole. like his stronghold there you know i think you want to present hails from from respective bill clinton hail from our art and so on jimmy carter hails from georgia and well bush one to hail from texas so they're very proud of that so you get their identity they eat from chicago known or we're very proud that he hails from there. you mentioned meeting people you told me when you came into the studio today that you use a television like you used to giving them like for us conferences that we easily you know that must come a russian politicians are good scale they make like once one a year do you envy them or should they every year well you know one thing you know i am down to talk about whatever the mask hour is in petersburg but i made it

a point to three or four days and even on saturday i can i work there is saturday to make sure because the public is not working so. that's when america should be out in so we get their view not jewish no i was not there all the time and working and 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 you know i mean i had these to do in the st louis for example the year your your governor and mr blanco each year well he's he's shown as an example of patronize corruption and things like that while you know it's funny he's already convicted of perjury and to retry him but he was he was somebody that. young man is well educated

a lawyer well educated in a just he didn't understand what public service was about but that's it doesn't reflect people and you know it doesn't reflect everyone there are people who are corrupt in every facet of life in the public and private sector academic community and not for profits it is one of the failures of society it's that 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 don't know i don't think so i mean you take if i had to describe what europe was all about and you wouldn't want to live there i guess you know i mean there are there are issues there in your opinion we don't want to get into on. the market because we're like me talking about germany and that's you know which trying to fight corruption here in moscow with everybody in russia and people many people are saying this is difficult because it's a tradition this is what the russian russian business russian way but this is what it is all about you do you never go to

a doctor with without caring about chocolate or a bottle of vodka you know the real case i mean i mean this is how it works but it can't because you can't survive on that because. it's a world that is changing rapidly. at the st petersburg conference they talked 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 and so if it is a tradition you think it's doomed anyway why has to be because it really like anything else it affects the quality of service and the quality of service of government into any place in the world there could be any place in the world thank you thank you very much for be a good as your idea of being here in moscow and st petersburg and i wish the people of russia the best food in the future and to say we have wonderful basser burly

he's done a tremendous job representing united states russia come again bring your family i want to thank you once just to remind you that my guest today was richard daley a veteran u.s. politician and longest serving average mayor of chicago twenty two years c.-span and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your sounds quite like we have someone in mind to think rationally the next parent to drop me a line of al green up at our to our year and let's keep the show interactive we'll be back with until then stay on r.t. and take here.

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