. >> it's been improperly there is a motion and a second i'd like to commend commissioner breslin for they are per essence on this task i've been a member of the governance committee working with her on this document we started at the end of last year to bring it to this state it was an extraordinary contribution i would reference the fact that item 8 in spirit may manifest itself another way we'll diligently look at this year in process to be implemented with the staff not saying we're going to conduct it but identify the process for a climate survey which has been done in many of the city departments here in the 80 city to get at how engaged and what things staff are concerned about and so on to try to talk about how we make this staff department one of the best places to work in the city under the leadership of our great director as we go forward we'll discuss it and as we get more detail from the department of human resources and matter to figure out what the cost and when and where to be down so forth and that's a commitment we'll work that governance committee any comments in th

i mean, jimmy breslin i mean, first of all, new york was a newspaper town when nelson rockefeller went into politics in the 1950s. i don't know how many papers there were. of course, most of them are gone. but, i mean, it was a newspaper town, and it generated great journalists who were, first of all, great reporters but secondly also in kempton's case, police call analysts. c-span: he's long gone. >> guest: yeah. c-span: it came down from rockefeller, those galleries a howl of hatred of a human being who embodied everything these people had hated for 20 years. he just stood there and began his prose in the armor of a magnificent contempt. who cares what he said; it was what he was that night. >> guest: yeah. c-span: what night? >> guest: july 14 1964. "the new york times" referred to it as bastille day in reverse. it was new york versus the rest of america. not exactly a dispute that's gone away, i suppose. one that perhaps has been at least temporarily healed in the walk of 9/11. the fact -- in the wake of 9/11. the fact of the matter is the republican party, going back to 1912 when