daley beats the kids because of something royko said?would he throw his plate of eggs against the wall? i don't think so. i think both of them, and i think you're right, walter, they are disdainful of the press. keith, do you find it in your research, that it was kind of like who gives a shit kind of attitude about -- i don't think was richard m. daley bothered by john calling him mayor shortchange? [laughter] >> i don't think so but my sense is the prose who have a thick skin for most of the stuff and they try to, given a great immediate to serve their political ends. back on the question of the father and the son, one of mine sort of things in the book that i write about, i think the son, rich daley, was a very astute student of his father's accomplishment and mistakes as a politician. and i think he sort lived in his father's shadow a sort of all politicians did of his generation. by thinkers are careful when he came to power do not repeat the mistakes of his father. so i think the son tried to really work on race relations, particula