WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.520 --> 00:00:11.960 Okay, David, I made a mistake about this boy. 2 00:00:12.020 --> 00:00:13.960 He's not as big a punk as I thought. 3 00:00:14.100 --> 00:00:14.740 He's still a punk. 4 00:00:15.020 --> 00:00:15.880 He couldn't beat Harold. 5 00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:17.320 Down with him. 6 00:00:48.400 --> 00:00:51.400 Would you not have preferred to have her here, Mayor Washington? 7 00:00:51.700 --> 00:00:53.280 Well, if she couldn't be here, she's dead. 8 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:54.320 Mayor, we have to... 9 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:58.140 WW, we need that door open. 10 00:00:58.580 --> 00:01:01.500 I can't help you this evening. I don't know any more about it than you do. 11 00:01:01.660 --> 00:01:06.520 Is there some significance to the fact that she would work out her conflicts for an event such as endorsing you? 12 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:10.720 Well, I don't know if she would endorse me. That wasn't where I'm interested in. 13 00:01:10.940 --> 00:01:11.700 Did you consider that an endorsement? 14 00:01:11.700 --> 00:01:14.620 My understanding was that she was going to endorse you. She might even be made a TV commercial for you. 15 00:01:14.620 --> 00:01:16.520 There was no one told me that. 16 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:17.520 Mayor, what about Alderman... 17 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:19.020 What did you expect for her to do tonight? 18 00:01:19.160 --> 00:01:19.960 I had no idea. 19 00:01:20.600 --> 00:01:21.500 I didn't make any of it to you. 20 00:01:21.500 --> 00:01:23.620 Well, this afternoon you were talking about... 21 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:26.260 You gave me a big question. I should have around. 22 00:01:26.260 --> 00:01:26.260 23 00:01:26.260 --> 00:01:27.100 I'd be glad to have it. 24 00:01:27.420 --> 00:01:30.580 ...Jane Byrne wrote, Jane Byrne wrote, which says that... 25 00:01:30.580 --> 00:01:33.120 ...right down there in the... don't take it with you, though. 26 00:01:33.420 --> 00:01:42.440 Mayor, the fourth paragraph, the one where it's underlined down there, where it's in parentheses, it says that... 27 00:01:42.440 --> 00:01:47.540 ...the next mayor of the city of Chicago, and that... 28 00:01:52.980 --> 00:02:03.460 Okay. I think it's turned out that Mayor Daley wasn't the kind of fascist or leader of the enemy, 29 00:02:03.720 --> 00:02:08.740 quite that he was portrayed in the 60s. I think some things have become more clear. 30 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:16.740 One of them is the shoot to kill order, which became world famous at the time. 31 00:02:18.180 --> 00:02:24.920 There's a whole story behind that. It turns out that the Sun Times had developed a story that five people 32 00:02:24.920 --> 00:02:31.160 were getting shot down by some apparently preserved cops out on the west side in the middle of the 68th riot 33 00:02:31.160 --> 00:02:33.240 following the assassination of King. 34 00:02:33.240 --> 00:02:42.560 The young reporter who got the story, Ben Heineman Jr., tracked it down, was assigned a story on who was killed, 35 00:02:42.820 --> 00:02:47.420 tracked down the truth of the matter, and wrote a very powerful story. 36 00:02:48.100 --> 00:02:55.680 The Sun Times chickened out of putting that story. Instead, we wrote it to the point that they kept it on the front page, 37 00:02:55.720 --> 00:03:00.660 but you couldn't tell when policemen were supposed to shoot or not to shoot. 38 00:03:00.660 --> 00:03:06.580 So that was a Monday morning, a week after the riots. 39 00:03:08.140 --> 00:03:13.860 Mayor Daley read that newspaper on his way to work that day, and at a press conference that afternoon, 40 00:03:14.260 --> 00:03:21.620 added on the fact that the Chicago police should shoot to kill arsonists and shoot to maim looters. 41 00:03:24.600 --> 00:03:32.520 So in a way, it was the newspaper's chicken-heartedness that led to Mayor Daley's harshest, harshest words, 42 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.780 words for which he remembered worldwide. 43 00:03:36.780 --> 00:03:45.840 In fact, there's a lot of evidence that in later life, Mayor Daley felt very awkward about his status with the right-wingers. 44 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:52.800 In a series of speeches in the last two years of his life, it was as if he was trying to expiate his sins 45 00:03:52.800 --> 00:04:02.180 and position himself as not the kind of right-wing political leader that he was sometimes mistaken for. 46 00:04:03.060 --> 00:04:11.080 Similarly with the 1968 convention, although he was taken as the enemy of the convention, 47 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:16.960 Walden did a wonderful cartoon of Mayor Daley dressed as a Chicago policeman with a billy club. 48 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:25.020 In retrospect, it turns out that there were certainly mitigating circumstances for Daley. 49 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:32.140 It appears that President Johnson wanted to fly back to the convention and get renominated. 50 00:04:32.460 --> 00:04:36.640 This is the story that Daley later told, sometimes editor Robert Dedman. 51 00:04:36.640 --> 00:04:44.420 And he was under strict orders from Johnson to keep peace demonstrators far away from the convention. 52 00:04:45.260 --> 00:04:50.640 This does explain why the big peace march of that Wednesday evening of convention... 53 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:52.820 ...a path. 54 00:04:54.660 --> 00:04:56.800 Do you want to hand it to me and I'll hold it among you? 55 00:04:57.400 --> 00:04:58.780 Yeah, that's a great idea. 56 00:04:59.740 --> 00:05:00.100 Great idea. 57 00:05:01.640 --> 00:05:02.420 Thank you very much. 58 00:05:03.240 --> 00:05:04.240 Can we pull it out for you? 59 00:05:04.240 --> 00:05:05.700 I'll just hold it. 60 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:12.340 Well, by now Harold Washington's campaign strategy is pretty obvious. 61 00:05:25.900 --> 00:05:32.900 The withdrawal date will be one day late next week on or about... 62 00:05:32.900 --> 00:05:38.640 March 12. 63 00:05:38.640 --> 00:05:47.640 It is my prediction that no one will withdraw on March 12 and the Vidoliak and Hines will go all the way against Mayor Washington... 64 00:05:48.460 --> 00:05:54.820 ...and Mayor Washington will win with 58% of the vote. 65 00:05:59.160 --> 00:06:03.900 Perhaps Jim Strong doesn't realize the urgency of... 66 00:06:10.060 --> 00:06:12.500 ...their freedom ring. 67 00:06:15.400 --> 00:06:20.280 I thank the leaders of the United States of America. 68 00:06:21.340 --> 00:06:23.320 It's Portland or Germaine with the election of him. 69 00:06:25.320 --> 00:06:25.920 Goodbye all. 70 00:06:26.520 --> 00:06:27.140 Bye bye. 71 00:06:27.300 --> 00:06:27.900 Am I going the right way? 72 00:06:28.100 --> 00:06:28.940 Yeah, this way. 73 00:06:30.260 --> 00:06:41.140 A 16 millimeter Bellin-Howell sound projector which went to his home and which he personally paid for. 74 00:06:41.760 --> 00:06:44.900 I'm going to stop it for now. 75 00:06:45.600 --> 00:06:48.860 I sold Mayor Richard J. Daley. 76 00:06:58.940 --> 00:06:59.680 Thank you, Frank. 77 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:03.340 Is your deadline over? 78 00:07:04.020 --> 00:07:04.020 79 00:07:05.900 --> 00:07:06.940 I'm dying to go to sleep. 80 00:07:07.080 --> 00:07:07.720 Where was your friend? 81 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:09.260 I went my dad. 82 00:07:09.280 --> 00:07:11.700 I got a call right now. 83 00:07:11.820 --> 00:07:14.000 He said my father is a dog carrying the earth. 84 00:07:14.420 --> 00:07:16.380 You are the people of the earth. 85 00:07:17.340 --> 00:07:18.380 You have these small habits. 86 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:19.480 No, these are great. 87 00:07:19.580 --> 00:07:20.400 These are great. 88 00:07:20.780 --> 00:07:24.680 Bye bye. 89 00:07:24.680 --> 00:07:26.840 Thank you. 90 00:08:14.900 --> 00:08:17.700 Thank you. 91 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:38.480 That's a good one for you. 92 00:08:38.600 --> 00:08:38.980 Same to you. 93 00:08:39.880 --> 00:08:41.820 I love it. 94 00:08:41.920 --> 00:08:42.940 Go for it, Joe. 95 00:08:43.420 --> 00:08:44.020 I do. 96 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:51.120 Is that money, Joe? 97 00:08:51.540 --> 00:08:51.820 Here. 98 00:08:51.860 --> 00:08:53.400 We're buying this for the press bus. 99 00:08:53.880 --> 00:08:54.660 They get the world's biggest news. 100 00:08:54.660 --> 00:08:54.660 101 00:08:54.660 --> 00:08:54.660 102 00:08:54.660 --> 00:08:54.660 103 00:08:54.660 --> 00:08:54.660 104 00:08:55.460 --> 00:08:57.500 That's your mascot for the rest of the trip. 105 00:08:57.600 --> 00:08:58.180 Here we go. 106 00:08:58.280 --> 00:08:59.220 How much is that? 107 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:01.080 $10. 108 00:09:02.620 --> 00:09:03.740 $10, huh? 109 00:09:04.120 --> 00:09:07.000 I hope you really like this mascot. 110 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:08.380 Do you want to think about it again? 111 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:08.840 112 00:09:10.040 --> 00:09:11.080 That's real Irish humor. 113 00:09:12.340 --> 00:09:14.260 I just spend more than that in here. 114 00:09:14.260 --> 00:09:14.660 I know. 115 00:09:15.540 --> 00:09:16.900 Do you look better in person? 116 00:09:17.060 --> 00:09:20.220 I think it looks cute whichever way. 117 00:09:20.400 --> 00:09:20.920 Here we go. 118 00:09:20.920 --> 00:09:21.780 How about this? 119 00:09:23.460 --> 00:09:24.720 Well, both of us. 120 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:25.540 All right? 121 00:09:26.380 --> 00:09:27.860 Look at the color. 122 00:09:30.340 --> 00:09:32.400 You know that they would never do that. 123 00:09:32.820 --> 00:09:33.360 I heard you tell us. 124 00:09:33.980 --> 00:09:34.400 They're both. 125 00:09:36.340 --> 00:09:37.680 I told you they had great ice cream. 126 00:09:39.040 --> 00:09:40.380 I want to see if you can watch. 127 00:09:42.220 --> 00:09:43.720 You haven't eaten anything yet? 128 00:09:44.760 --> 00:09:45.160 No. 129 00:09:50.920 --> 00:09:52.600 Down in front. 130 00:10:08.500 --> 00:10:18.660 Senator, can we ask you 131 00:10:19.820 --> 00:10:21.460 Senator, can we ask you about 132 00:10:21.460 --> 00:10:22.680 the disarray? 133 00:10:22.680 --> 00:10:24.880 Senator, can we ask you 134 00:10:24.880 --> 00:10:25.420 a couple questions? 135 00:10:28.540 --> 00:10:29.560 Senator, can we ask you about 136 00:10:29.560 --> 00:10:30.600 what you think of the disarray 137 00:10:30.600 --> 00:10:32.140 in the Chicago party where 138 00:10:40.380 --> 00:10:41.400 Senator, can we just 139 00:10:42.060 --> 00:10:44.020 So are we going to do this like we did last time 140 00:10:44.020 --> 00:10:44.980 and talk to them down there? 141 00:10:44.980 --> 00:10:45.420 Yeah. 142 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:47.840 Can we 143 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:50.720 We can do it. 144 00:10:51.660 --> 00:10:52.540 Afternoon, Mayor Vandellia. 145 00:10:53.920 --> 00:10:55.240 Are these some more registrants? 146 00:10:55.380 --> 00:10:55.880 I think so. 147 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.140 How come this is All Saints Cemetery on the truck? 148 00:11:00.220 --> 00:11:01.000 Hi, man. How are you doing? 149 00:11:01.180 --> 00:11:02.260 Good. How are you? 150 00:11:05.060 --> 00:11:05.600 This way. 151 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:06.380 Hi, lady. 152 00:11:12.160 --> 00:11:15.760 This is 1141 South Stoke. 153 00:11:20.380 --> 00:11:22.580 Well, the only thing that I can understand 154 00:11:22.580 --> 00:11:24.220 is why the woman is married 155 00:11:24.220 --> 00:11:26.080 to her husband 156 00:11:26.080 --> 00:11:27.840 and still does not use 157 00:11:27.840 --> 00:11:28.960 or carry his name. 158 00:11:29.920 --> 00:11:31.500 That is always stuck in my head. 159 00:11:32.040 --> 00:11:32.420 It has. 160 00:11:33.140 --> 00:11:34.700 And I just don't think 161 00:11:34.700 --> 00:11:37.040 she's the type of person that could run the city 162 00:11:37.040 --> 00:11:38.420 even if she didn't once before. 163 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:42.620 Did you know the big problem that she had 164 00:11:42.620 --> 00:11:43.900 her whole problem was 165 00:11:44.420 --> 00:11:46.340 It was more of a family together. 166 00:11:47.780 --> 00:11:49.480 Not that I can do this, 167 00:11:49.540 --> 00:11:51.340 I will do that, but I'll have to go home 168 00:11:51.340 --> 00:11:53.000 and ask what's her husband's name, Jay? 169 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:55.240 See if I can get his permission. 170 00:11:56.200 --> 00:11:56.960 And I just don't think 171 00:11:56.960 --> 00:11:59.580 She didn't include him on any of her activities 172 00:11:59.580 --> 00:12:01.100 as far as when she was mayor. 173 00:12:01.100 --> 00:12:03.920 Well, that's just from my opinion. 174 00:12:06.720 --> 00:12:07.360 Okay. 175 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:10.180 Oh, this is a typical 176 00:12:10.860 --> 00:12:12.440 election day in Chicago. 177 00:12:12.820 --> 00:12:14.640 It's snowing, but 178 00:12:14.640 --> 00:12:16.580 in the background is Alexander Hamilton, 179 00:12:16.900 --> 00:12:19.240 a not typical Chicago politician. 180 00:12:19.980 --> 00:12:21.160 He was born out of 181 00:12:21.160 --> 00:12:22.560 wedlock in the West Indies, 182 00:12:22.780 --> 00:12:24.140 biracial and bisexual. 183 00:12:24.780 --> 00:12:26.840 Part of George Washington's 184 00:12:26.840 --> 00:12:28.720 camp followers and army of lovers 185 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:31.060 later married and had eight children 186 00:12:31.060 --> 00:12:32.720 and was the proto-republican 187 00:12:33.740 --> 00:12:34.720 or arch-republican. 188 00:12:35.680 --> 00:12:36.880 All things that don't 189 00:12:36.880 --> 00:12:38.900 typify a Chicago 190 00:12:38.900 --> 00:12:40.140 politician. 191 00:12:40.500 --> 00:12:42.780 Daley was certainly monoracial 192 00:12:42.780 --> 00:12:44.800 and monosexual. 193 00:12:45.760 --> 00:12:46.560 But he 194 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:49.060 practiced what I call a form of transsexual 195 00:12:49.060 --> 00:12:49.660 politics. 196 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:52.280 The interesting thing about Mayor Daley was 197 00:12:52.280 --> 00:12:54.640 he was not a city father, he was really 198 00:12:54.640 --> 00:12:55.760 a city mother. 199 00:12:56.300 --> 00:12:58.140 And that's why opposing Mayor Daley 200 00:12:58.140 --> 00:12:59.960 was very difficult, because you were 201 00:12:59.960 --> 00:13:01.760 opposing at all times 202 00:13:01.760 --> 00:13:03.900 a mother. When you'd go into 203 00:13:03.900 --> 00:13:05.880 his office, what he'd look 204 00:13:05.880 --> 00:13:07.640 at and want you to do is wipe your feet. 205 00:13:07.680 --> 00:13:10.040 That would be the first thing. And you just 206 00:13:10.040 --> 00:13:11.760 never felt like coming 207 00:13:11.760 --> 00:13:13.720 up against him one on one. 208 00:13:14.020 --> 00:13:15.760 It was never man to man, the quarrels. 209 00:13:15.760 --> 00:13:17.840 And that's why he could keep a city 210 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:19.720 together, because he was 211 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:21.860 the mother. And he left us with 212 00:13:21.860 --> 00:13:24.020 all these sons save one, 213 00:13:24.020 --> 00:13:26.340 who really turns out to be a city 214 00:13:26.340 --> 00:13:28.480 father. She was one of the sons 215 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:31.260 of Daley. 216 00:13:31.260 --> 00:13:32.440 And when the city collapsed, 217 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:34.360 she was thrown 218 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:36.880 out of the League of Sons 219 00:13:36.880 --> 00:13:38.500 by Blandick and the younger 220 00:13:38.500 --> 00:13:40.020 Daley and Pacinski and 221 00:13:40.860 --> 00:13:42.280 Bedroliak and Burke. All these 222 00:13:42.280 --> 00:13:44.280 boys thought they would take over the father's 223 00:13:44.280 --> 00:13:46.300 inheritance in what was a woman there 224 00:13:46.300 --> 00:13:48.240 doing in their camp. So they threw her 225 00:13:48.240 --> 00:13:50.500 out immediately, out onto the streets 226 00:13:50.500 --> 00:13:51.880 where the people are. 227 00:13:51.880 --> 00:13:54.020 Now the way Daley practices politics, 228 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.020 it was a Polarky. It was 229 00:13:56.020 --> 00:13:57.500 government of the people, 230 00:13:57.900 --> 00:13:59.220 of the politician. 231 00:13:59.860 --> 00:14:01.700 And by the politician, for the politician. 232 00:14:01.860 --> 00:14:03.760 The reason they said the city works, it worked 233 00:14:03.760 --> 00:14:05.900 for the politician. And 234 00:14:05.900 --> 00:14:07.960 if you were a good politician, like Daley and his 235 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:09.820 friends, you didn't even have to work. And you 236 00:14:09.820 --> 00:14:12.320 would gain benefits from the 237 00:14:13.020 --> 00:14:13.460 Polarky. 238 00:14:13.800 --> 00:14:15.660 Anyway, they threw Bern out of the Polarky. 239 00:14:15.740 --> 00:14:17.880 The first act from Blandick came in. 240 00:14:18.540 --> 00:14:20.080 And she was out there with the people. 241 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:22.260 So she put on the cloth coat and ran 242 00:14:22.260 --> 00:14:24.240 as though she were one of the people. And that's 243 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:26.220 what fooled all of us. Because we're out here as people 244 00:14:26.220 --> 00:14:28.420 voting for her, working for her as a volunteer. 245 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:30.200 And no sooner did she get 246 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:32.180 in than she also became a 247 00:14:32.180 --> 00:14:34.180 politician. And worked the system 248 00:14:34.180 --> 00:14:35.920 again of the politicians, 249 00:14:36.140 --> 00:14:37.960 for the politicians, of which she was 250 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:40.180 a member. And didn't realize 251 00:14:40.180 --> 00:14:42.020 there was a second movement coming along, 252 00:14:42.040 --> 00:14:44.060 a second league, and that's Washington. 253 00:14:44.420 --> 00:14:46.300 And Washington is the most interesting 254 00:14:46.300 --> 00:14:48.040 transitional figure because 255 00:14:48.040 --> 00:14:50.340 he was always for 35 years and still is a 256 00:14:50.340 --> 00:14:52.160 politician. He comes from the Daley 257 00:14:52.160 --> 00:14:54.060 group. He used to go to their parties, then 258 00:14:54.060 --> 00:14:55.920 go outside and throw rocks at the window. 259 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.180 He's not really, he wasn't that 260 00:14:58.180 --> 00:14:59.960 different. He grew up in Daley politics 261 00:14:59.960 --> 00:15:01.980 and knew how to manage it from the third war 262 00:15:01.980 --> 00:15:03.560 and father being a committeeman and such. 263 00:15:03.900 --> 00:15:06.080 So he comes out into, as a 264 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.080 transitional figure, the movement develops in 265 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:09.800 the city where the people, particularly 266 00:15:09.800 --> 00:15:12.160 black people, want a change in 267 00:15:12.160 --> 00:15:13.940 government. And they get behind him and 268 00:15:13.940 --> 00:15:15.580 the movement puts him in. 269 00:15:15.580 --> 00:15:17.940 What is surprising, he remains today 270 00:15:17.940 --> 00:15:19.520 in a transitional figure. 271 00:15:20.100 --> 00:15:21.580 Tremendous contrast between 272 00:15:22.920 --> 00:15:24.060 Harold Washington 273 00:15:24.060 --> 00:15:26.100 in 1983 and Harold Washington 274 00:15:26.100 --> 00:15:27.260 in 1987. 275 00:15:28.260 --> 00:15:30.340 In 1983 he was the idealistic 276 00:15:30.340 --> 00:15:32.800 candidate, supported by 277 00:15:32.800 --> 00:15:33.860 every civil rights 278 00:15:33.860 --> 00:15:35.420 and neighborhood organization in the city. 279 00:15:36.560 --> 00:15:38.920 In 1987 he was 280 00:15:38.920 --> 00:15:40.400 an incumbent 281 00:15:40.400 --> 00:15:42.000 mayor, very much on the defensive, 282 00:15:42.440 --> 00:15:44.100 not mentioning ideology at all. 283 00:15:44.100 --> 00:15:46.740 But a huge contrast in the debates. 284 00:15:47.040 --> 00:15:48.220 He won the first 285 00:15:48.220 --> 00:15:49.700 series of debates in 83. 286 00:15:51.060 --> 00:15:52.140 He won the first 287 00:15:52.140 --> 00:15:53.340 debate strongly. 288 00:15:54.400 --> 00:15:55.920 In the single debate in 87, 289 00:15:56.020 --> 00:15:58.020 I thought he looked very weak. I felt 290 00:15:58.020 --> 00:16:00.020 sorry for him. He ended up reading 291 00:16:00.020 --> 00:16:01.540 his campaign literature. 292 00:16:03.100 --> 00:16:04.140 Particularly in connection 293 00:16:04.140 --> 00:16:05.640 with idealistic reasons. 294 00:16:06.620 --> 00:16:08.420 And that's kind of the sad part about 295 00:16:08.420 --> 00:16:11.100 Mayor Washington to my mind is that he 296 00:16:11.100 --> 00:16:12.540 is turning out that he 297 00:16:12.540 --> 00:16:14.740 very much models himself after Richard 298 00:16:14.740 --> 00:16:16.540 Daley. Apparently he was a protege 299 00:16:17.300 --> 00:16:18.800 of Mayor Daley at one time 300 00:16:18.800 --> 00:16:20.000 early in his career. 301 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:22.720 And he is set out 302 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:24.260 to become 303 00:16:24.260 --> 00:16:26.440 a black Richard Daley. 304 00:16:27.900 --> 00:16:28.740 For some of us who 305 00:16:28.740 --> 00:16:30.800 had higher hopes for him, 306 00:16:31.480 --> 00:16:32.680 we were disappointed. 307 00:16:32.860 --> 00:16:34.460 I think that basically 308 00:16:34.460 --> 00:16:36.540 the coalition that supported him in 1983 309 00:16:37.120 --> 00:16:38.660 is in general disappointed 310 00:16:38.660 --> 00:16:40.660 and will be more so over the next four 311 00:16:40.660 --> 00:16:42.660 years. So I'm... 312 00:16:47.300 --> 00:16:48.660 The press was 313 00:16:49.500 --> 00:16:51.420 very unfair to Harold Washington 314 00:16:51.420 --> 00:16:53.200 in the first year 315 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:54.660 and a half, two years of his administration. 316 00:16:56.400 --> 00:16:57.220 And unfair 317 00:16:57.220 --> 00:16:58.940 during the general election also. 318 00:16:59.420 --> 00:17:00.680 They would never admit that. 319 00:17:00.700 --> 00:17:02.120 They're very sensitive on the point. 320 00:17:02.280 --> 00:17:04.680 But in fact, it was a consistent 321 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:05.780 bias against him. 322 00:17:06.380 --> 00:17:08.640 Once he gained control of the city council, 323 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:11.380 however, the press all of a sudden 324 00:17:11.380 --> 00:17:12.860 swung around, started 325 00:17:12.860 --> 00:17:14.440 giving him due respect. 326 00:17:14.780 --> 00:17:16.580 And at this point he is definitely 327 00:17:16.580 --> 00:17:18.580 the incumbent supported by both papers 328 00:17:18.580 --> 00:17:20.900 and receives definitely favorable treatment. 329 00:17:21.420 --> 00:17:22.640 It's the typical liberal press 330 00:17:24.200 --> 00:17:24.880 vowing 331 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:26.460 to political power. 332 00:17:26.700 --> 00:17:28.700 It's a tradition that dates back 333 00:17:28.700 --> 00:17:30.740 to at least the coverage of Napoleon. 334 00:17:39.940 --> 00:17:41.460 But when it gets down to it, 335 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:43.000 I think for the last 50 years 336 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:45.300 Chicago politics has been a men's club. 337 00:17:45.760 --> 00:17:47.860 And it continues to be a men's club. 338 00:17:48.940 --> 00:17:49.360 And it 339 00:17:49.360 --> 00:17:51.600 is not like sports, not like theater. 340 00:17:51.940 --> 00:17:53.840 Until we get it more 341 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:55.600 diversified with people 342 00:17:55.600 --> 00:17:57.720 other than just an old 343 00:17:57.720 --> 00:17:58.960 gentleman's club. What happens? 344 00:17:59.100 --> 00:18:01.180 The Irish come in, Daly comes in as Irish. 345 00:18:01.560 --> 00:18:03.220 He runs the government like he's 346 00:18:03.220 --> 00:18:04.260 an Italian mob 347 00:18:04.260 --> 00:18:07.620 or an Italian religious leader. 348 00:18:07.620 --> 00:18:09.860 And he leaves it to his sons. 349 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:11.500 And there he all turn out to be 350 00:18:11.500 --> 00:18:14.200 Daly or Hines. They turn out to be 351 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:15.020 English gentlemen. 352 00:18:15.660 --> 00:18:17.400 The son Daly, when he announced to run 353 00:18:17.400 --> 00:18:19.700 for mayor, did it from Harvard. 354 00:18:20.060 --> 00:18:21.780 Still running the gentlemen's club. 355 00:18:22.060 --> 00:18:23.720 And I think the future will make, we're going 356 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:25.760 to end the gentlemen's club. That is 357 00:18:25.760 --> 00:18:27.740 not stage, that is not theater, and that 358 00:18:27.740 --> 00:18:29.920 is not sports. And there are a lot of people 359 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:31.620 that want to participate in the process 360 00:18:31.620 --> 00:18:33.660 called politics and don't want to join 361 00:18:33.660 --> 00:18:34.940 a gentleman's club. 362 00:18:37.660 --> 00:18:39.960 It proved to everyone, I think, 363 00:18:40.020 --> 00:18:42.040 in my own opinion, that 364 00:18:42.040 --> 00:18:43.740 Valenti will be the 365 00:18:43.740 --> 00:18:45.840 best person for a 366 00:18:45.840 --> 00:18:46.840 mayor of Chicago. 367 00:18:50.500 --> 00:18:51.700 As much as I heard the 368 00:18:51.700 --> 00:18:52.760 last three months, 369 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:55.620 the most I had heard 370 00:18:55.620 --> 00:18:56.540 was Hines. 371 00:18:57.760 --> 00:18:59.620 So, I was 372 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:01.700 hoping that 373 00:19:01.700 --> 00:19:03.660 Valenti would come in front, but if he 374 00:19:03.660 --> 00:19:05.540 wasn't, then I would support, of course, 375 00:19:10.720 --> 00:19:12.120 Hines.