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to my co-chairperson and all of the friends and lovers

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and devotees and followers and servers of Leo Burnett.

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I believe the year's tower, the John Hancock building

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and the water tower, Leo Burnett is a Chicago institution.

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For 50 years people talked about Madison Avenue,

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they should talk about Burnett in Chicago.

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Chicago based companies including the Commonwealth Edison,

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the Interest Booth, the Harris Bank and the Chicago.

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Well, keep talking turkeys and keep reaching for the stars.

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Chicago is proud of your contribution, Leo Burnett.

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Chicago is synonymous as I said before,

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and Burnett is synonymous with this great city.

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We have a new spirit in our city, it's on a roll.

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I would hope that some major advertising firm,

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most likely Leo Burnett, would catch the essence of that new spirit

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because I feel it as I move throughout this city

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and talk to laborers, to businesses, to the neighborhoods,

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to the churches, to the various institutions.

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Once upon a time, in a prediction,

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it was not actually like that.

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We would give one million votes for Chris Monahan.

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And I must recognize a distinguished lady

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who is happening on the finest public service in this country,

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who is traveling throughout this country in support of Chris Monahan

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with one of the most dynamic, efficient, first rate players

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in the entire San Francisco, the Pine Towers.

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Those steelworkers understood that those players

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had enough of this because they knew Chris was here today,

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and the message they left was,

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pay no attention to these folks because that's not what they mentioned.

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One of the finest things we can do for the political structure

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of this country is to make a damn mile of food

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because we want to find a way.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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The change in Chicago is just over to the finest Christine in the world.

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Putting Chicago on at its best. Thank you. Thank you.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.

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Just before we begin the parade,

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let me indicate that sharing this microphone as the master of ceremonies

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will be one of the outstanding communicators of Chicago.

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Please give a nice round of applause for the man from Channel 7, WLS-TV, Mr. Bob Petty.

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He's going to be right here.

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Okay, let me start it off, and Bob, you and I will be right together.

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The

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ease of our people denotes strength and greatness.

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That is why such wonderful people as Glenron Brooks,

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Carl Sandberg, and the inimitable Stubbs Turkle

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have spoken so poetically about our great people,

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our great institution, and this great civilization.

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The communication center where the nation are upon this great city,

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and I've had the occasion to travel all over this country during the last four months

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and believe me, the eyes are upon us.

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Not just because of our chaotic, ever-recurring,

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but delicious and delightful political confrontations,

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but because more than any other people,

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we have set higher goals for ourselves,

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for the excellence of our public schools, which we strive to make even better,

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for the candor of our political debate, and it is candor,

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for the fairness of our government,

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for the wealth of our business, for the beauty of our lakefront,

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the stability of our neighborhoods,

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Excelsior onwards and upwards, the safety of our streets,

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and that's more than a dream,

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for the mutual respect we pay to one another in our day of lives, in our daily lives.

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Happy birthday, Chicago people, happy birthday to you.

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We're all your children, and we owe to you an honor and respect.

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We look at history, we are in the presence and the vortex of it,

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we look into the future, and we see not darkly, we see lightly through that tunnel,

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and there is much light at the end of that tunnel.

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Not just because I am mayor, although that has helped.

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But when this is...

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Happy birthday to you.

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Applause

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What are you doing?

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Mr. Mayor, there's a lot of prices.

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We're at the cake, it's the same size.

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We have to get in on the other side.

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Let's get over here.

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OK, get in.

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OK until everybody sings.

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The gift we get...

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the truth in public, the gift to say no and to teach others to say no, to distinguish

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knowledge from nationalism, to distinguish the fear of force from the fear of God.

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We also have a message for those who are not here.

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We need to make a correlation and make it clear to people that there is a relationship between the amount of money that goes into the defense budget and the amount of money that comes out of human service.

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After Iran, does this country really think that it can fool those people? That jump doesn't work anymore. It simply doesn't work.

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I would suggest that in the process of trying to get to the bottom of this, I can offer this wonderful city an appreciation of all that you've done for me, Senator Netsch.

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Well, thank you, Captain Gilliam, commander of the SS Clipper, for making this vessel available to us for such a wonderful occasion. Thank you, Gail Sincotta, for doing it.

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Well done speech. And I think on an occasion like this, precision is called for.

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And two, the speech was written by a woman.

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And I'm afraid that if I don't read it, I'll be accused of male chauvinism and blow all those years of hard work.

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So notwithstanding my limited ability to read what is written, I shall proceed forthwith.

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This event launches a new era for women in Chicago and is purposely being held on the anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed the right, a long-awaited right, and a long-withheld right of women to vote in this country.

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One, because she was the number one in my class in North Western Law School some years ago in the presence of Don Clark Netsch.

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And at that time, I became very aware that notwithstanding man's refusal to recognize that women can excel, I had to face up to the brutal fact that this woman was brilliant and brilliant by my own standards, which made me brilliant and she was better than I.

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So I've been a devotee of women's rights ever since, simply because I was taught a lesson.

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Business women.

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I personally wish to thank all the commission members, the executive staff, and all of those who contributed to those hearings.

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You and I know that our work has just begun.

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So let's celebrate today and go back to work tomorrow.

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At this time, may I ask for a report, please, from those long and faithful not servants, but partners in the running of this city.

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Wilson, Tyler, and Ann Ross.

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All signs.

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All signs?

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Yes.

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Thank you, guys.

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So I'm going to begin.

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How about that?

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And we held public meetings of the standards of trying to achieve something which is wrong with us.

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So thank you very much.

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The formal part of our activity is going to be concluded shortly.

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I would just like to say.

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Thank you.

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Oh, yeah.

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Cheeseburger.

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Cheeseburger.

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Cheeseburger.

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Very nice.

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Thanks.

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Look around you.

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You will see that Chicago is really the people who inhabit it, who live in it, and who work in it, and raise their families here.

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The heart of the city is the people who live here.

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Like other great cities of the world, Chicago abounds with cultural riches.

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There is no major city with so beautiful a waterfront.

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Right downtown, red tape is covering over the picnic area.

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You know that in our state, Captain Kelly has planted three one-hand acres of wildflowers over the Grand Park garage and paid for themselves.

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What a great and unusual gift to our city.

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In London, the inner Chicago district is just that far.

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Now you may think that's corny.

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You think that's corny, don't you?

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It is.

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But it's true.

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My understanding is that both such a guideline as ours to walk through the streets of Chicago is to move to a living work of art.

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As the brochure said, you can eat Picasso, Miro, Tarleton, Oliver, Chagall, Louboutin on the street of our great city.

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How many cities grow such a unique amalgamation of ethnic neighborhoods as Chicago?

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We have put all of these assets of our great city into the most celebrated Chicago.

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What's the program that brings so many barricades together in a common goal?

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The program is to develop a culture of culture and culture of culture.

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What I'm going to talk about is the culture of culture and culture of culture.

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What is going to be our vision of the future of our city?

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What do you see here as just a polishing pad for the future of our city?

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We have to build a great neighborhood.

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And still make the assets of those neighborhoods come together in terms of cohesive five-year-old neighborhoods,

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but also to reach out to the entire community.

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This polishing pad, I assure you, will go on and on and on.

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I am sworn to assist the rebuilding of this great city.

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And I swear to God that this is such a fine audience.

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And I'm going to make it another project, which I never thought I would make.

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I said that I would be mayor of this city for 20 years.

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You mess around with that, I'll make it 24. Thank you.

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They hoped America had another war like Vietnam or Korea,

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so that they got to have a chance to lay flowers.

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And the one thing I hope we remember on Veterans Day is not only those that went before,

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but those who may go in the future if we don't carry out actions to stop it.

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So we're going to close with Dr. Hoang Huy's return

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and with some difficulties who have re-entered American society.

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We cherish the Vietnamese who have come to resettle in America,

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both immediately after the end of the war and more recently as both people.

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They already have made our pluralistic America richer by their presence.

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Oh God, we acknowledge that modern wars are getting more destructive.

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We acknowledge that the objectives for which modern wars are fought are becoming yearly more ambiguous.

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Thank you.

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We remember the countless thousands of Vietnam veterans who, though they weren't suicides,

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managed to kill themselves by living in such a way that they were bound to die.

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We remember those veterans who were wounded in the war physically and psychologically.

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And we remember, too, the millions of Vietnamese who would be alive today

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if the United States had not fought the war in Vietnam.

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We mean fight like hell for the living, Vietnam veterans of all groups and all the organizations,

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of all races and ethnic groups standing together and fighting to secure better lives

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for Vietnam veterans and veterans of all eras. Thank you.

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You know, when I first came back from Vietnam, I had problems not with the peace movement,

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but with older veterans, mostly World War II, who wanted to tell me I didn't know what a real war was being fought about.

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They wanted to tell me that I should have been in the big one because Vietnam was undeclared.

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And a lot of us had a lot of problems with older veterans because when we came back,

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we wanted to wear our hair a little longer, we came from a different generation,

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and because our war, unlike the Second World War, did not have that character of liberating people.

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But I'll tell you something. Our next speaker, who I've known since, or been lucky enough to have seen

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since he was a state assemblyman, has always been one of those people who has stood with Vietnam veterans.

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I was on a stage with him luckily a few years ago at the University of Chicago,

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and I'm proud that he's our next speaker because the simple fact is we have not had this kind of coverage by the news media,

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except when the mayor himself said, I'm going to come out in the rain and stand with Vietnam veterans

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and give them some of the dignity and respect that they deserve.

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The one thing you've got to say about Mr. Washington, and that is that he doesn't just stand for symbols,

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he stands for real change. And the people that want to detract from him are basically want to stay with the old

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and not come up with the new. It is with a great deal of pleasure and respect that I introduce a fellow veteran

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and a friend, the honorable Mayor Harold Washington.

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Well thank you very much for an unexpected and very pleasant and generous introduction,

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and thank you for inviting me once again to join you on this occasion to do honor to a large, unheralded,

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and unfortunately almost forgotten and disdained group of individuals.

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We will rectify that. I do recall some years ago in the mid-70s, when we met at the University of Chicago.