learn and help us relook at mh370? is there anything to be learned there? well in order to learn we have to actually take action. and i think that s the missing part here. we learned things from air france 447. we learned things from 370. although we still haven t found the aircraft. and we will learn things from this about not only 370, and the way we operate. but things about our infrastructure itself. is that working? there s going to be a lot of questions. the international civil aviation organization is revisiting the chicago convention this year. so when that happens, we ll be looking at all kinds of things as far as the infrastructure. can we react in time? is it is the organization is the whole system too big to react? well let s hope we don t just revisit, but some substantive changes are made. mary sciavo david soucie thanks so much. we ll have more on the search for the missing flight 8501 throughout the morning, the
former president bill clinton calling his life a blessing. new jersey governor chris christie calling him a giant. a truly american great. simply it was the american dream. the son of italian immigrants mario cuomo rose from the basement of this grocery store in south jamaica, queens where he slept on the floor and spoke no english to the highest office in new york state. along the way, creating a political legacy and dynasty that spanned generations. his life driven by a passion for learning his catholic faith and a determination to simply work harder than the other guy. one of the simple things i wanted to achieve is i want to be governor i want to be the hardest working there ever was. after more than a decade of the full-contact politics of new york cuomo cal putted to national prominence were the keynote address of the 1984 democratic national convention.
it was done in such an intelligent, intellectual way. in a manner that could appeal to real people. that as republicans, we had to counter that. that raised our level of argument. and there you saw governor cuomo in effect giving a speech against ronald reagan the other grate orator on our side. that s what s missing in politics today. we don t have enough people who can raise the level of debate. who can articulate it from a sense of principle. no matter what any republican ever said about mario cuomo, when they disagreed with his views or his beliefs, no one ever said that he was doing it for any crass reason that he didn t believe what he was saying. that s what made him such a worthy and difficult adversary to be up against. whether you agreed or disagreed with him, the bottom line was, the level of debate was raised and everyone s game was improved. that to me is the best thing anyone can do in politics when you have the respect of your opponent and you know you re up against a gi
worked his way up the streets of new york. showing that each immigrant group, each ethnic group, each religion played such a vital role in the stained glass window that was the beauty of new york. he was a proud of his heritage. he was so proud of his mastery of the english language. you mentioned we re both from queens, he was from draker, i was from sunnyside. we went to rival schools, mine was a little better than his but seriously. nobody was as eloquent nobody was as dedicated. whatever political differences or philosophical differences we had, really were insignificant when you re dealing with mario cuomo. he was a giant. he would appreciate that jab you just got in there, too, congressman, you know that. if you notice i waited until he was gone before i said it. talk to me about the queens in his blood there as it were. how do you think his neighborhood affected him throughout his career? he was always a queens boy.
louis or the percher who gave up a home run to joe dimaggio you were proud to play on the same field, open in the same ring with him. you re talking about his speech his oratory, his ability to use words to get his message across. i want to listen to a small clip from the 1984 democratic national convention which really catapulted him up into the national stage. we proclaim as loudly as we can, the utter insanity of nuclear proliferation and the need for a nuclear freeze if only to affirm the simple truth that peace is better than war because life is better than death. he s talking about nuclear proliferation there. he really was a champion of liberalism. he talked about policies he talked about politics in a way that really you don t see that much any more today. yeah and listen i disagree with many of those policies but having said that he always articulated them and compressed them in such a way that it raised the level of debate.