Dying city, dined with sinatra, spent five years in a federally funded gated community, and lived to tell the tale. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to present mayor vincent buddy cianci. [applause] Vincent Cianci thank you very much, andrea. Thank you. Thank you all very much for coming. Andrea, you left an awful lot out of the introduction, ill tell you. Ive been introduced many different ways. Think about introductions, i remember being introduced one time, i used to be mayor and hen i stopped being mayor. Then i became mayor again. In 1990 i got reelected and ill never forget before the inauguration but after the election i was invited to go to a dinner i think at the biltmore hotel. A lot of people were there. Ill never forget walking in and the person at the podium was excited to see me there. And he got on the microphone and he said, oh, ladies and gentlemen, i want everyone to welcome the two timing mayor of the city of providence. Right . [laughter] Vincent Cianci
My initial sense of why everything was imploding there was to blame the individual leaders and we know who they are. They were to blame. They were failures on the part of almost everyone in the highest positions of responsibility. But over time, iraq and afghanistan came to see more and more like a failure of american institutions and this includes the talent and good well of the country that all seem to avail nothing. And that was partly because it was an impossible job and also because the institutions that were responsible from the highest Government Agencies to the military from the media, that we are all there in one capacity or another. The nonprofit world, the forprofit world, they just did not have what ever had allowed us to rebuild europe after world war ii. Something had been lost in the recent years. I wondered when did that happen and why did that happen. Then i came back from iraq in time to cover the 2008 president ial election. Suddenly the institutions were collapsing
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