Mayor Rahm Emanuel was presented with a reproduction of a photograph of the second Fort Dearborn, the center of early Chicago.
“Chicago’s history, we have come to forks in the road, after the great fire, after industrialization, manufacturing, economy, we’ve always had a fork in the road and yet we have never shrunk from our challenges,” Emanuel said.
- Chicago celebrates 175th birthday, ABCLocal.go.com, March 04, 2017.
3.Like every other president of recent times, Obama restated to Aipac the “unbreakable bonds” between the US and Israel and his own commitment to the Jewish state. But he sounded unusually defensive in the face of Republican accusations that he is endangering Israel’s security with his Iran policy and that he has been “anti-Israel” by pressing Netanyahu to take peace negotiations with the Palestinians seriously, beginning with a halt to continued construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories.
“As you examine my commitment, you don’t just have to count on my words. You can look at my deeds. Because over the last three years, as president of the United States, I have kept my commitments to the state of Israel. At every crucial juncture, at every fork in the road‚ we have been there for Israel. Every single time,” he said.
- Barack Obama tells Israel conference: ‘too much loose talk of war’, Guardian.co.uk, March 5, 2017.
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