Rahm Emanuel
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I have a feeling with NPR.
I want to make sure the whole answer was there.
Prison is not jail and prison is what I said.
The other two never think that, but I'm glad youโ Never think that you're successful?
Humble does not fit with Emanuel.
So, this is not to get teary-eyed, but I will.
It's allowed.
So in our family room growing up, mom and dad had my grandmother on my maternal side purse in the center of the wall.
It was framed.
Her purse.
Her purse.
Above it was Grandma Sophie and Giddy and Ida's passports.
That was the purse that carried their passport when they came in 1914 to America.
On either side of that purse was the black and white photos of mom and dad's family that neither in the pogroms or the Holocaust made it to America or whatever.
And all 28 eyeballs were on you.
When you were in the family room.
Grandpa Herman and Grandma Sophie, who were my mother's parents, lived with us growing up for part of our childhood.
And Grandpa comes to America in 1914 by himself, 13, 14 years old.
goes to Maxwell Street, steel worker, meat cutter, truck driver.
They meet in Douglas Park in Lawndale on the west side of Chicago at a dance for Eastern European Jews.