Rahm Emanuel
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I'm going to get to the question too.
There's three questions that are out there, not one.
First, you started about anti-Semitism and then you went to Israel.
So as somebody that had been a target of anti-Semitism in his public life, that's separate and distinct, but it's attached to what's happening around the prime minister and Israel.
I would say to you, it was very ugly in my campaign for Congress.
It was seen, if you know Chicago, as the Polish seat.
Dan Rasinkowski, Frank Annunzio, Roman Paczynski were all predecessors.
Got it very ugly.
And I said then, as I said, there's only 2% in the district, and they elected Rahm Israel Emanuel, and I was running against a Polish woman who was a state rep.
I know the people of the city of Chicago, good people with good values.
They were going to see through this ugliness.
When Amy and I, when you came to visit, when we were ambassador in Japan, I was ambassador and we were living.
Somebody sprayed Nazi insignia on our fence.
Next day, a neighbor cleaned it up.
I still don't know.
They never came forward and said who they were.
I've said this many times, hoping one day they'll introduce them so I can thank them.
So I've seen the worst, and I've seen the best.