"Vice President Biden quoted Walt Whitman's famous line about cities -- 'A great city is that which has the greatest men and women' -- as he greeted a delegation of the nation's mayors to the White House on Thursday for a session with President Obama.
They were in town for the winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and, like officials all over, have been hurt by the recession. Biden reminded the group that this president is a man who understands their problems, 'who came from a big city himself,' as he acknowledged Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, sitting in the front.
Obama also gave a hat tip to Daley, after a salute to Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann 'because he was such a great host for me and my family when we were there in Honolulu. So thank you, Mufi,' said Obama, who spent the holidays in his native state."
They were in town for the winter meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and, like officials all over, have been hurt by the recession. Biden reminded the group that this president is a man who understands their problems, 'who came from a big city himself,' as he acknowledged Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, sitting in the front.Obama also gave a hat tip to Daley, after a salute to Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann 'because he was such a great host for me and my family when we were there in Honolulu. So thank you, Mufi,' said Obama, who spent the holidays in his native state."
