The situation was so awful that even the American Bible Society, one of the last successful businesses we had, had packed its Bibles and moved out of town. Our downtown was practically deserted the once grand hotel, the Biltmore, was closing and, perhaps symbolically, the week I was inaugurated a crane was pulling out the grand piano from the second floor. The textile mills were shut, the factories were gone, the shipping industry was barely hanging on. That was our history our present was pretty depressing. The great city of Providence is one of America’s oldest cities, founded in 1636 by Roger Williams as a religious haven, a place, as he called it, to find “God’s merciful Providence.” It had grown to become an important industrial center, producing textiles, jewelry, and precious metals, silverware, machinery, and tools. Like most aging Northeastern cities that had lost their manufacturing base, Providence was suffering terribly. Maybe I didn’t know precisely what I was doing, but I was confident I could save the city. I walked into that office completely inexperienced and unprepared-but confident. If I had known then what the job actually required, I wouldn’t have voted for myself. I was thirty-three years old, a former special-assistant attorney general and prosecutor for the state’s anticorruption strike force and, let me be candid here, on the day I took office I knew as much about being mayor as I did about brain surgery. I became the thirty-second mayor of the great city of Providence, Rhode Island, on January 6, 1975. Here it is, the successes and failures, the politics, the fireplace logs and all: There are many people who think they know my whole story, the Buddy Cianci story.
WHO SANG SONG BUDDY CIANCI ALWAYS PLAYED ON RADIO PROGRAM SERIES
Her citizens believe that she is destined to occupy an important place in the development of the nation during the coming years, and they have shown their faith by inaugurating a comprehensive series of both private and public improvements, which will put the city in the very front rank of municipalities. No city in the United States is at the present time making greater preparations for the future than the city of Providence. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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