Henry Cisneros

And so John, maybe like I'll turn to some of the advice, guidance you have in your book and your research If I widen out to other regional economies, what do we know works? What should we be thinking about? If I am building a strategy with high growth new firms and making sure as many residents as I can are prepared for in-demand jobs, what do you advise other economic developers have in mind for their regional economies?

Well, some of those things are touched on very well in the Secretariat's book on the mega region.

And that has to do with those things that even if you were completely parochial, you would need to attend to it.

My career began in Oregon and then segued over to venture capital.

and the Riverwalk.

And so I have no doubt that San Antonio will keep its uniqueness and yet be part of this fast-growing region that is going to attract a lot of people from around the country.

Henry Cisneros is the founder of American Triple I Partners, a

former mayor of San Antonio and former HUD secretary under President Bill Clinton.

And in fact, when we moved to Washington, when Andrew started working at HUD, then he was assistant secretary of HUD.

Henry Cisneros.

We moved into Hickory Hill, and we lived there for a year with my mother, and I often thought, those are the two who should be married.

November 22, 1963, you were maybe four years old.

Paul mentioned the Arboretum.

When Henry Cisneros came to see me about that project, I was prepared to tell Henry no for a grant from the First Day Foundation for that project.

I frankly wasn't too interested in trees.

But once the presentation was made, I was overwhelmed that this is Breckenridge Park.

So within days, multiple law enforcement agencies in both countries were working the case.

San Antonio's mayor, Henry Cisneros, helped pressure Mexican authorities to act, and dozens and dozens of people joined this search.

Now, the Kilroys used every tool that they had available to them to find their son, which is exactly what any parent would do and should do.

And I'm saying this because the tools weren't evenly distributed when it came to the other people who had gone missing in Matamoros.

She, she, uh, tried very hard.

There was a climactic meeting at the end of July 1996, where she and Bob Rubin and Henry Cisneros and Bob Reisch and, and, uh, uh, the, the three political advisors that I mentioned, and the vice president and, and others were in the room.

All, all made what argument? Did they just, were there? Did Bob Rubin oppose it? Did-

Yes, Bob Rubin opposed it

So the man who had written the whole answer was now second in the building.

The new head secretary, Henry Cisneros, toured the streets and the shelters and called homelessness a top priority.

And in March of 1994, the administration published a plan called Priority Home.

On the page, it was the best document any administration had produced on this subject.

My first meeting was in San Antonio, Texas.

And it was just fortuitous that Henry Cisneros was president of the National League of Cities at that time.

And I just looked at what they were doing.

And I couldn't afford a lobbyist.