And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN, the Axviles, with your

host, David Axelrod.

Very few Americans have lived more history than Bill Daly, the son of the legendary late

Richard J. Daly, the mayor of Chicago, from 1955 to 1976, the old boss of the Democrat

machine, the Kingmaker, as a Democratic Party leader, and then the brother of another

mayor of Chicago, Richard M. Daly, but in his own right, the Secretary of Commerce under

President Bill Clinton and then Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama.

Bill Daly has a rich lore of stories that paint the picture of the last half century in

our country, and I sat down with him the other day to hear some of them.

Bill Daly, welcome always good to see you.

The name Daly in Chicago is a little like the Windsor's in England or the Kennedys in Massachusetts.

And you grew up really in the zenith of your father's power and influence here.

What was it like to be a kid growing up when the mayor was in charge of everything?

It early on, obviously, when my dad was first selected as only seven, so the impact was not as

great as it was for my older siblings. And times were different. It wasn't as public.

People didn't press gave wide birth to families. They didn't focus out at it.

We always thought we were pretty normal, lived in a neighborhood with

walked to school with a mix of economics. My dad was mayor and he had cops in front and back

of the house. But other than that, it was not too different than every other house.

My grandparents lived with us as most did in the neighborhood.

And we went to school with everybody whose parents were everything from cops to son unemployed

and maybe some prison. So it didn't feel like until as you got older, obviously, in the 60s,

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