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Henry Gabriel Cisneros (born June 11, 1947)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[2]</a> is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">American</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician" title="Politician" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">politician</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Businessman" class="mw-redirect" title="Businessman" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">businessman</a>. He served as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_San_Antonio" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayor of San Antonio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">mayor</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio,Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio, Texas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">San Antonio, Texas</a>, from 1981 to 1989, the second <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latino" title="Latino" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Latino</a> mayor of a major American city and the city's first since 1842 (when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Segu%C3%ADn" title="Juan Seguín" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Juan Seguín</a> was forced out of office). A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Democrat</a>, Cisneros served as the 10th <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" title="United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)</a> in the administration of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">President Bill Clinton</a> from 1993 to 1997.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[3]</a> As HUD Secretary, Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many public housing developments and with formulating policies that contributed to achieving the nation’s highest ever rate of home ownership.[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">citation needed</a>] In his role as the President's chief representative to the cities, Cisneros personally worked in more than two hundred cities spread over all fifty states.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[4]</a>Cisneros' decision to leave the HUD position and not serve a second term was overshadowed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros_payments_controversy" title="Henry Cisneros payments controversy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">controversy involving payments to his former mistress</a>.

Prior to his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet(government)" title="Cabinet (government)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Cabinet</a> position, Cisneros served four terms as the mayor of his hometown of San Antonio. He was first elected to a two-year term in 1981, when his opponents included a two-term city council member, John Steen, Sr., the late father of the then current <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Texas" title="Secretary of State of Texas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Secretary of State of Texas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steen(Texas_politician)" title="John Steen (Texas politician)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">John Thomas Steen, Jr.</a>, a lawyer from San Antonio. As mayor, Cisneros worked to rebuild the city's economic base, recruited convention business, attracted high tech industries, increased the level of tourism, and worked to bring more jobs to San Antonio.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-hud-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a> Before his tenure as mayor, Cisneros was elected to three two-year terms on the city council, on which he served from 1975 to 1981.

Throughout his career in politics and business, Cisneros has remained actively involved with housing development and urban revitalization. Cisneros is also an active advocate for the Latino community. He has and continues to serve on corporate boards, as well as chairing and serving on several non-profit boards to promote Latinos and the immigrant population. Cisneros has authored, edited, or collaborated on several books and is an in-demand public speaker.

After public office, Cisneros served as President and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_operating_officer" title="Chief operating officer" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">COO</a> for the Spanish-language network Univision from 1997 to 2000 before forming American City Vista to work the nation’s leading homebuilders to create homes priced within the range of average families. That company evolved to become CityView<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[6]</a> where Cisneros is currently Chairman. He is currently a partner in the investment banking firm Siebert Brandford Shank & Co.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[7]</a>

Cisneros co-chairs the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Policy_Center" title="Bipartisan Policy Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">Bipartisan Policy Center</a>'s Housing Commission and Immigration Task Force. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none; white-space: nowrap;">[8]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Personal_background" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">1Personal background</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Early_career" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">2Early career</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Political_career_beginnings" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">3Political career beginnings</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Mayor_of_San_Antonio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">4Mayor of San Antonio</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Secretary_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">5Secretary of Housing and Urban Development</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Medlar_affair" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">6Medlar affair</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#After_leaving_public_office" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">7After leaving public office</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#America.27s_cities_and_housing" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">7.1America's cities and housing</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Books.2C_writings_and_speeches" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">9Books, writings and speeches</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Affiliations" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background: none;">10Affiliations</a></li>

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<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cisneros090899.htm">Cisneros Pleads Guilty</a>

September 8, 1999

Former housing secretary Henry G. Cisneros pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor charge of lying to the FBI about money he paid to a former mistress, ending a wide-ranging independent counsel investigation that lasted more than four years and cost more than $9 million.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cisneros090799.htm">Trial of Ex-HUD Chief to Begin</a>

September 7, 1999

Former housing secretary Henry Cisneros, a onetime Democratic Party star whose promising political career was derailed by scandal, returns to Washington to stand trial on criminal charges accusing him of lying to the FBI about $250,000 in alleged "hush money" he paid to a former mistress. 

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/fbarrett083099.htm">Counsel Has Previous HUD Connections </a>

August 30, 1999

David M. Barrett, the independent counsel prosecuting former housing secretary Henry Cisneros, brings a unique perspective to the job: Before Barrett was selected to investigate Cisneros, his own dealings with high-ranking officials at the Department of Housing and Urban Development were scrutinized by an independent counsel looking into a Reagan administration scandal. 

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cisneros062799.htm">Cisneros Accuser Admits Lying to Prosecutors</a>

June 27, 1999

Defense lawyers have exposed serious weaknesses in the case against Cisneros, including an admission from the star witness that she had lied in 11 meetings with investigators. 

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cisneros062299.htm">Cisneros's Ex-Mistress Testifies</a>

June 22, 1999

Cisneros's ex-mistress testified in federal court that he lied to FBI agents about their relationship.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cisneros031099.htm">Counsel Can Try Cisneros</a>

March 10, 1999

A federal appeals court upheld an independent counsel's right to bring Cisneros to trial. 

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis022298.htm">Henry & Linda: A Painful Story of Public Service and Private Anguish</a>

February 2, 1998

The case against Henry Cisneros is a frankly voyeuristic cliche of sex, lies and audio tape – a spelunking expedition into the anguished soul of a politician. 

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis011698.htm">Cisneros's Ex-Mistress Pleads Guilty</a>

January 16, 1998

Linda Jones, the ex-mistress of former housing secretary Henry Cisneros, pleaded guilty in Lubbock, Tex. to 28 felony counts including conspiracy and bank fraud. 

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis010998.htm">Cisneros Pleads Not Guilty</a>

January 9, 1998

Former housing secretary Henry Cisneros pleaded not guilty to felony charges that he lied to the FBI about paying $250,000 in hush money to a former mistress.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis121297.htm">Ex-Housing Chief Cisneros Indicted</a>

December 12, 1997

Former housing secretary Henry Cisneros was indicted by a federal grand jury on 18 felony counts of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements to the FBI involving more than $250,000 in payments he made to an ex-mistress. (See the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/docs/indict.htm">complete text</a> of the indictment.)

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis010897.htm">Cisneros Sums Up</a>

January 8, 1997

Henry Cisneros, the former mayor of San Antonio, came to Washington flush with enthusiasm to help the nation's cities. But he found many frustrations in his four years at the helm of HUD, a department that was badly demoralized by scandal during the Reagan administration.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis113096.htm">Cisneros to Leave a Legacy of Public Housing Reform</a>

November 30, 1996

Henry Cisneros spent countless hours during his four-year tenure pleading the case of the mammoth federal agency while Congressional appropriators cut its budget.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis111696.htm">Independent Counsel, Witness in Probe at Odds</a>

November 16, 1996

A rift has developed between the independent counsel investigating Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros and one of the probe's star witnesses, Cisneros's former mistress, sources close to the investigation said.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis052095.htm">Cisneros to Pay $49,000 to Settle Suit

By Former Mistress</a>

May 29, 1995

Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros agreed to pay his former mistress $49,000 to settle the 1994 lawsuit that prompted an independent counsel investigation into false statements he made to the FBI.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis031595a.htm">Special Counsel Sought to Investigate Cisneros</a>

March 15, 1995

Attorney General Janet Reno has concluded that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros misled the FBI about payments to his former mistress, Linda Medlar. Reno asked a three-judge panel to appoint an independent counsel to determine whether he criminally concealed information or conspired with Medlar to do so.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis031595.htm">Warning Signs Failed to Alarm Clinton Team</a>

March 15, 1995

The tale of Henry Cisneros illustrates a recurring problem for the Clinton administration: Either from political hubris or political need, the White House has repeatedly turned away from warning signals that emerged in FBI background checks or initial candidate interviews only to face a full-blown embarrassment weeks or months or years later.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis101294.htm">Regarding Henry :

The HUD Secretary's Unforgettable Affair </a>

October 12, 1994

They might have made quite a pair, the big-haired blond Anglo fund-raiser and the elegant Latino mayor with the presidential ambitions, but they never got a chance to show it off. And they almost certainly never will.

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/cisneros/stories/cis073094.htm">Cisneros Sued for $256,000 by Former Lover</a>

July 30, 1994

A Texas woman sued Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros for $256,000, alleging he ceased making promised monthly payments to compensate her for "anguish," "emotional distress" and loss of livelihood following the end of their three-year love affair.  The Washington Post Company

Henry Gabriel Cisneros (born June 11, 1947)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a> is an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician" title="Politician" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">politician</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Businessman" title="Businessman" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">businessman</a>. He served as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayor_of_San_Antonio" title="Mayor of San Antonio" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mayor</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio,Texas" title="San Antonio, Texas" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">San Antonio</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas" title="Texas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Texas</a>, from 1981 to 1989, the second Hispanic mayor of a major American city. A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democrat</a>, Cisneros served as the 10th <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" title="United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)</a> in the administration of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">President Bill Clinton</a> from 1993 to 1997.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a> As HUD Secretary, Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many public housing developments and with formulating policies that contributed to achieving the nation’s highest ever rate of home ownership.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">citation needed</a>] In his role as the President's chief representative to the cities, Cisneros personally worked in more than two hundred cities spread over all fifty states.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a> Cisneros' decision to leave the HUD position and not serve a second term was overshadowed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros_payments_controversy" title="Henry Cisneros payments controversy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">controversy involving payments to his former mistress</a>.

Prior to his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet(government)" title="Cabinet (government)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cabinet</a> position, Cisneros served four terms as the mayor of his hometown of San Antonio. He was first elected to a two-year term in 1981, when his opponents included a two-term city council member, John Steen, Sr., the late father of the current <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_of_Texas" title="Secretary of State of Texas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Secretary of State of Texas</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steen(Texas_politician)" title="John Steen (Texas politician)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John Thomas Steen, Jr.</a>, a lawyer from San Antonio. As mayor, Cisneros worked to rebuild the city's economic base, recruited convention business, attracted high tech industries, increased the level of tourism, and worked to bring more jobs to San Antonio.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-hud-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a> Before his tenure as mayor, Cisneros was elected to three two-year terms on the city council, on which he served from 1975 to 1981.

Throughout his career in politics and business, Cisneros has remained actively involved with housing development and urban revitalization. Cisneros is also an active advocate for the Latino community. He has and continues to serve on corporate boards, as well as chairing and serving on several non-profit boards to promote Latinos and the immigrant population. Cisneros has authored, edited, or collaborated on several books and is an in-demand public speaker.

After public office, Cisneros served as President and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_operating_officer" title="Chief operating officer" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">COO</a> for the Spanish-language network Univision from 1997 to 2000 before forming American City Vista to work the nation’s leading homebuilders to create homes priced within the range of average families. That company evolved to become CityView<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a> where Cisneros is currently Executive Chairman. His duties at CityView include overseeing the urban institutional investment firm which finances commercial and residential developers, with more than $2 billion in transactions from 45 projects in 30 markets across 13 states.

Cisneros serves as a co-chair of the Housing Commission at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Policy_Center" title="Bipartisan Policy Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bipartisan Policy Center</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Early_career" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">2 Early career</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Mayor_of_San_Antonio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">4 Mayor of San Antonio</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Secretary_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">5 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Medlar_affair" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">6 Medlar affair</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#After_leaving_public_office" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7 After leaving public office</a>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#America.27s_cities_and_housing" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7.1 America's cities and housing</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#San_Antonio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7.2 San Antonio</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Latino_affairs" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">7.3 Latino affairs</a></li>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Honors_and_awards" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">8 Honors and awards</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Books.2C_Writings.2C_Speeches" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">9 Books, Writings, Speeches</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#Affiliations" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">10 Affiliations</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#References" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">11 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#External_links" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">12 External links</a></li>

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The eldest child of George and Elvira (née Munguia) Cisneros, Henry Gabriel Cisneros was born in San Antonio, Texas, in a neighborhood that bordered the city’s predominantly Mexican west side <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrio" title="Barrio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">barrio</a> (now the city's inner west side). Cisneros was named after his mother’s youngest brother who developed<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%E2%80%99s_disease" title="Hodgkin’s disease" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Hodgkin’s disease</a> at the age of 14 and asked from his deathbed that his sister give his name to her son.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-harrigan-8" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[8]</a> He is descended on his father’s side from early<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_people" title="Spanish people" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> Spanish</a> settlers in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New Mexico</a>. His expatriate mother was the daughter of Romulo Munguia, a renowned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mexican</a> dissident journalist, printer and intellectual who fled his native country in 1926<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[9]</a> due to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Revolution" title="Mexican Revolution" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mexican Revolution</a> and oppressive regime of Mexican dictator <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porfirio_D%C3%ADaz" title="Porfirio Díaz" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Porfirio Díaz</a>. Cisneros’ father, who came from a family of small farmers and migrant workers who had settled in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado" title="Colorado" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Colorado</a> after losing their Spanish land grant during the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Great Depression</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-nazareno-10" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[10]</a> was a federal civil servant and later an Army colonel who met Elvira Munguia while he was stationed in San Antonio.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-burka-11" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[11]</a> As his parents survived great adversity and advanced through life with an unfailing belief in hard work, education merit leading to a better life, Cisneros along with his two brothers and two sisters were raised in a highly structured environment that put emphasis on scholarly studies and the arts.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-answers-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a>

Cisneros received a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_school" title="Catholic school" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Catholic school</a> education, first at the Church of the Little Flower, followed by attendance at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Catholic_Marianist_High_School" title="Central Catholic Marianist High School" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Central Catholic Marianist High School</a> in San Antonio. He entered <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_A%26M_University" title="Texas A&M University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Texas A&M University</a> in 1964. In his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophomore" title="Sophomore" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">sophomore</a> year, he switched his major from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeronautical_engineering" title="Aeronautical engineering" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">aeronautical engineering</a> to city management. In 1967, Cisneros was selected to attend the annual Student Conference on United States Affairs at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Academy" title="United States Military Academy" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">West Point</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[13]</a> where he first learned that U.S. cities were in serious trouble. Relating what he heard to the problems of his largely poor hometown, the meeting, plus a visit to New York City, was a personal and professional turning point for him. Graduating from A&M with a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bachelor of Arts</a> in 1968, he went on to earn a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts(postgraduate)" title="Master of Arts (postgraduate)" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Master of Arts</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning" title="Urban planning" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Urban</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_planning" title="Regional planning" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Regional Planning </a>in 1970 from A&M as well. He earned an additional Master’s in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Public_Administration" title="Master of Public Administration" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Public Administration</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F.Kennedy_School_of_Government" title="John F. Kennedy School of Government" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">John F. Kennedy School of Government</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Harvard University</a>in 1973, studied <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_economics" title="Urban economics" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">urban economics</a> and did doctoral research at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> in 1974, and received a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Public_Administration" title="Doctor of Public Administration" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Doctor of Public Administration</a> from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">George Washington University</a> in 1976.

Cisneros served as an infantry officer in the United States Army. He married his high school sweetheart, Mary Alice Perez, in 1969. Together, they have two daughters, Teresa and Mercedes, and a son, John Paul, and four grandchildren.

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Cisneros’ community-building career began in urban public service, and setting in motion a focus he would maintain through his entire career to present. The summer after earning his undergraduate degree, he worked in the office of the City Manager of San Antonio. While earning his Master’s degree from Texas A&M, Cisneros worked in the office of the City Manager of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan,Texas" title="Bryan, Texas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bryan, Texas</a>, and later as the assistant director of President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B.Johnson" title="Lyndon B. Johnson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>’s Model Cities program for urban revitalization in San Antonio.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-14" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[14]</a>

After completing his education at A&M in January 1970, Cisneros and his wife moved to Washington, D.C. where he became the assistant to the Executive Vice President of the National League of Cities. In 1971, the year his eldest daughter Teresa Angelica was born, Cisneros was honored as a White House Fellow and served as an assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliot_Richardson" title="Elliot Richardson" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Elliot Richardson</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-hud-5" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a>

Upon earning a Ford Foundation Grant in 1972, Cisneros and his young family moved to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston" title="Boston" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Boston</a>, where he earned his second Master’s degree at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard" title="Harvard" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Harvard</a>. During this time, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[15]</a>

In 1974, after turning down a professorship at MIT, Cisneros chose to return to San Antonio. There, he assumed a teaching faculty position in the Public Administration program at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_San_Antonio" title="University of Texas at San Antonio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">University of Texas at San Antonio</a>.

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When Cisneros arrived back home, he discovered the old order, stagnant political arena in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">San Antonio</a> was falling apart and now experiencing a growing socio-ethnic discontent.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-gale-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a> Since the 1950s, the Anglo-dominated Good Government League (GGL) had run the city where council members were elected at large and the majority came from wealthy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code" title="ZIP code" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ZIP codes</a> in the Anglo populated north side.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-miller-17" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[17]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-t.r.-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a> The Mexican American community believed they had been neglected for too long by a government who paid more attention to city growth in their own residential area than grievances about drainage and infrastructure in lower-valued real estate. The GGL tried to offset this by assuring one member from both west and east sides and recruited Hispanics in their slates for city council.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-rosales-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[19]</a> Displaying his gift for working within the system, Cisneros ran as a city council candidate of the GGL.

After a whirlwind campaign, and eight months since returning to San Antonio, Cisneros at age 27 was elected the youngest city councilman in the city’s history in 1975,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-answers-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a> the same year his second daughter Mercedes Christina was born.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-gale-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a> (Cisneros was the youngest councilman at the time until Chip Haas' election in 2003 at age 26.) Now entrenched in city politics, Cisneros assumed a hands-on approach to governing that he promised in his campaign. He set himself on a plan to know all he could about life in the city firsthand by emptying garbage cans to learn the problems of the sanitation department, walking a beat with a police officer and administering first aid with ambulance attendants. Cisneros also visited families in public housing units, and promised that their problems would no longer be ignored.

As a city council member, Cisneros took assorted <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism" title="Populism" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">populist</a> positions on such issues as dealing with labor, water, education, and housing, among others. All the while he endeared himself to the Latino community, especially in the city’s predominantly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_American" title="Mexican American" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Mexican American</a> poor neighborhoods on the west side, and where he resided.

Because of the GGL’s continued authority, the city council was still roundly criticized for not being representative. During the civil-rights furor of the 1960s, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act" title="Voting Rights Act" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Voting Rights Act</a> signed into law in 1965 required that racial groups be given direct representation by political districts to assure the election of a member.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-t.r.-18" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[18]</a> Significantly, in a split vote on the city council on whether to accept a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Justice_Department" title="U.S. Justice Department" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Justice Department</a> order to establish an election plan that would provide more access to the Latino community with direct representation, or challenge the order in court, Cisneros voted to accept the order.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-j1-20" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[20]</a> San Antonio thus moved to single-member directly represented districts in 1977. This led to the beginning of the end for the GGL and all efforts to rationalize all-city rule.

Cisneros was re-elected twice more to the city council in 1977 and 1979 as a representative of San Antonio Council District 1.

During his time on the city council, Cisneros formed a relationship with Communities Organized for Public Service (COPS), a powerful grassroots Latino advocacy group founded in 1973 whose focus was to push for development funding into the city’s Latino communities.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-gale-16" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[16]</a> His attention to the needs for infrastructure to the lower income Mexican American neighborhoods further elevated Cisneros’ standing in the Latino community. Yet at the same time, Cisneros also looked forward to building a greater San Antonio and the socially redeeming power that comes with economic growth.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-answers-12" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[12]</a> As a city councilman from 1975 to 1979, Cisneros had an ability to form a political bridge between the pro-growth business interests and an underrepresented Mexican American community. He “enjoyed the resources and visibility of the GGL establishment without being confined to its agenda,” and “built an image of an articulate, smooth, Harvard and MIT educated man.” Cisneros also was a local grown home boy who “cared about the problems of the common person.”<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-rosales-19" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[19]</a>

He served for six years (three terms) on the City Council before being elected Mayor of San Antonio in 1981.

Cisneros announced himself as an independent candidate for mayor in 1981. His campaigning of hopeful visions for the future of the city was able to unite the wealthy conservatives of San Antonio and the increasingly vocal Mexican American community. On April 4, 1981, Cisneros became, at age 33, the second Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city, and the first Mexican-American mayor of San Antonio since 1842 when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Segu%C3%ADn" title="Juan Seguín" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Juan Seguín</a> resigned as mayor. He was elected with 62 percent of the vote. At the time of his election, San Antonio was the tenth largest city in the United States. He was reelected to three more terms as mayor by overwhelming margins, including winning an unprecedented 94.2 percent of the vote in 1983, a 73 percent margin of victory in 1985, and 67 percent in 1987. His popularity did not rest with San Antonio's Hispanic community alone, but with all ethnic groups in the area. In 1982, he was selected as one of the "Ten Outstanding Young Men of America" by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Jaycees" title="U.S. Jaycees" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. Jaycees</a>, in addition to receiving a prestigious Jefferson Award for “Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Under.”

Cisneros’ campaign for mayor and subsequent election gained the attention of national media who made Cisneros the symbol of the growing Latino population in the United States. According to Richard Garcia, “Cisneros, above all, exemplified the rise of the Mexican American generation and the search for … its identity.” He was positively profiled by such national publications as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Journal" title="Wall Street Journal" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Wall Street Journal</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_Fair_magazine" title="Vanity Fair magazine" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Vanity Fair</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire_magazine" title="Esquire magazine" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Esquire</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The New Yorker</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._News_and_World_Report" title="U.S. News and World Report" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. News and World Report</a> listed him (along with then-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas" title="Arkansas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Arkansas</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Arkansas" title="Governor of Arkansas" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Governor</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bill Clinton</a>) as one of “Ten Rising Stars of American Politics”, and a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes" title="60 Minutes" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">60 Minutes</a> profile introduced him to a televised national audience.

In his eight years as mayor of San Antonio, Cisneros attracted national attention for his success in developing new economic growth in the city's business sector, and with his diplomatic skills to 'promote cooperation' among the city's various ethnic groups. He exercised a developmental expansion strategy that led the city to unprecedented levels of economic and cultural growths. Cisneros brought federal monies to San Antonio that further developed the downtown business district. He courted Fortune 500 companies and technology firms to set up shop locally to create jobs, enlarge the city’s reserves with local business taxes, and to cement San Antonio’s reputation as a leading city for technology, skilled work and economic output. His efforts brought additional investments to San Antonio, such as luring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_World" title="Sea World" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Sea World</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_Texas" title="Fiesta Texas" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Fiesta Texas</a>, two major theme park tourist attractions. In his signature accomplishment, Cisneros convinced the city’s residents to vote for the city-financed construction of the Alamodome. He also paved the way for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Pope John Paul II</a> to visit San Antonio during the pontiff’s 10-day tour to the United States in September 1987. More than one million people saw the Pope during his 22-hour visit to San Antonio, more than any other city on that 10-day tour. Cisneros’ mayoral success for elevating San Antonio’s reputation and economic base as a leading city in the nation led to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Monthly" title="Texas Monthly" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Texas Monthly</a> in 1999 naming him its Texas Mayor of the Century. The publication pointed to such achievements as a downtown riverfront redevelopment that drew tourists from far and wide and contending that he had "changed San Antonio's image from a poor and somewhat sleepy town to a culturally and economically vibrant model for the future of urban America." During Cisneros’ tenure as mayor, San Antonio was named an All American City for 1982–83, a prestigious honor awarded by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Civic_League" title="National Civic League" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Civic League</a>.

Throughout his mayorship, Cisneros continued to live in the small house that once belonged to his grandfather in the city’s west side. He populist positions on issues that favored the poor and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class" title="Working class" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">working class</a>. Cisneros also funneled more than $200 million to the city's long neglected Hispanic west side for streets, gutters, libraries, and parks. His improvements also alleviated that area’s long standing flooding and drainage problems. Cisneros' ties to business also helped him establish an education partnership that brought together the city, the local colleges and universities, local business, and various community organizations. This partnership provided financial aid for college to young people in the poorest school districts of San Antonio.

The national visibility Cisneros gained as mayor of San Antonio led to President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ronald Reagan</a> appointing him in 1983 to the Bipartisan Commission on Central America, chaired by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Kissinger" title="Henry Kissinger" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Henry Kissinger</a>. In 1984, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Democratic_Party" title="U.S. Democratic Party" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democratic</a> presidential nominee <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mondale" title="Walter Mondale" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Walter Mondale</a> tapped Cisneros as a finalist for the vice presidential nomination, which eventually went to U.S. Rep. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro" title="Geraldine Ferraro" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Geraldine Ferraro</a>. Cisneros was selected to give the highly visible “Platform Presentation” at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_National_Convention" title="Democratic National Convention" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Democratic National Convention</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">San Francisco</a> on July 17, 1984. His viability as a national leader was confirmed in 1985 when Cisneros was elected president of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League_of_Cities" title="National League of Cities" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National League of Cities</a>. In 1986, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=City_and_State_Magazine&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="City and State Magazine (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">City and State Magazine</a> selected him as the “Outstanding Mayor” in the nation. A scholarly study of America’s mayors, The American Mayor, ranked Cisneros as one of the 15 best mayors in the nation in a period that spanned the 20th century. He was consistently touted as senatorial and/or gubernatorial material throughout his tenure as mayor, and was identified positively by both conservatives and liberals. In Señor Alcalde ("Mr. Mayor"), John Gillies wrote: "He tried to avoid a political label, such as Democrat or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.Republican_Party" title="U.S. Republican Party" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Republican</a>, because he wanted to consider the needs of all of San Antonio's groupings.... He formed a bridge between conservatives and liberals..."

In 1987, Cisneros announced he would not seek a fifth two-year term as mayor and would leave public life after completing his current term as mayor. Several factors contributed to his decision. The same year, his son, John Paul Anthony, named for the pope, was born with congenital <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asplenia_syndrome&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Asplenia syndrome (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">asplenia syndrome</a>; instead of the normal four chambers, the heart functioned as if it had only two. As a result, the blood that cycled through the baby’s system was poorly oxygenated and threatened to flood his lungs as the heart grew. The condition also meant the child was born without a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spleen" title="Spleen" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">spleen</a> and was 50 times more likely to contract a fatal infectious disease. Cisneros desired to devote more time with his ailing son, whose doctors had given roughly six years to live and whose life would be filled with major surgeries. When John Paul reached his sixth birthday in 1993, Cisneros told Sophfronia Scott Gregory in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Magazine" title="Time Magazine" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Time Magazine</a> of his son's ongoing fight for life: "Nothing in my life has prepared me for this."

Cisneros was one of the lowest paid major city mayors in the country, with a $4,500-per-year stipend, and had supplemented his income by speaking fees and teaching urban affairs and government at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_University_(Texas)" title="Trinity University (Texas)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Trinity University</a> in the Department of Urban Studies. Facing huge medical bills, along with two daughters rapidly approaching college age, Cisneros also hoped to make more money in private industry.

In 1989, Cisneros left public office and became chairman of the Cisneros Asset Management Company, a national asset-management investment firm that managed $550 million in fixed-income accounts. During this period, he hosted Texans, a one-hour television show produced quarterly in Texas, andAdelante, a national daily <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-language" title="Spanish-language" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Spanish-language</a> radio commentary. He also served as deputy chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and until he was named Secretary of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Housing_and_Urban_Development" title="United States Department of Housing and Urban Development" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">HUD</a>, he served as a board member of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation" title="Rockefeller Foundation" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rockefeller Foundation</a>, chairman of the National Civic League and chairman of the Advisory Committee on the Construction of San Antonio's Alamodome. In 1990, citizens urged Cisneros to run for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Texas" title="Governor of Texas" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Governor of Texas</a>, but chose to stay close to home to spend as much time as possible with his family. At the time, doctors did not know if surgery could correct John Paul’s heart problem. Cisneros’ collaboration with his wife in caring for John Paul — who later recovered to flourish in school after several major surgeries — brought the two back together. In 1991, VISTA Magazine awarded him with its Hispanic Man of the Year honor.

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As an advisor to Bill Clinton’s successful <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_presidential_campaign,_1992" title="Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1992 presidential campaign</a>, Cisneros was mentioned as a possible replacement for various Texas officials who ascended to jobs in the new Democratic administration. He turned down an appointment as a U.S. senator from Texas for the seat formerly held by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Bentsen" title="Lloyd Bentsen" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Lloyd Bentsen</a>, who had been nominated as Secretary of the Treasury. Clinton nominated him to serve as his new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate and sworn into office by Chief Justice <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rehnquist" title="William Rehnquist" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">William Rehnquist</a> on January 22, 1993. With the appointment, Cisneros instantly became the highest ranking Mexican American official in U.S. politics. He also pledged to do everything possible to reform the troubled $28 billion department.

Cisneros was well praised for his work as HUD Secretary. Judith Evans reported in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Post" title="Washington Post" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Washington Post</a> that both critics and supporters of Cisneros said he never lacked passion for his job and that he was able to make changes at the margin that made HUD a more effective housing provider. Rep. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Lazio" title="Rick Lazio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Rick Lazio</a>(R-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York" title="New York" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NY</a>), chairman of the House subcommittee on housing and community opportunity in 1996 said Cisneros displayed "the correct balance of advocacy on behalf of the president and a willingness to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_outside_the_box" title="Thinking outside the box" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">think creatively and outside the box</a> in terms of solutions." In his 1999 book, Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America, urban policy consultant <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Rusk&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="David Rusk (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David Rusk</a> wrote “…in my view, (Cisneros was) the most successful of the ten secretaries of Housing and Urban Development since the cabinet agency was formed in 1965.” Clinton said Cisneros was a brilliant public servant, and additionally said that people had no idea how much he contributed to the government.

In his first full week as Secretary, Cisneros was confronted by the unprecedented growing number of homeless in the country’s cities, and declared<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness" title="Homelessness" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"> homelessness</a> “a highest priority.” He quickly recommended that an economic stimulus package include $100 million to $150 million for homeless programs that mix housing and social services. Cisneros tapped <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cuomo" title="Andrew Cuomo" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Andrew Cuomo</a> to serve as an assistant housing secretary, in charge of homelessness. He spent an evening touring a shelter and the streets in Washington D.C. One night in late December 1994, he walked the streets of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Minneapolis</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.Paul,Minnesota" title="St. Paul, Minnesota" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">St. Paul</a>, talking to the homeless and later flopped for the night in a shelter in an effort to understand homelessness firsthand. The next day he announced $7.3 million in HUD for five <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota" title="Minnesota" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Minnesota</a> state projects for homeless youth and families. However, his efforts to alleviate the problem were often thwarted by a slow-moving bureaucracy. He described his frustration to Jill Smolowe in Time: "I can't believe how gridlocked the system is ... how irrelevant it is to things that are happening out in the country."

During his term, Cisneros reformed the public housing system. With his position, he inherited the massive undertaking to oversee the implementation of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_VI" title="HOPE VI" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">HOPE VI</a> program. Initially authorized as part of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Housing_and_Community_Development_Act_of_1992&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Housing and Community Development Act of 1992</a>, the HOPE VI program represented a dramatic turnaround in public housing policy and one of the most ambitious urban redevelopment efforts in the nation's history. The program is designed to tear down and redevelop severely distressed public housing projects, occupied by poor families, into redesigned <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-income_housing" title="Mixed-income housing" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">mixed-income housing</a>. To do this, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_8_housing" title="Section 8 housing" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Section 8 housing</a> vouchers are provided to enable the original residents to rent apartments in the private market. Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institute" title="Brookings Institute" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Brookings Institute</a>, said at a July 14, 2009 event there that HOPE VI is generally considered to be one of the most successful urban regeneration initiatives in the past half century. As Secretary, Cisneros worked diligently to make the program his own, and said HOPE VI was the last gasp for public housing. By the end of his term, Cisneros through his agency had renovated 250 of the worst public housing projects, authorized the demolition of 43,000 mostly vacant units, and advocated for demolishing a total of 100,000 units by the year 2000 in major urban cities. HOPE VI was not without controversy, and Cisneros even appeared on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montel_Williams" title="Montel Williams" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Montel Williams</a>' talk show to discuss HUD's plan to raze America's most crime-ridden, dilapidated housing projects and replace them with attractive new homes with modern amenities in mixed-use developments.

During his drive to reform public housing, Cisneros met with many detractors, including housing advocates who at first feared his vision for restructuring the agency's familiar programs would reduce assistance to low-income families and depressed urban centers. Despite alarms raised by critics, Cisneros also supported legislation to give local public housing authorities the flexibility to adjust rents to encourage more working families to stay in public housing and evict drug dealers and other criminals from housing projects. Near the end of his tenure as Secretary, Cisneros told the Washington Post that he was is most proud of his effort to reform public housing, changing the way local officials provide shelter to the country's poor. He long contended the decline of public housing projects resulted from massive concentrations of the nation's poorest of poor. Federal laws punished people for working, significantly raising rents as their wages rose.

In addition to HUD focusing on the poor, Cisneros seized the goal of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_administration" title="Clinton administration" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Clinton administration</a> to widen homeownership opportunities. Under his command, HUD advanced a long way in expanding homeownership among the country's most under-represented groups — young adults, minorities and low- to moderate-income families. When Cisneros arrived at HUD, the home ownership rate was 63.7 percent. When he left office in 1997 it had risen to 65.7 percent, its highest level since 1981. With motion’s set in place by Cisneros’ administration, at the end of Clinton's second term, homeownership continued its upward trend to 67.5 percent. At the close of his term, Cisneros acknowledged that lower interest rates and a strong economy were primary factors for the increase. However, the agency's ability to convince lenders, builders and real estate agents that there was money to be made in selling housing to low- and moderate-income individuals played a significant role, he said.

As the Clinton administration’s top housing official in the mid-1990s, Cisneros loosened mortgage restrictions so first-time buyers could qualify for loans they could never get before, contributing to the great housing and financial crisis that began 10 years later. However, in the August 5, 2008 issue of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_Voice" title="The Village Voice" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The Village Voice</a>, Wayne Barrett argued that Andrew Cuomo made a series of decisions as Secretary of HUD between 1997 and 2001 that helped give birth to the country's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_recession" title="2008 recession" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">current housing credit crisis</a>.[<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">citation needed</a>]

Cisneros successfully resisted efforts to substantially reduce or wholly eliminate the Department. He spent countless hours during his four-year tenure pleading the agency's case while Congressional appropriators cut its budget. He presented a plan in 1995 to trim the department's budget by $13 billion over five years. Cisneros told the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Express-News" title="San Antonio Express-News" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">San Antonio Express-News</a>: "There are efforts under way to eliminate important national efforts which provide shelter and assistance to millions of low-income Americans. I intend to stay and fight for our nation's commitment to people who need help and to reform HUD... This may be the last opportunity I have to be in public life...I just want to do everything I can to make the biggest difference I can."

Even his critics supported his efforts against budget cuts. Deborah Austin, director of legislation and policy for the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said in 1996, "For all we may not have liked about Cisneros, he was largely responsible for beating back pressure to eliminate and substantially reduce the department."

As Secretary, Cisneros attacked head on fair housing policies. “Fair housing,” he told Guy Gugliotta of the Washington Post, “is so vital that we cannot accomplish any of the other goals without it.” He unveiled a plan for HUD to provide $70 million in housing vouchers enabling low-income Americans to rent living space in the communities of their choice, an idea that brought Cisneros criticism in affluent circles in his native Texas and elsewhere. When it came to justice in home loans, Cisneros, through his agency, stood firm to lenders by letting them know that HUD would no longer tolerate unfairly denying minorities access to home loans, and aggressively penalized lenders who broke fair lending laws. The department also made it easier for alleged victims of fair housing to file complaints. During Cisneros’ four-year term, the agency's decisions in favor of victims of housing discrimination resulted in the awarding of a total of $80 million in damages, compared with $13 million in the previous four years. Cisneros greatly eased the bureaucracy to deal with fair housing issues much swifter. “The train started to run on time,” with complaints being heard much faster, said John Relman of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. “It's hard to find somebody in that position who could be more supportive of fair housing than Henry Cisneros.”

Cisneros took on the unenviable position to completely restructure the HUD bureaucracy. His ability to make sweeping, innovative changes at HUD was hampered by deep budget cuts and elimination of some programs. The agency’s staff had been cut to 10,000 at the end of his term, from 13,500 since he took over. He consolidated offices, moved staff from headquarters to field offices and increased management training. He reduced the number of agency programs from 240 to 20. The most difficult job for Cisneros as part of this reform was changing the attitudes of employees, who were often resistant to improving service to their communities.

Cisneros also took a high-profile role in the clean-up operation after the 1994 Los Angeles Earthquake.

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In March 1995, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attorney_General" title="Attorney General" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Attorney General</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno" title="Janet Reno" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Janet Reno</a> bowed to demands of the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives and secured the appointment of an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Office_of_the_Independent_Counsel" title="United States Office of the Independent Counsel" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Independent Counsel</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Barrett_(prosecutor)" title="David Barrett (prosecutor)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David Barrett</a> to investigate allegations that Cisneros had lied to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI" title="FBI" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">FBI</a> investigators during background checks prior to being named Secretary of HUD. He had been asked about payments that he had made to former mistress <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Medlar" title="Linda Medlar" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Linda Medlar</a>, also known as Linda Jones. Both were married at the time when Medlar volunteered to work on Cisneros' campaign for Mayor of San Antonio. The affair had been 'public knowledge' for a number of years unitl Medlar sold the story to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Fox News</a> for $15,000. The investigation was based on Cisneros' understating to the FBI the amount of money paid to his former mistress and was continued for 10 years, until in January, 1996 when Congress finally refused to continue funding it.

Citing the needs of his family, Cisneros ended his term as Secretary in January 1997. After the controversy became known during his first term as Secretary, Cisneros offered to submit his resignation to Clinton, who rejected it with a public statement that described Cisneros as "a good man and an effective public servant". Cisneros decided to stay in his position, adding in a statement in the San Antonio Express-News, "I regret any mistakes that I have made but affirm once again that I have at no point violated the public's trust."

He said the decision was largely brought on by the mounting legal costs to defend an investigation by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno" title="Janet Reno" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Janet Reno</a> Special Prosecutor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Barrett" title="David Barrett" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">David Barrett</a> into allegations he had lied to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI" title="FBI" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">FBI</a> about the size of payments he gave his former mistress, Linda Medlar. Cisneros, who made $148,000 annually in his cabinet position, had tuition bills for a daughter in her third year at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New York University</a> law school and another who was a fourth-year student at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" title="Stanford University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Stanford</a>, in addition to continued medical care bills for his ailing son. “Really, I came to do this for four years. I prayed I could stretch the finances that far,” he said. “This is about as far as I can stretch it.”

Medlar had surfaced in 1994 with a breach of contract lawsuit against Cisneros, claiming he had agreed to support her until her daughter’s college graduation, but that he had discontinued monthly payments. Cisneros had made payments to her following the end of their affair, discontinuing them only after taking a pay cut upon returning to public life. Although Cisneros had divulged the payments during the FBI background check preceding his appointment, Medlar’s claims suggested that Cisneros might have misrepresented the amount. This led to Attorney General Janet Reno recommending a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate Cisneros in March 1995. In December 1997, Cisneros was indicted on 18 counts of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(crime)" title="Conspiracy (crime)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">conspiracy</a>, giving false statements and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice" title="Obstruction of justice" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">obstruction of justice</a>. In September 1999, Cisneros negotiated a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plea_agreement" title="Plea agreement" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">plea agreement</a>, under which he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of lying to the FBI, and was fined $10,000. He did not receive jail time or probation.

Medlar used some of the Cisneros money to purchase a house and entered into a bank fraud scheme with her sister and brother-in-law to conceal the source of the money. In January, 1998, Medlar pleaded guilty to 28 charges of bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud and obstruction of justice. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://lubbockonline.com/stories/032698/009-3666.shtml" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[5]</a>

Clinton later pardoned Cisneros in January 2001.

After leaving HUD in January 1997, Cisneros moved his family to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Los Angeles</a> and served from 1997 to 2000 as president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications, the nation’s largest Spanish-language broadcaster that had become the fifth-most-watched television network in the nation. Cisneros currently serves on Univision’s Board of Directors. By 2000, Cisneros and his wife moved back to San Antonio.

Upon returning to San Antonio, Cisneros established a firm to develop affordable housing there, and in other American cities. His commitment was to develop homes affordable to the core of America’s workers such as police, nurses, teachers and city workers. “Home ownership is the way people step into the American dream,” Cisneros told the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Diego_Union-Tribune" title="San Diego Union-Tribune" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">San Diego Union-Tribune</a>. “It creates access to the levers of wealth.” The company he formed in 2000 as American City Vista to develop residential areas in the central zones of many of the nation's major metropolitan areas, evolved to become CityView.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, with an office in San Antonio, Cisneros has built up CityView to be one of the nation’s top institutional investment firms focused on urban real estate, in-city housing, and metropolitan infrastructure, working with both residential housing and commercial real estate developers. Cisneros vast knowledge of cities and their associated infrastructure, governmental experience in working with diverse groups and bureaucracy, in addition to his numerous relationships built over a lengthy career, have been, and continue to be, crucial to CityView’s development and success.

Cisneros’ continued active involvement in the real estate industry has led to him receiving multiple national honors. In 2006, Builder Magazine named Cisneros #18 out of the top 50 most influential people in the real estate industry. In June 2007 Cisneros was inducted into the National Association of Homebuilders (NAHB) “Builders Hall of Fame” and honored by the National Housing Conference as the “Housing Person of the Year.”

As a private citizen, Cisneros remains active in non-profit and civic leadership. He was an advisor for the American Democracy Institute; a trustee for the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Film_Institute" title="American Film Institute" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">American Film Institute</a>; and Co-Chair of The National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, to name a few. Cisneros is currently a board member for the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and after-School All-Stars, founded by California Governor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger" title="Arnold Schwarzenegger" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Arnold Schwarzenegger</a>, in addition to being a member of the Advisory Boards of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_and_Melinda_Gates_Foundation" title="Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Broad_Foundation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Broad Foundation (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(165, 88, 88); background-image: none;">Broad Foundation</a>, among others. He also took a role in corporate leadership and has served as a board member for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Nation" title="Live Nation" class="mw-redirect" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Live Nation</a>, in addition to the boards of major builder KB Home and the largest mortgage lender in the nation at one time, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrywide_Financial" title="Countrywide Financial" class="mw-redirect" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Countrywide </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countrywide_Financial" title="Countrywide Financial" class="mw-redirect" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none;">Financial</a> — two companies among many that prospered in the housing boom, drawing criticism along the way for abusive business practices.

Cisneros has also been author, editor or collaborator in several books, including Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation, a project with the late former HUD Secretary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kemp" title="Jack Kemp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jack Kemp</a>; Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy was presented the Common Purpose Award for demonstrating the potential of bipartisan cooperation; and Casa y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design, a publication that took the first-ever look at the growing and increasingly prosperous U.S. Latino community and its housing needs, was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Silver Medal in the category of best business book of 2006. His most recent collaboration with the late former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America’s Cities and States, is a guide for local leaders in designing comprehensive housing policies.

Cisneros served as a member of the Debt Reduction Task Force at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Policy_Center" title="Bipartisan Policy Center" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bipartisan Policy Center</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-21" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[21]</a>

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From the time he attended a conference on American city issues while in college, during his terms as mayor and HUD secretary, to the present, Cisneros has been driven on a crusade to build America’s future by improving its cities’ core along with creating affordable housing for the country’s workforce families. In his 1993 book, Interwoven Destinies, Cisneros wrote: “The strength of the nation's economy, the contact points for international economics, the health of our democracy, and the vitality of our humanistic endeavors — all are dependent on whether America's cities work.”

He is the only former HUD secretary to remain working in housing and urban affairs.

Cisneros received the 2002 National Inner City Leadership Award from the United States Conference of mayors, honoring him for his work in promoting the revitalization of city economies. It was said of him when receiving the award: “Henry's unwavering dedication to this country's inner city economies is a testament to the difference one person can make.” In 2007, Cisneros was honored with the prestigious “Housing Person of the Year” Award from the National Housing Conference, where it was said: “Without question Henry Cisneros has demonstrated a life-long dedication to providing housing to America's working families…” Together with Jack Kemp, he received the Walter F. Mondale and Edward W. Brooke Fair Housing Award in June 2009 from the Fair Housing Alliance.

Cisneros, either in the past or currently, served on several national commissions in urban affairs such as the Partnership for Sustainable Communities Leadership Advisory Council, and the boards of the National Smart Growth Council and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Alliance_to_End_Homelessness" title="National Alliance to End Homelessness" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Alliance to End Homelessness</a>. He presently serves as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the recovery effort in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">New Orleans</a> and as Co-Chair of the National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity.

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Cisneros and his wife still reside in the small house that once belonged to his grandfather in the predominantly Latino inner west side. For the citizens of San Antonio, his time as mayor was uniquely personal, and from that time he is known in San Antonio simply as “Henry.”

Although he grew up in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class" title="Middle class" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">middle class</a> family, he lived moments from an area that lacked wastewater and potable water infrastructure. Cisneros wrote that San Antonio in the late 1960s was “so poor that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Corps" title="Peace Corps" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Peace Corps</a> volunteers were trained in its barrios to simulate the conditions they would face in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America" title="Latin America" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Latin America</a>. Thousands of Hispanics and black families lived in colonias, with common-wall, shotgun houses built around public sanitation facilities with outdoor toilets. The barrios had no sidewalks or paved streets, no drainage system or flood control. Every spring brought flooding; families were driven from their homes; children walked to school through mud sloughs. In the shadow of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_San_Antonio" title="Downtown San Antonio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Downtown San Antonio</a> lurked a stateside third-world 'country'."

As mayor, one Cisneros’ most notable accomplishments was the designation of funds to the west side neighborhoods for capital improvements. Today, there are no colonias in San Antonio, no neighborhoods with dirt roads, no major problems with water on any level, and no shared ”public” outdoor toilets.

After returning home to San Antonio in 2000, Cisneros and his wife founded the non-profit American Sunrise in 2001 to provide services for their neighbors within one square mile. From an after school learning center for children to adult literacy classes, American Sunrise creates communities where working families find can find economic, educational and housing opportunities to improve the standard of living in the neighborhood. Annually, 8–10 dilapidated homes are purchased, refurbished and sold back at very affordable costs to create more homeownership opportunities in poor central city neighborhoods. Mary Alice Cisneros is directly assisting her constituents, as she now holds her husband's former city council district seat.

Cisneros remains active in San Antonio’s leadership where he is Chairman of BioMed S.A., an effort to accelerate the city’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care" title="Health care" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">health care</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosciences" title="Biosciences" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">biosciences</a>sector, on the board of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and is the incoming chair of the city’s economic development council.

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Cisneros is the co-creator of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Hispanic_Leadership_Agenda" title="National Hispanic Leadership Agenda" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Hispanic Leadership Agenda</a>, a group that comes together on a quadrennial basis to present a platform on the major issues facing the Latino community, and the nation as a whole. Additionally, Cisneros is a co-founder of the New American Alliance, a national organization united to promote the economic advancement of the American Latino community.

Cisneros has spoken to every major Latino group across the U.S, and has served on the boards of numerous Latino organizations. He has also been honored with many awards and recognitions for his involvement and commitment to Latino issues. In 2007, Cisneros received the prestigious Maestro Award for Leadership, at the Latino Leaders Summit, hosted by Latino Leaders magazine. In selecting Cisneros for the honor, Jorge Ferraez, publisher ofLatino Leaders magazine stated: “Henry Cisneros has demonstrated a life-long dedication to public service and improving the life of Latinos. At a time when the Latino community is prospering, we are pleased to honor Cisneros as a leader who has spent decades paving the way for Latino success in education, housing, and business.”

The Latino population is estimated to grow to 63 million and make up 25 percent of the U.S. population by 2050, according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Census_Bureau" title="U.S. Census Bureau" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">U.S. Census Bureau</a>estimates. With that on the horizon, Cisneros says the global competitiveness of the United States hinges on the progress of the country's Hispanic population — the fastest-growing minority group.

“The Latino population is growing so rapidly that American progress in the coming century is inextricably linked to the progress of the Latino community,” Cisneros said. “Any investment in services that help lift Latinos into the middle class is an investment in the future of the entire country.”

Cisneros said Hispanic immigrants must invest in American society by mastering <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language" title="English language" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">English</a>, putting their children through school, buying homes, providing their families with health care, and participating enthusiastically in civic, community and religious activities. In 2009, he created the nonprofit group, “Our Pledge,” to help immigrants integrate into American society by improving language skills and expanding their participation in military service and civic activities.

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">One of “Five Outstanding Young Texans” Texas Jaycees, 1976</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">One of “Ten Outstanding Young Men of America” U.S. Jaycees, 1982</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Torch of Liberty Award, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1982</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jefferson Award, American Institute of Public Service, 1982</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Award for Contribution to American Cities and Politics, Harvard Foundation, 1985</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">President’s Medal of Merit, Pan American University, 1985</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Distinguished Leadership Award, American Institute of Planners, 1985</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Recognition Award by the Mexican Government for 1985 Earthquake Assistance</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Honorary member, American Institute of Architects, 1986</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Outstanding Mayor "All-Pro City Management Team," City & State magazine (now Governing), September 1986<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-22" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[22]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Distinguished Service Award, Baylor College of Medicine, 1986</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Leadership in Local Government Award, American City & County magazine, 1987</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">President’s Award, National League of Cities, 1989</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hispanic Man of the Year, VISTA Magazine, 1991</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Founder Award, Partners for Livable Communities, 1992</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Boys and Girls Clubs of America’s Fourth Annual Legends and Fans Award, 1993</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 1994<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-23" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[23]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hero of the People Award, ACORN, 1994</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Family Housing Legacy Award, Los Angeles Family Housing, 2000</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Humanitarian Award, Los Angeles Inner City Law Center, 2001<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-24" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[24]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lifetime Achievement Award, Para Los Niños, 2001</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Theodor Herzl Award, Municipality of Jerusalem & The Jerusalem Fund of Aish HaTorah, 2001</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Environmental Hero Award for Business, California League of Conservation Voters, 2001</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hammer of Hope Award, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_for_Humanity" title="Habitat for Humanity" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Habitat for Humanity</a> of Orange County, CA, 2002</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hadassah Award, San Antonio Chapter, 2002</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Inner City Leadership Award, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, April 2002<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-25" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[25]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Hispanic_Caucus_Institute" title="Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute</a> Medallion of Excellence for Leadership, 2002<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[26]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Torah Learning Center (TLC) Moreshet Heritage Award, 2003</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Aguila Azteca, Government of the Republic of Mexico, 2003</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Catherine Powell Distinguished Service Award, Texas City Planners Association, 2004</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Builder of the Year, El Nuevo Constructor Magazine, 2004<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-27" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[27]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">James W. Rouse Civic Medal of Honor, Enterprise Community Partners, 2004</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Israel Bonds Leadership Award, 2004</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Achievement Award, San Antonio Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission, 2005<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-28" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[28]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Civil Rights Award, NEWSED Community Development Corporation, 2005</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Excellence in Affordable Housing Initiatives, City of San Antonio, 2005</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Trinity Prize for Innovative Urban Governance, Mayor of San Antonio 1981–1989, 2005</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Common Ground Award for Bipartisan Cooperation (shared with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kemp" title="Jack Kemp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jack Kemp</a>), Search for Common Ground, March 2005<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[29]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Top 101 “Top Leaders of the Hispanic Community,” Latino Leaders Magazine, 2006</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Business Man of the Year, Texas Association of Mexican-American Chambers of Commerce, July 2006<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-30" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[30]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Lifetime Achievement Award, San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, July 2006<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-31" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[31]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Top 50 “Most Influential People in Home Building,” Builder Magazine, December 2006<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-32" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[32]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Cesar Chavez Award, American Association for Affirmative Action, 2007<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-33" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[33]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Hispanic Hero Award, United States Hispanic Leadership Institute, 2007</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Housing Person of the Year, National Housing Conference, June 2007<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-34" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[34]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Inductee, Builders Hall of Fame, National Association of Home Builders, June 2007</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">President’s Award, National Council of La Raza, July 2007<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-35" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[35]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Maestro Award for Leadership, Latino Leaders magazine, August 2007<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-36" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[36]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Housing Leadership Award, National Low Income Housing Coalition, February 2008<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-37" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[37]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Visionary Award, Hispanic College Fund, May 2008<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-38" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[38]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">National Leadership Honoree, Hispanic Elected Local Officials, June 2008<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-39" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[39]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Hubert H. Humphrey Award, The American Political Science Association, August 2008<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-40" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[40]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Visionary Award, Habitat for Humanity Los Angeles, October 2008<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-41" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[41]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Walter F. Mondale and Edward W. Brooke Fair Housing Award, National Fair Housing Alliance, June 2009<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-42" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[42]</a></li>

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In addition, Cisneros is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees. Most recently, an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 2000.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-43" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[43]</a>

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Cisneros has a significant history of authoring, co-authoring, editing and contributing to several books and publications, along with speaking, narration and television appearances.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"A Survival Strategy for America's Cities", Richard S. Childs Lecture in Municipal Administration, The City Club of New York, 1982<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-44" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[44]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"San Antonio’s Place in the Technology Economy; A Review of Opportunities and a Blueprint for Action", 1982</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Target 1990; Goals and Decisions for San Antonio’s Future," authored as Mayor, 1983<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-45" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[45]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Samuel Rubin Lecture, Samuel Rubin Program for the Advancement of Liberty and Equality through Law, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Law_School" title="Columbia Law School" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Columbia Law School</a>, February 24, 1986<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-46" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[46]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chubb Fellowship (lecture), Timothy Dwight College, Yale University, 1986</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Daily Radio Commentary, 40 radio stations, produced by Tichenor Broadcasting, 1989–1992</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Tomás Rivera Lecture, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education, 1992<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-47" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[47]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Interwoven Destinies: Cities and the Nation", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0393965821" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 0-393-96582-1</a>, W. W. Norton & Company NY, 1993), Editor, The American Assembly</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Urban America: HUD's call to action", Urban Land magazine (ISSN 0042-0891, v.53, n.1, pp. 22–24, January 1994)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Comic Relief VI", (national broadcast <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO" title="HBO" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">HBO</a>, January 15, 1994) cast member<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-48" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[48]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Earth Angels: Migrant Children in America", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0876540744" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 0-87654-074-4</a>, Pomegranate 1994), Introduction, Nancy Buirski (Photographer), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Blades" title="Ruben Blades" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ruben Blades</a>(Afterword)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Legacy for a Reinvented HUD: Charting a New Course in Changing and Demanding Times", Cityscape journal of policy development and research, (Volume 1, Number 3, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, September 1995)</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Secretary’s Essay Series, (9 essays)" (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1995–1996)

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"University and the Urban Challenge ", first in a series, January 1995</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Defensible Space: Deterring Crime and Building Community ", second in a series, January 1995</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Regionalism: The New Geography of Opportunity", third in a series, March 1995</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Urban Entrepreneurialism and National Economic Growth", fourth in a series, September 1995</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Higher Ground: Faith Communities and Community Building", fifth in a series, February 1996</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Preserving Everybody's History ", sixth in a series, February 1996</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Fathers and Families: Changing the Rules", seventh in a series, December 1996</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Urban Land and the Urban Prospect", eighth in a series, December 1996</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Community Colleges and Urban Development", ninth in a series, December 1996</li>

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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Chicano! History of the Mexican-American Civil Rights Movement", (national broadcast <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service" title="Public Broadcasting Service" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">PBS</a>, April 1996) narrator, by Hector Galán: Producer<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-49" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[49]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Report on the state of America's communities", delivered to the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., April 25, 1996</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Mexican American Family Album (The American Family Albums)", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/019512426X" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 0-19-512426-X</a>, Oxford University Press, 1998) by Dorothy Hooble and Thomas Hoobler, Introduction</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Millennial City: Classic Readings on U.S. Urban Policy", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780762305728" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 978-0-7623-0572-8</a>, Elsevier 1999) From series: Research in Urban Policy v. 12, edited by R.D. Norton</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Forgotten Americans", (national broadcast <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Broadcasting_Service" title="Public Broadcasting Service" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">PBS</a>, December 2000) narrator, by Hector Galán: Writer, Producer, Director<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-50" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[50]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Where Will The Poor Live? Housing Policy and the Location of Low-Income Households", webcast (Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, UC Berkely, February 7, 2003)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-51" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[51]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Homes for Americans in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities for the Nation", Fifth Annual John T. Dunlop Lecture, Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, September 29, 2003<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-52" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[52]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Conversations", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLRN" title="KLRN" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">KLRN Public Television</a>, San Antonio) host, 2003 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-53" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[53]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Cinco de Mayo", (national broadcast <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History(U.S.TV_channel)" title="History (U.S. TV channel)" class="mw-redirect" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">History Channel</a>, October 2004) narrator, by Hector Galán: Producer, Director<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-54" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[54]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Promise and Betrayal: Universities and the Battle for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0791464830" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 0-7914-6483-0</a>, SUNY Press, 2005) by John I. Gilderbloom and R.L. Mullins Jr., foreword</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Opportunity and Progress: A Bipartisan Platform for National Housing Policy", (Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2005, no ISBN) with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kemp" title="Jack Kemp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jack Kemp</a>, Kent W. Colton, and Nicolas P. Retsinas</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"The Future of the American City", Fourth Annual James W. Rouse Lecture, webcast, September 25, 2005<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-55" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[55]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"About Children: An Authoritative Resource on the State of Childhood Today", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1581101422" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 1-58110-142-2</a>, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2005), by Arthur G. Cosby PhD, Robert E. Greenberg MD, Linda Hill Southward PhD, and Michael Weitzman MD, contributor Ch. 8</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Casa y Comunidad: Latino Home and Neighborhood Design", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780867186130" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 978-0-86718-613-0</a>, BuilderBooks.com, 2006) with John Rosales</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Our Communities, Our Homes: Pathways to Housing and Homeownership in America’s Cities and States", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780976148111" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 978-0-9761481-1-1</a>, Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2007) with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kemp" title="Jack Kemp" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Jack Kemp</a>, Kent W. Colton, and Nicolas P. Retsinas</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Latinos and the Nations Future", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1558855424" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 1-55885-542-4</a>, Arte Público Press, 2008), Editor</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"From Despair to Hope: HOPE VI and the Transformation of America’s Public Housing", (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0815714254" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN 0-8157-1425-4</a>, Brookings Institution Press, 2009), Editor</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"Getting The Nation's Housing Sector Back on Track", article (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League_of_Cities" title="National League of Cities" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National League of Cities</a>, January 2009)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-56" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[56]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">"A Fence Can’t Stop the Future", essay (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Newsweek</a> magazine, January 17, 2009)<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-57" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[57]</a></li>

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Throughout his career, Cisneros has been and continues to be associated with numerous business, corporate, housing trade, civic and governmental, educational, and charitable organizations.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman, San Antonio Fire and Police Pension Fund, 1981–1989</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, President’s National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, 1983–1984</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration, 1984 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-58" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[58]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Visiting Fellow, Harvard University, 1985</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">President, Texas Municipal League, 1985</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Co-Chair, Texas Response to the 1985 Mexico Earthquake, 1985</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Board of Regents, Texas A&M University, 1985–1987</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Trustee, Notre Dame University, 1985–1988</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, 1985–1993</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">President, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League_of_Cities" title="National League of Cities" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National League of Cities</a>, 1986<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-59" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[59]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Bilateral Commission on the Future of United States–Mexican Relations, Ford Foundation, 1986–1989</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Board of Trustees, Baylor College of Medicine, 1987–1990</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Governor’s (TX) Task Force on Education Finance in Texas, 1989</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman, San Antonio Education Partnership, 1989–1992</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman, Stadium Advisory Committee, Alamodome, 1989–1992</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, The Rockefeller Foundation, 1989–1992</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chair, Board of Trustees, The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, Claremont Graduate University, California 1989–1992</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Inter-American Dialogue, 1989–1993</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, National Endowment for Democracy, 1990</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Commission on America in the New World, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1990</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Governor’s (TX) Task Force on Revenues, 1991</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Deputy Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 1991–1992</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, 1991–1992</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, The American Assembly, 1991–1992</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">President Clinton Transition Committees, 1992–1993 and 1996–1997</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Vice-Chairman, President Clinton’s Summit for America's Future (Summit on Volunteerism), 1997<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[60]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Co-Founder, New America Alliance, 1999<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-61" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[61]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman, Rand Corporation Sub-Committee on Urban Education, 2000</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Board of Directors, KB Home, 2000–2003</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Countrywide Financial Corporation, 2000–2007</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, 2000 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-62" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[62]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Development Committee, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2000 – present</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Fannie Mae National Advisory Council, 2001</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman, Every Texan Foundation, 2001</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Trustee, American Film Institute, 2001</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman, San Antonio Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, 2001–2003</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Senior Advisor and Board Member, Enterprise Community Investment, 2001 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-63" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[63]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Institute for a Competitive Inner City, 2002</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Advisory Committee, Harvard University, School of Education, 2002–2004</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Board of Visitors, Claremont Graduate University, 2002–2005</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Advisory Committee, UCLA School of Public Policy, 2002–2006</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman and Co-Founder, American Sunrise Communities, 2002 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-64" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[64]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Cancer Therapy & Research Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, 2002 – present</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Investor, Ventana Communities, 2003–2007</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Jury Member, The Broad Prize for Urban Education, 2003 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-65" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[65]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Vice Chairman, Executive Committee, San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, 2003 – present</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Avanzar Interior Technologies, Joint Venture with Johnson Controls, 2003 – present</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, The Broad Foundation, 2004 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-66" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[66]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, After-School All-Stars, 2004 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-67" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[67]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Merage Foundation for the American Dream, 2004 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-68" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[68]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, New Democratic Network, 2004 – present</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2004 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-69" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[69]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Freddie Mac Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee, 2005</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, National Smart Growth Council, 2005 – present</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman, BioMed SA, 2005 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-70" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[70]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Homes for Working Families, 2005 – present</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, National Children’s Health Forum, 2005 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-71" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[71]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Live Nation, 2005–2007</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisory Board Member, The Raul Yzaguirre Policy Institute, 2006 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-72" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[72]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisory Board Member, TMC (Teaching & Mentoring Communities), formerly Texas Migrant Council, 2006 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-73" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[73]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Capital One Community Renewal Fund, 2007</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Trustee, Strong American Schools, 2007</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisory Board Member, UCLA School of Public Affairs, 2007</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman, Technical Advisory Committee, Office of Recovery Development and Administration, New Orleans, 2007 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-74" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[74]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Chairman, Our Pledge, 2007 – present</li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Board of Councilors, University of Southern California, School of Policy, Planning, and Development, 2007 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-75" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[75]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Board Member, Univision, 2007 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-76" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[76]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisory Board Member, United States Program Advisory Panel, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2007 – present<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-77" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[77]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Co-Chair, The National Commission on Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, 2008<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-78" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[78]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Member, Leadership Advisory Council, Partnership for Sustainable Communities, 2009<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_note-79" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[79]</a></li>

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Advisory Board Chairman, The National Hispanic University 2012–present</li>

</ul>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Benedetto, Richard (April 6, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-04-06-cisneros_x.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Baby named for pope doing well"</a>.USA Today.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Suro, Roberto (1992-12-18). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/18/us/transition-clinton-selects-ex-mayor-for-hud-ex-marine-for-veterans-affairs.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"THE TRANSITION: Clinton Selects Ex-Mayor for H.U.D."</a>. New York Times. Retrieved 2010-01-02.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-4" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.latinoteca.com/app-home/app-information/Publications/showAuthorDetails?code=392" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Latinoteca</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-hud-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-hud_5-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-hud_5-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">b</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archives.hud.gov/secretaries/cisnerosbio.cfm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">HUD Archives</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-6" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cityview.com/people/index.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">CityView</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/projects/housing" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">[2]</a> Bipartisan Policy Center's Housing Commission</li>

<li id="cite_note-harrigan-8" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-harrigan_8-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Harrigan, Stephen (September 1987). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ICoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA87&dq=henry+cisneros&lr=&cd=24#v=onepage&q=henry%20cisneros&f=false" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The Time of His Life"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Monthly" title="Texas Monthly" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Texas Monthly</a>. p. 136. Retrieved 2010-01-26.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-9" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00097/lac-00097.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">University of Texas at Austin Library Rómulo Munguía Papers, 1911–1980</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-nazareno-10" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-nazareno_10-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Nazareno, Analisa (September 2006). "Ret. Col. George Cisneros leaves a legacy of spirit, generosity and humor". <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.poder360.com/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Poder magazine</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-burka-11" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-burka_11-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Burka, Paul (April 1981). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=ySwEAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=henry%20cisneros%20&f=false" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Rule, Hispania"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Monthly" title="Texas Monthly" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Texas Monthly</a>. p. 167. Retrieved 2010-01-26.</li>

<li id="cite_note-answers-12" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-answers_12-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-answers_12-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">b</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-answers_12-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">c</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.answers.com/topic/henry-cisneros" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Answers.com</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-13" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-13" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Gardner, John W. (1993). On Leadership. Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. p. 167. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-02-911312-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-02-911312-7" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">978-0-02-911312-7</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-15" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-15" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19830125&id=qHEcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gVgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4640,5702846" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"Speech by Cisneros Scheduled"</a>. The Victoria Advocate. 1983-01-25. Retrieved 2010-02-02.</li>

<li id="cite_note-gale-16" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-gale_16-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-gale_16-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">b</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-gale_16-2" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">c</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/chh/bio/cisneros_h.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Gale/Cengage Learning – Henry G. Cisneros</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-miller-17" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-miller_17-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }Miller, PhD, Char (December 2, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://info.aia.org/nwsltr_hrc.cfm?pagename=hrc_a_SanAntonio" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"The Best-Laid Plans: How San Antonio Grew and Why"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_of_Architects" title="American Institute of Architects" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">AIA</a> Preservation Architect. Retrieved 2010-01-18.</li>

<li id="cite_note-t.r.-18" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-t.r.18-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-t.r.18-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">b</a> Fehrenbach, T.R. (July 20, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/columnists/t.r._fehrenbach/TR_Fehrenbach_San_Antonios_re-visiting_of_term_limits_reinvents_an_old_broken_wheel.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"San Antonio's re-visiting of term limits reinvents an old broken wheel"</a>. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio_Express-News" title="San Antonio Express-News" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">San Antonio Express-News</a>. Retrieved 2010-01-28.</li>

<li id="cite_note-rosales-19" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-rosales_19-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">a</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-rosales_19-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">b</a> Rosales, Rodolfo (2000). The Illusion of Inclusion: The Political Story of San Antonio, Texas. University of Texas Press. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">ISBN</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-292-77103-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-292-77103-1" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">978-0-292-77103-1</a>.</li>

<li id="cite_note-j1-20" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-j1_20-0" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.jrank.org/cultures/pages/3721/Henry-G-Cisneros.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Henry G. Cisneros Biography – (b. 1947), Housing and Urban Development, Housing, Education, and Welfare, Good Government League</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-24" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-24" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.innercitylaw.org/luncheon.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Los Angeles Inner City Law Center</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-26" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-26" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.chci.org/events/page/chci-medallion-award-of-excellence-winners" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-28" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-28" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sanantonio.gov/mlk/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">City of San Antonio</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-29" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-29" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfcg.org/sfcg/sfcg_awards2005.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Search for Common Ground</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-37" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-37" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://network.nshp.org/profiles/blogs/henry-cisneros-community" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Henry Cisneros, Community leader and businessman</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Society_for_Hispanic_Professionals" title="National Society for Hispanic Professionals" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Society for Hispanic Professionals</a>, August 18, 2008</li>

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<li id="cite_note-40" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-40" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apsanet.org/content_56314.cfm" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">The American Political Science Association</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-41" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-41" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.habitatla.org/filebox/09_08.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif); padding-right: 18px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Habitat for Humanity newsletter (pdf)</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-42" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-42" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:yNUwH_iLzMcJ:www.nationalfairhousing.org/Portals/33/2009%2520National%2520Conference/2009%2520Conference%2520Agenda%25206.2.09.pdf+Walter+F.+Mondale+and+Edward+W.+Brooke+Fair+Housing+Award,+National+Alliance+for+Fair+Housing,+June+2009&hl=en&gl=us&sig=AHIEtbRfJ4-X4hNPYUfBDZLzovhmgOe31w" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">National Fair Housing Alliance</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-44" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-44" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/turkelcity.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif); padding-right: 18px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library Manuscripts and Archives Division (pdf) p. 17</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-49" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-49" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database" title="Internet Movie Database" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Internet Movie Database</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-50" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-50" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.galaninc.com/site/filmography/2000/03/forgotten-americans/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Galán Incorporated Television & Film</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-52" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-52" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Harvard University</a> (pdf)</li>

<li id="cite_note-54" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-54" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.galaninc.com/site/filmography/2004/10/cinco-de-mayo-produced-for-the-history-channel/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Galán Incorporated Television & Film</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-55" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-55" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.planetizen.com/node/1981" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">Planetizen</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-58" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-58" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.napawash.org/about_academy/fellows_list.html" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">National Academy of Public Administration</a></li>

<li id="cite_note-60" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cisneros#cite_ref-60" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">^{</a> }<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/04/28/volunteer/" style=" text-decoration: none; color: rgb(102, 51, 102); background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs+9AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB/IkeGOrxXhqB+uA9Bfcm0lAZuh+YIeAD+cAqSz4kCMUAAAAASUVORK5CYII=); padding-right: 13px; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">"A Call For 'Big Citizenship'"</a>. CNN.com. 1997-04-28. Retrieved 2010-01-03.</li>

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