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What we can learn from Joe Riley, mayor of Charleston for 40 years

For years now Charleston, South Carolina has been a place people want to live and they want to visit, beautiful, vibrant, with history on every corner. Forty years ago it was falling apart, that's when Joe Riley became mayor, and has been mayor ever since. NBC's Harry Smith reports.

What we can learn from Joe Riley: Mayor of Charleston for 40 years

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/ Source: TODAY
By TODAY

For years now Charleston, South Carolina has been a place people want to live and they want to visit, beautiful, vibrant, with history on every corner. Forty years ago it was falling apart, that's when Joe Riley became mayor, and has been mayor ever since. NBC’s Harry Smith reports.