♪ ♪ ♪ CC1 ♪ >>> JUDGE, SENATOR, GOVERNOR, ATTORNEY.

AND THAT'S A DISTINGUISHED CAREER.

THREE BRANCHS OF GOVERNMENT AND HE'S THAT HAS DONE SO.

AT HAS DONE S GOVERNOR IN ONE WORD PERSEVERANCE.

>> HE WAS THE KIND OF GUY THAT YOU COULD EASILY GO TO HIM FOR ANY ADVICE.

>> WE >> WE HAD A LOT OF GOOD MOMENTS TOGETHER.

I >> HE WAS NOT INTIMIDATED BY TH PROCESS.

AND HE REPRESENTED THE INTEREST WELL IN WHATEVER WELL IN WHATEVER FORUM IT WAS.

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>> I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ISLANDS LOOK AT THAT PEOPLE IN VIRGIN ISLANDS ISLANDS LOOK AT HE HAD AN UNBLEMISHED RECORD IN HIS TH ADMINISTRATION WHICH IS OF US >> ALEXANDER ANTHONY FARLEY WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 29, 1923, IN ON THE ISLAND CROIX.

CROIX.

HE WAS THE SECOND SON FOR HIS PARENTS.

WHEN ALEXANDER WAS 14 WAS JUST 14 YEARS OLD.

HIS FATHER PATRICK FARLEY WAS A MANAGER OF A SUGARCANE FIELD.

>> I WENT TO SCHOOL WITH PATRICK THE SAME SCHOOL WHERE ALEXANDER ATTENDED.

WHEN I REMEMBER HIM BEST, I WAS IN THE FIFTH GRADE.

IN THE CLASS WHERE I WAS IN FIFTH GRADE, I COULD SEE ACROSS FROM WHERE HE WAS GOING TO E. I TOOK HIM AS A ROLE MODEL.

GRADE APERSON.

A MODEL, BECAUSE HE WAS A VERY GREGARIOUS PERSON, A VERY T FRIENDLY PERSON.

THAT ABOUT HIM WAS HE WAS A LEADER.

LEADER.

EVEN IF HE WAS YOUNGER THAN OF THE OTHER STUDENTS, HE WAS A LEADER BECAUSE, NUMBER ONE, HIS VOICE HE COULD BE HEARD.

NUMBER TWO, HIS MANNERISMS.

AND NUMBER THREE, HE JUST GAVE OFF THAT AURA THAT HE WAS IN CHARGE, SO TO SPEAK.

GRADE AND REMAINED ON ST. TENTH GRADE AND REMAINED ON ST. CROIX TO WORK.HIS FIRST CHILD, VELMA.

HE WOULD MOVE TO ST. THOMAS FOR VELMA.TERING THE PERIOD IN 19 BEFORE GOING INTO THE MILITARY IN 1940.

WENT TO THE SAME BASIC TRAINING FROM TRAINING FROM PUERTO RICO AND THEN PUERTO RICO TO THE STATES THEN TO HAWAII.

THE RANK OF SERGEANT.

GAINING THE RESPECT OF ALL THOSE WHO SERVED WITH RANK OF SERGEANT GAINING THE RESPECT OF ALL THOSE WHO SERVED WITH HIM.

WAS SQUAD LEADER LEADER FOR OUR COMPANY.

COMPANY.

HE HAD A GRIP ON HIS OWN 88 00:04:14,053 --> 00:04:15,088 COMMAND.

AND THE GROUP STUCK WITH HIM BECAUSE HE WAS ALWAYS VERY -- E WAS NOT OVERBEARING AS YOU SEE IN THE MOVIES, SERGEANT BARKING UP THE TROOPS MUCH HE WAS NOT LIKE THAT.

HIS MEN RESPECTED HIM.

RESPECTE >> IT WAS THERE IN THE BEGAN TO HAVE THOUGHTS OF ONE OF ONE DAY LEADING HIS COMMUNITY.

>> THERE WAS BETWEEN THEM.

EACH OF THEM IN THEIR OWN WAY WITHOUT ANY RANKOR WOULD TRY TO OUT DO EACH OTHER.N WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT WE WOULD D AFTER THE ARMY.

LEFT THE ARMY.

AND I MEAN I'M GOING TO BE THE FIRST GOVERNOR.

WOULD HAVE IT, KING SARA KING WAS THE FIRST OF THE GROUP TO RESIDE AS GOVERNOR.

IN TIME, FALLY WOULD ALSO FIND FIND HIMSELF AT THE HELM OF GOVERNMENT.

>> AT THE TIME GOVERNMENT.

UP, MY DAD HAD MY DAD HAD A PASSION FOR NOT A THE CLERK OF THE MUNICIPAL CL I WAS ASSIGNED TO WORK WITH THE CLERK AND THERE I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE SOME OF THE GIANTS OF OUR LEGAL PRACTICE, DE-HAMILTON JACKSON, JAMES, MR. NOEL, AT WHICH YOU GOT A FEELIN THAT THE EXAMPLE BEFORE ME NEEDED TO BE REPLICATE.

DISCHARE FROM THE ARMY IN FROM THE ARMY IN 1946, ALEXANDE BEGAN HIS QUEST OF FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THOSE HE R HIS GOVERNMENT.

HE WOULD LATER RECEIVE TWO NEW YORK.LE UNIVERSITY.

IN 1962, PHARRELLY RETURNED TO THE VIRGIN DEGREES FROM YALE.

IN 1962 HE RETURNED TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS WHERE HE STARTED WORKING AS U.S. ASSISTANT ATTORNEY.

ASSISTANT ATTORNEY -- ASSISTANT U.S. ATTORNEY.

ARRELLE AS JUDGE OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT.

HE SAT ON THE BENCH FOR TW APPOINTED TO SERVE AS JUNE F THE MUNICIPAL PART.

HE SAT ON THE COURT FOR TWO HOUSE, PHARRELLY ALSO PRACTICED LAW PRIVATELY.

>> ALSO PRACTICED LAW PRIVATE LATELY.

LAW PARTNERS BEFORE HE RUN FOR GOVERNOR.

156 00:06:51,778 --> 00:06:54,514 THERE WAS DE YOUNG, FALLY AND DALE, AND AT ONE POINT SENATOR WAS ALSO PARTNER OF THE LAW HE.

THE GOVERNOR WAS SOMEONE LAWYER.

WENT TO COURT.LT WITH LITIGATION.

HE DEALT WITH CRIMINAL HE DEALT WITH CRIMINAL CASES.

ALSO THE ATTORNEY FOR UNIONS.

GOVERNOR WAS THEIR LITIGATEOR S THEY DID A COMBINATION OF CORPORATE AND LITIGATION.

ONE OE LARGEST THE LARGEST FIRST IN THE >> MY FATHER WASN'T THE DISCIPLINARIAN IN THE FAMILY.

MY MOTHER WAS THE VOICE.

IF WE EVER DID ANYTHING THAT HE DID NOT APPROVE OF, YOU KNEW IT BY HIS LOOK.

1952, WHILE ATTEND JOHNS COLLEGE, HE MARRIED KATHY THOMPSON OF ST. THOMAS, THE TWO >> I GREW UP WITH ALLISON AND STEPHEN AND MY FAVORITE MEMORIES OF STEVEN AND MY FAVORITE MEMORIES OF GROWING UP WITH THEM FORCING MY SISTER TO PLAY BASEBALL WITH US IN OUR YARD AT SKY LINE DRIVE.

WERE HUGE BASEBALL FANS.

CLOSER TO AGE TH ALLISON AND I WERE.

>> I CAN REMEMBER WHEN WE WOULD MY FATHER WOULD CHASE ME JUST 192 00:08:25,738 --> 00:08:27,640 RUNNING DOWN THE BEACH.

I CAN REMEMBER PLAYING CATCH WITH A BASEBALL WITH HIM ON SKY LINE DRIVE.

THE KIND OF GUY THA COULD COULD EASILY GO TO HIM FOR ANY ADVICE.FATHER WAS MORE A PE WOULD ASK YOU WHAT YOUR PLANS T WERE.

ALWAYS A PROPONENT OF PROPONENT OF DOING WHAT MADE YO HAPPY REGARDLESS OF WHAT IT WAS DONE ANYTHING AND SERIOUSLY SERIOUSLY ANYTHING.NG AND IF I WOULD BE HAPPY.

AND KATHERINE PHARRELLY WERE MARRIED FOR 30 YEARS UNTIL WERE MARRIED FOR 30 YEARS UNTIL HER DEATH IN 1932.

PROCEEDED IN DEATH BY STEVEN WH DIED OF ACCIDENTAL ROWNING IN 1975.

D TWO FACTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

THE UNITY IN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

DEMOCRATS.

>> THE UNITY PARTY REPRESENTED MY WHERE I CAME FROM AND I STARTED HELPING HIM.

HIM.

HE RECOGNIZED THE TALENT OF PHARRELLY.

227 00:10:03,202 --> 00:10:04,537 ALEXANDER AND HE TRIED TO GET HIM TO JOIN OUR PARTY.

PARTY.

CLASS WAS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.

A MUNICIPAL JUDGE.

MUNICIPAL JUDGE.

AND BECAUSE HE WAS FROM ST. CROIX, THEY DETERMINED TO STEP DOWN OFF THE BENCH AND RUN FOR SENATE SEAT AGAINST NOW FORMER CONGRESSMAN RANDY WHO WAS SENATOR AT THE TIME UNDER THE DEMOCRATS BANNER AND HE DID BEA HIM.

SEAT THE FOLLOWING YEAR AFTER AFTER THE ELECTION.

SO SENATOR OF THE UNITED STATES.

>> WHEN HE DECIDED HE WOULD RUN FOR RUN FOR GOVERNOR, YOU KNOW, IT WAS A NO BRAINER.

FIRST TIME W HAD A CHANCE ACTUALLY GOT A CHANCE TO VOTE FOR OUR OWN.

TO THE 1970s THE FIRST ELECTED FIRST ELECTED GOVERNOR ELECTION HE WAS OUR CHOICE.

-- YOU GOVERNOR AND YOU HAD THREE THR.

A KING.REPUBLICAN, A DEMOCRAT, KI WAS DEMOCRAT, KING WAS THAT.

AND KING CAME FIRST.I EVANS CAME SECOND.

AND WE CAME LOST.

AGONY OF DEFE.

ALTHOUGH WE FINIS AND ALTHOUGH WE FINISHED LAST, WHEN WE FINISHED LAST, YOU HAVE ENOUGH VOTES.

IT.

SO WE HAD A BIG MEETING IN THE SENATE AREA ABOUT WHO WE SUPPOR IN THE RUNOFF.

NOT EVERYBODY WANTED TO SUPPORT EVANS, OKAY.

SUPPORT EVANS.

KING BECAUSE THE ATM WAS CREATE FROM A SPLIT IN THE DEMOCRATIC .

EVERYBODY KNOWS THE HISTORY OF THAT ONE ONE WAS.

JUST WENT BAAING TO HI PRACTICE AND PRACTICE AND STAYED APART OF OU COMMUNITY.

CAME UP, AGAIN HE TRIED.

>> IT SECOND ELECTED GOVERNOR.

AND THIS TIME WHO COMES FIRST, AND EVANS BUT NOT ENOUGH VOTES TO AVOID A RUNOFF.

WE HAVE ANOTHER NO SUPPORT.

THEY SUPPORTED HIM.

THEY SUPPORTED KING.

SO KING BECAME THE GOVERNOR.

GO.

HE LOST ELECTION IN 1970.

HE LOS WE LOST THE ELECTION IN '74, YO NO HE.

BUT WE STAYED TOGETHER AND STAYED WITH THE PARTY.PARTY.

>> TEN YEARS AFTER LOSING THE GOVERNOR'S SEAT TO KING, PHARRELLY THREW HIS HAT BACK IN GOVERNOR'S SEAT TO KING, FALLY THREW HIS HAT BACK INTO THE RACE.FOR SUPPORT FROM HIS COUSIN.

1986.

AND ONE DAY I GOT GOVERNOR IN 1986 AND ONE DAY I GOT A CALL FROM ATTORNEY PAUL HOFFMAN AND THEY WANTED TO MEET WITH ME AND WERE THEN PROSPECTIVE CANDIDATES FOR FALL AND ASKING IF I WOULD BE RE INTERESTED IN RUNNING, ALEX AS HIS LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR ATE.

I SAID YES, I AGREED TO IT PRIMARILY BECAUSE ALEX WAS MY COUSIN.

A S CO AND I DIDN'T WANT TO GET INVOLVED IN A CAMPAIGN AGAINST CAMPAIGN AGAINST HIM.

DESERVED T AT BEING GOVERNOR.

AT BEING GOVERNOR.

1986 ELECTIO PHARRELLY WENT UP AGAINST THE SENATOR AND DR.

WENT UP AGAINST BRINE AND ROYCE SNYDER.

RESULTED IN YET ANOTHER RUNOFF RESULTED IN YET ANOTHER RUNOFF ELECTION.SUPPORT COMING UP >> HE HAD A LOT OF SUPPORT COME THROUGH THOSE PERIODS.

THE THI THROUGH THOSE PERIODS.

ADMIRED DOING THAT PERIOD IS THE DURING THAT PERIOD IS THE TENACITY.

HE KEPT TRYING AND SAYING YES I'LL TRY AGAIN.

FINALLY HE WAS THE FOURTH ELECTED GOVERNOR OF THE ELECTED GOVERNOR OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

>> THERE WAS SO MUCH PROMISE IN THE AIR FOR HIS CAMPAIGN.

THERE WAS AN EXPECTATION FOR CHANGE AND ANTICIPATION THAT FALLY HODGE AND OUR ADMINISTRATION WOULD BE A CRITICAL FORCE OF CHANGE IN THE TERRITORY.

SO THE CELEBRATIONS TO ALLOW THOSE OUT THOSE EMOTIONS SO CLEARLY.

AND IT WAS INTERESTING.

IT WAS AN AFFIRMATION OF THE KIND OF SUPPORT WE HAD DURING THE CAMPAIGN.

>> A YEAR AGO I OUTLINED A WAS INEFFICIENT IN STRUCTURE INEFFICIENT IN STRUCTURE AS WEL AS PERFORMANCE THAT HAD GROWN INTO AN ADMINISTRATIVE NIGHTMAR IN WHICH I INSISTED WE AWAKEN WITH A PLAN OF REORGANIZATION.

T OF VIRGIN ISLANDS IN OUR FIR OF VIRGIN ISLANDS FOR THE FIRST ERE SERIOUS GAPS IN THE WAY THE BUREAUCRACY FUNCTIONED.

DAY-TOS WITH THE PACE OF A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS WITH THE PAC OF IMPROVEMENT THAN I AM.

FOR IT IS THE GOVERNMENT HO EVE CRITICISM, EVERY CRITICISM AND EVERY OVERSIGHT, EVERY EXAMPLE OF GOVERNMENT INEFFICIENCY IS DIRECTED.

STYLE AGAIN HIS LEADERSHIP STYLE IS ONE OF THEIR SHOP, COMMISSIONS RUN THEIR SHOP, COMMISSIONS RUN THEIR LE THAT DID NOT MICRO MANAGE AT ALL.

CABINET MEETINGS.

HE BASICALLY LET YOU DO JOB.GENERAL DIRECTION AS TO WHAT HE WANTED DONE OR WHAT HE WANTED DONE FOR THE INITIATIVES, BUT OUTSIDE OF THA HE LET YOU REALLY PERFORM THE BEST YOU COULD.

>> MY COMMISSIONERS ARE DEMANDING AND GETTING IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTITUDE AS WEL AS PERFORMANCE.

PERFORMANCE.

>> IN TERMS OF THE SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ADMINISTRATION IS A NUMBER OF THINGS.

GOVERNMENT IS GOVERNOR PHARRELLY WAS WILLING TO GI GOVERNOR WAS WILLING TO GIVE YOUNG PEOPLE A CHANCE, SUCH AS MYSELF WITH COMMISSION OF I REMEMBER THE TIME THE NEGOTIATOR, THE COLLECTIVE 411 00:17:06,058 --> 00:17:07,626 BARGAINING NEGOTIATOR WAS A YOUNG PERSON HE MOVED UP.

I THINK THAT SET A DIFFERENT TONE.

THAT WAS SIGNIFICANT TONE.RE STILL IN GOVERNMENT TODAY.

WE CAME UP AND TODAY.

IN.

>> I THINK WE GAVE OUR YOUNG TALENT TALENT SOME GUIDANCE, AND THEN LET THEM DEVELOP LEADERSHIP SKILLS THAT WERE IN N INNER -- END IN THEIR PERSONALITIES.

MAK TERRITORY.

CONTRIBUTIONS WE WERE ABLE TO REALLY SHOWED RRITORY.

THE WAY IN LEADERSHIP.

FOCUS, OF THE GOVERNOR GOVERNOR IS THAT HE LEAD THE TERRITORY, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY THAT HE MAINTAIN HIS COMPOSURE AT ALL TIMESMENT AND I THINK LL.

HE WANTE REALLY STOOD OUT WITH HIM.CONTR.

>> T HAD CONTROL OF HIS COMPOSURE.

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HE MADE DECISIONS THAT GOT BECAUSE HE MADE DECISIONS GOT PEOPLE UPSET BUT AT THE SAME TIME NEVER GOT PERSONAL.

ABILI NEVER LOSE HIS COOL AND TO BE ABLE TO TAKE EMOTIONS OUT OF THE EQUATION AND IN THE ANALYSIS HE PERFORMED.

R HAS HIS OWN VIEWS ABO OWN VIEWS ABOUT WHAT REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR JUDICIAL OFFICE WHEN THERE IS AN ELECTION RIGHT AROUND THE >> ARE YOU TRYING TO SAIL THAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED WITH DELIBERATE SPEED?

>> NO, I'M NOT TRYING TO SAY ANYTHING EXCEPT WHAT I SAID.

>> HE WASN'T SPEED?

HE HAD A WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY.

STYLE.

HE WAS MR.

HE WAS MR.

PERSONALITY.

ALEX SM COULD HARDLY SAY NO.

VERY GOOD >> AND HE USED TO ENJOY A VERY JOKE.

>> EXCELLENT SENSE OF HUMOR.

AND HE COULD ENJOY A GOOD LAUGH AND HE COULD TELL A GOOD JOKE, .

>> IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT RESIGNED TO SUFFER THE SIMILAR FATE FOR THOSE BASEBALL BUFFS A THE INDIANS WHO TOOK THE MOUND THIS WEEK FOR HIS START AFTER THE TRAGIC BOAT CRASH OF TWO COLLEAGUES.HIS WALK TO WITH WILD APPLAUSE AND CHEERS O ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE LARGE HOMETOWN CROWD.AS FATE WOULD HA OJEDA ALLOWED A SINGLE AND TWO CONSECUTIVE HOMERS, THE BOO BIRDS STARTED AND SAID THROW THE BUM OUT.

FORTUNATELY, STARTED, THEY SAID THROW THE BU OUT.

REPEAT AND HISTORY WOULD REPEAT ITSELF >> THOSE BOYS AREN'T YOUNG BOYS USED THEY WOULD REFER TO THEM SELVES BECAUSE THEY WERE LIKE 50 AND 60.

>> THERE WERE S >> THEY WERE MADE UP OF JUDGE GOODWIN.

GOODWIN.

AND >> AND ACROSS THE BENCH.

>> WE GOT TOGETHER EVEN BEFORE TOGETHER BEFORE YOU BECAME GOVERNOR, LONG BEFORE.

BEFORE.

>> I FIRST MET GOVERNOR PHARRELLY BACK IN BACK IN 1960s.

I USED TO DELIVER TO THE UNITED TO REALLY GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER BECAUSE THE GUY TELLS ME YOU HAVE ONE OF YOUR HOME BOYS THAT WORKS HERE.ND HE TOOK ME UP TO HIS OFFICE AND WE BEGAN HIS OFFICE AND WE BEGAN TO SPEAK, AND WE BECAME VERY GOOD FRIENDS.RGIN ISLANDS USED TO TE ME I AM HIS ADOPTED SON.

>> SO WE USED TO HANG AROUND >> SO USED TO HANG AROUND ALEX, QUESTIONING HIS STRATEGY, YOU KNOW.

HIS STRATEGY.

AND HOW HE HANDLE THE CASES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

HE NEVER SHOWED HIS FRUSTRATION WITH M AND HE NEVER SHOWED HIS FRUSTRATION WITH ME BUT I THINK HE HAD TO BE FRUSTRATED SOMETIMES.

AS A KITCHEN CABINET WHEN HE WAS THE KITCHEN CABINET WHEN HE WAS GOVERNOR.

A KITCHEN CABINET BEFORE WE HAD CABINET BEFORE WE HAD A KITCHEN IN THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

I HAD WHO THIS KITCHEN CABINET WAS.

BECAUSE IN TALKING TO POLITICS BACK IN THE DAY, YOU HAVE YOUR CABINET WHO ARE YOUR OFFICIAL REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ADMINISTRATION.

THEN YOUAVE YOUR BOYS AND GIRLS WHO YO GIRLS WHO YOU CAN LEAN ON TO GIVE YOU POLITICAL ADVICE.

NOT YOUR OFFICE POLICY NOT PEOPLE WHO ARE DEPENDENT ON A JOB AND DON'T REALLY WANT TO TELL YOU SOMETHING THAT MIGHT OFFEND YOU.

ESPECIALLY GOOD FR REMEMBER -- DON'T GET HE [ INAUDIBLE ] DON'T GET BETWEEN ME AND THE BOYS.

PEOPL THAT WERE AROUND HIM THAT THAT WERE AROUND HIM AND WORKED FOR HIM IN THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAD BECAUSE WHE I TAKE A POSITION AGAINST HIM A GOVERNOR, IS THAT YOUR FRIEND.

HE CALL ME AN CALLS ME AND SAYS MEET ME.

I GO UP.

A WE SIT DOWN AND WE TALK.

AND THEY HEAR US LAUGHING AND THEY WANT TO KNOW.

[ INAUDIBLE ] WHAT YOU HAVE TO .

IF HE HAS TO DISAGREE, HE LOOK AT YOU [ INAUDIBLE ] AND IT'S A GOOD RELATIONSHIP THAT WE HAD.

>> ALEX PHARRELLY ALWAYS RESPECTED YOUR POSITION.

OF COURSE, HE HAD HIS OWN POSITION OF THINGS.

AND HE SAYS, ALWAYS SAID YOU.

ME, DON'T LET ANYBODY LET ANYBODY DETER YOU FROM YOUR POSITION, EVEN ME AS A FRIEND.

CABINET, IT WAS A LOT OF POWER BROKERS.

OF POWER BROKERS.

CALLED HIM [ INAUDIBLE ] WE ARE HAVING OUR LUNCHEON AT NOON FOR SOMEPLACE.

HAVING OUR LUNCHEON, AND WE MEET FOR LUNCH.

AND WE GO OVER OVER OUR POLITICAL ANALYSIS, YO SEE.

WE EVERY YEAR.

NOW WE HAVE LOST ALL THE GUYS.

YEAR AND WE HAVE THE SHEET THER FOR THE REST.WE CAN'T HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH HI WITH THEM NO MORE, BUT WE DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S HOW W MISS THEM.

>> ALEXANDER FALLY WAS NOW COMPLETING HIS THIRD YEAR AS GOVERNOR.YEAR AS GOVERNOR.

HE WAS GOVERNMENT.MENT AND HAD ROLLED ECONOMIC PLAN THAT CALLED FOR AMBITIOUS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO CALL FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SCHOOLS IN PORTS.

FALLY ADMINISTRATION WAS GAININ STEAM.

THEN CAME THE STORM.

>> FOR 14 HO >> 14 HOURS FROM SUNDAY EVENING CROIX CAME EYE TO EYE WITH HUGO'S FURY.

615 00:25:08,807 --> 00:25:13,812 EYE TO EYE WITH HUGO URRY.

WAS HE WOULD HAVE LOST.

HE WOULD HAVE LOST.

ST. CROIX HE WAS VERY UNPOPULAR HE DIDN'T COVER THE HURRICANE HUGGO VERY WELL.

ELECTRICITY.

>> HE HAD A LOT OF CRITICISM FOR THAT PHONE CHOIK.

I DON'T THINK ANY OF US REALIZE HOW SERI REALIZED HOW SERIOUS THAT THING IN THAT HE SAID HE DIDN'T REALIZE THE LEVEL OF DEVASTATIO WHEN HE FIRST LOOKED ON ST. CROIX, WE WERE KIND OF DUMB FUNDED BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS FLAT.

>> I WAS SHOCKED TO >> I WAS SHOCKED TO SEE WHAT I SAW.

SAW.

I SAY THIS WITHOUT ANY RESERVATION, IT LOOKED LI RESERVATION, IT LOOKED LIKE WE HAD BEEN EXPOSED TO A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST.

OVER THE ISLAND.

ISLAND.

>> WHEN WHEN I GOT TO ST. CROIX, I GOT THERE WITH THE EMPLOYEES AND ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE OVER THERE, WONDER WHY THE HELL DID US.

CONTACT US.

AND THEN I THAN US.

ST. CROIX HAD IT WORSE.

>> [ INAUDIBLE ] CONCERNED BECAUSE THERE WAS NO CONNECTION FOR THE FULL FIVE MONTHS NATION THAT AND HE SAID HURRICANE HUGO SMASHED THE ISLAND.

REFINERY HA BEEN SMASHED 90% OF ALL HOMES BEEN SMASHED.

OR DESTROYED.

>> IT WAS THE DESTROYED.

I'VE EVER WITNESSED LIFETIME.

IT WAS EVEN MORE DEVASTATING TO IT WAS MORE DEVASTATING TO ME THAN WHEN MARILYN HIT ST. THOMAS.

>> THE PROBLEM THOMAS.

NFRONTED GARN PHARRELLY WAS NOT AVAILABLE.

THAT DID CONFRONTED GOVERNOR FALLY, HE WAS NOT AVAILABLE.

THAT DID SOME DAMAGE TO HIM, NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.

DAY WHERE HE WAS.

OTHERS SAY HE WASN'T ON ISLAND.

OTHERS SAY HE WAS HERE, BUT HE DIDN'T COME OUT.

HE JUST DI WITH THE COMMUNITY.

BODY WAS SA WAS OFF ISLAND.

THING FROM THE THE TRUTH.

GOVERNOR FALLY WAS THEN IN ID GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

THE PAST AND CONTINUE TO SAY THAT GOVERNOR PHARRELLY WAS ABSENT FROM THE ISLAND -- FROM THE ISLAND OF VIRGIN ISLANDS WHEN HURRICANE FROM VIRGIN ISLANDS WHEN OF TH PAID ATTENTION TO, HE WORKED VERY LATE THAT'S BULL.

HIS OFFICE AFTER HURRICANE WORK LATE IN HIS OFF AFTER HURRICANE HUGO.ULD SEE THE LIGH SEE HIS LIGHT BURNING IN HIS OFFICE.SIDE, TELL TELL THE GUARD TELL HIM I'M OUTSIDE.

IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO YOU TO GO TO BED.

AND HIS WORDS TO ME WAS I CAN ONLY SLEEP COMFORTABLY WHEN I KNOW ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE DS VIRGIN ISLANDS, ROOFS ARE REPAIRED, AND THEY CAN AGAIN LIVE A COMFORTABLE LIFE.

CRITI THAT HE CALLED IN THE NATIONAL GUARD.

WAYS.

PEOPLE WERE VERY HAPPY HE CALL HE CALLED IN HAD THE NATIONAL GUARD TO ASSIST BECAUSE ALL THE LOCAL NATIONAL GUARDS FOLKS, T US HOUSEHOLDS ARE ALSO BEEN DEVASTATED.

T, YOU KNOW, WE WERE VICTIMS.

WE WERE ALL VICTIMS.

THE POLICE WERE VICTIMS.

NATIONAL GUARD WAS VICTIMS.

WERE VICTIMS, WE COULD NOT GO 726 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,335 OR GO ACROSS THE STATE LINE AND ASK FOR HELP FROM THE ADJOINING AREAS.

WE HAD PLENTY WIDESPREAD LOOTIN LOOTING ON ST. ROIX.LE PANICKED.

>> TO THIS >> AT THIS TIME WE DON'T KNOW THAT THAT MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD HAVE BEEN DISSIPATING.

E'S AND I WENT UP TO DAYS AND I WENT UP TO ONE OF A THIS?

THIS?

HE SAID I DON'T HAVE ANY CONTROL.

>> ONE MAN IS GOING TO STOP THE CROWD FROM >> NOW, I BLOO EVE THAT GOVERNO FALLY DID SAY RIGHT AFTER HIS COMMUN COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE SOME TROOPS TO TROOPS TO BE SENT IN TO ST. CROIX.CONSEQUENCE, A DETAIL OF FROM THE 18th AIRBORNE CORPS CAME TO ST. CROIX TO HELP RESTORE ORDER RADIO, THE NIGHTLY RADIO 756 00:30:34,132 --> 00:30:36,034 RADIO MESSAGES, I THINK FOR HIM FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE, PEOPLE THEY TOLD ME THIS AFTERWARDS, THAT BROUGHT THEM A GREAT DEAL OF COMFORT HEARING HIS VOICE GH EVERY NIGHT AND DOING THE UPDATES AND LETTING THEM KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.

AT WAS GOING ON.

>> I REALLY THOUGHT AT THAT TIME THE COMMUNITY REALLY CAME 768 00:30:53,985 --> 00:30:55,620 TIME THE COMMUNITY REALLY CAME TOGETHER.OPLE THAT WOULD COME OUT ASSIST YOU GETTING ASSIST WITH GETTING THINGS, WHETHER IT BE ICE OR GOING INTO STORE CLOSED AT 9:00, PEOPLE STAY THERE UNTIL 9:30 P.M.9:30.

I REMEMBER THE FAVORITE SAYING WAS THANK BACK THEN WAS THANK GOD FOR LIFE.

FOLKS IN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS NEVER TO GIVE UP.

TO HELP ONE ANOTHER AS A FAMILY.

HE SUFFERED LIKE US EMOTIONALLY AS WELL.

WE.

>> I NEVER FORGET, YOU KNOW, YOUR HOUSE GET KNOW, YOUR HOUSE GETS SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.

LEAVE IT ALONE.

FIRST, I'VE GOT TO >> PLUS HAVE TO TO WORRY ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S HOMES BEFORE HE WORRIES ABOUT HIS OWN.

WHAT I HAND HANDLED THE RECOVERY GETTING TH FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO COME IN, STABILIZE OUR COMMUNITY, BECAUS WE HAD A LOT OF THINGS HAPPENIN HERE THAT NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE I THINK HE HANDLED IT WELL.

SHO.

>> THE RECOVERY I THINK WAS LOT QUICKER THAN WE HAD ANY EXP AND WE WERE FORTUNATE THAT WE HAD A VERY GOOD TEAM OF LAWYERS IN WASHINGTON D.C.

LED BY A FRIEND OF MINE PETER HUBERT.

AND HE WORKED WITH OUR LOBBY EFFORTS IN WASHINGTON.

THE POINT WHERE THE U.S. CONGRESS AID FROM FEMA TO THE POINT THAT U.S. CONGRESS AGREED THEY WOULD FORGIVE FEMA LOAN.

HE SET THE REBUILDING AFTER THE HURRICANE.

DESPITE WHAT PEOPLE MAY SAY, HE SET THE STANDARD HERE.

IT WAS THE FIRST TIME A PLACE HAS BEEN DEVASTATED AND REBUILT IN SUCH A SHORT TIME.

K ALL GOV AFTER HIM GOVERNORS COMING IN AFTER HIM RECOGNIZE THAT YOU HAVE TO BE O TOP OF THE SITUATION.

I THINK ANY DISASTER IN A COMMUNITY.

T IT IS THAT WE BE PROACTIVE WHEN IT COMES TO HURRICANES.

HURRICANES.

WE HAD TO REACT UNDER SUCH A TREMENDOUS F CIRCUMSTANCES.

STRENGTHS.

IT'S SHOWN BECAUSE AS MUCH SHOWN.

HE GOT, HE, YOU KNOW, GOT, HE NEVER WOULD ANSWER, HE 836 00:33:27,638 --> 00:33:32,610 WOULD STILL KEEP DOING WHAT HE .

AND TRY TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

>> LET RIGHT THING.

AT THERE'S STILL MUCH WORK TO BE DONE.

BUT BUT THERE IS A BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD.NDS AND PARTICULARLY ST. CROIX RISING 847 00:33:45,890 --> 00:33:49,127 ST. CROIX, RISING LIKE PHOENIX FROM THE ASHES AGLOW WITH ENERG I SEE THIS TERRITORY WE CALL HOME.

PROUD BY THE SUCCESS STORIES WRITTEN BY PEOPLE BY PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE, PEOPL WORKING TOGETHER.

>> HE WA >> HE WAS NOT ONE TO FOCUS ON HE WAS ONE TO SAY, WE'RE HE WAS ONE TO SAY WE ARE GOING TO WIN.

AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIGHT TO FIGHT TO WIN.

>> AFTER THE SECOND ELECTION I ELECTION, I THINK HE HANDLED LK HIMSELF WELL.

RUNNING.

HE WAS GOING HE WAS DOING DOOR TO DOOR CAMPAIGNING RUNNING UP AND DOWN STEPS AND MIND YOU IN HIS 60s A.

THE OTHER PEOPLE TRYING TO, GOT YOUNGER PEOPLE TRYING OH MY GOD WE HAVE TO CLIMB THE STEPS TO KEEP UP WITH HIM.

BUT HE FELT THAT THAT'S THE KIN PEOPLE SEE HIM AG PEOPLE SEE HIM AGAIN, MEET HIM, TALK TO HIM.

HIM.

>> IT WAS REALLY ABOUT DO WE STAY THE COURSE WITH OUR OVERN PHARRELLY OR DO WE GO BACK WITH WITH GOVERNOR LOUIS.

>> WE BEGAN A SERIES OF CARTOONS.

WE WERE RUNNING AGAINST RON LEWIS -- LOUIS WHO HAD COME BACK TO THE FRAY.

WE WOULD PRINT THESE PUTTING THESE CARTOONS IN THE DAILY NEWS.

CAN BE SOMETIMES IN A CAMPAIGN.

>> PHARRELLY THEMSELVES OF SUCH CREATIVE CAMPAIGNING.

HOWEVER, IN THE END FALLY WON OVER LOUIS RICHARDSON.

HE WAS NOW GOVERNOR FOR A SECON TERM.N REBUILDING THE ISLANDS AND AMIDST ALL OF HIS RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES AS GOVERNOR, PHARRELLY FOUND TIME AND DURING ALL HIS RESPONSIBILITIES HE FOUND THE TIME TO GIVE THE ISLAND A FIRST THOMAS, ACTUALLY, TO SPEAK TO THE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE WAS HAVING A MEETING ON THE DIASPORA, BLACK DIASPORA AND WHAT WE SHOULD DO IN WORKING BETTER WITH EACH OTHER.

THERE WAS A RECEPTION AFTER THE CONFERENCE.

I SAT IN A CHAIR, WOMEN IN HIGH KNOW, WOMAN IN HIGH HEAELED SHO AND THIS GUY CAME OVER AND SAID YOU HAVE TO OVE THAT'S THE GOVERNOR'S CHAIR.

GOVERNOR CHAIR.

NO ONE IS SITTING IN THIS CHAIR I GUESS ONE OF THE ORGANIZERS CAME OVER AND ACTUALLY THEY WALKED OVER WITH THE GOVERNOR.P AND HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF.

SO IT WASN'T TOO EMBARRASSING.

>> IN FACT, THE GOVERNOR WAS INSTANTLY TAKEN BY THE YOUN MYSELF.

COMMERCE DIRECT THE YOUNG WOMAN.

FROM MEETING WAS ON ST. JOHN AND I HAD LUNCH WITH HIM, AND I SAID NO, AND THEN THAT NIGHT HE ASKE IF I WANTED TO HAVE DINGS WITH R WITH HIM.

I SAID, NO.

MY PURSE GOT NO.

SOMEHOW IT DISAPPEARED WITH EVERY PIECE OF DISAPPEARED WITH EVERY PIECE OF IDENTIFICATION I HAD.

ME, A COUE OF PEOPLE COUPLE OF PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WEL CALL THE GOVERNOR.

WHY WOULD I THE GOVERNOR.

GOVERNOR?

WHY WOULD HE TALK TO AND SO OF COURSE THEN I CALLED.

AND HE ANSWERED THE CALL AGAIN TO MY SHOCK AND SURPRISE, WHERE?

NOWHERE.

AND SO HE SECRETARY PUTS YOU THROUGH.

NO WHERE.PROBLEM.

HE SAID, OKAY.

956 00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:08,786 PROBLEM.

SOMEONE WORK ON IT.

SO WOULD YOU SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO DINNER?

I WAS LIKE SOMEBODY SET ME UP.

I CAN'T SAY NO.

I SAID URE.

AND WE WENT TO DINNER THAT WEL SHORT PERIOD, THE TWO FORGED A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP.D IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON ALEX.

SO GOOD AND IMPORTANT INFLUENCE ON ALEX.MARRIED.

>> SO FAST FORWARD ELECTION HAPPENED AND HE GOT ELECTED AND HAPPENED AND HE GOT ELECTED.

AF THE ELECTION, IT WAS SORT OF, OKAY, SO WHEN ARE WE GOING TO D THIS.THIS?

PICK A DATE.

OKAY.

OKAY.

PICK A DATE FOR WHAT EXACTLY?

AND HE SAID, AND HE SAID LET'S JUST GET MARRIED.

I SAID, OKAY.

SO I SAID BUT YOU'RE SUPPOSED T SUPPOSED TO ASK ME.

YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO PROPOSE.

AND HE'S LIKE JUST PICK A DATE.

AND SO WE DID.

>> I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT QUITE FRANKLY.

BECAUSE IT WAS NOT THAT CELEBRATED AN AN EVENT.

I MEAN, NO POMP AND CIRCUMSTANC THAT I CAN RECALL.

RECALL.

WE HAD HEARD WHISPERS, BUT ONCE.

ONCE WE HEARD THAT THINK IT WAS SOMETHING THAT HE WANTED TO DO TO MAKE IT OFFICIAL.

IS ALWAYS BETTER ALWAYS BETTER OFF WHEN THERE IS A FIRST LADY.

IT WAS A VERY NIC.

>> MEMORY ISN'T WHAT IT WEDDING.

TO BE, BE, BUT I REMEMBER IT WAS A SATURDAY, AND IT WAS A BEAUTIFU DAY.

NO O AND I WAS HOPING THAT THAT.

SAW HER, I SAID I SAW HER, I THOUGHT MY GOD THE BRIDE IS MUCH TOO BEAUTIFUL.

HE WAS REALLY, REALLY BEAUTIFUL BRIDE.

>> ONE OF MY FIRST MEMORIES OF GOVERNOR FALLY IS THE UNIQUE ASPECT OF HIS TENURE WORKING AT THE UNITED NATIONS.

THIS IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE NOT MANY ISLANDS HAD WORKED WITH THE UNITED NATIONS.

THE UNITED NATIONS.

>> PRIOR TO HIS RETURN TO THE VIRG VIRGIN ISLANDS IN 1962 HE WORKE AS A SPECIALIST AT THE UNITED NATIONS.

STUDIES OF CONSTITUTIONAL OF ECONOMIC IN T UNDER BOTH U.S. AND EUROPEAN RULE.

BEING AT THE U.N.

HE BELIEVED IN THE GLOBAL WORLD AND GLOBAL SOCIETY.

SO EVEN FROM WAY BACK THEN, IT WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO HIM.

HIM.

I THINK IT ALSO WAS IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF HE BECAME ISLANDS WAS A MELTING POT.

ISLANDS WAS A MELTING POT.

WE NOT JUST THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ANYMORE, IT WAS A METROPOLITAN 1042 00:41:44,101 --> 00:41:45,836 AREA WHERE PEOPLE MIGHT AGREE T MAKE THEIR LIVING HERE.

GOVERN PHARRELLY'S INITIATIVE WHICH WHICH ACTUALLY BEGAN AS THE CARIBBEAN ISSUE, WAS DEVELOPING LINKS WHERE WE WOULD HAVE AN ABILITY TO ENGAGE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES AND RESOURCE INSTITUTIONS IN A NUMBER OF AREAS THAT ARE OF INTEREST.

OF COURSE.

>> HE >> REALLY BELIEVED IN THAT.

AND BELIEVED ALSO THAT BECAUSE THE VIRGIN ISLANDS IS IN THE CARIBBEAN THAT THE REST OF THE CARIBBEAN SHOULD HAVE BEEN PART OF THE ORGANIZATION AS WELL AND NOT ONLY TIED TO THE U.S., BUT THOSE TIES WITH THOSE TIES WITH THE CARIBBEAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS.

TO HAVE DEVELOPMENT WERE ABLE TO DO THE COOPERATION COMMITTEE ON ST. CROIX.

VERY FI OUR HISTORY WE OUR HISTORY WE HAD LARGE NUMBER OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT, MINISTERIAL LEVEL REPRESENTATIO AS WELL, COMING TO THE VIRGIN ISLANDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISC DISCUSSING ISSUES, PARTICULARLY ECONOMIC SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ISSUES OF THE DAY.AND AS A RESUR PHARRELLY WAS GOVERNOR FALLY WAS ELECTED CHAI OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMITTEE, ABOUT YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME A TERRITORY WAS IN FACT A CHAIRMA OF THE UNITED NATIONS COMMITTEE OFFSHORE GOVERNOR'S F OFFSHORE GOVERNORS BROUGHT TOGETHER THE INFLUENCES OF THE FIVE ELECTED GOVERNORS IN THE TERRITORY AND THE PACIFIC.

AND WITH A N AND STRONG RELATIONS WITH A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES, HEADS OF GOVERNMENT, AND THIS WAS VERY INSTRUMENTAL, I THINK, IN EN BREAKING WHAT WAS RECEIVED UP T THAT POINT AS SOMEWHAT OF AN ISOLATION OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS FROM THE WIDER REGIONS.

REGION.

>> HE HAD SPECIAL ASSISTANT THAT DEALT AN WITH NOTHING BUT CARIBBEAN AFFAIRS PARTICULARLY T THE U.N. BECAUSE AGAIN GOVERNOR AT ONE ..

GOVERNOR PHARRELLY AT ONE TIME THE SAME TIME UNDERSTOOD THE IMPORTANCE OF HAVING THOSE RELATIONSHIPS.

AND HE MAINTAINED SOME.S.

OUT OF THAT I BEGAN TO DO THE SAME THING.

♪ >> TWO MINUTES ON JUNE 30, 1993 MIND BECAUSE THAT WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOS SIGNIFICANT DAYS OF MY CAREER WHEN WE CLOSED ON THAT PROPERTY >> THE FRIENDSHIP OF MICHAEL WA ONE OF THE GREATEST MOMENTS IN HIS LIFE.ST IMPORTANT DE DECISIONS THAT HE MADE.

OBSERV SCRIPTING OF PENS TODAY IS SCRIPTING OF PENS TODAY IS HISTORY IN THE MAKING.

THIS DAY BELONGS TO ALL VIRGIN ISLANDERS.

>> WE WERE THE ONLY TERRITORY ISLAND, GOVERNMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN THAT REALLY DIDN'T ISLAND, GOVERNMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN THAT DIDN'T CONTROL OWNED BY SOMEONE ELSE.

>> FOR THE TERRITORY IT WAS ONE OF THOSE LAST BASTION OF MANIALISM KIND OF THING WHERE YOU HAD A SOMEONE ELSE.

FOREIGN ENTITY SG WITHIN YOUR ENTITIES SITTING WITHIN YOUR TERRITORY WITHIN YOUR WATERS, YOUR BORDERS.

OF YEARS.

WE DIDN'T OWN IT.

>> DIDN'T OWN IT.

FOR YEARS, THE THE VIRGIN THE VIRGIN ISLANDS HAD GONE TO THE UNITED NATIONS, WENT TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, ALL THESE PLACES TO ATTEMPT TO ACQUIRE THIS PROPERTY.

ATTEMPT TO ACQUIRE THIS PROPERTY.

YOU MUST REMEMBER HISTORICALLY THAT IN 1917 ISLANDS FROM DENMARK, THE PROPERTY THAT WAS NOT TRANSFERRED WAS THIS.

SO THE COMMERCE STILL FLOWED THROUGH SOME FOREIGN ENTITIES.S SO WE SAID WHAT WE WOULD DO, WE WOULD KEEP THE DOCK.

COMPANY BE THE COMPANY.

WORLDWIDE AS THE WEST INDIAN COMPANY LIMITED.

BUT IN ORDER TO HELP WITH THE WORLD WILD AS COMPANY LIMITED.

POINT I HAD CONCLUDED CONCLUDED IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE DANISH COMPANY AND I KNEW TO PURCHASE PROPERTY FOR $48 MILLION.

SO WE SAID WE ARE GOING TO RETAIN THE DOCK, ET'S PUT IT OUT FOR SALE.

AND THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM CAME FORWARD AND AFTER NEGOTIATION WE SOLD THE MALL TO THEM FOR $32 MILLION.

$32 MILLION.

AND WE BORROWED $16 MILLIO THAT WE GAVE TO THEM.

OPULAR.

>> IT WAS A GOOD MOVE.

A DOCK WHICH WAS A GOOD INVESTMENT, AND I THINK THAT'S G THAT HE WAS INTO.

>> >> THE COMPANY DECISION CAUSED SOME TENSION WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION, AND ALSO IN A LARGER COMMUNITY, BECAUSE THERE THOUGHT THAT THE COMPANY COMPANY SHOULD BE OWNED BY 1193 00:47:08,692 --> 00:47:10,060 PRIVATE INTERESTS.

OF COURSE THOUGHT AND I'M SURE PEO THOUGHT THAT, I'M SURE PEOPLE E GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT GET INVOLVED AND STUFF LIKE GOVERNMENT SHOULDN'T GET HE SHOWED BY GRS PUTTING UP THE MONEY, WHICH THE MONEY WHICH IS THE ND GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES FUNDING OR BACKING OR COLLATERAL THAT IT HAS BEEN RUNNING WELL, IT'S BEE PROFITABLE, AND ODAY WE CAN BE VERY PROUD OF THAT PARTICULAR ENTITY.

TAKEN HIS LEGACY OF FALLY'S LEGACY ACQUIRING ASSETS THAT IS AT THE HEART AND SOUL O THE ECONOMY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS.

DIE.

WE BUILT ON THAT.

WE WOULD PROUD TO SEE THE RESULT OF WHAT H RESULTS OF WHAT HE WANTED, WHAT HIS DREAM WAS ALL ABOUT.

>> TODAY, THE WEST INDIAN COMPANY IS ONE OF THE FINEST PORTS IN THE CARIBBEAN.

AND A >> TODAY THE WEST INDIAN COMPAN IS ONE OF THE MAJOR GENERATOR >> I THINK THE RECORD SPEAKS FO ITSELF.

ITSELF.

WE HAVEN'T -- 17 YEARS OF 1229 00:48:30,874 --> 00:48:32,576 17 YEARS OF GOVERNOR SHIP BETWEEN SNYDER, TURN BELL AND GOVERNOR DE YOUNG, AND WE WERE HAVING FACILITIES ON ST. CROIX AND OUR SCHOOLS ARE BREAKING DOWN.

BREAKING DOWN.

THE LAST SCHOOLS WE BUILT ON ST. CROIX, THE LAST JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL, THAT WAS UNDER HIS WATCH.

BUILD NOW THE COMPLEX IN NOW THE EDUCATIONAL COMPLEX IN THE LAST PART OF HIS TERM IN '9 AND FINISHED IN SUMMER OF '95.

.

>> HE WANTED THE KIDS TO LOOK HIM AS A ROLE MODEL THAT YOU CA DO GREAT THINGS.

WELL AND YOU L YO YOU LEARN YOUR SKILL, AND THEN YOU DO THAT.

GOVERNOR, HE, YOU REALLY SHOWED THE WAY IN THE WAY IN LEADERSHIP IN TERMS TEACHERS CONTRACTING.

TEACHERS WERE ALWAYS A PROBLEM LEADING UP TO THAT POIN TERMS OF THE UNIONS, NOT HAVING A CONTRACT EXTENDED ENOUGH 1258 00:49:24,695 --> 00:49:26,396 CONTRACTS EXTENDED AND ENOUGH REALLY GET THE KIN GET THE KIND OF SALARIES AND MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT THAT T PROPERLY.

PROPERLY.

1264 00:49:37,240 --> 00:49:40,610 FALLY AS THE ONE WHO REALLY TOO CAME TO THE UNIONS AND TEACHERS CONTRACT.

HORNS WITH THE TEACHERS UNION AND THE CONTRACT.

THE CONTRACT THAT'S IN PLACE THEY STAND BY.HAT THEY ENGINEERED MOST OF IT OR AGREED WHAT HAY NEEDED.

1273 00:49:52,956 --> 00:49:54,591 NEEDED.

GREAT SUPPORTER OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS OUTSIDE OF THE CLASSROOM.

SUCH CLASSROOM.

STAR STEEL ORCHESTRA.

TODAY THE PROGRAM IS ONE THAT'S HAILED BY ORCHESTRA.T'S INITIAL ONE HOWEVER THE INITIAL PROPOSA WAS CNTROVERSIAL.

THAT, A LEGISLATURE SUPPORTED IT [ INAUDIBLE ] WE HAVE ALWAYS SUPPORTED RISING STARS.

DAM LIE.

THEY DIDN'T WANT US TO BEGIN .

WITH.

US UP.

>> SINCE ITS ESTABLISHMENT, THE PROGRAM HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED BY PROGRAM HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND OUR FOUNDATION AND THE UNIVERSITY.H >> THE INITIAL RESPONSE TO HURRICANE HUGO WAS THE ONE HE A CLOSE SECOND.

>> I FOUND OUT I WAS AT WORK.

PEOPLE -- I HAD GONE DOWNSTAIRS I THINK TO GET COFFEE AND PEOPL >> I THINK I WENT DOWN TO GET COFFEE AND PEOPLE WERE OUTRAGED AND CARRYING ON.IT IT WAS TOUGH.

OUR HOUSE.

THEY THEY THREATENED US.

THEY HAD NBC, CBS SITTING OU OUTSIDE OF OUR DOOR.

COMMUTED SENTENCES OF FIVE CONVICTED MURDERS TO INCLUDE RAFAEL JOSEPH WHO HAD SERVED 22 YEARS OF HIS EIGHT CONSECUTIVE LIFE SENTENCES FOR THE 1972 FUN DANE 1972 FOUNTAIN VALLEY MURDERS.

MURDERS.

>> HIS BROTHER'S LAWYER IN ST. CROIX, WHO WAS ADVOCATING ON HI BEHALF TO GET A PARDON OR HAVE THE SENTENCE COMMUTED, AND I GUESS CHOIK AT THE TIME ALSO WHEN HE WAS I FORGET WHEN HIS TURN WAS COMMUTED OR PARDONED, HE WAS NOT WELL.

I GUESS THE GOVERNOR KNEW HE HA THE AUTHORITY TO DO IT AND DIDN'T THINK HE WOULD GET THE KIND OF CRITICISM FOR THAT DECISION THAT HE DID.

.

>> WHAT HE DID EVENTUALLY IS SAID WELL LET ME JUST GO AND TALK TO THE LOCAL PRESS ABOUT WHY I DID WHAT I DID SO THAT, AND I'M DONE WITH IT.

THE PRESS SAID WHY HE GAVE HIS REASONS AND OUTLINED OUTLINED WHY HE DID WHAT HE DID AND SAID, YOU KNOW, YEAH ON OF ALL OF THEM, PERHAPS NOT, BUT I STILL FEEL STRONGLY THAT I DID AND THAT WAS IT.

YOU KNOW, DIDN'T TALK ABOUT IT ANYMORE.

AND THAT'S HOW WE ENDED.

IT WAS A VERY SOLEMN NOTE TO EN OUR TIME IN GOVERNMENT HOUSE.

>> IT'S VERY AWARE OF PUBLIC OPINION.

1351 00:52:52,335 --> 00:52:57,741 OPINION.DOWN.

BIT.

>> I GUESS THE LAST YEAR, WHICH WE DIDN'T REALIZE WHAT HE HAD, HE STARTED GETTING STAFF, AND W DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS WRONG, AND THERE WAS ONE EVENT THAT WE ATTENDED, IT WAS FOR PHYSICIANS AND DOCTOR WAS THERE, AND WE THINK HE MIGHT HAVE HAD A MINI STROKE AT THAT EVENT.GO BUT HE WOULDN'T GO HOME.

HE WAS A SUB STUBBORN MAN.

HOME.

AND HOME AND TOLD HIM DON'T GO TO WORK THE NEXT DAY.

OF COURSE WHAT DID HE DO, HE WENT TO WORK THE NEXT DAY.

SO HE HAD DEVELOPED PARKINSON'S AND IT WASN'T SO MUCH TREMORS, IT WAS THE RIGIDITY, HIS FACE >> ALEXANDER EVENTUALLY MOVED T VIRGINIA WHERE THE GOVERNOR SPENT HIS FINAL YEARS.

>> IT BE GUESS IN '98, THAT'S WHEN IT SE REALLY STARTED SETTING IN REALL HARD.OF TREATMENTS FOR IT.

AND THEN HE ALSO GOT ANOTHER 1380 00:54:27,764 --> 00:54:30,467 STROKE.

WE KNEW HE WAS SICK.

WE WOULD WOULD KEEP IN TOUCH WITH HIM.

[ INAUDIBLE ].

>> RIGHT UP TO THE END, ANY OF E HAD ANYT WE HAD ANYTHING THAT WE NEEDED .

>> HE JUST FORGED AND STRUGGLED THROUGH HIS THROUGH HIS ILLNESS.

ILLNESS.

AND TO THE END NEVER COMPLAINED.

NEVER COMPLAINED, NEVER FUSSED, AND WAS GOOD FOR ME.

FUSS AND COMPL THEN SO I'M GOING SO I'M GOING TO JUST LIVE THIS, AND THAT'S THE WAY GOD WANTS ME.

AT HOME, HIS TIME.

>> NO MATTER WHAT ONE EXPECTS, THINK SOMETHING LIKE THAT IS ALWAYS A SHOCK.

I FELT IN RETROSPECT THAT FOR A FOG.

FOG.

HE WAS THE LAST PARENT THAT HAD.

>> THE FUNERAL ITSELF WAS A BLUR.

THE FACT THAT WE BASICALLY AD I THINK THREE DIFFERENT SERVICES SO THE FIRST DAY WE WERE ON ST. JOHN, ST. CROIX, ST. THOMAS.

>> DURING THE EULOGY AND HER REMEMBRANCE OF HIM, IT WAS A MOMENT THAT THE VIRGIN ISLANDS LOST A GREAT LEADER.

WAS VERY FORTUNATE TO GET TO KNOW HIM FORTUNATE TO HAVE HIM.

FORTUNA BEFORE HE PASSED ON BEFORE HE PASSED ON.

BECAUSE I REALLY BELIEF HE WANTED TO LEAD, HAD THE CAPACIT TO LEAD, AND SHOWED THAT HE WAS AND WE'LL NEED TO BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT HE BROUGHT.

HIS MARK ISLANDS HISTORY.

AND WILL ALWA VIRGIN ISLANDS HISTORY.

WE'LL ALWAYS BE INDEBTED TO ALE FARLEY FOR HIS KCONTRIBUTION HE MADE TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGIN E YEARS.

FOR ME -- FOR ME IT WA AND FOR ME IT WAS WORTHWHILE.

I'M GLAD I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY HE DID IT THE RIGHT WAY.

♪ >> AS OFTEN SAID, FOR AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE, THE THINGS WE DO BECOME THE STANDARD BY WHICH WE WILL BE JUDGED, BY HISTORY, AS WELL AS BY OUR FEDERAL RESIDENTS.IT IS PRESSURES AND B PRESSURES AND BURDENS, I STILL THE MOST N