he would get it, because he was that driven. he was that ambitious. he wanted to be a power player. he wanted to have influence. and i think he more or less thought he was running new york when he was head of the southern district. - the lines are drawn, and the battle has begun. former u.s. attorney rudolph giuliani launched his formal campaign today to capture city hall from mayor koch. - rudy announced his candidacy in 1989 in the same room where fiorello la guardia first announced his candidacy. - in 1933, fiorello la guardia stood in this room and asked the people of new york to embrace the candidacy based not on political name tags but on integrity, leadership, and vision. - la guardia, for most of rudy's lifetime, was the prototypical mayor. - in la guardia's case, he was fighting the corruption of tammany hall against great odds with a larger-than-life kind of tabloid personality.