- so he retooled his image. he was no longer the u.s. attorney. he was a guy named rudy who came from brooklyn. - he was humble and drank diet coke and ate pizza. - i also had to learn to release more of myself. - yeah. - i was a pretty private person. even though i was a u.s. attorney, only a certain segment of your life is covered. you have to learn how to show some emotion and release it to people. - be real. - and let them know how much you care. - it worked, and it softened his image. he s a family man. - donna hanover was rudolph giuliani s second wife. - we met when i was associate attorney general and she was anchoring the news in miami. - donna had a major role in that campaign. - the message tonight is a lot of thinking women have decided to vote for giuliani. and we want other concerned women to think about it too. - she was very, very media savvy in her own right. - this is the kind of man i want to be the father of my children. and rudy is such a great dad. i wish all
the national republican party and the national right wing. - we essentially have the quintessential, more democratic approach, which is government solutions to problems. and what i ve done as mayor of new york city is the quintessential republican solution, which is. - and do you think it ll be argued? - private solutions to problems. - she can learn about new york, but her heart isn t in new york. - rudy s gonna win. - really? - yeah. - getting rudy to leave the city was an operation roughly like going to the moon. it required days and days and weeks and weeks of begging, pleading, screaming, jumping up and down, setting your hair on fire. - there was a secret reason for that, which we learned in the course of this campaign, which was that he had yet another new girlfriend. - at the time, he was married to donna hanover. they had two kids. - we alighted over the problem. but you couldn t alight over the problem when he was going out to dinner with her in public and baiting the news me
it became clear that she s really not appearing anywhere with him. - say good morning to the mayor. - for his reelection bid, donna hanover wasn t really in his corner. she wouldn t reveal who she voted for. - in the first term, rudy burns through a lot of friends and allies. - in new york city, mayor rudolph giuliani easily won reelection to his second term. - we did it! we turned this city around. - in the second term, giuliani is increasingly a lone ranger in his politics and in his personal life. - when rudy comes in for his second term, which he treats as sort of a victory lap, overwhelming win. but he immediately begins to see the white house off in the distance. - ironically, he maybe accomplished too much in the first four years. he probably should have paced himself a little more. - he starts off his second term by saying,
but they wondered whether he had compassion. - so he retooled his image. he was no longer the u.s. attorney. he was a guy named rudy who came from brooklyn. - he was humble and drank diet coke and ate pizza. - i also had to learn to release more of myself. - yeah. - i was a pretty private person. even though i was a u.s. attorney, only a certain segment of your life is covered. you have to learn how to show some emotion and release it to people. - be real. - and let them know how much you care. - it worked, and it softened his image. he s a family man. - donna hanover was rudolph giuliani s second wife. - we met when i was associate attorney general and she was anchoring the news in miami. - donna had a major role in that campaign. - the message tonight is a lot of thinking women have decided to vote for giuliani. and we want other concerned women to think about it too. - she was very, very media savvy in her own right. - this is the kind of man i want to be the father of my childr
- this is how donna hanover learned that her marriage was over through a press conference, so. - when he broke up with donna, i think it really showed his vicious side. he d always made a big deal about being a great father. and yet here he was, you know, walking away from his kids, leaving donna for somebody else. - it s been a very painful road. and i m hopeful that we ll be able to formalize that in an agreement that protects our children. - there was a big understanding that his story really wasn t the story that he was living. and it really besmirched his reputation. - out of respect for the mayor and his family, i have nothing to say about that. - he was sleeping on his friend s couch. it was like new york on steroids. it was fantastic. it was like a big soap opera. - the tabloids here are going wild. it s now even splashed on the cover of people magazine. - the mayor and a divorced woman he describes as a very good friend, judith nathan.