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. - this is no time for sob stuff and whining. now is the time to fight, to fight for the best interests of our city. - let me repeat it one more time: no deals for jobs, no deals for contributors.
what you see is what you get. [cheers and applause] - so that was very much a model for rudy, someone who s gonna take on sort of democratic party corruption and excesses and bureaucracy and breathe new life and a spirit of reform into the city. - say hi to rudy giuliani, our next mayor. come on over and say hi to rudy giuliani. - give me a kiss. - i believe him. and i m all for him. i like the way he s talking. - rudy was an outer borough guy. not too handsome, not too tall, a little crabby, maybe sometimes a little loopy. and what he said, that was good. - darn right, mistakes have been made, sure. i m a democrat who has i m a la guardia republican. i get a lot of criticism for my haircut. - why do you want to be mayor? - well, this is a great city. it s a city i love. i was born here. i ve grown up here, gone to school here. i think the city is in terrible trouble. more murders last year than ever before. the drug problem out of control.
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.