strong. my father once taught me if you re a in a crisis remain. if you can t remain calm, pretend you re calm, because it will keep you calm. so i think that, you known, you realized that people were looking to me and that i had to be very careful about making sure that i showed strength. there were times i wanted to cry, when i found out about losing father judge, when i found about losing pete gancy who i saw 20 minutes earlier, who i was counting on to get us through this, or chief downey, who was the head of our recovery efforts, or captain hatten whose marriage i had performed three years earlier and whose wife has been my administrative assistant for 30 years. each one of those required taking a deep breath and saying, you know, i m going to think about that later, i have to concentrate on how do we close off the bridges and tunnels,
everyday, larry, some of the images come back. sometimes horrible ones like people jumping out of buildings and watching people die who were hit by debris before the buildings came down. sometimes it was great memories like the construction workers showing up at 3:00 in the afternoon. nobody asked for them. they just showed up. one of them said to me, we re here because we can lift things because we re big, strong guys and we can lift things. it was dangerous to walk in there the first three or four days, because the fires were still going on. watching that picture of the firefighters put the flag up, that lifted my spirits and hearing about father judge being dead, people i had just been with, pete gancy, all these people i talked to shortly before. i long ago figured i better not fight it. i think about it and say a little prayer and move on.
days, because the fires were still going on. watching that picture of the firefighters put the flag up, that lifted my spirits and hearing about father judge being dead, people i had just been with, pete gancy, all these people i talked to shortly before. it comes back to me every day, long ago i figured out i better not fight it, i just think about it, say a little prayer and move on. larry: thanks, mayor. good to see you. always good to see you and congratulations on 25 years. larry: thank you, man. rudy guiliani, one of our favorite people. you can view our top 25 picks at cnn.com/larryking and vote for your favorite five. you can also enter to win a trip to l.a., meet me, we ll have dinner. if that s not enough, you might get your hands on a one of a kind anniversary edition