- did you go too far on some of t this? - nono, that senense has s always beeeen there. - oh.. - ththe first titime, he was mayayor rudy. now he s k king giuliaiani. - gigiuliani wasas just stararto wear on ththe public o of new y. - the cityty was readydy to m move on, was ready to turn the page from the giuliani years. [sofoft acousticic music] [dreamy pipiano music]c] - manhnhattan is l like no place e else in thehe worl. in newew york, whahat you see- first of a all, you sesee a naturaral wondr of buiuildings. you knknow, it s like e the pyramimids. the e buildings s dwarf yo. the buildidings remindnd you of how uninimportant y you ar, bebecause you u re so tinyn. in this s big, increredible cit, whwhen you seeee it, it makeses you wantt to c come and sesee it. it m makes you c curious abob. it makes i it somethining bibigger than n life. i hahave strong g feelings about nenew york, evererything thahat mamakes up newew york. wewe re the crcrossroad
i i think thatat never leaeav. any timeme a politicician gets that t kind of adadulat, it s got t to do sometethig toto their brarain. it s jusust got to.. - let s s listen ass mayor r giuliani s swears n his succccessor, mikike bloom. - - in the citity of new y y. - - to the besest of my ababi. - to t the best ofof my abili. - soso help me g god. - so h help me godod. - [l[laughs] - hehe is at thehe top of the wororld. he s back k on top, and d he s gonnana do exextraordinarary things,, anand likely g get onto the nextxt stage thahat he wan, whicich was alwaways what h he wanted,, whicich was to b be president of t the united d states. you cocould smell l that on hm fromom day one..
whether hehe wants to o claim that racisism or not.. - peoplele create inin groups and out t groups insnstinctive. itit takes notothing toto create ththat. rudy realized that. it s a dialectic, this kind of politics. it s not a cohesive strategy. it s a cohesive attitude. - - i think hihis combativive e became morore so. i think, i in some wayays, hehe just becacame anan even morere intense v vn of who h he was. - befofore obama c came alon, wewe didn t hahave any sucuccesl radical isislamic terrrrorist attack in n the uniteded stat. - i i didn t havave a lot of contact with him during those years, but i suspect he was pretty unfulfilled. the value of the national security card for rudy had d diminisheded rather dramaticically by ththat poin. you u ended up w with this republicican constitituency that shohould have b been much more e rudy-centrtric. but american voters evolved on a couple of big things. that g guy who wororks inin brown couounty, wiscocon,
and d time magazazine s man of thehe year. bubut then, hehe started t tok about extetending his s term. - he s tererm limited.d. his two-teterm tenure e will d decemberer 31st of 2 2001, so he rereally only y has three morere months inin off. - whwhat i d likike to do is t to maintainin the unity that exixists in thehe city. - ththis was thehe first inkng that giuiuliani s thirst foror power wawasn t goingng to disapppp, eveven in thisis moment. - - a lot of n new yorkers are e convinced d now that the wholole place isis gonna fafall apart i if he leavev. anand apparentntly, giululiani thinknks so too.. - i wishsh that we c could rereelect him.m. but unfortrtunately, w we can. - one ofof three menen wiwill be the e next mayorr of newew york cityty, anand it s eitither mimichael bloooomberg, freddy fererrer, or meme. i i get a phonone call. the mayoror would likike toto see you. . i was s asked to j just meet with thehe mayor alolone, just thehe two of usus, no sta.
for mamany, many y years. [cheers and applause] - he got k knighted by the q queen. i was with h him that dada. it s q quite an hohonor toto be with p people likeke . - she said to o me, i hopope you rere having leless stress s and i i told her i i was. - gigiuliani is s catapulted onto t the world s stage likeke very feww amererican polititicians who arare not presesident get catapupulted ononto the wororld stage.. - he s now lionized as an american hero. - the hononorable rudolph h giuliani.. [cheheers and apapplause] - giulianini has this s enors nationonal platfororm. he s a risising star in the repepublican paparty. now, h he has this natational profofile, ininternationanal profile. - wewe need geororge bush no, more t than ever.. - grew u up dreamingng of b becoming prpresident. anand now, as s george w. . s term is s coming to o an en,