and continues to be an art form. and, you know, new yorkers broadly responded like, what? - at first, people laughed when he launched a politeness campaign. - everybody has to be civil. - but the laughter turned to protest when giuliani put up pedestrian barricades, ticketed jaywalkers, and tried to restrict street artists. - like, the first time, he was mayor rudy. now he s king giuliani. - he just doesn t have it in him to ever admit he s wrong. that s the problem here. - rudy was an innate bully, someone who wakes up every morning looking to pick a fight he can win. - the people he begins to go after are really defenseless. and that is really acute in terms of policing. - the police department had been very much turned loose by giuliani. and being turned loose turned into abuse. - these cops, you know, felt that they were given
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 media in new york to cover her. - and then, soon thereafter, not too much soon, you know, he got prostate cancer. - good morning. i was diagnosed yesterday with a with prostate cancer.
- if you think rudy giuliani is about being a politician, you don t understand him. he is a fascinating, engaging, and sometimes frustrating individual. he was the most dimensional person that i ever worked for, with the single greatest highs of my lifetime, a few lows that disappoint his allies and friends. - to understand rudy, you really understand that at the core, he s an angry man and always was. and anger can be directed in a positive way or a negative way. - rudy always felt like he was going to win. so did i. we knew that rudy had the appropriate skills and experience that he should be elected mayor of the city. - between 1989 when he lost and 1993, he gave himself an education in how to be a candidate and how to be a mayor. - we had a research team make a vulnerability study
- rudy needs nurturing. constant nurturing from the women in his life. - i think rudy s choice of women shows an interesting paradox in his character. it must be said, he really as always gone for smart, accomplished, relatively hard-driving women. but they then have to make their life all about rudy. i think in his personal life as in his professional life, he is the king. and if you don t want to be a courtier, don t let the scepter hit you on the way out. - some voters wondered whether he had a heart. they believed that he had conviction.
- he starts off his second term by saying, we re gonna end jaywalking, in a city where jaywalking has been and continues to be an art form. and, you know, new yorkers broadly responded like, what? - at first, people laughed when he launched a politeness campaign. - everybody has to be civil. - but the laughter turned to protest when giuliani put up pedestrian barricades, ticketed jaywalkers, and tried to restrict street artists. - like, the first time, he was mayor rudy. now he s king giuliani. - he just doesn t have it in him to ever admit he s wrong. that s the problem here. - rudy was an innate bully, someone who wakes up every morning looking to pick a fight he can win. - the people he begins to go after are really defenseless. and that is really acute in terms of policing. - the police department had been very much turned loose by giuliani.