and replace him with a white republican. [crowd chanting] rudy, rudy, rudy, rudy! - yes, ladies and gentlemen, the mayor elect for the city of new york, rudolph william giuliani! - i m standing before you as the next mayor of new york city. [cheers and applause] - rudy loved being mayor. it was the perfect job for him. he loved running things and managing things. - mayor of new york, they say, is the second hardest job in american politics. the new york city press corps? i mean, that is, like, a glaring spotlight the way it is when you sit in the oval office and you have the entire national and international press corps. i mean, it s only second to that. - he came in, and there was a huge budget deficit, which was over $2 billion. - our budget is painful but necessary medicine.
became the communications director she became such a gatekeeper to all things rudy. everything had to go through her, which was a very big problem within the administration and within rudy s inner circle. - nobody could figure it out except to assume that they had more than a professional relationship. this whispering campaign began. - it s untrue, and unfair, and, as i said before, vicious. - ultimately, peter powers, who was rudy s closest confidante, gave him an ultimatum. he chose cristyne. peter left city hall. many view that as the biggest mistake rudy made. - rudy no longer had a moderating voice to keep him on track. - if one s approach to life is loyalty over competence every time, a few decades go by, and it s not the best recipe for mental health. meanwhile, donna started to disappear
- 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 upn, 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
- good morning. i was diagnosed yesterday with a with prostate cancer. - that news rocked him. this may have been the first time he was confronted directly with his own mortality. - the biopsy revealed that several of the samples had implications of cancer. - this was in the midst of his senate race. and there was a lot of speculation about what effect the diagnosis would have. - his wife, donna hanover, rarely seen with the mayor, issues a statement saying, i will be very supportive of him in dealing with the choices he has to make. - i remember it was very physically debilitating. he would get these enormous hot flashes. and he was very vulnerable in public. - what comes out of that is, for a while at least, a kinder, gentler rudy or at least the image of a kinder, gentler rudy. - he started talking about what things mean in life
- hundreds of millions of dollars less to the mta for subways and transit. health and hospitals, cut. everything is slashed. - he lived up to his campaign promises of trying to reduce the welfare rolls. - food stamp use, slashed. - rudy does have the instincts of a wartime general. he needs an adversary. he needs a fight. - when rudy was elected, i hoped that would be the beginning of a productive relationship between us. i was the state controller, chief fiscal officer of the state and also the chief auditor of the state. one of my responsibilities as state controller was to audit all municipal agencies throughout the state. and rudy refused. he said that i could not audit city agencies. i had to go to court to sue him to allow me to perform my constitutional responsibilities. we went to court, and a judge came back with a very strong ruling in our favor.