- so he retooled his image. he was no longer the u.s. attorney. he was a guy named rudy who came from brooklyn. - he was humble and drank diet coke and ate pizza. - i also had to learn to release more of myself. - yeah. - i was a pretty private person. even though i was a u.s. attorney, only a certain segment of your life is covered. you have to learn how to show some emotion and release it to people. - be real. - and let them know how much you care. - it worked, and it softened his image. he s a family man. - donna hanover was rudolph giuliani s second wife. - we met when i was associate attorney general and she was anchoring the news in miami. - donna had a major role in that campaign. - the message tonight is a lot of thinking women have decided to vote for giuliani. and we want other concerned women to think about it too. - she was very, very media savvy in her own right. - this is the kind of man i want to be the father of my children. and rudy is such a great dad. i wish all
which was over $2 billion. - our budget is painful but necessary medicine. - 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.
and so that would include peter powers. - peter was one of the few people who could take rudy aside and say, no, that s a bad idea. you ought to do this. he got rudy focused. and he got him away from the distractions that often occurred. - so part of that godfather mindset was loyalty. rudy enormously valued loyalty to him. and so getting rid of people was pretty natural. - we were getting extraordinarily positive press. but this is a mayor who, for reelection purposes, as well as whatever his post new york mayoral goals might have been, it was incredibly important to him that he get the credit for it. and that s where we began to butt heads. - after a while, bratton was getting too much credit. [dramatic music] - our budget kept getting strangled.
- new yorkers have voted to unseat their city s first black mayor 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,
the national republican party and the national right wing. - 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 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 me