When he left City Hall, his gross assets were listed at between $1.16 million and $1.83 million, most of it in retirement funds and two Manhattan apartments. Instead, Giuliani decided to parlay his new reputation for in extremis leadership into megabucks. He bestrode the metropolis to save it from certain doom, even though he had less than four months to go in his second, up-until-then undistinguished term as mayor.Īfter the September 11 catastrophe, despite term limits, he made a last ditch attempt to change the rules so we could continue to have him as our fearless leader for - oh, how about forever? - but cooler heads prevailed. Rudy Giuliani, on the other hand, would have you believe that God and Fate had somehow aligned the spheres to place him - and only him - at the helm of New York City on 9/11. Kennedy was running for president and asked how he became a war hero, he had the wit and grace to reply, "It was entirely involuntary.
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