Historical Figure
Rudy Giuliani
b. 1944
American attorney and politician (born 1944)
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Biography
Rudolph William Louis Giuliani is an American politician and disbarred lawyer who served as the 108th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the U.S. associate attorney general from 1981 to 1983 and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989. Giuliani led the 1980s federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. After a failed campaign for mayor of New York City in the 1989 election, he succeeded in 1993, and was reelected in 1997, campaigning on a "tough on crime" platform. He led New York's controversial "civic cleanup" from 1994 to 2001, and appointed William Bratton as New York City's new police commissioner. In 2000, he ran against First Lady Hillary Clinton for a U.S. Senate seat from New York, but left the race once diagnosed with prostate cancer. For his mayoral leadership following the September 11 attacks in 2001, he was called "America's mayor", and was named Time Person of the Year for 2001.
Timeline
The story of Rudy Giuliani, told in moments.
As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, led the prosecution of the Five Families of the New York Mafia. The "Commission trial" resulted in convictions of eight powerful mob bosses. It made him famous.
Elected mayor of New York City after losing his first race in 1989. Ran on a "tough on crime" platform. During his two terms, violent crime in the city dropped dramatically, though the causes remain debated.
Rushed to Ground Zero after the Twin Towers collapsed. His visible, calm presence during the crisis earned him the title "America's Mayor." Time named him Person of the Year.
Found liable for $148 million in damages to two Georgia election workers he'd falsely accused of fraud. Previously disbarred for his role in Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Filed for bankruptcy.
In Their Own Words (20)
We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We’ve had one under Obama.
January 8, 2009, on ABC's Good Morning America. ., 2009
Change is not a destination as hope is not a strategy.
Republican National Convention, 2008, 2008
It would be very dangerous to use the military option [against Iran]. It would not be a good thing. But it would be much more dangerous and much worse if they had nuclear weapons.
Hannity and Colmes, Fox News, April 4, 2007., 2007
Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors. … History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.
As quoted in ""Giuliani: Too much stress on two-state plan" at Jewish Telegraph Agency (15 August 2007), 2007
Iraq may get better; Iraq may get worse. We may be successful in Iraq; we may not be. I don’t know the answer to that. That’s in the hands of other people. But what we do know for sure is the terrorists are going to be at war with us a year, a year and a half from now.
News conference (12 June 2007); as quoted in "Giuliani Sets Forth a Dozen Priorities for His Presidency" in The New York Times (13 June 2007), 2007
Artifacts (9)
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ie's death, long-time colleague Brian Kernighan said Ritchie never expected C to be so significant. Kernighan told The New York Times "The tools that Dennis built—and their direct descendants—run...
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directly or even indirectly in the modern age. It sounds like a wild claim, but it really is true." Another said, "many in computer science and related fields knew of Ritchie's importance to the...
The names of Ritchie and Thompson may safely be assumed to be attached to almost...
different machines and platforms. They were so influential on Research Unix that Doug McIlroy later wrote, "The names of Ritchie and Thompson may safely be assumed to be attached to almost everything...
Ritchie, on the other hand, invented and co-invented two key software technologi...
forty years—including technology on which Apple went on to build its fortune." Another commentator said, "Ritchie, on the other hand, invented and co-invented two key software technologies which make...
[Ritchie's] work played a key role in spawning the technological revolution of t...
is death, a commentator compared the relative importance of Steve Jobs and Ritchie, concluding that "[Ritchie's] work played a key role in spawning the technological revolution of the last forty...
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