Although former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani frequently gets ribbed by his opponents as nothing more than the guy who happened to be the mayor of New York City when 9/11 struck, he rejected that idea in an interview slated to air on C-SPAN tonight.
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Giuliani told C-SPAN’s Steve Scully that Sept. 11 and his leadership in response to that crisis “fits” into the arc of his career, but added, “It wouldn’t quite be fair to say September 11, like, made my career. I’ve had a very varied career and I’ve done a lot of things.”
Most recently, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Joseph Biden said that there are only three things Giuliani mentions in a sentence: “a noun, and a verb and 9/11.”
But Giuliani said that he was “pretty well known and pretty effective” before Sept. 11 and to suggest that his career primarily rests on that day “ignores the fact that I have done more than most of the other people running for president, whether you go back to being mayor of New York City for seven and a half years, and on the front cover of Time magazine in 2000 as the city the most resurgent in America, explaining all the things I had done for New York City.”
Giuliani, who has made millions on the speaking circuit following Sept. 11, said that he received “plenty” of speaking offers before the terrorists attacks. In addition, he noted that he signed the book contract for his best-selling book, “Leadership,” before Sept. 11.
