Would you tell us where you were when you heard about the first attack in 93

against the World Trade Center? Back in 93. Yes. In 93 I was in private

law practice. I was a lawyer and I was running for mayor. It was the year of

the election for mayor of New York. I had run in 1989 against David

Dinkins and law by less than 2%. So when as far as I was concerned things didn't

go well in the city in that three-year period. We had two riots. We had

two thousand mercy a year. We were at 10% unemployment. A lot of really really

bad factors. I felt I should run because the solutions that I had suggested

in 89 went out put into place and I thought the same ones I suggested in 89

would work in 93. Particularly crime. And my background was criminal justice.

I was an assistant US attorney as head of the narcotics division in the US

attorney's office during the French connection days. I was the US attorney who

went after the mafia put away the five families in New York. I prosecuted

Boschie and Milkit and Wall Street. I prosecuted about half of Ed

Koch's administration. So I knew corruption in the city. So in a strange way I

felt like maybe it's a little boastful to say I felt like I was the right

person. If the city ever needed a prosecutor this is the time it needed one.

And I just to prosecute it but a really a very experienced one. I was the

third and then I was the third ranking official in Ronald Reagan's Justice

Department. I worked for President Reagan for eight years and he was my hero.

I was going to model what I did as mayor on what he did as president. I

handled an air traffic control strike with Tettles and the two lawyers on the

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