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vived his own scrape with death. tives, many clutching photos of missing image suffered during his nasty divorce loved ones, queued up for information on Consoled grieving families. hospitalized victims and bodies that had saga. “I think the mayor has demonstrated Marshaled selfless rescue workers of the nation’s largest city. been recovered. qualities that will make him be considered Worked tirelessly, almost around the you for your leadership on the ground." Bystanders spontaneously applauded for higher office down the line,” Warfield clock. “There’s no question many people who him. said. He walked through hospitals and triage disliked him personally but admired his Somber-voiced, he said he recognized Jerry Hauer, a former city crisis manag­ sites. work will have been converted,” said the frustration they feel because he, too, er who is now a security adviser for the Toured the wasteland of rubble at the former Mayor Ed Koch. lost friends. “I’m not patient about the peo­ federal government, said the response has g World Trade Center, where firefighters Giuliani, facing the worst terrorist st­ ple I am trying to find out about, and I can been remarkable since New York’s elabo- F and cops sift the ruins for survivors. tack in the nation’s history, has steered the understand why they would be upset," he rate Emergency Command Center was And assured a shocked city again and rescue efforts from a massive oval table said. lost when 7 World Trade Center collapsed, m again that its skyline, like the sun, would on the seventh floor of an East Side build­ It’s not uncommon for a city or a nation Moreover, a backup command center at 5 rise again. Ing, which has become the city’s tempo- to rally around its elected leaders in trying 1 Police Plaza was rendered useless when In these, the worst of days for New rary nerve center. times. Former President George Bush’s phones failed, leading city officials to the York, Giuliani has alternately displayed Sitting opposite Pataki and surrounded popularity soared during the Gulf War, for East Side site — a location officials have the steady management hand, compas- by city, state and federal officials, the example. asked not be identified, for security rea- ■sion and confident brio that many see as mayor has guided strategy sessions begin- But this city has never witnessed any­ sons. a the best of him. ning at 8 a.m. that involve everything from thing like the destruction of the World “He’s just got this renewable source of “I feel a level of empathy and connec- providing water for parched rescue work- Trade Center towers. energy during a major incident that few tion with the mayor I never felt before,” ers to purchasing thousands of body bags Giuliani is keenly aware he needs to people I know have,” Hauer said. S said City Councilwoman Christine Quinn, to finding cash to pay the bills. present a portrait of stability, aides say. Giuliani girlfriend Judith Nathan, who g a Manhattan Democrat who has been one He has met with the city’s real estate They even arranged the backdrop and po­ has appeared at the mayor’s side during of Giuliani’s most scathing critics. powers. Yesterday, he invited former May- dium at the city’s command center to the crisis, said he was holding up despite “For a mayor often perceived as a bully, ors David Dinkins and Koch — his some- make it evoke City Hall’s Blue Room, the the pressure. he’s seemed so much the human being — times adversaries — and dozens of reli- mayor’s usual spot for briefing the media. “He’s fantastic,” she said, canying a can- to struggling with his own losses, but most gious leaders to his office and planned a He wants “to restore a sense of normal­ vas bag in which she had laced paper dust § importantly staying strong for his city,” memorial service for a week from Sunday. cy,” one aide said. masks. “He’s terrific.” she said. “I do think this will forever ... On TV, he has worn compassion on his Giuliani has earned credit in the past for change the way I see this mayor.” sleeve, his voice often caked with emotion his skillful management during crises — a President Bush gave Giuliani and Gov. for lost life, particularly firefighters and blackout, snowstorms, the crash of TWA Pataki a pat on the back yesterday, saying police officers. He also has shown a steely Flight 800. That’s in contrast to what some in a telephone conference call, “1 thank resolve: “We’re going to rebuild,” he prom- see as a sometimes nasty edge to his per­ sonality, a hastiness to dismiss any criti­ cism of his administration and being tone- deaf on many minority concerns. The disaster occurred after what had been a bumpy stretch for the mayor, who dropped out of the Senate race last year after being diagnosed with prostate can­ cer and acknowledging a relationship with a woman outside his marriage. He is seeking a divorce from hi.s wife.