WTC security and emergency response newspaper article

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

V In Crisis, Giuliani’s Popularity Overflows City By JENNIFER STEINHAUER Perhaps it was yesterday, when the president of France proclaimed that the French had begun praising the “Maire-heros” — which he called the French equivalent of “Rudy the Rock.” Or maybe it was a few days before, when Barbara Walters prom­ ised the nation that she would reveal .I the mayor of New York as he had never been seen before. And surely the clues were already there last h‘4 week when the president of the Unit­ ed States came to visit the site of terrorist devastation and the rescue workers there saved their loudest exaltation for the mayor. While it was unlikely just two A weeks ago that many people outside the five boroughs were terribly inter­ ested in glimpsing the soul of Ru­ ......... Pool Photograph by Patrick' KoraflK^ET^SdaiSa'PiSs dolph W. Giuliani, it is now undeni­ Mayor Rudolph W. Giidiani, left, with President Jacques Chirac of able that the mayor has become an France on an aerial tour of the trade center site yesterday. international celebrity. While Mr. Giuliani’s popularity has understandably swelled in New York City, it also appears to be ex­ panding nationwide and even to the world, as he presides over the clean­ up after the worst terrorist attack in K-'Tioxbo the history of this country. In the last week, Mr. Giuliani has been on every network morning news program; sat across from Ms. Walters, the queen of die televised emotional explora­ tion; and was button-holed by Tom Brokaw, who spoke later of the inter­ view with glowing terms for the mayor. Newspapers from Australia to England sing his praises. Here is the news from The Ottawa Gtiiasen:’"It has been a week sinre a terrorist attack leveled the World Trade Cen­ ter and, thanks largely to his uncan­ ny abillly to be everywhere duringtHs grim period, New York’s mayor faas risen from the ashes of the tragedy as an unequivocal hero of We moment.” Y«terday,the mayor’s makeshift pressroom at the command center was jaimmed -with European journal­ ists, m^y of them , traveling with President Jacques Chir&>QfFrance, all tak^.furious notes tm the may­ or’s remarks, which included itoplor- ing Mr. Chirac to lend support to the Contir^d on Po^BS J

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