Rudy's record as mayor
One of the major points that Rudy Giuliani frequently makes about why he should become the Republican nominee for president is that, unlike any of the Democrats and some of his Republican opponents, he's been a chief executive, run a very large government as mayor of America's largest city and brought about numerous reforms.
In his campaign for office in the 1990s, Giuliani promised to cut crime, boost the city's economy and fix the seriously troubled schools. A detailed examination by The Times Ralph Vartabedian into his management style and methods, possible windows into how he would govern as president, finds that Giuliani accomplished two of those goals.
But when it came to education, his bare-knuckle tactics and refusal to compromise on issues both big and small produced a controversial record with some serious defeats.
Vartabedian's full report is available here on this website and in Thursday's print editions.
--Andrew Malcolm
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Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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