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COMMENTS: No Even Keel
In campaign coverage, CBS News's poll showed Rudolph Giuliani's lead in the race for the Republican nomination shrink in the wake of last week's entry by Fred Thompson (27% v 22%). So CBS assigned Jeff Greenfield to check how New Yorkers, who know their former mayor best, would recommend Hizzoner. "A complicated figure," Greenfield concluded. He delivered a safer, cleaner city--but was combative, insensitive and exhausting. "Giuliani is not a man for all seasons. He is a man for a crisis. If the waters are smooth his oversized personality tends to capsize the ship of state"--and that was a soundbite from Fred Siegel, author of The Prince of the City, a self-confessed Giuliani admirer.
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