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Rudy Giuliani to separate from his wife | page 1, 2 A reporter asked if the media had caused the damage that Giuliani said had taken place. "No!" he quickly responded. "The media makes the damage much worse, but they didn't cause the damage. I take responsibility for everything that I've done and you have every right to ask me, and then I have a right to answer or not answer, and that's how I think we can have a respectful relationship with each other." Another reporter then asked whether his marriage and relationship with Nathan was affecting his decision about whether to continue his Senate race.
"I hadn't thought about it yet in that context," he said. "Maybe I will. I've been thinking about it more in the health context. Judith Nathan is a very, very fine person. She's been a very good friend to me, before I had to deal with the decisions that I had to make about my illness and what to do about it. And I rely on her and she helps me a great deal. And I'm going to need her more now than maybe I did before. These are decisions that I have to make at a very difficult time." Martinez Alequin then asked whether Nathan had been more supportive than Hanover. "Donna Hanover is a wonderful woman," responded Giuliani. "And she's a wonderful mother. She's someone that I respect tremendously. The fact that we've grown independent, that we've grown more separate over the years, who knows why those things happen? But she is a very, very fine wonderful person and she's an extraordinary mother. And I have tremendous respect for her." "What's your emotional state right now?" another reporter queried. "My emotional state is I'm very sad, and I feel terrible," said Giuliani. He later added, "I need to have some zone of privacy of people that I can talk to confidentially. You would need that, too." A television reporter asked when he would get the separation resolved. "Pretty soon," said Giuliani. "I'd like to get it resolved pretty soon." Finally, Rachel Donadio, a reporter for the Forward, a Jewish weekly, broke the tension, asking whether Giuliani supported normalizing trade relations with China, a question that prompted laughter from both him and the assembled reporters. After answering that, he took a few more questions about his marriage, and declared that the public, ultimately, would judge him on the basis of his performance as mayor. "If you go back and look at my quotes about President Clinton or about anyone else that's been involved in exploration of their personal life, I don't believe that the public ultimately is nearly as interested as the media," said Giuliani, his band of deputy mayors and advisors standing a few feet to his right. "Everybody leads their own lives, they have their own pains, their own difficulties, their own tortures and their own joys in life. What [the public is] really interested in of public officials is how well do you do your job. And if you're doing your job well, then, you know, they're happy with you and if you're not, they disapprove of you ... I think they have a much more common-sense approach to evaluating these things." Finally, he was asked again how he felt. "Physically, I feel pretty good. Emotionally, I'm a little upset," he said. His voice cracked, although it was unclear whether this was an emotional reaction or due to congestion in his throat. He asked for water, and eventually took a swig from a half-empty bottle handed to him by a reporter for WWOR-TV, an offer that provoked laughter from the crowd. He talked about the availability of free prostate-cancer screenings at public hospitals, then ended the press conference and walked away, his entourage in tow. Asked about the mayor's announcement, Senate rival Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday, "I don't have anything to say." "In all honesty, it's just being overwritten," said Republican consultant Roger Stone of Giuliani's marriage. "He's just written the last chapter, now it's over. Let's move on and talk about other issues." But Stone couldn't resist seizing the moment to take a swipe at Giuliani's Senate opponent. "It means that his relationship is different than the Clintons. The difference is that Rudy's will be a legal separation and the Clintons are a de facto separation. They're both separated from their spouses. The difference is that one lies about it and the other doesn't."
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