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I remember when he was interviewed on FOX News just days after 9/11, Ed Koch said that he was in one of the towers the morning of the attacks and nearly lost his life. 9/11 changed his perspective in more ways than one.

I remember on 9/11, ABC radio was interviewing Koch when their airhead reporterette who was with the President came on. She went on and on about things seeming to be disjointed, nobody knew where they were going, etc., etc. It was a bash Bush moment that I thought at the time was way out of line.

Koch came back on after she said, "we're leaving now" and she got on the plane with the President. Koch really lit into her. I can't remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of "you don't need to know where you're going. The President knows what he's doing. Stop being stupid. War has just been declared on us and we're not about to tell the enemy what the President is doing." I was really amazed. He was really angry with that reporter for being so selfish and stupid. And Peter Jennings, for once, let Koch have his say.

That's one of the things I think I will always remember about 9/11.

He was in one of the towers? OMG! He was mayor when I lived there and though he didn't know how to solve the crime problem the way Rudy did, he was a great salesman for NYC. I loved his love of the city. He's one of the few honest Democrats around. That's why he couldn't get elected Governor of NY.