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Well, the President remained there and talked to everyone — the firefighters, the police officers, the health care workers the clergy — but the people who spent the most time with him were our construction workers. Now, New York construction workers are very special people. I’m sure this is true all over but I know the ones here the best. They were real heroes along with many others that day, volunteering immediately.

And they’re big, real big. Their arms are bigger than my legs and their opinions are even bigger than their arms. Now each one of them would engage the President and I imagine like his cabinet give him advice.

They were advising him in their own words on exactly what he should do with the terrorists.

Of course I can’t repeat their exact language. But one of them really went into great detail and upon conclusion of his remarks President Bush said in a rather loud voice, “I agree.”

At this point the guy just beamed and all his buddies turned toward him in amazement. The guy just lost it. So he reached over, embraced the President and began hugging him enthusiastically.

When I heard this part of Rudy's speech, I can't help but remember that rally that we all took part in back in October 2000 (the rally to welcome then-Gov. Bush to NYC and to David Letterman's show... my first-ever rally).

I assume those angry pro-Gore Teamsters across the street with the giant RAT, yelling obscenities at us may have been some of these "construction workers" that Rudy was speaking of?

I sure hope you all got to see Rudy give his speech on TV (or in person). You really had to see his expressions and body language to appreciate the passion with which he spoke these words.