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Giuliani Says If Elected, Wife Would Attend Cabinet Meetings
Fox ^ | 3/29/07 | staff

Posted on 03/29/2007 12:04:15 PM PDT by pissant

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani says if elected, he'd be open to his wife attending Cabinet meetings on issues in which she's interested. In an interview with Barbara Walters to air Friday on ABC News' "20/20," the former New York city mayor and his wife, Judith Nathan Giuliani, answered questions about the six marriages between them and whether she was the "other woman" who caused the breakup of his second marriage to TV personality Donna Hanover.

Rudy Giuliani, the current front-runner in the 2008 GOP race, discussed what role his wife would play if he wins the White House. In 1990s, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton played a prominent role in her husband's administration, including a failed effort on health care reform. Her policy efforts created some problems for the couple.

Asked whether his wife would sit in on Cabinet meetings, Giuliani said, "If she wanted to. If they were relevant to something that she was interested in. I mean that would be something that I'd be very, very comfortable with."

Giuliani described his wife as a close adviser who has as much involvement in his campaign as she wants.

Asked if she would sit in on policy meetings, Mrs. Giuliani, who was a nurse, said: "If he asks me to, yes. And certainly in the areas of health care."

He disputed suggestions that she was responsible for the messy and very public breakup of his marriage to Hanover, with whom he had two children, Andrew and Christine. Giuliani's relationship with his children has been strained.

"No, she was not," he said. "I tried to keep that all as private as possible. ... I think I should be very, very clear, that she was not the cause of the break up in any way at all."

Calling Judith Giuliani "the light of my life," the former mayor declined to say whether his marriage to Hanover had been in trouble.

Judith Giuliani, who recently revealed that she had been married twice previously not once, said it was difficult to be seen as the "other woman."

Giuliani's first marriage to his second cousin, Regina Peruggi, ended after 14 years in divorce and later an annulment. Giuliani said he doesn't think the nation has reached the point in which divorce is not important in choosing a president, but argued that voters will evaluate the whole person.

"None of us, at least I don't think any of us, have perfect lives," he said. "I can say very credibly to people, 'Judge me by my public performance. Whatever mistakes I've made in my personal life, I made, I'm sorry for them.' "


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: averybadidearudy; giuliani; justplainsilly; liberal; rino; rudy; silly; twoforone
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YIKES. Another 2 for the price of one, very similar to teh first go round.
1 posted on 03/29/2007 12:04:19 PM PDT by pissant
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Will Hillary bring her wife too?


2 posted on 03/29/2007 12:05:02 PM PDT by rhombus
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To: pissant

Unimpressive.


3 posted on 03/29/2007 12:05:15 PM PDT by Rocko
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What about any mistresses he might have during his term? Can they come too?

Judi's boyfriends?
Rudy's fourth wife? Fifth?
4 posted on 03/29/2007 12:05:43 PM PDT by msnimje (True Conservatives will not support a pro-abortion candidate.)
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To: pissant
It's Clinton deja vu all over again.
5 posted on 03/29/2007 12:06:36 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Giuliani Says If Elected, Wife Would Attend Cabinet Meetings

Which ones-- past, present or future?

6 posted on 03/29/2007 12:06:51 PM PDT by mikeus_maximus (Liberals want the US to fail so the world can become a utopia.)
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Is Rudy instituting Take Your Wife to Work Day or something?

Leave the cabinet meetings to people who belong at the table because of their skills and not their selection of a mate.

Why is that so difficult to grasp??


7 posted on 03/29/2007 12:07:00 PM PDT by delphirogatio
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To: pissant
I think you may have single-handedly derailed the Giuliani nomination with your incessant negative posts.








Way to go!
8 posted on 03/29/2007 12:07:02 PM PDT by keat (You know who I feel bad for? Arab-Americans who truly want to get into crop-dusting.)
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Is there enough room in the Cabinet Room for all of Rudy's wives?
9 posted on 03/29/2007 12:07:29 PM PDT by trumandogz
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Which one?


10 posted on 03/29/2007 12:07:35 PM PDT by ladtx ("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
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He just dug himself a hole.


11 posted on 03/29/2007 12:07:45 PM PDT by SMARTY
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To: rhombus

Much as I tried not to, your comment made me laugh out loud. The visual was just too much and included Janet Reno.


12 posted on 03/29/2007 12:08:08 PM PDT by JeeperFreeper
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Giuliani Says If Elected, Wife Would Attend Cabinet Meetings

Which one?

13 posted on 03/29/2007 12:08:09 PM PDT by jdm
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14 posted on 03/29/2007 12:08:31 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani says if elected, he'd be open to his wife attending Cabinet meetings on issues in which she's interested.

Better be careful there...the more she's involved in policy the harder it will be to evict her from the White House when he takes up with the next future Mrs. Giuliani.

15 posted on 03/29/2007 12:08:47 PM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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Ah, ya beat me by 34 seconds! :)


16 posted on 03/29/2007 12:08:54 PM PDT by jdm
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To: delphirogatio

What are Judith's beliefs on healthcare as a nurse? I'd be very interested to hear what she thought coming from the medical community.


17 posted on 03/29/2007 12:08:55 PM PDT by princess leah
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Rudy will preside in drag. It will take some time for him and his hootchie wife to choose their wardrobe.

Wouldn't want to be seen in the same dress, you know.


18 posted on 03/29/2007 12:08:56 PM PDT by dforest (Fighting the new liberal Conservatism. The Left foot in the GOP door.)
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What are Judy's qualifications? Can she obtain a top security clearance?

Anyway, Fred Thompson is more conservative and has less baggage and therefore is more electable.


19 posted on 03/29/2007 12:09:14 PM PDT by Fierce Allegiance (There are 2 types of Rudy fans - the uninformed or anti-conservative TROLLS who do not belong on FR)
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Asked whether his wife would sit in on Cabinet meetings, Giuliani said, "If she wanted to. If they were relevant to something that she was interested in.

Guess he didn't like his reported lead in the polls all that much.

This is moronic.

20 posted on 03/29/2007 12:09:24 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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