When Richard Nixon died in April 1994, Mayor Rudy Giuliani told reporters in the City Hall Blue Room that the man who resigned the presidency in disgrace 20 years earlier was "a remarkable example of a person who through his own failure and problems and difficulties had reached the lowest possible point that a person could reach."
In his fourth month as Mayor, he quickly made clear he wasn't speaking to bury Mr. Nixon but to praise him as "a remarkable example to anyone who reaches the very depths that you can rebuild your life, that you can make great contributions."
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