[miss marmelstein]

You're not talking about Teddy Roosevelt, are you? Because, I can tell you, he never served as the Mayor of NYC. Police Commissioner or some such, but never mayor. Rudy a lily-white Republican? I don't think so! Not only is he a highly ethnic, highly (though lapsed) Catholic pol, he has always gone against the Republican establishment. His awful endorsement of Cuomo, for example. Like many of NYC's great mayors - he's a complete enigma. But he is no Tammany Hall-style pol.