Did this man, to whom Giuliani, in 1995, offered the job of chancellor of the city’s school system (a post he declined), really not remember who the mayor was when the city he loved so much was attacked? He was 87. The walls of his office at Waterside Plaza were hung with honorary degrees, yellowed clippings from the New York Post, and a print of the American Museum on Broadway, circa 1850. Ravitch, who had also been chairman of the MTA and a mayoral candidate in 1989, was something of a city elder-an embodiment of its institutional memory. On a glittering day in May, ferries and barges charting a course over the diamond-strewn surface of the East River, Richard Ravitch, former lieutenant governor of New York, said something extraordinary to me: “You have to remember Giuliani wasn’t mayor on 9/11, was he?”
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