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Rudy\u00a0Giuliani made his name as mayor of New York City from 1994-2001, during which time he helped clean up the city and, of course, led New York in its\u00a0initial response to the September 11th terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n
But during a wide-ranging “On Topic” conversation with Baylor President Ken Starr<\/a> Wednesday night,\u00a0Giuliani entertained\u00a0a packed Waco Hall audience Wednesday night with\u00a0stories\u00a0reaching far beyond 9\/11. The native New Yorker touched on lessons of leadership,\u00a0why he decided to run for mayor of New York, even his love for the Yankees and their recently deceased former star, Yogi Berra. [See photos from the event here<\/a>.]<\/p>\n [WATCH the entire \u201cOn Topic\u201d conversation with Rudy Giuliani<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n In closing, Giuliani\u00a0shared a few words of advice for Baylor students. “Figure out what you want to do, and try to make it something you enjoy,” he said. “Don’t expect immediate success; take failure as a valuable thing. … Pursue your dream, and if you get knocked down a few times, just learn from it. Successful people are people who can absorb failure and use it as a learning experience.”<\/p>\n (For more details of\u00a0Giuliani’s visit, check out these recaps from the Waco Tribune-Herald<\/a><\/em> and the Baylor Lariat<\/a><\/em>. The Lariat<\/em>\u00a0also\u00a0filed this video report<\/a>, including excerpts from a\u00a0one-on-one interview with\u00a0Giuliani.)<\/p>\n Giuliani is Baylor’s\u00a012th on-campus \u201cOn Topic\u201d guest, adding to a list of visitors that includes\u00a0former Secretary of State\u00a0Condoleezza Rice<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0longtime U.S. Supreme Court Justice\u00a0Sandra Day O\u2019Connor<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell<\/a>\u00a0and former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Rudy\u00a0Giuliani!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rudy\u00a0Giuliani made his name as mayor of New York City from 1994-2001, during which time he helped clean up the city and, of course, led New York in its\u00a0initial response to the September 11th terrorist attacks. But during a wide-ranging “On Topic” conversation with Baylor President Ken Starr Wednesday night,\u00a0Giuliani entertained\u00a0a packed Waco Hall audience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-photo-galleries","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}