Hill looks back on Giuliani’s campaign
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Following his decisive victories in a number of presidential primaries yesterday, many within the conservative establishment have turned their focus to Arizona Senator John McCain, who appears at this point to have the edge in securing his party’s nomination — and away from the one-time frontrunner, Rudy Giuliani.
But at Yale, diplomat-in-residence Charles Hill is still reminiscing — with a combination of fondness and disappointment — about the so-called “America’s Mayor,” on whose campaign he served until the doomed operation ended last week following disappointing Florida primary...
I was executive director of the Project for the New American Century from 1997 to 2005. I have never met Charles Hill in person, although he and I have numerous mutual friends. It is inconceivable that I would put his name down on a letter to the president without having some affirmative response from him since, again, I did not know him and would never have acted so presumptively. Moreover, whatever Mr. Hill is telling himself now, he never called me to ask to have his name removed from any letters. Again, I would have remembered such a event since it would have been the only occasion in the history of PNAC for a signatory to ask to have his name removed. Sorry, Charlie. Gary Schmitt
I have to agree with poster #1, above. The grip that this strange Charles Hill has on the minds of some Yale undergrads today is troubling. What has happened to these students' critical faculties? They might exercise those faculties by scrutinizing some of the nonsense that Hill pours forth in this interview. And, yes, what kind of editorial judgment do those in charge in the Britton Hadden Memorial Building possess. The number of minds at Yale who merit 1400 words is many. Charles Hill hardly counts among them, however. And if he is to be interviewed on his support for Giuliani, he needs to be asked some tough questions, not just offered an "open mic."
What's with you guys at the YDN and the love-affair with Hill? Over 1400 words wasted on a self-promoting, pompous, "diplomat-in-residence" (whatever the hell that is). Does the willingness to give interminable/innumerable interviews on one's own importance make one newsworthy? Rudy and Charlie! What a team!!!