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http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Politics/story?id=3839108&page=1Giuliani Admits 'Mistake' in Case of Indicted Police Commissioner
Bernard Kerik Indicted; GOP Contender Compares Him to Nixon
.... But Giuliani also said the experience would make him a better president, defended the job Kerik did as police commissioner and compared his former protégé to the late President Richard Nixon -- a man with both flaws and accomplishments. ....
"I made mistakes when I was the mayor, and I make mistakes as a candidate, I will make mistakes as a president," Giuliani said.
"The question is do I make a lot more correct decisions than I make wrong ones? And do I recognize the wrong ones that I make as soon as I can and try to change? And in that particular case, the mistake that I made was I should have checked it more carefully. I didn't and I realized that after it happened, and I admitted it and I apologized for it and I'm never going to do it again. We're going to be much more careful in the future."
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As mayor, Giuliani appointed Kerik as his Department of Corrections commissioner in 1998 and his police commissioner in 2000.
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