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"It's roughly the same amount of work but not the same amount of pressure," Giuliani says. Still, he occasionally misses the adrenaline. "I remember the first couple of times I heard a siren [after leaving office]. I was getting ready to go, and I realized it wasn't my job anymore."
Giuliani continues to be one of the country's most trusted voices on terrorism. And his leadership after the attacks--along with his old stubbornness--still shield him from criticism. When asked if it was a mistake to put the city's emergency command center in 7 World Trade Center, which collapsed on 9/11, he doesn't budge. "No. It was placed there because that's where the Secret Service was, that's where the CIA was," he says. "You had to put it somewhere."
Meanwhile, Giuliani has been speaking across the globe for fees of $75,000 and up--sometimes way up. He has campaigned for Republicans in 35 states since leaving office, and he's a prime-time speaker at this week's Republican convention. Still, he is guarded about the idea of a Cabinet post in a new Bush White House. "It would be presumptuous to rule something out that no one has offered. But it's not something I'm seeking, not something I particularly want." It is hard to imagine, though, that America's mayor will be satisfied with being America's CEO indefinitely.