Looking at the indictment of BFF Bernard Kerik, Rudy Giuliani turned to the comforts of history.

Of a sort.

Down through the ages, what American political figure best compares to the allegedly mob-friendly, home improvement scamming, Judith Regan boffing dirty cop?

Richard Nixon is summoned from the shadows:

“Richard Nixon had this very serious problem, but his breakthrough with China was one of the historical things that happened in the 20th century. You can’t take that away from him.”