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Outed two days earlier as a client of a high-end prostitution firm, Eliot Spitzer stepped down as New York's 54th governor. His wife Silda was again by his side.

"I look at my time as governor with a sense of what might have been," said Spitzer.

Spitzer's 14 months atop New York was in reality an almost non-stop drama, although not the kind the highflying former attorney general promised.

Though he left office with his reputation shattered, Spitzer actually began 2008 with reconciliation.

"Join me in good faith. I will meet you with an open hand, an open door, and an open mind," said Spitzer.

Shortly after his second state of the state address, there was a thaw with his noted adversary -- Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno.

They took their differences to the political field, as a Spitzer-backed Democrat won a key northern New York race that tightened the GOP grip on the state senate to a single seat.

"We lost that battle, but we are going to win the war," said Bruno.

Spitzer also faced legal troubles from colder days with Bruno. The so-called "Troopergate" scandal that has yet to be fully resolved.

After first clearing Spitzer in March, Albany County District Attorney David Soares reversed himself in a second probe. It quoted Spitzer using expletives to authorize the leak of damaging information about Bruno, contradicting the governor's protests that he did nothing.

"Let us make it very clear. I did not, would not tolerate that activity," said Spitzer.

For wrongdoing inside and outside his office, Spitzer's only punishment has been his self-imposed exile and the ceaseless ridicule that's followed.

Employees of the prostitution firm face sentencing.

Spitzer wasn't charged, not for "Troopergate" either. There, two former aides settled charges of wrongdoing.

Charges remain for two others, including former State Police Superintendent Preston Felton.

As for Spitzer, he works in his family's real estate firm, but has been tiptoeing back into public life with an online column. So far, it's been about the current economic crisis, not his past as governor.