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no matter where he was in the room. This, by the way, is a very important point.

He said, “You see that telephone?”

I said, “Yes.”

He said, “I was in Lyndon's office a month or so ago, and he had one, and I was admiring it. And Lyndon said to me, ‘Adam, you want one?' And I said, ‘Of course, Mr. President,’”

He said, “Within a couple of days, that phone was in my office. Now, do you think you could get Lyndon Johnson to be on your side?”

I said, “Nope.”

He went to Bobby Kennedy, and he said, “Bobby Kennedy wants to run for Senator in New York.”

By the way, that was the first time I'd heard that.

“He needs me. He can't afford another Buckley.”

By the way, I remember this conversation as if it were etched indelibly in my mind. He said, “He can't afford another Buckley.” Buckley was the Bronx Democratic committee chairman, and apparently the Kennedys had some kind of problem with Buckley. And they couldn't afford that kind of problem with Powell. So Adam was saying to me that Bobby was going to be very solicitous about Mr. Powell, in order not to disrupt his relationship with Powell in terms of his own political interests.

Well, I'd had a hint of this, because I'd been trying to communicate, when I saw the problem developing, I was trying to communicate with Bobby Kennedy, who was still then chairman of the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency, a carry over from the days