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You have the original, never cashed it.

No, no, this was the kind of thing that happened there.

The other thing, Bill Vanden Heuvel reported to us that there was pressure from the bankers and the business groups on the governor, that the governor wanted to figure a way of settling.

Also, another thing that Jean did--and I didn't learn of it until the end of the strike at a party at her house--that's where I met Jay Iselin, John Jay Iselin, the president of Channel 13.

Didn't he own the Jets for a while?

No, no. He had been a reporter on either Time or Newsweek. I think it was Newsweek. His mother or grandmother is very, very wealthy Charleston wealth. Unbeknownst to me, he made a trip down to Charleston to meet with bankers.

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Iselin had met with bankers about it. I didn't know about it until after the strike was over, when there was a party that Jean ran in her home, for a small number of people. Andy was there, Stanley was there, Elliot was there, I was there with my wife, and Jean came over and said, “I wanted you to meet somebody who helped.” At that time his wife was pregnant, and so Jean said, “This is what he did.” He was so pleased.

To this day, if people raise questions of him, he'll say, “Talk to Moe Foner about what I did in Charleston.”

But anyway, on behalf of Teddy Kennedy, Jean's husband met with McNair and with bankers.

Bill Vanden Heuvel.

Yes, to meet with bankers, to discuss how they're lousing up everything, destroying the economy, it's bad politically, it's everything bad. So all of these pressures, there was a boycott of downtown. NBC Television said that the boycott cost the community fifteen million dollars. It was an effective boycott. Don't buy where you can't eat. That kind of thing.