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settlement. This thing is not going to go on like this. This city is going to go, and you're going to have it on your hands.”

He says, “Okay, I'll get back to you.”

The next morning he called me back. He said, “Moe, I've talked about that. We're going to send someone down. We'll send George Shultz. He's going to go down and he's going to meet with you. I want you to tell him what you know and we'll have our people nosing around, too, and you'll hear from me.”

I met with Shultz and I told him what I knew. They had other people and they wandered around and they said, “Okay, we're going to reinstate the settlement.”

From the White House directly?

They're going to reinstate the settlement.

Something I didn't tell you is that I, through the editor of the American Journal of Nursing, Barbara Schutt, I had gotten to know her before the strike. She's a very decent person. That's the ANA magazine. We talked. She did an article on the strike, did an editorial on the strike, I remember. We would talk, early on, and she said, “Moe, I want you to be in touch with the head of the State Nurses Association, and there's a particular good person in the head of the county in Charleston, the Nurses Association. I'll call her first, but you call her and you can establish contact with her.” I would virtually call her every day, and she would tell me what was going inside the hospitals. The second ending, the CODA, we got a report that the nurses, the white nurses, had told the hospital that if the twelve returned to work, they would not return. They wouldn't go back to work with the twelve. We thought that it was another put-up job, and Andy said that he'd heard from reliable sources that it was legitimate.

I said, “I want to check it.” I called this person and she said--

You had been in touch with the Nurses Association from the very beginning?

Yes. I called the woman in the county and she said she'd heard the same thing and she thinks that it's real serious.

At that point, I told Andy. Andy said, “I'm going to try something,” and Andy arranged, with the support of the president of the hospital, William McCord, whom he'd had several meetings with, Andy said he'd