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day with us, and had been interviewed by NPR for a feature. So she agrees to introduce it. The audience consists of the leaders of the endowments, AFL-CIO unions, government officials. Really. All of the media was in there. Ray helped me on the media, too.

They do the show, and Mrs. -- [END TAPE ONE, SIDE TWO; BEGIN CASSETTE TWO, SIDE ONE]

Okay, Mrs. Mondale.

Mrs. Mondale introduces it with a big plug for Bread and Roses. I'm sitting there next to her and Joe Duffy and Jack Golodner watching the show. I was wondering how an audience that is not at all related would react. They loved it. They went wild about the thing, really went wild about it. You know, they started talking -- and the reviewers. They weren't reviewers, they were feature writers. See I couldn't get a New York Times feature but it was Seymour Peck, he said, “We'll do it in Washington,” and there was a feature in the Times with a picture of Mrs. Mondale with Ossie and the cast, that kind of thing. There was a picture in the Washington Post, in the Washington Star, very fine. The Wall Street Journal on the OpEd page, Joanne Lublin, the labor reporter, did a piece on “The Hospital Workers' Chorus Line.” It was very well written. At the end of it she said, “One of the problems with the show is that you can only see it in a hospital. So that if it comes to your town, break a leg. It's worth it.”

All right. Enough, enough. I still haven't sung my song. [laughs]

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