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despite David Durk. So Durk should have called up a long time ago to thank me. He did not, but that's okay. He certainly should have sent me a little note thanking me, but that's okay, too. But he called me a couple of days ago to tell me how he appreciated it but also to tell me how he appreciated my having come out in support of Nadjari being continued in his job as special prosecutor. That was the nature of that conversation.

In any event, we had heard, since I was part of Morgenthau's campaign, that Durk was helping Kuh, who was then running for reelection to the DA's office here in Manhattan. He had been appointed by Governor Wilson.

Q:

For his first election in his own right.

Koch:

Right. He, we believe, told Kuh that he had met with Morgenthau and Morgenthau hadn't done anything. I said to Morgenthau, “You better figure out how you're going to respond to that.” He said, “No, no,” he had told Lindsay I don't know whether he did or he didn't, but I assume that he did, so that he felt that would be adequate. I mean he was not the deputy mayor; he couldn't do anything; he wasn't the U.S. attorney at that point. He had been removed. Whitney North Seymour, Jr., the guy who I beat for Congress, was the U.S. attorney. And he felt that he had done all he could.





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