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name] is saying that Kennedy supports him and couldn't we get a telegram saying that that's not true?” And he said, “I'll see what I can do about that,” and never sent me the telegram. They just didn't want to get involved. Or maybe they liked Berle, whatever it was. I didn't like that aspect of it because I had done so much for Kennedy in the context of what we're talking about. They did not help when it was important.

Now, just to talk about that aspect of the election, when I ran I applied again to the Liberal party. The Democratic party will have a primary, but the Liberal party -- that really is decided without a primary because you need the permission of the county leader or county organization if you are not a Liberal party member to run in a Liberal party primary. And therefore if it's a Democrat or Democrats who are seeking the nomination, you either get it from the party leadership, which means Alex Rose, or you can't have it -- unless you want to run a write-in campaign, which is very difficult to do. I did that, by the way. I ran a write-in campaign in 1962 for the Assembly race when they had declined to give it to me and had given it to Passannante and I won it. I won it by four votes. It seems to me that the total vote was 138 to 134 in the whole district. You have to understand what that means. There's very little party membership here. But I didn't want the Liberal party designation and be on the ballot in that 1962 race after I had lost the election to Passannante