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with Buckley's name in sponsoring legislation?

Well, I find it no more incongruous than I having sponsored legislation which became the Federal Privacy Law and is known as the Koch-Goldwater legislation. Right? And the reason that it became law was that Koch and Goldwater, opposite ends of the political spectrum, as perceived by the public, joined together on an issue which then was taken out of political turmoil. Nobody could say that it was a right-wing or a left-wing bill. The fact is that's really why it became law. That letter from the President, and I don't keep very many of them, indicates my support of that bill. He signed the bill with that pen. And initially the authorship was mine; I brought Barry Goldwater into it, and it was by virtue of our efforts that the bill became law. And I'm trying to do the same on this issue. I find this the best way to deal with an issue if you can -- to find some well-known conservative, because I'm a well-known liberal, and between the two of us gather all the support. That's why I'm going to press and push Jim Buckley until I get his signature on that joint letter with me.

Now Ed Koch has just pointed to a framed letter signed by President Gerald Ford, and it also has the ball point pen within the frame.