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her normal way of doing things -- very loud, very brash, very upsetting for a number of people. And without being able to give you the chronological history of our relationship, I'll just give you a couple of vignettes.

We -- she, I, Rosenthal -- went to Israel on a special trip in November of 1973. She has the kind of personality -- when she wants to turn on the charm, she can be terrific. I mean she is Sarah Bernhardt incarnate. And there is a lovely relationship between her and her husband Martin, very warm, very admirable. So on this trip she did something that both Rosenthal and I thought was an outrage. What was it? All of us visited Golda Meir and Golda Meir in Jerusalem was complaining that the Syrians had committed more atrocities and took out pictures showing Israelie killed after they'd been taken prisoner with their hands tied behind their backs -- Israeli soldiers -- and their eyes blindfolded and they were killed. It was a tragedy, a tremendous tragedy. I think there were something in the neighborhood of 25 such atrocities. And it's considered protocol that whatever a delegation learns on a trip, that when it comes back, especially if the people are of the same philosophical bent, that they do together. Well, when we leave Golda Meir, Bella lingers and doesn't come out for another ten minutes. I store that in my head. I wasn't sure what she was doing, but I was sure that it wasn't for any good that would come out of it. When we get back to Washington, Bella has a press conference; but in advance of the press conference, she calls up Rosenthal (let's say on a