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She berated me because she thought that this article which was critical of her, that I had said critical things. And I said, “I'm not even mentioned in that article,” but she knows that I wouldn't hesitate to say critical things about her; and she was just fit to be tied. Okay.

This is something that flows out of that. A little while later (and this has happened throughout our career; there will be ups and downs) she came over and said, “Listen, I don't know why we are constantly fighting with one another. There are only three people in this whole delegation who work: me, Rosenthal and you.” That's of the 39 members of the delegation she's talking about.

Q:

That's the New York City...

Koch:

No, the New York State delegation. “Only three of us who work.” Okay. “And we're the only ones who get publicity anyway so I don't know why you worry about me,” says she to me. And there was a sort of rapprochement. Rapprochement means that she talks to me for a little while. It's on end off where she doesn't talk to me. She has not talked to me now for about eight months. The reason that she hasn't talked to me now for about eight months comes out of another incident relating to her Senate campaign.

She announced early that she's running for the Senate in an informal way. I happen to think that it would be a tragedy for





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