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nothing that she can do.

She destroyed by the way -- and anybody in it will verify that -- the group we had called The Group made up of about 10 or 12 members of Congress. Rosenthal was in it, and Kastenmeier was in it and Don Edwards and about ten of us. Its major focus was opposition to the war in Vietnam. And we would issue statements together, and she resented bitterly that she was not in it. John Conyers was in it. So she got John Conyers to propose that the group be enlarged, and by enlarging it, that would mean that she would be taken in. And her tack was that if you don't take her in, this would be anti-woman because there wasn't any woman in the group. And it was an absolute outrage that she would attack us this way, and we are vulnerable in Congress -- not any more in that area. But if a woman says she wants to be in the group, you are vulnerable. You must take her in. It has nothing to do with whether you like her. It is a group of people who are like-minded philosophically and who also have a personal relationship with one another. It wasn't that they took in everybody. They met once or twice a month to plot some strategy. There are dozens of those groups. She decides that she wants to be in this group. Well, I fought it, as did a couple of other people, but it was just too strong. And what they did was (and she is just that crafty), they get the group to meet on either Roshoshanna or Yom Kippur when the guys who really know Bella for what she is -- meaning the Jews who come from New York -- couldn't be there. And they voted her in on one