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knew that I would tell you not to do it.” Her name is Mickie Wolter, and she now works for Harrison J. Goldin, the controller wolter who's a very good friend of mine and has always supported and helped me and I like her very much. In any event, I only called people who I knew would say “yes, that's a terrific idea, Ed.” Stanley Geller was one such person. I can't remember the others, but there were a number of people, but they were all people that I knew would say “yes.” I generally try to do that after I've made a decision that's controversial, but I know I'm not going to change my mind no matter what anybody tells me. It's nice to be shored up by friendly voices.

So over that week-end, I met with Henry Stern; and in my apartment at 14 Washington Place we hammered out a statement that I would use on the Monday immediately preceding the election in endorsing Lindsay. And it's my recollection that that week that we are now talking about -- the week before the election -- there were two polls. There was the Daily News poll and a Herald-Tribune poll. And the Daily News poll, it's my recollection, showed that Lindsay would lose, and the Herald-Tribune poll showed that he would win by one percent or some very minor figure.

So having made the decision, I go to sleep Sunday night... My recollection is that it was basically on Sunday that Henry