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my office for ten o'clock, and I just feel that I'm going to be destroyed. It's the end of my political career. And I'm really quite distraught.”

And he said, “Look, you are not liked in the Democratic party. They'll never like you. You are a maverick. They hate you. If they could destroy you, they would whether you come out for Lindsay or you don't come out for Lindsay. Nothing that you will do will make them angrier than they are today at you or what they were when you first beat DeSapio.” That was the thrust of his statement to me. “So don't worry about it. In fact, it can be good for you.” There I thought he was sort of making me feel good. The truth of the matter is: the die was cast. The telegrams had been sent out the previous night. So all these offices of the press knew that I was having a press conference at ten o'clock in the morning, and they'd gotten it the prior Sunday night. But then he said, “Have you told Carol?” Carol Greitzer. And I said, “No.” He said, “That's a mistake. You've got to tell her, because if you don't tell her, when you come out for Lindsay, the press will call: she will not have been alerted, and she's apt to attack you, because you didn't fill her in before. So at least tell her.”

I had not thought about that, because I was sure that she