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Exactly, right. Okay. Well, Carol comes in and Marty is there, Marty Berger, and we have a press conference that was just terrific, the best one I've ever had. The formal statement was done by Henry Stern, a lovely statement, one page. But then we're pretty good. I mean Carol and I are pretty good with the media, and Marty Berger isn't bad. We did a bang-up job.

That afternoon about two o'clock there's a call from Lindsay. I'd never really spoken to him in any personal way before. We had met. The conversation goes something like this: He says, “Ed, I've just heard that you came out for me, and I want to tell you” -- it sounded as though he was talking to Frank Costello --“I'll never forget what you did.” That kind of statement. I said, “John, it's nothing. It was the right thing to do.” You know, very well mannered, so to speak.

Now, on Tuesday the Daily News the banner headline on the front page, the biggest headline I've ever been involved in. And there were actually two versions of it. I don't know. But sometimes they carry two versions of the same banner headline, two different editions. One said, “Johnson-Humphrey Endorse Beame -- Dem Chief Koch Supports Lindsay,” in the same size. I mean “Johnson-Humphrey -- Dem Chief Koch.” I mean crazy. The other varient of that headline was that