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instructions said [and I must say it was also David Brown, who was involved in the negotiating], “Well, Ed takes the position that what we want to avoid is that on election day literature is handed out at the polls which cannot be responded to. What good does it do to have arbitration and mediation after the election if there's unfair literature? And therefore he takes the position that no literature can be published unless the other side has seen it to make sure that it doesn't contain unfair material, so that we can make a request for arbitration in advance of handing it out.”

Well, I had a real scheme involved, which Ruskin (because he's a bright guy) grasped in part, and Seymour (because he's not bright) did not grasp. And Ruskin says, “Oh, we're not going to give you our literature in advance.” I said, “Only if it has my name on it remember.” “No, we're not going to do that.” I said, “Well, then I'm going to have to take this up with Seymour. I'm sure his ethics are going to insist on accepting what I consider to be a very reasonable proposal.”

Seymour gets on the phone and I said, Listen, Mike, I believe it would be an outrage for you or I were to attack one another in an unfair way. I don't expect it to happen, but if we were. And then we're left with nothing to do except to complain after the election. What good is that?” So he concurred. And we signed the letter of agreement: no literature mentioning the other person could be issued in advance of having been