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Right, yes. It wasn't bad. But they wanted to condemn him, to make him look like a horse's ass. The opinion makers can do that to you. I suspect some day they'll do it to me. They have not thus far.

So what I'm driving at is at the end of this luncheon people came over -- they were ecstatic. And over and over again they would say, “It's so refreshing to hear the truth. It's so refreshing for someone to say what's on their mind.” And that's known in my district. People know that I tell them the truth.

This morning I had my constituent hour. Three guys, late middle age, came. My constituent hour is from 9 to 10 every Friday when Congress is not in session and now that we're going into session on Fridays, it will be every Saturday morning from probably ten to 11 on Saturday morning. So people come. They're sent cards. I send out about 10,000 cards saying I'll be there, and I do it four Fridays or four Saturdays in the month in a particular place and then go on to some other place the following month. So for the month of January 1976, it's in the Salisbury Hotel on 57th Street. They give me a room there free, and then maybe next month it'll be in a church. It's always free. I never pay anything for this. They do it as a public service.

So three guys come in. They identify themselves as Businessmen against the War. That was a group that was involved in stopping the Vietnam War. So I said, “I know the group.” They said, “We're here to talk to you about Angola.” So I said,