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But so long as it's somebody else's neighborhood, why care? Right? ANd that's the hypocrisy of it all. That's the hypocrisy of it all. So it's to try to get this out to people. It was impossible, impossible in the space of six or eight months, which was the course of my campaign. I'd announced or decided in October of 1972, and I withdrew. I decided in October maybe but had to announce after I got elected. I had to get elected in '72 to Congress. You can't announce before you get elected in the other one. But very quickly after my re-election, then I'm running for mayor, and then I withdraw in March of 1973, so it's not a very long time. And in that course of time I spent $100,000 on salaries for about eight or nine people.

Well, it was impossible to get my positions across and to get people to know me. I was perceived as an arch liberal. That isn't true anymore. I think my positions are much better known today.

They're known city-wide.

City-wide, I think so, and I've got an enormous amount of publicity because I'm involved in so many things. The nicest thing that ever has happened to me is that story that Marty Tolchin did on me, the profile in the New York Times, where he said... It had two captions. The evening paper carried one, the early edition and then the later one. Both are marvelous