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a story and then I drop out the next day or something like that. So I say to him: “Mickie.” He tells me this will appear maybe next week or something like that. I said, “Mickie, if I were you, if you want your story to still have a living personality in it, I'd run it quicker than that.” I didn't want to say, “I'm dropping out,” because I didn't want that in the article. It's an ongoing article. But he's a very decent guy, and he clearly understood what was being suggested here. And so the story was run maybe the next day. It was a lovely story. I'm really so good on the street, in all candor, on a one-to- one basis with people, and he said, “Koch walks into this OTE parlor in Queens and he says, ‘These guys -- they don't want to be bothered with anything. They're interested in their bets.’ Koch gets up and walks in and says to everybody, ‘Everybody, I'm Ed Koch. I want your vote. I'm not going to take your time. And remember, in the exacta it's EK.” I'm not a horse race guy but that's a race that they run, and they do it by letters. And he put that into the profile, and it was rather nice. And they all applauded. (laughs)

This concludes the interview with Congressman Koch January 9, 1976.