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In ‘69: ‘69 was what I call my salad year. (laughs) My first year. After that it was all downhill. (laughs)

But the truth is: it was my major... I broke new ground. I really did -- Federal Privacy, marijuana, mass transit, trust fund. That was all new ground. And I'm very prolific in the area of legislation. I think... We once did a sheet on all the legislation in any one year that I did and we sent it out to people. I took only really the best, but we took 50 of my bills -- and only my bills, not bills that I'm a co-sponsor of -- and they were all very good, and we had them on a sheet and sent them out to people, and people loved it. They said “You're really into this” because I get involved in a lot of things. And then I let my office do a lot of things in terms of initiating work. The staff people who have a special interest -- they'll go out and they'll do it.

Once we had an intern who was very much involved in safety on ships, and he got a lot of research done, and he thought I should introduce legislation which would mandate double bottoms for oil tankers and a whole host of safety measures, and I thought it was pretty good. It scared the shit out of the oil industry. We introduced the bill, see, and they came running in like it was going to become law, and it would have been very expensive -- I suspect pretty good, but I'm not really sure. In any event, when they came running in, I decided I really ought to check it out and get in touch with the Library of Congress and see whether these proposals made by my intern, which were going to cost billions of dollars, if enacted, should