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club, of course, supported me.

I can't remember anymore -- maybe I can refresh my recollections -- but anyway it was a very split operation. Passannante was well liked by people. He had a reasonably good record and a reasonably liberal record for one who came out of the south Village and whose constituency in great part was very conservative. But in any event, I lost that race; I lost as a result of the intervention against me by Senator Lehman and Bob Wagner, Sr. It was a very interesting operation that occurred.

Let me see now I can phrase it: I'm the candidate for the Assembly; Lanigan is the district leader and very supportive of me -- he owes me a lot for having helped him in his race for district leader. There is a state convention; we elect delegates to the state convention in 1962. Jim Farley, who's still alive (I just saw him on television the other day; he's a magnificent person, clear mind, walks as straight as an arrow): he wanted to go to the convention, but he was not a delegate who offered himself -- he just wanted to be appointed. And Costikyan, who was then county leader, and Wagner and Lehman wanted him appointed, and the Village Independent Democrats said, “No, we will not appoint him as one of the delegates. He doesn't stand for our philosophy, and we will not do it.” The other two clubs in the area, which would be the Tilden and the Murray Hill clubs, both were willing to but they were locked in with us. The delegates came out of one package, and it required our consent if he was