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I thought it was wrong. I didn't really say anything, not in my area. I had mentioned to Ben Rosenthal, who's the Congressman in that area, “I think it's terrible what we're doing to those people, and if you ever want me to join with you, I'll join with you.” I was then on the Banking and Currency Committee in Congress, so I had some jurisdiction over housing because we handle housing. He was not keen on it, and the reason was that although he knew what was happening was wrong, that movement of stopping the city had been seized by the fanatic right. Jerry Birbach was one of those people, and nobody likes to be identified with the fanatic right if you are on the left. I know that's true on a whole host of issues where you'd like to get involved and stay out of it simply because you don't want to be identified. Flurodation is one of those issues. We can talk about that later, but that has been seized by the fanatic right.
But one morning a friend of mine, who is now dead, George Bady (the fact is he had occupied this apartment before he moved to another place where he ultimately died, and I'm very grateful to him because I love this apartment, and it was through him that I got this apartment), said, “Would you like to have breakfast?” and I said, “Sure.” So we start to go looking for a place for breakfast on Sunday morning, and he says, “You know, I'd like to go out and see this Forest Hills project,” which was then a
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