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And he did help. And Mitchell, then Attorney-General, issued a letter. I think it was addressed to Manny Cellar, but Manny Cellar immediately brought me into it and we had our press conference on it, and it said that anybody (while there was a reference to Jews, the parole authority was for anybody) permitted to leave the Soviet Union could come here without regard to quota restrictions, and that is still the rule today -- that if you're allowed out, you can come here and you don't have to worry about quotas. Now, not many are allowed out and not many come here. But I welcomed the first family to come under that parole authority at Kennedy. They called me up, the Jewish group, and it was a husband and wife with a couple of kids. The wife must have been a 200-pound lady and the husband a rather thin guy, and the wife's occupation (they put occupations on the Soviet papers) was boiler stoker. (laughs) She was a superintendent, but she would shovel coal, and she looked like she could, too. So I welcomed them. That was very nice that I could do that.

I find these things trigger other things, do you want me to go into them?

Yes, surely.

Especially this Jewish area. I was on the floor early in my career when there was a discussion on foreign aid bills, and