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Rooney always was able to put in little bits of legislation to give Jewish organizations in Jerusalem money. I resented that. I didn't really like that, to pick out Jewish schools for assistance under the foreign aid bill -- I'm not crazy about that. I'm not crazy about giving individual schools in Lebanon or in France or hospitals. We do that with a lot of countries. I think it's ridiculous myself. But in any event, I was not on the Foreign Affairs Committee or on the Appropriations Committee, but Rooney was, and there was a debate where someone got up and said, “Now, how did this legislation get in the bill?” Monies to some hospitals or some schools in Israel. It was because Rooney had put it in the bill, and he was a very powerful man at the time. So he engaged in the debate, and then Wayne Hays got up and said, “Listen, let's understand what's happening here. I'm for this bill not because these monies are going to be wisely spend or they're necessary. You and I know that you're going to vote for this bill because you've got Jewish constituents and you want to please them.” I really bitterly resented that.

I waited for Wayne Hays to come off the floor, and as he passed me, I said, “Wayne, why is it when in this bill there's money for Taiwan, it's in the national interest; and when there's money for Greece, it's in the national interest; when there's money for Korea, it's in the national interest, but when there's