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in loyalty.

So they assigned to me one minute. And I must say to you: the speech that I made was one that people still talk about as one of the memorable speeches in Congress. It's amazing. I hadn't planned it. It's in the Democratic caucus. He has a couple of other people get up, and they make the usual riprousing speeches, and I get up and I say, “I know that a lot of you out here are wondering. ‘What's a nice guy like Ed Koch doing down here in the well speaking for a guy like Wayne Hays?”' The place broke up. They really broke up. They remember it not as “what's a nice guy...” but “what's a nice Jewish guy...” But I didn't say that. I said, “What's a nice guy like Ed Koch...” I said, “I'm doing it because he's a superb chairman. HE is -- no question about it -- arrogant and a bully at times, and our relationship has not always been the best. I remember standing on this floor engaged in debate when I spoke out that we ought to use the death of Ho Ch-Mihn to extend the hand of friendship to the North Vietname when they were in their most miserable hour, and Wayne Hays got up and he denounced me as an emissary from Hanoi. And they roared. And then I said, “But he apologized....a year later.” That was really the heart of the whole thing. And he won, and Carl Albert came over to me and said, “If he wins [this was before the vote] you did it -- you did it.” And people remember that, as does Wayne Hays.

So where else are we?