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Having said that, I'm willing to forget about it.” Of course, I'm not. I'm telling the tape here, but I'm really not You never can forget those things, but at least you can have a working relationship.

One other story about Dellums and then maybe we'll stop. After the October war or maybe even during it, the $2.2 billion to provide arms to replenish Israel was on the floor. And prior to that, because of the bad relations of blacks and Jews, Rosenthal, Dellums, Rangel and myself had a dinner meeting at Duke Zieberts in Washington. It was a very candid discussion, rather loud for a dinner meeting, where we got a lot of steam off. It was a good meeting, though, talking about blacks and whites and from my point of view how the blacks had screwed the Jews and the blacks on the premise that everybody's anti-black. And there's maybe a lot of truth to both of those things.

In any event, as a result of that conversation, and just the night prior to the vote on the $2.2 billion, I'm home sleeping in Washington and there is a telephone call about 1:30 in the morning. It's Ron Dellums. He said, “Ed, I knew you wouldn't be sleeping. I know you're a cat like me” whatever that means. And then he proceeds for an hour and a half to tell me how he's going to ruin his career because he can't vote for the $2.2 billion. He can't vote for it because he doesn't believe in arms, and then he says, “If my son were being held up on the street and a guy