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have brought to the attention of the captain are matters of concern. It's ridiculous. They are matters of great concern to a lot of people. So I take his correspondence and I send that to people on the Planning Board. (laughs) I'm very good at that. And then I just respond to his letters, and I try to do what Bill Buckley does. I happen to be a great admirer of Bill Buckley. I get two hundred letters a day, see? And he must get much more than that. Answering letters is an art now. I get long letters. You can't answer long letters anymore. So you want to be able to find a one- or two-liner, a sentence or two, that captures the feeling of his letter in your response to it, so that that person knows you read his letter and enjoys the response. So that's what I try very hard to do, and I do it with Leo. I'm not going to tell you that the response is necessarily brilliant, but the last letter I sent to him was: “Dear Leo, Your letters are getting foggier and foggier.” (laughs) “Sincerely, all the best.” And that's it.

So we have to stop now.

This concludes the interview on December 30, 1975 with Congressman Koch.