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I did not.

Or have you ever thought of the issue raised here, whether or not there was anything wrong with the legal reasoning that brought about the decision?

I'm not a legal scholar, so I can't get into that aspect of it, but I can tell you it hasn't worked; and if the Supreme Court had spent the time on getting equality in the area of jobs, we'd be much further ahead, and we wouldn't have the feelings that we have today. I want to talk to you about the jobs. And Marvin Frankel, who's a good friend of mine -- he's a federal judge --

But in any event, the reasons that I thought initially we had to have racial balance, which I reject now, were the following: (1) that black schools were not getting sufficient monies because the white schools as a result of the pressures of those schools’ parents were getting more monies. That isn't true. Black schools (we're now talking about where they're funded centrally, as they are in the city of New York; I'm not talking about where you have in different areas higher taxes in an area, and there there is legitimate objection to be taken, but even there you have changes in the states. In New Jersey you no longer are funding schools out of property taxes; you are funding them centrally out of the public treasury, and I think that should be done across the country so that you don't have poor neighborhood where school taxes are raised locally out of