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I didn't get that.

Were there particular kinds of public presentations or crises that he was dealing with that he wanted your specific help on?

I might be mixing up a lot of things in the memory of that period, but one of the things he talked a great deal about were all the bills that were stuck in Congress, that Kennedy had sent up but just hadn't moved. He had said that the first thing he was going to do, as a tribute to Jack, was to get that legislation passed, and that he was going to go about it systematically and he just wanted to talk out-loud about it, because there wasn't anything I could do to help get that legislation passed.

It did indicate to me, in contradistinction to the way [William Jefferson “Bill”] Clinton is behaving, that he wasn't going to move across the entire spectrum of the Hill. He was going to prioritize -- a word that he never used and wouldn't have used -- but he was going to assign one, two and three to things to get done and pushed, and get them done. A very shrewd, I think, political move, as against what we see happening now, and it comes into sharp focus for me, because I sat through a very small meeting with Mrs. [Hillary Rodham] Clinton last Friday at Willliamsburg. She was most impressive in terms of her command of the situation and her method of presentation. She is one, I think, very smart woman and a litigator and well-prepared to stand up in front of a jury, so to speak, and present her case.

This was a group of about sixty CEOs that meet. It's the Business Council. She talked for