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he was more civil -- or he was civil.

This is a man that I was invited to spend the Labor Day weekend with Phil Graham, just the three of us, so he wasn't a stranger to me. He was really kicking the hell out of me.

I told him that I would get a print to him wherever he wanted it. And he said he'd be in Georgetown -- that was when he was living in Georgetown with Jackie -- and have it down there Sunday morning and he'd take a look at it. So on Sunday morning I did have it down there. And I expected Sunday afternoon that he would call and say: Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was. (And it really wasn't that inflammatory.) It was just as I described it: the Catholic counties showed how they voted -- against labor counties. Nothing startling about it except that it did document that Catholics, even though they were in a Republican area -- Well, that was the other side of the equation was that we were taking Republican Catholics to see what they did and they went right for Jack in the primary.

Sunday -- no call. Monday, I thought surely I'd get a call in the morning -- no call. And Tuesday, no call. And by that time he was back out on the campaign trail. And I was tempted to get one of our correspondents to ask him a question about whether he'd seen the broadcast, without revealing any of the backlash that I had gotten from Fort Wayne. But I decided to keep the news people out of the picture. And on Wednesday morning, Winnie came in, opened the door and came in holding a letter by the corner this way and brought it over to me, in which he said that he did watch it and he thought it was unfair, but under our system of government, we had the right. So he pushed me in the face in a way and then came back and said the right thing and closed off and so forth.