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maybe later on you will understand.” I called Paul Robeson Jr., whose a friend of Gil. He says, “You did the right thing. Don't worry, don't worry. Don't worry about it.”

That was a crisis! [laughs] That was before the election. That was a Thursday before the election.

The election began --

Monday. It would have been on Sunday.

Moe, you have to comment on the role that Georgiana played in relationship to this whole thing.

Georgiana played -- she went into every hospital. Every day she was out there talking to workers and talking to people all of the time. Remember, you couldn't find -- we didn't have meetings going on all over. She had to go one on one, go to chapter meetings. You go to meetings, they raided the meetings, interrupted. She did everything that anybody could ask of her.

But in terms of her qualifications? I know it's a delicate question, but she was someone who just -- I mean not too many would have been able to debate Turner.

I would compare her -- I would make an analogy, roughly, to that of Corazon Aquino. That she knows enough. She doesn't know too much, alot of this is new to her. She is learning. She recognizes that she doesn't know. She is surrounding herself with people. I think -- you know that October 6, Monday, will be 100 days. There has been a radical transformation. There was a conference where the demands were worked out, attended by 400 people, all day Saturday. There's a negotiating committee of 100 people. This past week the hospital delegate assembly met with only one disruption, and it was a positive meeting. The guild delegate assembly met on Thursday. 500 people were there. They swore in 250 new delegates. My sister-in-law, who is not given to superlatives, said, “It was terrific. It was wonderful. There was such enthusiasm.” She said, “Georgiana was wonderful.”

But work is being done by alot of people. Dennis is running around, Bob, and Eddy Kay. I am not working as hard as they are, but I'm available all the time on this thing. But alot of new people working like crazy. 100 new staff people out in the field, being taught to train. You got five negotiations going on. Beth Israel Hospital left the league on Friday. There's a negotiation with the Catholic hospitals, with NYU which is out of the league, with the homes, with the league, and now