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think we can get a bill that's limited to cities of on emillion or more.” That's how you write a bill for New York City.

So I said, “Well, now you're going back on your word.” I'm trying to be tough, and I know, thank goodness, we'll get a bill from New York City.

They say, “Okay?”

I said, “Well, I've got to check.” I make a couple of calls down to New York. It's late at night. Every night I would call down, but I would call late at night, like 11:30, to Jimmy Wechsler at home to go over what he should do for the next day.

But at any rate, the bill passed that way. I remember Davis, by that time, was home and able to meet with people. When I called in from Albany, I said, “The bill has passed.

They said, “Moe, come back. We're going to have a party. We're going to celebrate.”

I said, “How am I going to get back?”

They said, “Is there a plane? Take a plane.”

I said, “I'll find out.” So I took a plane like 9:30 that night, and I hadn't eaten anything, and so I grabbed a bite as I was waiting for the plane. On the plane I threw up all over the place. It was one of these small planes, like twenty people, you know, and I'd never been in -- and I was throwing up. When I came to Davis' home right here, Bill Taylor was there, Elliott was there, Jesse was there, my wife was there, Julia was there, just a few people were there. I was like a sheet of green. To celebrate this thing.

Anyway, so the bill was passed.

Exactly when, do you remember?

The bill was passed--I could find out for you. I don't have it right here.

It was late in 1962.

March of '63, yes.

So next year already?

Next year, yes. 1962 rolls into '63. See, the governor is elected in November. The session began in '63.