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Then there's another call. This time the secretary says it's John Brademus, who's a member of Congress.

He's from Indiana, right?

Yes. And the conversation goes, “Yes, John, yes. Your colleague is here, Congressman ‘Katz.”’ So he finishes. And then I say, “Your Eminence I don't know if I can help, but I'd like to try. Let me try to call somebody in the State Department. I know some people there, and see if I can't do something to be of assistance.”

He says to me as I start making my calls: “You are an unusual man, Mr. ‘Katz.’ You do things.” I'm trying to give you the inflection. “You just don't talk.” Because I started making calls right in front of him. And I called a friend of mine, Phil Trimble, who's a lawyer in the State Department. He had just become a member of the State Department that year and is running an economic law section -- he's a very good friend of mine from New York. He worked on several of my campaigns. He's a Democrat. It amazed him to be able to get a job with the Nixon Administration. Anyway I said, “Phil, I'm sitting in the office of the archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church. He's just gotten two calls, one from Ted Kennedy, one from John Brademus. He says he's been trying to get in touch with the Secretary of State for a number of weeks, nobody takes his calls, nobody answers his letters; he's not given an opportunity to meet with the President or the Secretary. He is furious. I think you're all crazy down there