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Why don't you at least talk to him even if you can't do anything?” So he said, “Let me see what I can do and I'll call you back.” He calls back a few minutes later and he says -- I think he said he had spoken to Eagleberger, I'm not sure, but that would be Kissinger's number one assistant at that time, but he spoke to somebody -- “what they say is, ‘will it be okay if Sisco calls him?’ and he'll do it right away.” So I say, “Of course it will be okay.” He said, “The Secretary just can't call, but Sisco will.” He's a very important guy who became the number one guy in the Middle East, a very able guy. So I say, “Your Eminence, I've spoken to my friend, and my friend says that Undersecretary Sisco is going to call you in a few minutes if it's okay.” He said, “Yes.”

A few minutes later, the secretary says. “Your Eminence, Undersecretary Joseph Sisco is on the phone.” “Yes, Mr. Undersecretary,” and then whatever it was. He said, “Yes, I shall convey that to the Prime Minister.” Iakovos was going that very night to Greece. Okay. He says to me: “You are a wonderful man.” He says that to me. I say, “Your Eminence, I must tell you, I'm really so overwhelmed with-your pain, and I want you to know that whatever I can do, you just have to let me know. And if it's within my power, I'm going to do it. I'm going to help you.”

Well, of course, I became involved in the fight to cut off aid to Turkey. The leaders of that fight were Rosenthal, who's on