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the Foreign Affairs Committee,” and it became known as the Rosenthal Amendment, and the two Greeks. There were five Greeks in Congress at the time but two took a major role. One was John Braemus but the other one was Paul Sarbanes, who's from Marylane, now running for the Senate. They're two very smart guys. And I took a role, too, speaking supporting. I don't want to say that I was a leader in the context of these three guys, but I took an active role.

The archbishop had a dinner, his annual dinner when they raise money for charity here, at the Waldorf-Astoria, and they invited as special guests Rosenthal, Brademus, Sarbanes and me to sit on the dais.

Well, the star of course was Rosenthal. When he came in, the place erupted. You had a thousand Greeks out there. It would be like a thousand Jews on something involving Israel of momentous importance to them. The Rosenthal Amendment, which had carried at that point, was to cut off aid to Turkey. I've never seen such a response for the size of the group. It was wonderful. And Rosenthal made one of the best speeches I've ever heard. It was a very short one. He said: “I was wondering what I would say here tonight, and I thought I'd tell you a story. You're probably not going to appreciate it in the way that it's meant, but I'm going to tell you anyway.” He said, “I had lunch with my mother, who lives in New York, today; and she asked me what I was doing tonight -- so I said, “I'm going to a dinner, Mama, that will honor two of my friends in Congress, John