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Ruth Gage-Colby. He should have known that she didn't have the right to send this out, and he did it maliciously.” Well, there may be something to that (laughs) “And write to him.” I put that stuff in the Record. And I never got one letter, which shows what I consider to be the lack of depth in the Women's Strike for Peace movement. Can you imagine that? They send out their Bulletin -- I don't know how many thousands; they've got a huge mailing list. Not one letter denouncing me from the Women's Strike for Peace people as a result of their asking their membership to write to me to denounce me. They said, “He must apologize. Demand that he apologize.” Well, that's the story. That's one of the things I love doing. We have to stop.

Are you willing to state for the record here that in case the Senate race became Abzug vs. Buckley, who would you like to vote for?

Well, I will never support in a public way someone against the Democratic candidate for the Senate, and so I will not express a personal support of a candidate -- for example, if it were Abzug against Buckley. I will not be on Bella's stationery. That's impossible. I will never do it. If anybody asks me what my position is, it will be: “I support the Democratic ticket.” Okay.

In the conclusion of the interview with Congressman Koch on January 5, 1976, he said that he intended to put this