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administrations. You know, at that time Lindsay had already set up ten administrations: HUD and parks and whatever it was, and I was going to have an expert in each one of these administrations. I thought it was a brilliant idea myself, because they would really be helpful to me, and I never cared about money. Money has never been a matter I've been interested in so long as I had enough money to satisfy a very modest appetite. I live modestly and I dress modestly and I entertain modestly, and I enjoy life. I have never had to worry about satisfying these needs, because my desires are not for spending money. I'd much prefer to go to some modest Village restaurant than to go to the Four Seasons. I don't really enjoy going to the Four Seasons the same way that I enjoy going to Livorno and having a $6 meal as opposed to a $60 meal in the Four Seasons, and I've had both. At the Four Seasons it wasn't paid for by me, but I've had both.

So this gets a lot of attention, and then I win. This announcement is made maybe a week before the election, and right after I win, a New York Times reporter calls me up, Charlie Bennett -- he's now retired. He calls me up and he says, “Congressman, you said that you were going to hire ten people at $500 each, $5000 expense account, and I think you're unaware of the fact that you made a mistake, because the increase from 3 to 5 was not