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resigning from the club, and he calls the club dialectically involved.” I mean the thrust of Lanigan's comments, as reported to us by Katcher, is that the club is a commie club -- you know, engaged in dialectics and that sort of thing.

Oh, we just didn't know what to do. We said, “We don't believe it; we just don't believe it.”

He said, “Well, the letter also indicates that a copy has been sent to Stanley Geller,” who was then maybe the president of the club. We waited all day. You see, Labor Day that week-end: no mail. I think one of our people was a page or something at the New York Post, and we sent him up there to see if he couldn't get hold of the letter in some covert way so that we could find out whether we should have a press conference to respond to it, because we didn't want to respond to something that maybe had never taken place, and we just didn't want to believe Ed Katcher. But we did not get the letter until Tuesday morning, so what we did was: prior to that, we called a press conference. We didn't tell the people at the press conference what it was about, but it was a press conference scheduled for Tuesday morning in the event that we got the letter on Tuesday morning. We would be able to respond to the letter. And sure enough, the letter came Tuesday morning at Stanley Geller's house resigning, a copy of the letter that had been sent to the Post. It appeared in the Post, and we had a press conference. I may have my dates wrong. It may be that the following week-end was election day; I cannot be sure about that.