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Well, for whatever reasons they considered me to be a key guy that they wanted to vote for him -- because I'm Jewish and I'm secretary of the delegation and I come from the east side of Manhattan and I had been friendly to him. So they were really working like dogs to get me. “What is it that you want?” said Cannon. I said, “I want a letter changing his position. That's what I want.” “Well, would you dictate the letter to us?” I said, “No, no, I'm not dictating a letter. I'll give you some ideas, but I am not dictating the letter.”

He brings over a letter. The letter goes something like this. I have all this correspondence. I keep all this stuff. I can't remember whether I sent the letter to him in which I said, “What did you mean when you said, “They took their land away?” I'd appreciate your elaborating on that.” A letter comes back: “On the history of land ownership in Palestine, I would urge a reading of,” and he gives me a compendium of books to read. Dopey, just dopey. He was turning it into land titles, like the board of registry in some county.

So Cannon shows me the letter and he says, “Is that all right?” I said, “This? This makes it worse. I am not voting for him” So he said, “What do you want” I said, “I want a letter in which he withdraws that statement and apologizes for it and in which he says that Israel should not recognize the PLO.” So he says, “What kind of language?” I said, “I would like a line