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The President ran afoul of the conservative elements in the country because he wanted to correct an injustice in the Panama Canal. And things became more complicated when Jimmy had to accept the resignation of Burt Lance and alibi the "mouthings" of the younger brother Billy.

Ed Koch, who even of a lesser legislator, was not known for a toothy smile or a wry humor; faced with a horrendous budget which said "cut of face bankruptcy," chose to use a " meat cleaver" approach towards solving his budgetary problems.

Now, no right thinking citizen would quarrel with Koch who faced an equally as horrendous task as Jimmy Carter to cut and come into line— And no right thinking citizen who counts votes could argue effectively against what the Mayor had to do—but Ed, unlike Jimmy, chose to ride roughshod over all dissenters. And as expected, the poor, Blacks and the hispanics rebelled against his methods. 

And Ed, ever so sensitive about this rebellion, resorted to insults, rhetoric, and name calling — And the folks also responded.

Ed further alienated the Blacks and hispanics who had no voice in the Board of Estimate by hiring a staff which Blacks and hispanics said showed as much insensitivity to their needs as the Mayor does.

In fact, his Welfare Commissioner was accused of gross insensitivity by the powerful Association of Black Social Workers. A recall of Ed Movement which is still floundering at this writing was started by a Black Brooklyn legislator who objected to the Mayor's slashing of the City's Model Cities programs and because of the insensitivity of his police who could not give proper reasons for the death of a Brooklyn Black community leader and because his police could not tell the Black Community what they were doing when a group of Hasidic Jews attacked a 16 year old black, or why Koch's police took a month to arrest anyone after an incident in which some Hasidics wrecked a police precinct.

The Mayor took particular offense to Reverend Daughtery, a Brooklyn Black Minister because he led a march on his City Hall — He took offense to the Black Baptist Minister alliance because they too, protested his "Meat cleaver" handlings of situations involving Blacks and the poor. Ed became emotionally incensed when the Ministers warned him not to come to Harlem and refused him the forum of their pulpit, the day the Community celebrated Martin Luther King's birthday.

The Black Community also felt that the Mayor's choice of a Black Deputy, one Haskell "The Mayor is my Boss." Ward was as insensitive to their needs as the Mayor himself. The Black leaders accused Ward of being the Mayor's hatchet man.

Things with Ed Koch and the Community continued to deteriorate as time passed more level heads in the Black Community who count the votes began saying there should be a better way to breach Ed Koch.

Koch, beating his chest, and declaring himself the Mayor of all New York arranged a Harlem town hall meeting but only after the police had spent a week setting up all sorts of security measures to insure his safety.

The Mayor came to I.S. 201, held his meeting and as predicted, the meeting met with opposition. But old Ed missed the whole point of his visit. The next day after the Harlem meeting, Ed said, "only a few malcon-

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