If they came around on all the other issues, we'd have to take a hard and serious look at whether to include the pension plan or doing something else. But if they won't hire back the guys they fired, I don't see how we can do it.

We've seen this before in other situations. You stall and delay, hire a bare majority, put in new work conditions. You meet once a month, two hours at a time, refuse to budge on any major issues, and drag it out until they vote out the union altogether.

We've seen this soft-bust union strategy before. We decided to pull the plug right then and there.

We teach them to read in kindergarten, which makes a difference.

We didn't have any champagne to toast each other. But we did have some Diet Cokes up there. We lifted the Diet Cokes.

I don't drink much anymore, but when I traveled with Frank Sinatra, God rest his soul, I used to drink like I could do it. He made it a test. In Vegas, the Rat Pack, which I was a little part of, drank all night and slept most of the day. Then, about 5 o'clock, we'd meet in the hotel steam room, lock the door, and steam our brains out.