Well, Madam Lavallée, I'll try to be brief, but I have to tell you that for a long, long time I had almost incessant telephone calls from both these men, both my friends, not wanting to talk about sports or business or public affairs, but only to complain about each other. Each one would ask, “What's the other doing? What's he thinking? What's he saying?”
Finally, I got to the point where I wanted to see this thing come to an end one way or the other--legal affairs, personal affairs. I thought the least I could do, as a friend, for both of them was to suggest the obvious thing: how about an apology?