another was mcbrown of ohio. a lot of people said, he has a terrible sense of humor. but he was a wonderful guy. if you got underneath that, you would find out what a wonderful fellow he was. he reported to me one day, he says, dingell, my wife is filing for divorce. and she is going to name you as a correspondent. [laughter] we are spending more time together, you and i, than he was with his wife. he would catch hell from his right wing crackpots, and i would have a few crackpots of my own. we would get along and get things done. we can try to do it. we did it because we had trust. and we had friendship. i solved a bunch of real strikes because i had trust and friendship and got the secretaries of transportation up. i said, you don't know me from adam, and i don't know you. we have got to work together. our words have to be good. we have to trust each other. and we did. one of these strikes we solved in 48 hours. the other we solved in 18. probably the worst mistake i ever made as a chairman, because damned if i did not find that they took jurisdiction of railroads a