She made and broke a lot of promises to western New York.

My steamer trunk was packed to go, ... when my sister told me about a friend of hers in New York, a former center at Michigan who was coaching the centers at Yale. His name was Jerry Ford, the future president of the United States.

He showed up for his probation appointment in New York and they served him with a warrant.

When the guidelines say 'moderate by local standards,' you know that's different from Billings, Montana, to New York City, so the companies do find room for interpretation. The menus haven't changed a great deal. It's just that wine and other alcoholic beverages aren't served, and the hors d'oeuvres are not as lavish. But these days that has as much to do with budgetary constraints as compliance issues.

It's bittersweet. When you've identified yourself as a member of the New York Stock Exchange for 33 years, to lose that, is disappointing to some degree.

First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got.