【正文】 ruin his was not an apology, nor was it an was his last remark about the possibility of our going out or reference to his july of 1983, i left washington, dc area and have had minimal contactwith judge clarence thomas am of course aware from the press that some questions have been raised about conversations i had with judge clarence thomas after i left the 1983 until today, i have seen judge thomas only one occasion, i needed to get a reference from him, and on another he made a public appearance in one occasion he called me at home and we had an inconsequential one occasion he called me without reaching me, and i returned the call without reaching him, and nothing came of have on at least three occasions, been asked to act as a conduit to him for knew his secretary, diane had worked together at both eeoc and were occasions on which i spoke to her, and on some of these occasions undoubtedly i passed on some casual ment to then chairman were a series of calls in the first three months of 1985, occasioned by a group in tulsa, which wished to have a civil rights wanted judge thomas to be the speaker and enlisted my assistance for this did call in january and february to no effect, and finally suggested to the person directly involved, susan cahal(ph)that she put the matter into her own hands and call did so in march of connection with that march invitation, (ph)wanted conference materials for the seminar and some research was was asked to try to get the information and did attempted to do was another call about another possible conference in july of august of 1987, i was in washington, dc and i did call diane the course of this conversation, she asked me how long i was going to be in town and i told is recorded in the message as august was, in fact, august told me about judge thomas39。s marriage and i did say congratulate is only after a great deal of agonizing consideration that i am able to talk of these unpleasant matters to anyone except my closest i39。ve said before these last few days have been very trying and very hard for me and it hasn39。t just been the last few days this has actually been over a month now that i have been under the strain of this the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this may have used poor judgment early on in my relationship with this was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future i did not want early on to burn all the bridges to the i said, i may have used poor i should have taken angry or even militant steps, both when i was in the agency, or after i left i must confess to the world that the course that i took seemed the better as well as the easier declined any ment to newspapers, but later when senate staff asked me about these matters i felt i had a duty to have no personal vendetta against clarence seek only to provide the mittee with information which it may regard as would have been more fortable to remain took no initiative to inform when i was asked by a representative of this mittee to report my experience, i felt that i had to tell the could not keep silent.