| (1) | Cost of transportation to and from press breakfast for this reporter (by subway) | $1.00 |
| (2) | Cost of clothes this reporter wore to press breakfast, including makeup and hairpins (wild guess) | $65.00 |
| (3) | Cost of building in which press breakfast was held | $40,000,000.00 |
| (4) | Cost of transportation to and fro for other reporters (off-the-top-of-the-head guess, making allowance for the fact that some of them may have taken cabs, or the train from Connecticut) | $250.00 |
| (5) | Cost of clothes other reporters wore to press breakfast (too complicated to make even a wild guess) | |
| (6) | Cost of heating pressroom for a couple of hours (an-other wild guess) | $10.00 |
| (7) | Cost of Milton Friedman’s well-pressed suit | $250.00 |
| (8) | Cost of Milton Friedman’s shiny black made-in-Hong Kong shoes | $20.00 |
| (9) | Cost of Milton Friedman’s tie (with a pattern of Adam Smith portraits) | $10.00 |
| (10) | Cost of Milton Friedman’s neat haircut | $5.00 |
| (11) | Cost of Rose Friedman’s royal-blue Ultrasuede suit | $300.00 |
| (12) | Cost of Rose Friedman’s blue polyester blouse | $35.00 |
| (13) | Cost of Rose Friedman’s black mid-calf-length boots | $50.00 |
| (14) | Cost of Rose Friedman’s brown Mark Cross handbag | $100.00 |
| (15) | Cost of breakfast (including coffee, cream, sugar, 6-oz.- can servings of orange juice, fruit cup, bagels and bialys, smoked salmon, cream cheese, tea, and two people to serve the guests) | $420.00 |
| (16) | Cost of press kits (including one or two free books given to press people) | $500.00 |
| (17) | Cost of phone calls made by press people from the press breakfast to the office | $1.75 |
| (18) | Cost of ball-point pen held by reporter who looked like the actor who played Dr. No in the movie Dr. No | $.59 |
| Total | $40,002,018.34 | |
| —January 20, 1980 |