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Yes.

You got the whole thing.

Well, not the print media. But certainly for the networks. Now maybe he was chewing out somebody else at another network, but if he did, I don't know how he got any sleep because he was literally--he'd get on the phone at 7:25. Just before the signoff the phone would ring, and it was Johnson. Or it was his staff, saying the President wanted to- -most of the time he was right on the phone.

Did he give you a lot of hell over the coverage of--I mean, what things did he give you hell about, I should ask.

Well, Vietnam was one of them. When [Walter] Cronkite did his famous piece on Vietnam, he said to me: “It's all over. I can't go on.”

But that was sort of late.

Oh, that was late. He was unhappy--look, this man, as I guess all Presidents are, are very sensitive about anything you say that doesn't make them look good. I think there were times when Nixon was probably right that we weren't giving both sides of the story as well as--but they weren't giving us the information. They wouldn't come clean.

When did you start to sense that the Pentagon was censoring information about the