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If you can bear with me for a few more minutes, there is another level I would like to explore--if I'm not interrupting your thought. Did you want to finish a thought you were having?

Say that again?

If I'm not interrupting your train of thought, there's another series of questions I'd like--

No, go ahead.

It's kind of obvious, in a way, that she would have had a great influence over something that would have really changed your lives, such as moving to Washington, being the wife of a senator--which we really haven't discussed today, but which was one option open to you at one time. But I'm interested in her influence on your daily life and your work in broadcasting. How much of an interest did she take, even in the early days, in the various aspects of the business, and what parts of the business was she most interested in? Did she have strong opinions about decisions you should make regarding entertainment, star selection, business deals, Hytron, color technology? I'm interested.

Well, in the early days, in Jackson Heights, for example, when I was in audience research, she was very interested in the outcome of the surveys and processing the data and writing conclusions. Because a lot of that stuff I did at night at home. I would share the reports in graph form with her and see whether they made any sense. I figured if she could understand them, my colleagues could. Certainly, sitting at that corner of a settee that was