the war on vietnam with linden johnson. eventually he began to soften, remembering how extraordinary linden johnson was. remembering young john kennedy, robert kennedy, remembering jackie kennedy. it was like toasting all these people that had been his great friends. and my advice for people would be so often you wait when a loved one is older to go through their stuff. you are left with it after they die and it becomes a really sad going through. but what if you start those memories before they die and you can go back to pictures again. what you always want from a person is the person who dies, who you love. you want to tell their story to their children and grandchildren, so they live on through the stories you tell. so maybe if you start that process and go through the scrapbooks and get the memories told, so we could tell the story. >> going through all the history now, you have to propose that on what's happening in the world today? >> it makes me feel heartbroken in some ways that we're missing that sense of a positiv