connie stewart who was mrs. nixon's staff director and press secretary talking about this trip to peru which i think hopefully, it will work. >> no. >> and it doesn't. >> you know, i think somebody saw that the artist won an academy award with best picture of that silent movie, and that's what's going on. >> you can donate to the archives by going on www. -- >> no, in peru, they suffered a devastating earthquake. tens of thousands of people killed. many more, tens of thousands, left homeless. the need was great. mrs. nixon went to peru. julie, can you tell us a bill about why she went there and why that happened? >> how she went there? >> yes. >> earthquake was high in the andies, so it took three weeks for the full magnitude of the disaster to be known. 80,000 people died. 400,000 homeless. and my parents were at camp david because it was their anniversary. and my mother was reading the reports of just how terrible. she said, oh, what can i do? i feel like i want to do something. and so my father said to her, w