>> colonel, how did you advance is it without a ron walker and the white house staff of john and all the other people around you. >> nothing is easy without ron walker. but let me go back a second. the chinese, i would occasionally go back to washington and see people that he asked me to see to take the temperature. and i would always visit the chinese embassy, it wasn't an embassy at the time but nevertheless. they said to me we would like -- chairman wa would like to invite president nixon back to china on the anniversary. this was way before we knew there would be a fight between reagan and president ford in new hampshire in february. we didn't announce it. and they said very proudly we're going to send not a plane, we're going to send a boeing 707. they were buying our products now. because the president you have