attributable to 31 of his ambassadors, and then another $3 million was attributable to six people who were apspiring to be ambassadors. the selling of manships was also mentioned in oral arguments the supreme court in the buckley case. hopefully this will work. >> campaign contributions, the gifts for people and the ambassadors, the campaigns, specific contributions and connections, but participate in favorable actions and large number of corporate officials who were convicted and many of them pleaded guilty to illegal campaign contributions. and it's the vast increase in the course. >> so that's from the buckley oral argument, and that's one of the government's lawyers talking to the justices as if we all know the problem of watergate and money and politics. what's interesting is once you get the actual buckley opinion, there's no mention of selling the ambassadorships and for younger lawyers whose entry into learning about this is often reading the buckley case. it's a fact of history that just has fallen away, so the people in the room knew it was going on, but as generations have gone by, you ha