she said can you get a car and let's go to ballbeck. i said what is ballbeck? i said it's supposed to be a rest stop. and she said, i may never get here again. and so it was very short order and we were in a car going up over the lebanon mountains, past big stacks of -- men with big stacks of this wonderful flatbread on their heads going through the olive groves and the orchards into ballbeck. we just saw civilization upon civilization upon civilization. and so i'm so grateful to her for bringing me along for the great adventure. but also for taking me to ballbeck. >> now, you brought up the circumstances surrounding the beginning of the johnson presidency. i'll give you an opportunity to respond. recently i came across an oral history with a member of the marine band who is a violinist, russian violinist, a great artist, who complained that the first -- of the johnson presidency, i think he said it was upstairs, anyway they were performing, and you came up and said "what the hell are you playing?" >> i never would have said that! never! never, never! a curse u