there was a whole generation of reporters, bill cavage, jack nelson and others who went south in the -- in the early '60s and covered the civil rights movement, who then became bureau chiefs and senior reporters and those are the people you -- there was a -- developed a great rapport with them. but the point is, it's not -- that's irrelevant. what's relevant is you had to keep the public informed as you moved along. >> i'm going to move so some things that might not have been o'brien decisions. >> thank god. >> the decision not to investigate. to actually base the whole proceeding on the work done by the watergate special prosecution force, the senate watergate committee. >> i don't know -- i remember that was a decision made. >> yeah. >> but that was a decision made, i mean i was sitting there, but sort of that was way above me kind of thing i didn't understand but that was a decision made within the committee, within the leadership of the house, and with the staff, and with the -- i mean, that's -- they came to that conclusion. but i don't -- i think they thought they had everythin