but before i got there, i did end up going to -- well, first, i went and worked for carl albert and i would like to just take a minute and tell you how that happened because it's not the kind of thing that just -- you would ever plan for. and it's one of those things where, you know, life may be good to you and give you something good back and then you go and you blow it. you know, stick your foot in your mouth or something and you say the wrong thing, oh, no and this is a good example of how you can stick your foot in your mouth. smile a lot and they forgive you and you still get through it all. but when i was the presidential scholar and that happened in 1969, they have a boy and girl from each state up to washington up to meet the president. well, this is nixon and say what you will he was president then and so we were all excited. yeah, i'm going to go see nixon. well, the vietnam war was going on, too, and nixon was held up in vietnam, in south vietnam. and so he was late coming back from our luncheon. and so everybody, thought, oh, next day, next day so they took us on some tour