the first one from us they didn't know how to address the letter from johnson to chris egan, so they have the technical people ask the folks in the kremlin had addressed him and they said comrade chris egan. so they put that on the table and the russians thought we were being flip and but it was an honest mistake and we figured it out later. but again, it is a mideast war. the israelis but it put lbj in a tight spot on the political side of supporters of israel. what he said publicly was stay back out of the fray, but privately he told the israelis to just go ahead and get it over with and make it quick and they did. on the pueblo, the intelligence gathering ship in international waters. they just overwhelmed the crew. they had no time to scuttle it. they try to throw some of the classified information on the side. in the deliberations in the white house, we don't want to start another war in asia over the skies. we just have to be patient and that is indeed what they did. it was solved in an interesting way. the officer for korea at the state department, the one at dinner he said wh