steve jobs says, how does it feel to be dick cavett?> about the only question that's ever floored me. >> you had a long relationship with him. he kept sending you apple products. >> each computer as it came out. i am afraid i have lost some of them. it would have been nice retain them he got sick of sending them to me and said, the next one is coming out. will you finally, learn to use one? i did. it was the white one that sat up like this, you know. >> macintosh. you have an ability to write very, very emotional obituaries i would love for you to write mine although i think i would rather hang out longer than that? >> give me some time. clive james wrote there will be no dick calfat of the future and we should contents ours there is one of the past. i think we are lucky there is one of the present and that you are always so generous with your time and you come and join us and talk to us because it's such a pleasure? >> i like you as much as i did stan >>. oil obit wary. >> hello from doha. welcome everyone, this is the news hour on al

his program the dick cavett show always found a way to elevate the national conversation. e the marquee names it was cavett's characteristically wry humor that enabled him to build a special relationship with his audience. now he's out with a new book "brief encounters" a collection of eisais anecdotes and reflectionse@sñs the hundreds of characters that have crossed his path through his life. two of those famous characters were john lenon and his wife yoko ono, who he fame -- many fans were blaming the marriage for the breakup, and his reflexive sense of humor was a full display. >> i sat in a restaurant? spain and the violinist insisted on playing "yesterday" in my ear, and then he insisted me to sign the violin. and i thought one day he -- >> that's better than if they played wedding bells are breaking up that old gang of mine. >> i guess so. i guess so. >> maybe i should have saved that for later. >>> well i'm joined by the great dick cavett. thanks for coming on to promote the book. that's what i want to help you do. >> chris, you are looking good. >> that's my generat

talk to al jazeera featuring dick cavett is next. >> people always say that nonsense, you can't speak ill. why not? >> brief en counters, conversations, magic moments and assorted hijinx is full of personal anecdotes. the host of the show has met and interviewed just about everyone who was someone. >> the phone rang. ali picked it up and heard, "darling?" and he said "this ain't darling. this is the only 3-time heavy weight champion in the world. and i am lying in your bed and ". >>

dick cavett's water graduate. you can find the whole show. somebody found that i had tons of watergate stuff on my show. i had mitchell. i had g gordon liddy. and you can see him ask if i am a jew, ask somebody. and if you want to just a sample, youtube has the moment where nixon says to his lickspeetle, hr that woulderman, what can we do to screw him? have you ever seen your name mentioned by the president of the most powerful man in the country who wants to screw you? context? >> the son of a -- or the indicted co-conspirator found a way. one of my staff told a friend who had been on my staff years, i was audited. he said, so was i. when were you? and it was right after that. and he -- one of nixon's favorite hobbies of his illegal ones was punishing people with the irs, as you know. >> that's no secret. and he, you know, it hurt the smaller people on the staff who didn't make much money. i had been audited every year without nixon, and to be without nixon is a blessing. >> they went after all your staff as a result? >> they went after the