pat buchanan and douglas brinkley brinkley join us. if pat buchanan had his way, you never would have been able to write that book because he said burn the damn tapes. and from london we have historian john meacham who regularly burns tapes. i love this quote from the greatest comeback. the deputy assistant to richard nixon said starting in '66 there's a recurring refrain you would hear around the nixon office and through the years of the administration and continued into post-presidency, what does buchanan think? what does buchanan say? pat, you have a thousand memos that you sent to nixon and his responses that make up this book. extraordinary. tell everybody again the story of how you met nixon and how you got involved early in his comeback. >> i met nixon in 1954-'55. the assistant pro looked at the rookie caddie and i went along 18 holes and 12 years later i'm in st. louis young editorial writer and he's coming over to speak and go to a cocktail party afterwards. i got invited to it. met him in the kitchen. i said if you're going