tavis: frank lloyd wright, your earliest influence? >> i had trouble with his politics. i was joe social in college. it seemed elitist. i never went to hear him speak. driving across the country from college, i stopped, i had two kids, we stopped. he was there. i went to the gate. they wanted a block for each of us. i said, forget it. i regret that. he was great. there are no excuses for him. he is great. growing up architecturally on the western part of the country, you tended to be asia- centric. japan, china. my early work in college, gi's had just come back from japan. the wood technology of japan was easily assimilated here. a lot of the early stuff looks japanese. if you go to disney hall and think japan, you will see it. tavis: you spent time in the military. what were you doing? what was your assignment? >> i was in the third infantry division, third army, it was eisenhower's division. now i am doing his memorial. i was in the infantry. i had a bad leg. they put me in the typist school. they gave me the morning report. after an hour, the captain said, what else d