ray: fritz hollings was right out of central casting as the silver haired southern senator pre-if you was going to do a movie with that kind of character, you cannot pick anybody fritz hollings that are then for that role. he cultivated that. that was him no question. i think one senators and members of the house do have a certain style, they probably have magnified it a bit since television. always the question whether they played the television. i do not think they do consciously all of the time but there are times when they clearly know the cameras are on. brian: do you have somebody you can remember that a distinctive voice, distinctive accent? ray: i like to jim wright that a texas accent and was very precise when he was majority leader and speaker. he was -- he could speak wonderfully and in a different asleep manner -- extem poraneoulsy manner. brian: he recently died. he was in his early 90's and suffered mouth cancer and had operations. when you think back to jim wright in the house and what happened to him, $55,000 book deal or something compared to what we have now? what is