he felt for fromme the moment he was inaugurated he felt under siege. his inauguration was never -- never happened before. people were throwing tomatoes and smoke bombs. and then when his president say -- the pentagon papers came out and even though the so-called secret history about the war. nixon felt threatened by it, felt it was a breach of security. and so -- and all -- certainly the counterculture, he had no -- he just didn't get it. something alien to him. i don't -- didn't affect him. i think the 1968 democratic convention, he saw it as a great political opportunity. he didn't have much contact with the counter-cull tour and his children didn't, either. they didn't -- david had friends at amherst who were part of it, but they made fun of him, and julie had friends another smith but it was not part of their lives. so hit him like a stun gun when he was president. >> host: did a good job on laugh-in, though. >> guest: he was coached by a guy names paul keys who nixon met when he was on the jack parr program, and keys was this the outlier in they w