he was grammarian. if you split an infinity, h.r. would get the floor an offer an amendment to correct that ghastly error. people like bob dole was the congressman there and donald ruls feld, al kwee who became governor of minnesota, john lind see who later changed parties and became mayor of new york. it was just a host of people that i had the responsibility to answer phones. one time i got a call maybe more than once from ronald reagan calling for gerald ford. you know rksz at the time, it's just part of your job. but later on, that's pretty cool. >> okay. in the snat, the set up was a little different on the floor and on either side of the presiding officer and our jobs were to fetch water for senators who stood up to speak, attend their other needs. we would run trips from snat tor's office to senator's office and send out messages from the senate leadership to all of the senators on that side of the aisle. we had to memorize, as frank has alluded to, we had to know the snat t senators by site. and i will cop to falling for bein

he was grammarian. if you missed crossing the t or dotting an i, if you have a preposition ending a sentence, if you split an infinity, h.r. would get the floor and make a point to offer an amendment to correct that ghastly error. there were some other interesting -- i mean, people like bob dole was the congressman there and donald rumsfeld was a congressman then. al quee who later became governor of minnesota, john lindsay who later changed parties and became mayor of new york. it was just a host of people that line the history books that i had the responsibility to answer phones. one time i got a call from maybe more than once, ronald reagan, calling for gerald ford. you know, at the time, it's just part of your job. you don't put it into perspective. but later on it's like, that was pretty cool. you know? >> in the senate, the setup was a little different. we sat on the floor and on either side of the providing officer and our jobs were to fetch water for senators who stood up to speak, attend their