c-span: how did you and haynes johnson divide up the work? >> guest: well, haynes and i have worked together for a very long time, first at the old washington star, when it was in business, and then for many years at the washington post. we had collaborated on lots and lots of newspaper projects, so we were very accustomed to sharing each other's reporting notes, to writing drafts and passing them back and forth, and basically that's what we did with this book. many of the interviews we did together. when the effort reached capitol hill, i did most of the reporting on the house side, and haynes did most of the reporting on the senate side, but we were back and forth on both sides of the capitol, and both of us were talking to people in the administration and in the interest group community. what we did at the outset, brian, was to make arrangements, work out, and if you will, deals with many of the people who were clearly going to be important players in this whole process, from the administration, the white house, the departments, republican