he was throughout his presidency, he was the iago to his own or fellow, whispering you can't succeed, you have to play the game harder, play the game dirtier . and in the final region , due to the mysteries of the national archive, all of a sudden in this century there was a tide, a flood of new material by next in. all white house tapes were released, the histories of his childhood were released, testimony was released so i almost feel like i don't deserve any accolades because i had this really rich stuff to work with and all i sort of had to do is get out of the way. >> jonathan, you have a similar kind of challengewith your books , since we assume, we know quite what a bit about muhammed ali yet as usual wedon't know half of what was involved . >> nixon and ali could have been opposite because ali certainly thought highlyof himself. he was the prettiest comedy was the slickest, the greatest fighter of all time and probably the most famous man of his time . he recognized before the days of the internet, even before the days of cable tv, recognized around the growth used a black, i