bill, jack nelson and others who went south in the -- in those early '60s and covered the civil rights movement and then became bureau chiefs and senior reporters. those are the people you -- great rapport with them. but the point is it is not -- that's irrelevant. irrelevant is that you had to keep the public informed as you moved along. >> i'm going to move to things that may not have been -- >> thank god. >> the decision not to investigate, to actually base the whole proceeding on the work done by the -- white house, watergate special prosecution force, watergate committee. >> i don't know how -- that was a decision made. that was a decision made -- i was sitting there. sort of -- there was -- it was way above me kind of thing. i didn't understand that decision made within the committee, within -- the leadership of the house. and the staff, i mean, that's -- that's -- they came to that conclusion. i think they thought they had everything. first i don't think we had the manpower. i don't think we had the wherewithal to do original investigation, i believe. but that's -- >> you could