john small in ottawa, blair seaborn in ottawa, robert edmons in toronto and john frazier in ottawa. what would those folks have been able to tell you about this trip? >> well, what they told me about was first of all the canadian negotiations which led up to canadian recognition, i was interested in that because it preceded the american one. and what they could also tell me because a number of them had been in the foreign affairs bureau in ottawa, they could tell me the reaction of the americans, because the state department didn't know that nixon and kissinger were thinking of the only to china, and the official reaction was we wish you wouldn't do it. a couple of them could tell, john frazier, for example, was in beijing when the nixon party arrived, so he gave me sort of an eyewitness account and he also knows chinese and so he could tell me what -- he told me a wonderful story. the night that nixon arrived. the chinese gave a very cool reception because they didn't want i think to look excited by it and they didn't know whether mao would give his sort of approval to it. and the