they pulled his kren dencredentials. why did you want to talk to him? i said i didn't want to talk to him. i wanted to slap his face. if you really want to know what happened, this is what happened. then when i got home, it was all over the newspapers in america. "the ap." the newspapers across the country. when i got to japan i was talking to my brother. he says you're all over the newspapers here in america. there was a lot of publicity because of that particular incident where i wanted to slap a communist newspaperman. >> what is korea to you? >> it was like a strange place with a lot of strange memories. it was mixed emotion, but later on it became like what would happen to south korea made me feel good. made me feel good about that whole war because it seems like everything after that, everything turns bad. but we were able to salvage something out of that war. we salvaged a country with a major industrial power with great living conditions and apparently a lot of prosperity too. >>> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on t