c-span: on the back of your book, this quote on lew wasserman. "he helped me become president. he helped me stay president. he helped me be a better president -- bill clinton. >> guest: well, wasserman decided that he wanted hollywood to be a more potent political force than it had ever been before. he, in part, came to that decision because in 1962, the justice department, bobby kennedy's justice department, brought an anti-trust action against mca, which -- the settlement of which caused them to go out of the talent agency business and only be in the production business. and while wasserman actually didn't mind that -- it kind of suited his -- what he -- what he wanted to do -- still, he didn't like being forced to do it, as he was. and he decided that he never wanted to be in a position where the government could have that kind of impact on him again, or he wanted to try not to be in such a position. so he decided to make hollywood a really potent force in washington, and he built a fund-raising machine such as had not existed in hollywood before. and he became -- he became r