>> let's stipulate that harry mcfearson was doing no such thing. johnson told mcfearson this particular reporter woman who had been writing critically of the administration and say, i want you to take her out and to what you described. rolled his eyes and ignored it, hoping johnson would drop it. what's interesting about mcfearson , he refused to let it phase him. >> one more from this page, this is about congresswoman edith green. l.b.j. instructed calfano to have him quote take her out, give her a couple of bloody mary's and spend the afternoon in bed with her and she'll support any g-d bill he wants. if he wants to help the president that's what he should do instead of writing those whiny memos every night. he was talking about one of calfano's young office assistants. he's telling him, tell the guy on your staff this is what you can do. >> where does this come from? books or oral histories? >> oral histories, that came directly from califano. i saw it in the memoirs and also in an oral history done years earlier, so it's probably reliable. even