. >> after i became a colleague of george mckinnen's, i wrote the opinion in the morrison v. olson, the independent counsel case, and mckinnen was very annoyed. he came down to my office because i had been critical of his behavior as the chief judge of the special division that appointed the independent counsel. he came down to my office, and he started to complain. he looked over my shoulder and saw that picture. he turned absolutely ash white and said i would have recused myself if figure would have come up and turned around and walked right now. he realized how inappropriate that was. in any event, nixon approved the initiative. we submitted it to the congress. we came within two votes of getting it passed in the senate, and it was -- bob packard led the fight for us. and it was -- it looked like it was a good chance of passage until 1972 when colson got the teamsters to support nixon. one of the quid pro quos was to drop support for that legislation. i got a call from, i guess, it was george schultz to tell me that -- exactly what happened. i was disappointed, but the president