at least alleges that they were complaining that pet drop liss which was their original name, and poulos in greece was too hard to pronounce and why didn't they change it. so they changed it to peterson. son of peter, which is a direct transhation of what the name is in greek. tavis: i wonder, to your point, he alleges how you think your life might have bone different without the ring, this peter g. peterson had a ring to it. had your father stuck with that original name, what do you think your life might have been? >> when i pronounce my name peter peterson it sounds like i was born to be redundant. [laughter] it is an interesting question as to whether in those early days having a a long greek name might have been a problem. i never experienced that directly. but as you know, prejudice can be very indirect and implicit. i do remember this much. the include klux klan pictured my father's restaurant with the sign that said don't eat with the greek. so there was obviously some prejudice there. and they didn't have any blacks and -- in nebraska, so they took another step and went to the fr