pilot's license, so i wanted to be on the armed services committee, as did my wonderful friend, ron dellumsnderful chairman vetoed both of us. for the first time, they overruled a chairman's veto, and ron and i both got on the armed services committee. [applause] so we walked in in 1973 to take our seats, and there happens to only be one seat for the two of us. he went off on something about he didn't want these security leaks on the committee and how terrible it was he had been overruled and, you know it was , not even worth being chairman anymore. i mean, it was like a bull elephant, just "moooo-oooh," and he was really upset. so ron kind of said, "with great dignity, we are going to walk in, and we are going to sit, cheek to cheek." and we did. [laughter] luckily, ron has always had snake hips, because otherwise we probably wouldn't have made it. [laughter] and barney frank always said that was last half-ass thing that either of us did. [laughter] [applause] but we continued to make our chairman absolutely miserable with -- by doing things like wanting to write alternative views to the a

with ron dellums, house of the armed services committee oakland commerce member, former oakland congressshored or pat shorter tom hayden, wayne smith who is a vietnam medic. it is the 40th anniversary of the end of the war, 50th anniversary of the was invading south vietnam. when you were singing about it, what happened? why was it difficult to hear your songs? >> i did not know the time, but i found out 20 years later apparently administration johnson and dixon administration's, apparently, they drown my career, the career of her thicket, taj mahal had problems him and i was told irate over broadcast or live on the air at the beginning of an interview -- this was in the 1980's. richard nixon was gone. the democratic administration and republican administration apparently had downed a lot of careers for being outspoken. i don't think was just that i had written "universal soldier" and "now that the buffalo is gone." i think it is because i got famous and oh shooting my mouth off on "the tonight show." it was because i had maxing covers. billboard magazine had named me best new artist on