and also the founder a long with his wife, rosalynn of the carter center. we will get into the presidency and depth as we move through the program this way. our guest today is the senator howard baker, former senator of tennessee, republican minority leader, majority leader in the senate, chief of staff to president reagan. but also perhaps even more important than all that, a great photographer. [laughter] >> and i had seen some of his photographs out that the baker center for public policy at the university of tennessee which i would recommend all you visiting, you will see a great collection of photographs. so when the baker law firm called up and said we would be interested in showing senator baker's pictures in your museum, we jumped at the chance. i know president carter was very excited about it. and you'll see that this is a journey well worth making to see those photographs. and we hope you will take advantage of that. i normally was not planning to recognize people in the audience because it's a very distinguished audience across the board. but fi

. >> well, i wrote a chapter in my book, "keeping faith" and rosalynn always likes me to announce the book is still on sale... but it was a tedious and sometimes fruitless appearing task, because, the previous fall, there had been a referendum -- i mean, a resolution introduced and 48 senators approved the referendum not to change the panama canal treaties, we had to get 67 votes out of 100 to pass it. and so, it was a very difficult thing to do and we had to deal with every one of the borderline senators, and one i remember vividly was hykawa, a japanese, a former president of college and he was famous by putting down student revolts and he was elected to the u.s. senate an hiakawa was a scholar and a peculiar man in many ways and howard would know him better than i would, and what i remember of his academic career is he was a noted semanticsist and wrote a textbook on sman tics and he was doubtful about the panama canal treaty and i bought a copy of his book on semantics, it was this thick, like war and peace, and i laboriously went through the book and underlined passages and reall