and my thought was, if this is the worst that julie and tricia ever go through, this is nothing comparedto what they have had. and i myself had objected one time to an attribution by filmmakers of corruption to do we who is a medicare guide written by in another novel. but i did not see this on the same scale of inequity as i thought this was a tender, very human kind of lapse. in a peculiar way, it helped me to imagine what i think was a real mrs. nixon, by inventing experience that there was not evidence for. i do not believe this happened. but somehow it allowed me into her mind and thought processes in a way that let me portray her, i think, more unethically than it would have otherwise. so i think this is part of what novelist do. they try to get out the truth by a lie, you know? to some extent that was what i was doing with that and tom. >> it's enormously compelling, and part of it of course is, it sort of shatters the glass, that always laid over mrs. nixon. it's a brilliant strategy, as a, as a novelistic technique. you this is just privilege of having the microphone but i have