as he envisioned this idea, the usia would post the results of the elections as they came in in the windows of its offices, which as you may recall, were under the rex hotel on the ground floor. so the election day came and they set up these charts, these kind of electronic charts in the windows, and the crowds formed to watch the returns come in state by state. and so they did. you would see maine, 12,625 votes nixon, 4,650 for kennedy and so forth. really the crowds were quite enthusiastic as they saw these returns coming in from pennsylvania, ohio, illinois and so forth. derbro was absolutely elated by the response to his project. and he announced in a press conference -- press conference, i mean a minor little group of reporters that were there, that this was a great leap forward toward democracy in vietnam. i later interviewed one of the vietnamese in the crowd, and i told them that i was gratified that the vietnamese had been converted to american democracy by this observation of the electoral process. he said, what do you mean electoral process? we were just betting on the numbers. .

earlier executive editor of "time" magazine and head of the usia. ray price took jim keogh's place as director. finally to the right, closest to president nixon, you'll recognize william sapphire who died less than two years ago. whom we all this afternoon are thinking of with special affection. now having introduced them through their photos, let me welcome them in person and invite our white house speech writing panel to the stage. very quickly, ray price, the chief speech writer for much of nixon's tenure. joined the new york staff in 1967. he had served earlier at editorial page editor at the new york herald tribune and later as president of economic club of new york. his memoir is called "with nixon." highly recommended. pat buchanan, a journalist democrat before he became the first full-time advisor and writer in the nixon comeback efforts. he later came communications director of president reagan. you may have heard that he has been a presidential candidate three times i think. if i'm remembering that right. undoubtedly you've read his books

and trying more and more and more to establish this security theater which just gives this pristine usia of everything being under control in reality all you're doing is just invading the privacy of people who just simply want to get a job done and simply want to lead a lifestyle that in which they embrace their typical civil liberties the better option instead of if instead of invading the rights of all these people in the name of fear then it is much better that you actually take out the problem at the root and actually figure out why there are criminals there that are committing these crimes and actually helping resolve the problem so that society is healthier in the first place ok but would there be any favors right now. in areas where there could possibly be people that are using our for criminal purposes. well it depends what you mean by safeguards if you mean that the software will automatically the text when it's being used for terrible purpose then i don't think it can counter security software at all but i think you'd have to elaborate by how you think such a safeguard could be