when i first jointed the white house, william safire, the old nixon hand speechwriter, took me aside and said "keep notes every day." and i said "oh, i'm working so hard, i don't have time." he said "no, every day, even if its a sentence. write it down, put it in the bottom left-hand drawer of your desk. sooner or later you're going to have something." i can't say i did it every day, but i did it a lot. it was very good advice. c-span: is there a lot in this book from those notes? >> guest: oh yes, very much so. i had whole files full of notes, i kept a diary, i did all that stuff. kept notes on everything the president had ever said to me. sometimes written on napkins, literally, because it was what i had around when he was on the phone. i hope that changes the position of the speechwriter in politics. i'll tell you, that would be important. at the very least, i hope it convinces campaign aides if they're not good, someone may write about them, you know? c-span: is there anybody you know of in the bush white house that is keeping notes and plans to write a book someday? >> guest: at