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So in other words this, this innovation at Time in 1970 was not a function of a dissatisfaction on the correspondents.

It may have been pushed but there it wasn't so much a by-line of the correspondent as it was just the by-line. I think. I think I'm right in saying that the by-line would usually have been the writer's by-line, and only occasionally would there be an excerpted piece by the correspondent and signed by the correspondent.

The news tour that you were on in 1969, any vibrant memories about that? Your impressions?

Well, I mentioned the one there but the thing that came as a great shock was that Tet started as we were leaving Hawaii. By the time we'd arrived in Manila, which is ten hours, we'd already been told that we probably wouldn't get to Vietnam because the high command didn't want all that brass wandering around there. And A: they were busy, and B: good Lord, if you could kill thirty C.E.O.s, which could happen, that wouldn't help anybody either. So we got to Manila and there was a complete halt put on the whole thing. When you organize a news tour it's like making the best Swiss watch. The pieces all have to fit together and everything has been organized and it's very difficult to change. Suddenly we're there in Manila where, we were supposed to just have dinner with Marcos, I think, or Something like that, and we were on hold. Given history you'll be amused that, I guess Dick Clurman, or somebody said, “Good God we got to figure out something for these people to do.” And who did it?