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No you don't change your-I mean change. I gave you one view of a change of opinion. We were there, what fourty-eight hours, from Manila? I don't think you change in fourty-eight hours. You have an experience and you sort of say, “Wow.” “Yeah,” I think it made everybody pause, because here we were herded around in busses with metal grills on the windows so that nobody could throw a grenade in. So we were aware of the fact that there wasn't very much control over the land there. We were also aware of the fact that we had this incredible power spread around there. We went to Cam Ran Bay. And Cam Ran Bay, well, you know, it was practically like Pearl Harbor in size. We got into a helicopter and went up into the hills. I always remember this is a Huey, and there's two benches and you sit back to back and the sides are opened. And they said, “O.K. belt in.” And we took off. And we got up there, I don't know, three thousand--you had to fly more than three thousand feet, otherwise you'd shot by the Viet Cong. A banker who was sitting next to me was looking over the edge, and it's quite a strange feeling, and suddenly he realized that he'd forgotten to put his seat belt on. I literally saw a man turn pale, because here he was sitting with a three thousand feet drop below him.

Was that your only trip to Vietnam in those years?

Yep.

Um, what about Time Magazine and Watergate?