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interpretation of it at the time. And I--it's just too far back for me to give you the details of that agreement.

But we did agree to it, and all the correspondents for print as well for electronics all agreed to the same thing--that they had to get clearance through the military in order to report certain things.

Although certainly the print journalists got around some of those--I mean, did not follow some of those protocols. I'm thinking of [David] Halberstam.

That's right. It's a nice line--or not a “nice” line--it's a difficult line to follow between what the judgement of the military is as against what the judgement of the correspondents is. And never having been a correspondent I can only talk about it as a second-hand experience. God knows, I guess my record is pretty clear on supporting the openness of the journalistic process.

Absolutely. In terms of some of the things that happened at CBS during that period, there was a bit of a stir created at CBS in 1966, when the George Kennan testimony was not televised as part of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee proceedings, and “I Love Lucy” reruns were shown instead. Do you remember that? Fred Friendly, I think, resigned over that incident. Do you recall that incident?

If we're talking about the--this had to do with the dustup that Friendly got involved in about--I think, looking back on it--and certainly I felt this way at the time--that Fred was being overly dramatic about it, because what we were willing to do, at the time,