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at times he felt that I should be the CEO and at other times he couldn't face it. We had talks about it, and I guess in the end, when I was leaving, I said to him, because--I'm off the track here a bit. At the end, he didn't want to honor the contract I had.

Which was?

What?

You had to go under contract every few years? I mean, what was the contract?

At one time, when there was a question about a contract--and the contract was his idea, not mine--because I had no designs--I had had a couple of offers, but nothing that really was as much fun as I was having where I was. Even with him.

When I signed the last contract, I said I would serve, I think, fourteen years, if for every year I served under contract, I had a contract to be a consultant that gave me a secretary and an office. But not at CBS. So when I retired, I wanted to get an office and my secretaries and so forth. He said: “Oh, you don't need those.”

I said: “Bill, you know we got a deal.”

“Oh, but you got--you've made money and you can pay for those things yourself.”

I said: “No, you wouldn't have any respect for me if I just walked away.”