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that you regret not taking?

No. No, I couldn't have asked for a more exciting--whether today it would be the same or not, I don't know. But to be in on the beginning of something as important as television was at that time, or as it is today, who could ask for anything more than that? Just like being at Gutenberg's elbow. Somebody said to me the other day, “Well, didn't it get monotonous?” It never got monotonous because every day you had another problem. I've given you some sample of the kinds of problems that I didn't have any dream that I'd ever get in to when I decided to come to the office that day, or to go to a meeting and run in to something that created a lot of problems for me. I couldn't ask for any more excitement than I had.

I'm sure that in the academic world, in the world of research, there are very important things that would be fun to be identified with, but in the world of communications with a medium that you helped to develop, you couldn't ask for more than what I had. So I don't know. My only regret is that I'm alone now, and I don't have the companionship that I had for almost seventy years. I've got a--I don't know where he is, but a good little dog and that's all I got. But no.

Did I use my time wisely? Question. I think I gave too much time to some things, not enough time to others. But looking back on the whole thirty odd years of CBS, I couldn't have asked for anything more. I had, for the most part, good personal relationships in business and in broadcasting. The sky was the limit. I could do anything I wanted to do, I mean in programming. There wasn't anybody saying you can't do something. I don't mean government, I mean there was no--sure, I couldn't have spent money that I didn't have, but I