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nothing to do with what I was reporting. And I was on that stand until lunch time with my lawyer trying to get me qualified, and with everybody else saying I was disqualified. And I never testified.

Really?

I was outraged. Not on the stand -- I was smart enough not to lose my temper. But the idea that here was a commission established with the principle of serving the public with signal, not giving a damn what the public did, only caring about what the lawyers and the engineers said. And that was -- I cut my eye teeth on Washington on that experience.

And apparently I impressed this man Butcher who was terrified by the Commission anyway. He later became Eisenhower's naval attache and in World War II was a big shot in the military -- But Butcher had never seen a witness stand up to the FCC before. I didn't know any better. And because there were some people on the staff at the FCC who told him privately that what I was trying to say but what kept being stricken from the record, in a sense made sense, and subsequent to that -- when there were hearings involving things with the FCC and so forth, somehow I got pressed into action. And that was my introduction to the Washington scene.

But I had a field day. All because I got on the wrong subway.

I guess you shouldn't always look for maps.