and then suddenly, three months later, one of the prisoners from jail wrote a letter to judge sirica and said, "we were hired by the committee to reelect the president." and all hell broke loose. and i was sitting there with the rights to this project. so that's how it came about. a great irony to that is that the plot centers on reporters who are determined to get their source right. right. that they had to have-- they had to-- multiple sources, they had to prove what they were about to allege. and we're now in an era where there are fewer sources, and in fact, people are repeating what they found on the internet. has that given you concern, disillusioned you about a free press? that was 1974, '75. i went into it feeling like we came very close to losing our first amendment rights, and i was grateful that it was in the hands of the press to save it. i felt the press carried a tremendous responsibility and the public trust to get at the truth. and the thing that it had was it-- any good organization is going to work better if it has a check and balance connected to it. the check and