 and had those feelings. He once said when he was getting ready for a taping with Walter Cronkite, and he was getting dressed, and he told us, you know, I'm as nervous as I've ever been in my life. And again, I just couldn't believe what I was hearing. This man who had spent nearly 40 years in public life on stage giving interviews, making speeches, and here you're saying he was as nervous as he had ever been in his life. People sometimes ask me if I exercised any great influence over President Johnson. And I reply, well, I can think of one case when I think I did. Harry Middleton and Tom Johnson and I came to Texas with President Johnson after he left office, Tom to be his executive assistant. And Harry and I had to work on the memoirs, the vantage point. And of course, Harry shortly thereafter became director of the LBJ Library. Not long after we got to Austin, I had a major coronary. And in those days, they kept you out of action a lot longer than they do now after a coronary. I was in the hospital for a month, and then I was home convalescing for two and a half months, wasn't even allowed to go to work. When they finally said that I could go to work half time, the first thing we did was to call out to President Johnson at the ranch and say that we'd like to come out the following Saturday and visit with him and talk about the memoirs, because we'd pretty well put them on the back burner while I was convalescing. The first thing we did was make an appointment with President Johnson to go out to the ranch to talk about the memoirs, which had been pretty well put on the back burner. All this time I was home, I hadn't gotten a haircut. The day before we were supposed to go to the ranch, I looked in the mirror and thought, oh, I better get a haircut. And my children said, oh, no, dad, no, no. This was in 1969, remember? And they said, oh, long hair is in. You don't want to get a haircut. Your hair is just right. So I just decided, well, I'll let it go for the time being. So we went out to the ranch, Hair, Middleton, and I, and we were sitting under the live oaks talking about the memoirs. And President Johnson looked at me and sort of curiously, and he said, Robert, your hair's getting a little long, isn't it? And just sort of as an offhand remark, I said, well, Mr. President, that's so you won't confuse me with those short-haired bastards in the Nixon White House. And he looked at me and frowned and said, short-haired bastards. And I said, yeah, you know, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Ziegler, all those people in the Nixon White House. He didn't say anything. And I didn't say anything more. But the next time I saw the President, his hair was creeping down over his collar and it kept getting longer and longer. I suppose that's the influence over that, just stopping it longer and longer. LBJ was a great tease. Shortly after I went to work for him in the White House, he invited some of his age to come have lunch with him in the family dining room. And I was fortunate enough to be included in that group, seven or eight people. We were sitting there eating and talking and sort of out of the blue, the President looked down at the table at Jack Volandy and he said, well, Jack, I hear you had a party last night at your house. And Jack said, yes, Mr. President, I'm sorry you couldn't make it. And the President feigned ignorance of the whole thing and he said, well, I didn't know. And the first thing I heard about it was last night.