 come in with the news, there would be a mic for me, the announcement mic, and there would be a mic for him, the program mic, and he'd sit on that side of the desk facing us. And when I was on duty, one night he came in and I told him that he used to, if we were just followed by what we knew was sustaining, like punching into the network and pick up an orchestra, so they were playing with something, but he could go over if he wanted to. So I told him that this night he couldn't go over, he had to quit on time because we had booked a commercial in at the Tropical Room at the Hotel Fort in Des Moines. And oh, he was upset. He said, I got a lot of good news tonight. They told me I could, I said, well, there's been a change. So he started and got to about a minute and he was still going strong and I did like this. He shook his head and kept on reading and then I did this with him in half a minute and he kept on reading and all of a sudden I just had to push the button which shut off his mic and said ladies and gentlemen, the clues to the news will take you now to the Tropical Room at the Hotel Fort Des Moines. Boom, push me. My mic off, pushing mine off put program back on, but they hadn't had time in the control room to pull the plug on his mic. And with that HR stood up, kicked his chair across the studio. Oh no, oh no. And then... You can't tell us what he said, right? Oh, no. In fact, the thing was that they did not program the Tropical, the theme music from the Tropical Room was coming through as background to him. So we found out the next day that the Des Moines police went to the Tropical Room, thought it was some drunk they were hearing the music and the voice coming over with all this profanity and they said to the Tropical Room, you can't keep order in here, we'll close this twice. So I used to be like later years when he became a very stalwart congressman and tell that story down in his presence. So they were doing a remote commercial, they set up a whole remote broadcast, just for commercial. Well no, no, the program was commercial. The whole program. The Tropical Room took about the time to promote the Hotel Fort Des Moines and their night club and cafe and so forth. Stanley, he was a great congressman. He was known as the conscience of the Congress. He was one of the only ones I didn't know that read all the bills. Wait for some staff member to tell him how the children's program and he said I guess that whole little... It happened almost every day. Sometime or other along the broadcasting day there would be some move up, some mix up with the air, something that people would do because everything was live at the time. There they went. I was once slated to interview Amy Sample McPherson. Great. You remember the...you're pretty young. No, I was going to say her name sounds familiar. Well that was the evangelist out in California that had her own temple and so forth. She used to...she was very famous. She would... When it came time for the collection she'd say and I don't want to hear any clinking. I just want to hear the rustle of paper. And she'd go all kinds of stuff. And then she disappeared for a time. And it was a grace of where she got this happen. She reappeared and there was a talk that she had kind of gone on a little couple of week party that she came to the morning. I don't know why does she ask the sports announcer to interview her but I did. And then suddenly she went into a fervent plea concerning the success of her meetings. And so I sat down and announced my goodnight. And all of a sudden I heard her saying goodnight to our radio audience. And I looked up and there were four minutes to go by the clock and I didn't know enough about her because I could put her in the air and fill four minutes. So I did like this to the control room which meant better than anybody. And they could get in there. There was an engineer running gain on the program. He put a record out and put the mail over there and outed to me. In the meantime I was saying ladies and gentlemen we conclude this broadcast with a note of safe evangelist. And he said with a brief of a little transcribed music I expected nothing less than the audio. The Mills Brothers started sending many of the Butcher's webbing day. That's when that came on. It came on to the speakers. She heard that and I want to tell you when she went out of the studio her main quote was standing still. Behind her. How long was she on the air? When did she go on? Well, I'm talking way back there in the 30's so I can't remember how long she was. She probably couldn't get away with doing all those things on here today. There are more FCC regulations probably on solicitation of funds and so forth. Yeah, I don't care. Well, her services when she was there were broadcast. I'm trying to remember. She really had an information. Did she solicit money to compete for people in a radio audience? Well, no, not a thing like this interview. My fellow Americans During the past week we've been working hard to advance the Middle East peace process and to try to improve US-Soviet relations. I met with our good friend President Mubarak of Egypt and I'll be holding discussions this coming week with another longtime friend of the United States, King Hussein of Jordan. I hope to talk to you more about the Middle East next week but today let me speak about our efforts to build a more constructive and stable long-term relationship with the Soviet Union. Both Secretary Schulz and I met with the new Soviet foreign ministers Edward Shevardnadze this past week. These meetings covered a broad global agenda, including the four major areas of the US-Soviet dialogue, human rights, regional and bilateral issues, and security and arms control matters. They enabled us to discuss at the most senior levels the key issues facing our two nations. I told the foreign minister I'm hopeful about my upcoming meeting with General Secretary Gorbachev. And I put forward some new ideas as well as my plans and expectations for that meeting. The Soviet foreign minister indicated that Mr. Gorbachev also is looking forward to these discussions. Furthermore, we agreed to set up a series of senior-level discussions between our experts in preparation for the Geneva meeting. Let's be clear, however, that success will not come from one meeting. It must come from a genuine long-term effort by the leadership of the Soviet Union as well as ourselves. The differences between us are fundamental in political systems, values and ideology, as well as in the way we conduct our relations with other countries. The United States must and will be forthright and firm in explaining and defending our interests and those of our allies. I went over with Mr. Shevardnadze Soviet actions in various parts of the world which we feel undermine the prospects for a stable peace and I discussed with him the need for the Soviet Union to work with us seriously to reduce offensive nuclear arms. These weapons exist today and there's no reason why real reductions cannot begin promptly. Finally, I emphasized the need for a more productive Soviet response to our efforts in Geneva to begin a U.S.-Soviet dialogue now on how to fashion a more stable future for all humanity if the research in strategic defense technologies which both the U.S. and the U.S.S. are conducting bears fruit. Mr. Shevardnadze indicated that the Soviet negotiators will present a counter-proposal in Geneva to the initiatives we've taken there. We welcome this. It is important that the counter-proposal address our concerns about reductions and stability just as we've sought to address Soviet concerns and we hope it will be free of preconditions and other obstacles to progress. We're ready for tough but fair negotiating. You the people can distinguish diplomatic progress from mere propaganda designed to influence public opinion in the democracies. All too often in the past, political and public opinion and sometimes government policy as well have taken on extreme views of the U.S.-Soviet relationship. We have witnessed sometimes a near euphoria over a supposed coming together at other times a feeling that the U.S. and the U.S.S. are may somehow be at the brink of conflict. By holding to the firm and steady course we set out on five years ago, we've shown that there is no longer any reason for such abrupt swings in assessing this relationship. Our differences are indeed profound and it is inevitable that our two countries will have opposing views on many key issues. But we've intensified our bilateral dialogue and taken measures such as the recent upgrading of the crisis hotline to ensure fast and reliable communications between our leaders at all times. Above all, I emphasize to the foreign minister and we'll do so with Mr. Gorbachev that the overriding responsibility of the leaders of our two countries is to work for peaceful relations between us. So what we're engaged in is a long-term process to solve problems where they're solvable, bridge differences where they can be bridged and recognize those areas where there are no realistic solutions and where they're lacking, manage our differences in a way that protects western freedoms and preserves the peace. The United States stands ready to accomplish this. Much more must be done, but the process is underway and we will take further steps to show our readiness to do our part. With equal determination by the Soviets, progress can be made. We will judge the results as Soviet actions unfold in each of the four key areas of our relations and I will be reporting to you further as preparations for the November meeting proceed. Until next week, thanks for listening and God bless you. Thank you. If we were a candidate, I would be riding. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. This is Frank Urban Walker. He just took over. He's in charge of all the set-up. Well, for heaven's sake. W.R.N.C. in Raleigh, North Carolina. I don't know how we do it. Real privilege to be here, sir.