wanted very much to be accepted as one of the boys. and so he went off to vietnam. he worked there as all of the other reporters did. you would go in for a month or two. he would cover war scenes and politics. he choked at one point -- joked at one point that the pieces that got on the air were the war pieces, not the political or the economic pieses. everyone laughed, but that said something very important about television. i think myself, as i look back upon mike as a colleague, he was somebody who stood out because he was so good on television. he simply knew how to project himself, his voice, his style. i don't want to say he was unique, but he was very special. >> i seps that you could see that -- i understand from what you said, where the probing style of question came from,