how are you, sir? >> good, how are you doing? >> i'm always a little biased to a guy named chuck. >> chuck lorre or something -- >> absolutely. what's interesting, i'm going to make the politics first. you threw in bill clinton. we've been doing nixon. the original modern day villain for people who are still alive today. you made an interesting observation in the book about why bill clinton survived his scandal and why richard nixon didn't. >> when i was initially doing this book, i actually was intending to write about nixon. seemed like a figure, an important person to talk about. so i'm reading all these books, watching these documents about nixon. i was born in 1972. if i write about this, i'm not really reacting to anything except other people's -- >> you wanted to write about people that you understood -- >> i tried to be skeptical about the way information is gathered