eyewitness to these things. i shall not seek and will not accept. we had those words memorized standly, everyone in the country, when lbj said that. no one knew he was going to say it. almost no one in the white house knew. the one person who definitely did know was lady bird, and he had a hand signal with her. he told her he wasn't decided whether he was -- because it was right at the end of the speech, after he gave a speech about vietnam policy and how he's going to try to change things and try to depoliticize, as he put it, vietnam policy. he's not going to run. and he had a hand signal that he gave to lady bird warning her, i'm going to do it. i'm going to drop out. and the fascinating thing that i discovered only in working on the book is, yes, he dropped out. it was over. lbj had been dumped, in effect, by the dump johnson movement. but as the convention was approaching, it wasn't over in his head. he was still thinking after the bobby kennedy assassination, maybe i can go into chicago.