mitchell get you exhausted enough, you will agree unanimously to anything. i thought that was a little oversimplification, because there was a lot more to that. i e told my son, chet, who is with me here with me, after a few months in the senate, i am either going to leave this place or change this place. so i kept my options open, and then i finally decided to change it. one of the ways we did that is to apply common sense and try to loosen the place up. i had people give me a hard time sometimes because of the things that we did, but we would have dinners for our spouses. we d have bill coyne who became secretary of defense and write a poem, and i don t know if you helped me, don, write ode to patricia and we had the singing senators. we were pathetic, but the whole idea was to keep jim jefferts with us. and we had a good quartet, and one night we sang with barbara boxer and then we realized the problem of the senate, they could not harmonize. th first time in the senate