it was a very unsettling moment for me. i actually just recently reunited with the man who took me to lunch and made the offer. who was that? guest: his name was cliff miller. he looked into his ice he is not going to do this. you re always flattered when some one in the white house want you to serve in an important role. my family were not nixon people. to put it mildly. but at the same time, i had covered him. i knew that he had extraordinary political skills. he was a very complicated man in so many ways but the idea of going to work for him never, ever, faintly passed across my consciousness and i was in, i wouldn t say i was in a state of terror but i was in some anxiety. this is something i didn t want to get out. i was starting my career as political reporter. i didn t want people to think i was a nixon person or kennedy person or johnson person. i went back to nbc after the pitch had been made and said you got to get me out of this. julian good man, head of nbc, w
he is dropped something. reporter: he is dropped something. bend over. reporter: oh, is that it? they want you to bend over? really? don t be naughty, it s not nice. tis the season for windows that feature holiday trains. but one good caboose deserves another. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. i ll be back with the full cnn military and political team in 30 minutes. up next, cnn tonight. tonight president obama announces his new plan for afghanistan. a large-scale escalation of the eight-year war. 30,000 more americans will be sent in to finish the job. what the president will do tonight is announce an accelerated strategy to take on al qaeda and its extremist allies to ensure that the taliban can t provide a safe haven for them to plot and plan. so is this the right plan for victory? not everyone is on board. president obama s own party is deeply divided. many democrats openly oppose doubling down in afghanistan. the costs