They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

We couldn't generalize on the people. Some of them were known to be tough guys and they didn't say much, but some of them were kind of soft-headed, but they did that. That was an East German film.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out.

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy.

And so, I mean, he declared war right there and then in so many words and Alex says later in the book, nobody in the White House from that point on had any doubt that we were going to bomb the mainland of Asia.