Three months ago, the Arkansas congressional delegation was in general more than complimentary of the man who lives in this house.

I had always envisioned myself as a newspaper man, and I had planned since elementary school to work in newspapers when there were no newspaper positions open.

Somebody suggested that I try radio or television and it just happened to be a weekend slot open.

Basically, it was a copy boys job at at one of the stations in Little Rock.

For what may be the first time in the history of this nation's involvement in Southeast Asia, Senator John McClellan has stated that he will not support an executive request for military aid.

Being on camera, I had never envisioned that either, and it just, it fell to me.

I think somebody called in sick or something and somebody to hear kid go sit there, look into the camera, try not to look scared, act like you know what you're doing.

You can pull that off.

I guess I did.

That's new Scene 7 at this hour for Paul, Chuck, Amy and me.

Thank you for joining us.

This has been new Scene 7 update with Steve Barnes and Amy Oliver.

So, so many years later I'm still in the chair.

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Welcome back to Arkansas Week, another week in which there has been no verdict in the Whitewater trial.

I think we're at Week 12 now, but maybe we can work that out in the next few minutes.

He could finish my thought if I started to stumbling that Steve could finish this thought beautifully and and move on to something else, that he made us all look good.

There's a gift to that really, I guess, like playing in a band for a long time or something where you you kind of know where where somebody's starting to struggle and you need to step up and cover for them.

Four of our House delegates, all four Republicans.

There's time to reflect, time to produce, time to.

Assess time to share with an audience what you cannot share simply from the virtue of you have having more time.

What you can't share on a regular news broadcast, you can be in some corner of the state and someone will come up to you and say thank you for the program.

It's really a satisfying feeling that you have contributed in some small way to their world.