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Pages. thats the only time the i felt like turning around and going home. chris: caro says he has one big rule when interviewing. your notebooks are filled with a notation -- [laughter] >> yeah. chris: what does that mean? >> shut up. [laughter] people have a desire, a need to fill in silences. if you could just make yourself shut up, often theyll tell you what you want to know. chris: then theres writing. caro remembers what a professor at princeton told him. >> youre never going to achieve wha...

Yet to vietnam. which is why, when he took a detour to write "working," it caused -- well, heart burn. >> i want people to have some idea of what it is the i do, how it is to research this type of book. chris: caro fans may not be happy he took time from finishing the story of lbj, but it is fascinating to learn how he goes about his master work. caro says he learned about research from the his editor at newsday back in the 60s. >> this guy looks up at me, and he says, just remember, turn every ...

In longhand, again, to slow himself down. >> after ive done a number of drafts, i go to typewriter, and i do a lot of drafts on the typewriter. then it goes into this box, and the box goes to my typist. chris: when i talked with caro after his last lbj book, he said it would take three or four years to finish the final volume. that was seven years ago, and hes now 83. are you really going to vietnam? >> yes. chris: why? >> i feel unless i see it and really understand it, i cant make the reader s...

Pages. thats the only time the i felt like turning around and going home. chris: caro says he has one big rule when interviewing. your notebooks are filled with a notation -- [laughter] >> yeah. chris: what does that mean? >> shut up. [laughter] people have a desire, a need to fill in silences. if you could just make yourself shut up, often theyll tell you what you want to know. chris: then theres writing. caro remembers what a professor at princeton told him. >> youre never going to achieve wha...

In longhand, again, to slow himself down. >> after ive done a number of drafts, i go to typewriter, and i do a lot of drafts on the typewriter. then it goes into this box, and the box goes to my typist. chris: when i talked with caro after his last lbj book, he said it would take three or four years to finish the final volume. that was seven years ago, and hes now 83. are you really going to vietnam? >> yes. chris: why? >> i feel unless i see it and really understand it, i cant make the reader s...

But hes only up to 1964, not yet to vietnam. which is why, when he took a detour to write "working," it caused -- well, heart burn. >> i want people to have some idea of what it is the i do, how it is to research this type of book. chris: caro fans may not be happy he took time from finishing the story of lbj, but it is fascinating to learn how he goes about his master work. caro says he learned about research from the his editor at newsday back in the 60s. >> this guy looks up at me, and he say...

Johnson, the legislative master. he understood the senate. he understood how to get something through congress the way john f. kennedy didnt. then i hear the fact he was a southerner. that he had been friend with the segregationists and he had credibility with segregationists through his years in texas. sort of like only nixon can go to china thing. i wonder how much truth to lbj taking over in 63, there wouldnt be a civil rights act in 64? >> the assassination, that shocked the country so deepl...