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Pages. that's 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 they'll tell you what you want to know. chris: then there's writing. caro remembers what a professor at princeton told him. >> you're never going to achieve what you want to achieve, mr. caro, unless you stop thinking with your fingers. i knew exactly what...

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 page. never assume anything. turn every page. chris: it's advice he's followed researching lyndon j...

In longhand, again, to slow himself down. >> after i've 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 he's now 83. are you really going to vietnam? >> yes. chris: why? >> i feel unless i see it and really understand it, i can't make the reader see it. chris: if you should be unable for whatever reason to finish the book, have you made provi...

Pages. that's 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 they'll tell you what you want to know. chris: then there's writing. caro remembers what a professor at princeton told him. >> you're never going to achieve what you want to achieve, mr. caro, unless you stop thinking with your fingers. i knew exactly what...

In longhand, again, to slow himself down. >> after i've 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 he's now 83. are you really going to vietnam? >> yes. chris: why? >> i feel unless i see it and really understand it, i can't make the reader see it. chris: if you should be unable for whatever reason to finish the book, have you made provi...