General Walters had, roughly speaking, been everywhere and seen everything for

three decades--confidential translator for Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy; CIA man and ambassador to the United Nations; witness to the Smoking Gun conversation that brought Watergate to a close. On this show--which ranges from Pearl Harbor back to the American Revolution and forward again to Watergate and to a world scene that includes, as General Walters puts it, "42,000 Cubans spread around Africa today"--he proves incisive and impressive: "My own position on assassination is that I am against it for three reasons: (1) It's against the law of God. (2) It's against the law of man. (3) It doesn't work." WFB: "Which shows that God was prudent?" VW: "Very. We know that."

Note: Alternate title on transcript is "Secret Diplomacy."