00:00Truman has known everyone, from Adlai Stevenson, to Ronald Reagan, to CZ Guest, to Jacqueline Kennedy, to the late Babe
00:07Paley, who was the wife, of course, of the chairman of the board of CBS, Bill Paley.
00:12I want you to stay tuned for the hour. This is live television. We don't know what's going to happen,
00:18but it should be very, very dramatic.
00:20Let me ask you this question. When was the last time you've been to bed?
00:24With whom?
00:29Truman, you said you hadn't been to bed for 48 hours. Is that true?
00:33Well, I've been to bed, but...
00:36To sleep is what I meant.
00:38Yeah, a number of people. I don't know. I just have known a tremendous amount of people, you know, and
00:53whatnot, and...
00:57I'd say, on the whole, I get a bed, maybe nine or ten invitations every night.
01:05Truman, can I ask you a question? How are you feeling now? How do you feel? Do you feel all
01:10right?
01:11Yeah, I feel all right.
01:12You have had a history of alcoholism.
01:14Millions of people out there have also had the same problem.
01:18Oh, my God. Alcohol isn't the least of it.
01:21I mean, that means...
01:23Yeah. Let me ask some questions. We're talking about answered prayers. There have been several editions of it in Esquire.
01:30La Cote Basque received the most criticism because...
01:33Well, that caused me a lot of pain.
01:37Yeah. Is that one of the reasons that you feel... Is it, for example, are you writing now?
01:41Are you continuing to write your book, Answered Prayers?
01:46Are you...
01:47Yeah, it's almost finished.
01:48You're almost finished.
01:49And what is the anxiety about how it's going to be received?
01:52I couldn't care less. I mean, I don't know. There's some people that really care, you know, about what's going
02:07to happen, about a book of theirs or something. But I always know.
02:14I don't know. One thing in my life is I have absolutely no thing about what anybody thinks about my
02:33writing.
02:34What's going to happen unless you lick this problem of drugs and alcohol? What is going to happen to Truman?
02:42I'm sure you've thought about it.
02:45Well, you know, I do for months and months and months and months and months and I'm, you know, I
02:55write and everything. But the obvious answer is that eventually, I mean, I'll kill myself without meaning to.
03:06I want to thank you very much for coming on the program this morning.
03:09Oh, thank you. Because I, you're really, I like being with you.
03:15I like being with you, too. Some more notes after this time.
