interesting sideline—that he had a better vision of 
what was going on in the development of North 
America being a Canadian because of the 
metaphor of the Distant Early Warning line. He said 
we can see better what’s going on down there. 
They’re like fish in water, and you never ask a fish 
about water. We’re able to watch them swimming 
and doing their thing and tell them, prior to their 
even being aware of what’s going on, what is 
happening. So for him the vantage of being in 
Canada was useful.


Q:  You talked about a natural lag in the way that