Mr. Herndon. Do you want me to proceed with the usual preliminaries?
Mr. Ruby. You don’t have to proceed with that. Why don’t you just call them to me and I’ll answer them. You want to go through a formality—a previous thing.
Mr. Alexander. Jack, he’s got to have a record.
Mr. Herndon. I want to make sure you understand the question involved.
Mr. Ruby. I’m sure I do.
Mr. Herndon. I feel in fairness to both of us, we have to do this.
Mr. Ruby. Believe me—believe me, you don’t have to go through that formality, if you want to save yourself a lot of time, and I think you’ll like that better.
Mr. Alexander. Jack, he has to have a written question that’s keyed to this tape.
Mr. Ruby. Yes; I follow that, but he doesn’t have to go through the preliminary explaining to me this because I’ll answer anything you want “off the hook.”
Mr. Specter. Mr. Ruby, we appreciate your willingness to do that and we’ll take you up on that to the fullest extent possible, but Mr. Herndon has to do some preliminary questioning which is indispensable to his evaluation.