#malarkey laughs heartily quite a few times and it's so great to hear it!

[pastlivesandpurplepuppets]

(Malarkey about Speirs) He liked me a lot, but I wasn't quite what he was. Our nickname for Speirs was 'killer Speirs'. It's a fact of life, you know, that his job was to get rid of Germans and he didn't care where they were.

The interviewer asked whether the stories about Speirs are true and Don said that "the stories basically about him are true.".

Also, Don talks about the banquet Speirs threw for the German doctor who operated on Grant, and about his high-school best friend coming to see Don who Speirs invited to have lunch with him and let him take Don to Salzburg. And mentions that senator? "Speirs policy was that nobody could sit down to do a thing until he arrived".