betty: depends on which caucus you are going to, but us, don ritchie and i did it together for a years, but we would each write our own stories and it wa. . they sometimes requested stories, "tell us about such or so-and-so," but they never dictated what it should be. i began with the republican cauc 2009 at the invitation of senator mcconnell. at that point the firshistorian, dick baker, had been doing this atratic caucus every week for years, but republicans hadn't caught leader mcconnell, who is a great lover of history, came and asked me to start doing it on their repus and i did that. i did it almost until the day i left the office. years, produced hundreds of th usually, you know anywhere from 500long. they had to be short, succinct se you only had five minutes to tell the story. but they had to also tell a complete story. it was an interest good challenge and probably one of the b i have had as a senate historian. senators kept coming and asking me to produce a put them into the book because they wanted to share the stories with other people, and that is what resulted in the boo