i think the idea that being shy and sickly has damaged his reputation, and i hope my book will do something to restore it. >> a gentleman from orange, california, with a quickie. >> mr. vice president, where did you guys go on your first date?

[laughter] >> a while -- [laughter] we actually went to a formal thrown by one of the high school girls social clubs. we went with some good friends and we double dated. she wore an amazing read formal down. afterwards we stopped and went to casper -- >> oh, now, stop. >> it gets better. [laughter] >> no. >> we hadn't been there very long when we discovered some friends of ours, clothing someone who i think david lynne before i did, snuck up and let the air out of the tires on our car. so we spent a lot of time creeping back down to the filling station so we could get there in the tires. of course, then we're in danger of violating lynne's curfew spent we had violated it.

>> so i was very concerned at that point that we violated the cricket first date. i knew i was going to be in trouble with somebody. but the great thing about it in retrospect was that lynne's mother was a secretary to the police chief. and we didn't make a move at night and hadn't been reported to her at home a. [laughter] >> one last question from a student from chapman university. >> could you share some of the most influential authors that influence james madison and his writing and his opinion state? i'm sorry. i couldn't hear. >> could you share what you think would be the most influential works our authors that help shape madisons opinions and police? >> he had a classical education, and in the run up to the

constitutional convention he undertook aced that the project of years reading classical accounts of previous attempts at establishing a republic. and he saw where they had gone astray and that helped inform his proposals at the constitutional prevention. so classical source were important to him, but practical sources were important as well. he not only wrote, you know, what had happened the past republic on the road what was wrong with the current one. and that he had learned from serving in state government, serving in the continental congress. it's a nice pairing, you know, he not only took his philosophical exploration, he undertook an understanding of the art of politics. he was a genius at both, and so is reading was part of that come his reading of sources like montesquieu. but also has practical experience was crucial to his

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