parliament considering the option of declaring scotland's independence from the u.k. whip, the house majority of a," our week on "q& guest is pat buchanan, the author of "the greatest comeback: how richard nixon rose from defeat to create the new majority." mr. buchanan worked for richard nixon and his book explores nixon's career following his losses in the 1960's presidential election in the 1962 california governor's race, and how he recovered to win the presidency in 1968. bookt buchanan, your new

about the 1968 campaign of richard nixon -- is that a beginning of a trilogy for you? >> i had intended by it. files and into my brought back all the stories and memories, and thought the nixon comeback in his earliest years was a book in and of itself, a book in which i was very close to richard nixon, his staff is very small, and it was an extraordinary story, an extraordinary time. time of assassinations and riots and campus anarchy and revolution, the tet offensive, americans coming home in caskets -- the convention at chicago -- it is an extraordinary story. >> i will go through the chronological part of this book

and talk about some of the things i have never seen before in to begin with asking you about the first moment you met richard nixon. >> the first moment was at the burning tree country club in 1954. pete cook and i were looking for a summer job. we were the only two white guys out there. after the black caddies have gone after their afternoon bags, the vice president was put out on the bench. the assistant looked over at me and pete cook and called us over and we went around 18 holes at burning tree country club with richard nixon, who was not a scratch golfer. >> what do you remember about him and that meeting? >> he was in his early 40's, not athletic but enjoying himself immensely. i do remember him yelling across a couple of fairways, "hey,

steve, why aren't you up on the hill, there is a vote?" i remember that and i remember nixon was an irreverent figure but enjoying himself. caddying, and is burning tree still there? >> i grew up in washington, d.c.. i was not a professional caddy. black kids pulled me aside and said, here's how you do it, you grab the handle here and do this , put it over your shoulder like you know what you are doing. they told us that and instructed me -- we wanted a job during the summer and we wanted to make some money. up in d.c. boy -- i grew the city, and that was the reason i was out there. >> how long did you do that? >> four weeks or something like

that before i got bored. we rarely got bags but i do remember one time -- 100 degree carried nine holes and two bags. too.nt out for the second, not great golfers. but it was great fun and great memories. when i get back up to the people's drugstore i tell them i was out with the vice president. they were impressed. >> when did you first see him again? >> illinois. i was an editorial writer. i was gettingars, tired of sitting in an office writing editorials. i was doing very well, and nixon was speaking -- filling in fo

r someone. hess was over, don having a cocktail party. nixon was going to attend. from donan invitation hass and asked him to introduce me. nixon was in the kitchen, talking, and hess brings me up to him. i ask, if you're going to run and 68, i would like to vote early. he asks what do i do. i said i am an assistant editorial editor. i said, i write. he asks, what do you write on? then i mentioned the burning and -- described the bag -- he was apparently pretty impressed. he said that nixon had talked about me all the way to the

airport. i havebout 10 days, heard nothing -- that i picked up the phone and there was the familiar voice, and you come up to new york and continue our conversation? which is what i did for three hours in his office. after three-hour conversation with him -- a three-hour conversation with him which rolled over all over domestic foreign policy, issues, personality, he said i would like to hire you for one year. the first $12,000 for 50% more than i was making. i said i am on, shaddai, publisher? -- should i call my publisher? >> you had to wait a long time to talk to him? >> three hours.

i waited about 12, reading this mail, which i was going to have to deal with. one of the reasons he wanted to hire me was a growing volume of mail and he couldn't answer it all. he wanted me to do three things. get rid of the mail backlog, work on the syndicated column him orm, and travel with do his work with him in the '66 campaign. he would tell me that was very wiped out inwe got 1964. 240.y's republicans had nixon would always tell me won't bee nomination worth anything if we don't get the republican party base up to where it should be to have a presidential run. he believed the base was crucial

, the size of it, and we were outnumbered more than two to one. both houses of congress and state legislatures. >> so you take this job. what are you thinking at the time about him? .ou early 27 -- you are only 27 you come out of st. louis -- >> i am going to make this -- >> what did you think of that time? >> i think he had to be thinking 1968, ihinking of assess the field, this is between two people, governor romney of michigan and richard nixon. wasn's great and wise move in 1964, after he introduced goldwater. nixon, with my future wife traveling with him, traveled all

over the country and campaigned harder for goldwater than goldwater did. when he went down to defeat, goldwater endorsed nixon and said, if you run again i am with you. the republican party base loved him but believed he was a loser, and the conservative movement and the conservative martye berry goldwater with them. --w ith him. martyrthe conservative buried goldwater with him. is that myself after 1965 -- assed that myself after 1965. you are on the 40 yard line, 40% of the vote, you have a fighting chance. ince i grew up in washington, wanted to get into politics. we didn't even have the vote in

d.c. until 1964. heidea was ted sorenson -- was getting tremendous publicity. i said, that is the job to which i could aspire. >> so you like the idea of the lights and the writing? >> i liked the idea of the writing and being the adviser. it was not being a candidate, because i couldn't be a candidate, but that was the job to which i could aspire in the white house. >> you said this a couple time of your books -- in your books. the press is the enemy. >> i didn't really take that belief with president nixon, but he would always say that. the press is the enemy. i didn't believe that, i was in journalism school, many were friends of mine. there were nixon haters in the

press, but i thought it was over done on nixon's part. he had a tremendous number of friends in the press, columnists coming in-- >> name some. jack patrick.te, lawrence ran a column. these were well-known people that really liked richard nixon. there were others out to get him including robert novak who watches went to a memorial service for. -- who i want to a memorial service for. i think novak was the best political reporter angie made no apologies about the fact that he did not like nixon. >> did he ever like nixon? >> i don't think he ever really liked nixon, no. i don't think he ever got to know him and nixon left office. .ovak did come around

>> i'm going to go to a story about the press -- not so much about the press as it is about you. richard amberg. was ahard h. amberg democrat when i got out there. amberg had come from this syracuse paper. he was one of those fellows that knew how to move around, very powerful turf figures, very effective publishers. he had gotten almost the jewel in the crown. circulation.00 in it went under in 1985. >> the story wanted to tell starts out on page 101. the rest of us were not yourving any moratorium --

go on to tell the story about a column that was written that he signed under the name nixon, g .o.p. big winner. >> after the election is over, '66 election, which was a tremendous success. probablyhis piece, close to 2000 words long. it described nixon's tremendous job when he campaigned and predicted this and that. it had quotes in it and it was a well-done piece. >> you wrote it. >> i wrote it. send it to my xbox -- ex-boss. he puts it on the weekend edition. "nixon, big winner in '66." his byline. gotoes to this article, we

the copies with his byline printed full-page, sent out to every republican in congress and senator, county chairman, all over the country. all these colonists were picking up quotes -- columnists were picking up quotes. the play was just tremendous, we got into the bloodstream of the country until many of the colonists were saying richard nixon had a tremendous success. i didn't tell you -- they have another thing which was caused -- called -- >> you wrote this piece, mr. amberg put his name on it, you got to reprint it and then you had it sent out in the mail by

fred seaton. >> interior secretary. under ike. he endorsed nixon early. we wrote the letter from fred seaton to all the congressmen, senators, republican state chairman -- >> you wrote the letter. >> we drafted it for his signature and we had them all alongd out in new york with the amberg-buchanan piece. we put that in suitcases and i flew out one day, all day long, to omaha with frontier airlines to hastings, nebraska. affected by suitcases and to see fred seaton. he was a nice guy, sipping his whiskey, and she and i were talking.

he was citing these. -- signing these. we left them there to be mailed out, to have that middle american postmark. [laughter] >> isn't this why americans hate politics? >> there was nothing seaton disagreed with. marty nolan once came after me and said buchanan corrupted the letters to the editors. not any articles that i wrote, columns -- speeches i had written -- i am a ghost, that is what we do. i didn't find any questionable morality and ghosting letters to the editor if you ghost article for the vice president. >> did you continue to do that

kind of stuff all for the presidency? >> that is how the agnew speech came about. >> a background on the agnew speech? >> november, 13, 1969 -- a vice-president stood up for the first time and blistered the national networks -- that is networks were the first primary source of information for two thirds of the american people. nixon gave his great silent majority speech and it was a tremendous success. but the networks trashed it. 68%. vaulted the he said, get your letters to the editor organization, which we put up together at the rnc. i said, this is preposterous. we have got this seizure the

white house which is our big asset. i sent a memo, which i still agnew should give a speech heaving after the networks. i will will write it. let's stop the mickey mouos wis the letter to the editors ickey mouse with the letters to the editor. he loved the idea. saying, go ahead. that speech, i dropped it for agnew, he loved it. the president wanted to edit it. so because we did the oval office. i have to be candid here, the language was a little off, i am reading through the speech, second draft, he's got his glasses on. reads it. "this will rhimr him,

scab off these the bastards." he loves the idea. -- loved the idea. that was november 13. all three network heads were on time on newsweek's cover the following sunday. the whole issue of network power, bias, you responsibility, all of that -- >> i remember that the networks carry that speech. >> agnew was going to deliver the speech, and i had a call -- got a call. abc is carrying agnew's speech live. i said, holy smoke. i go out to the university club, got a call up there while iw a s

in the pool. all three networks are going live. i was thinking, this is the end of my career. at night, agnew delivered the speech and i thought it was terrific. the next morning i had to go back to the air force base at 3:00 in the morning. he was going down for the launch of apollo 12. omes through the plane with a big grin on his face and says dang, buster. an addendum to that -- somebody else got on the plane. robert salinger. he expelled me for problems with some police officers. he comes o and he sees men -- oona and he sees me.

i told him, i was just nothing. i hadn't seen him in 10 years. there is a big statue of salinger now in baltimore. that's what he was doing on agnew's played. >> this is a non sequitur. >> it will be in my next book, lord willing. >> you tell a story in this book about the first time you saw secret service. >> this is after bobby kennedy was shot. suddenly, all the candidates got secret service protection. nixon was at the point. >> 1968? >> 1968, just before the

convention. the rest of the gang went down to miami beach. i see this their and guy standing there, looking around. he is looking off to the woods. i was behind him and i picked up a rock and i threw it over his head into the woods. he went into a crouch. i probably shouldn't have done it. >> he put his hand -- drew his gun? >> he put his hand on his gun, it was a stupid thing to do. >> why did you do that? >> the impulse of something. >> the kind of thing that got you in trouble in georgetown, messing with the cops? the beginning i have got that whole story. >> here is another story --

richard nixon meeting with a group of harvard students. early, was very february, 1966. nixon invites me to his apartment, meeting with some harvard students. we went up to his apartment and i sat down, one of them was don reakle. switched parties. society and nixon was having trouble because he had made a statement about this fell said at the university down and rutgers that he should be fired because of trouble with academic freedom. one of the harvard people was thinking of hiring the kid.

we are in nixon's office and he is talking to this kid. him and the kid says, before i would consider that, i have to know what your views are. [laughter] nuts?s kid to insolence of it, interrogate you to make sure that you are a subject i can work for. >> what happened when the kids were walking out? >> he went back in the office and said, i never want to see that kid again. mikeother story -- the wallace relationship. >> we like wallace. he was combative, argumentative. we looked on him as a friend, even after nixon went into the white house.

he was offered the job and given a copy of his letter, where he turns down the offer of being press secretary to richard nixon in the spring of 1968. they offered him that job and they turned it down, saying he was going to stay where he was. that he was a good friend. -- but he was a good friend. >> one story is when he found ted agnew was going to be the vice president nominee. ad he came downstairs -- i h not known earlier that -- he came downstairs, we do it. the press had heard and he was cussing up a storm. this, kicked it away.

mike wallace was a dedicated liberal, but he was a friend of ours. i think what happened was -- agnew hadelt, because made his reputation by publicly eading the riot act -- >> he had been the governor of maryland. >> the first open housing law south of the mason dixon line. when the civil rights leaders refused to condemn carmichael -- trying to urge on the burning. he read the riot act. to thepersona non grata liberal press after that and the idea that nixon would pick him was deeply offensive to mike wallace. he had felt we lost the election. i liked agnew. i sent nixon the c

lippings of what agnew said. condemn i want you to -- you didn't condemn him, you ran away. i went -- i was the only one there. nixon introduced me and we all went upstairs. nixon was watching and agony was very tough index and, buchanan, i think we have got ourselves a hanging judge. [laughter] >> but then? >> we went out to michigan bay and agnew did not perform well. they had a murder board for students. we questioned agnew on stuff, he didn't do well, he made a lot of gaffes in the campaign.

around october, he decided to leave the campaign. you could sense we were losing. humphrey was gaining. we got on the agnew plane for several days or eight days or something. i think i did some good out there, wrote speeches on social security, went down to the border states. agnew and i became great friends after that. i was at his funeral. his burial site, anyhow. >> you tell stories about mike wallace and the time the cameras were rolling after the election. >> 1966. this was during the -- [laughter] mike was a friend. we let him film our senior staff and nixon during the roll call at the convention. >> in the hotel?

>> in the hotel. nixon's suite. it was a tremendous benefit. we were in there and we start the roll call. there was this picture of me rectified nixon, david douglas duncan took it. they started the roll call and it was going according to form, till we got to michigan. romney, 40, governor votes, for house for richard milhouse nixon. -- four votes for richard milhouse nixon. they were defecting from romney and we didn't think they liked us at all but we got them. the cameras are rolling from cbs and nixon looks over at me -- they had a conference right there and it was decided that

cbs would not show buchanan's outburst. that is somewhere in cbs's files. >> isn't that like managing the news? you may get upset about the news is over the other side. i i didn't talk about it, wasn't doing the talking, but nixon was. >> it has been explained, the context -- >> tremendously controversial. goldwater -- rockefeller one of the john birch society equated with the ku klux klan and communist party. a right wing group -- wasn't secret, but private -- founded who calledelsh eisenhower the politician, a conscious agent of the communist conspiracy, which was ridiculous. is not communist, he's a golfer.

but because of that statement and similar statements, the birch society rally the conservative movement around 1962. they were tremendously controversial, supported nixon's opponent, gutted nixon. and were nixon probably partly responsible for his defeat out there. they were tremendously controversial. nixon had said when i went with him in 1966, i said i will campaign with any cam publican except a member of the john birch society. >> were you worried about losing that -- [laughter] >> it was a very embarrassing moment, no doubt about it. we got the birchers! >> i have some video.

you seen this, i'm sure, many times. this is from 1962, the famous richard nixon news conference, after he had become the governor of california. >> 16 years. you've had a lot of fun. a lot of fun. you've had an opportunity to attack me, and i think i have given as good as i got. interpret it. -- think how know much he will be missed. you won't have nixon to kick around anymore. gentlemen, this is my last press conference. i hope that what i have said today with at least make television, radio, the press

recognize that they have a right and responsibility if they are against a candidate, if they give him the shaft, but one lonely recorder on the campaign. thank you, gentlemen, and good day. [applause] >> did you ever talk to him about that moment? >> i talked about it when he was going to announce in 1968. i said, when you get up with your press conference in new don't you start off by saying, it looks like you were going to have nixon to kick around some more? but he got up and said, this is not my last press conference. devastating.idered that is the end of politics, it is suicidal. there was a documentary on the

political obituary of richard nixon. starred a man nixon had put in prison. i think they thought, nixon has got a point. i think over the extent of his career, richard nixon was probably the most brutalized politician with the exception of joe mccarthy. i can't think of anyone who got a sustained eating like that and had greater -- beating like that and had greater systematic hostility. i didn't believe that the press of the enemy when i came with him. we got good coverage at times in the primary. but through watergate, i came to believe it was true.

when the press ceases to be individuals, going out with them, it becomes a great herd -- there is a collective mindset that builds up. i remember the day nixon resigned. we went up and had a couple of martinis. i saw a famous american correspondent laughing his head when i showed up. he said, pat, this is terrible. >> is he still alive? >> he still alive. -- he's still alive. i haven't seen him write anything. >> there's a story when you found out rockefeller was not going to run, and what mr. nixon said after. >> we had gotten word -- this is

1967, we thought romney was feeding and we could beat him. we weren't tremendously good shape going into february 1. bobby kennedy gets in, and rockefeller holds a press conference and tells me, you watch this, i'm going to the hotel. he did that often. he wanted me to watch something or hear something and get my impression rather than get it himself. i think it was deliberate. he wanted to see how i would react. twice and i were watching, rockefeller gets up and romney is there, and says i'm not going to run. i don't want to run. i'm out. i couldn't believe it.

i go into the bedroom and i tell him -- and his first three words are, "it's the girl." what he meant was drew pearson had written a newsletter saying that rockefeller, who had that marriage problem in 1964 that it cost him the california primary, had a new girlfriend on his staff, and peers and had named her. this was in december. i was wondering, can a guy run after a scandal like this? can the guy run? but rocky was -- >> we have got 40 seconds of nelson rockefeller announcing his candidacy. happy murphy, who is now still

alive, just to bring back old memories. >> i shall do everything i can, with all my energy, now and in the weeks before the national convention, to bring before the people the dimensions of the problems as i see them and how i believe, as a free people, we can meet them. i believe firmly that through unity, as forged by full examination of the fact, and the free interchange of honest byvictions, and very simply, taking this course at this time, i feel i can best serve my country. [applause] that. me tell you about he didn't get into the race in march. i don't know. the big apple -- don't know if it was because of the gal.

what he had done by not getting into the race in march, he enabled himself not to be in the primary in nebraska, indiana, or gone -- oregon. nixon would have crushed him in indiana. inwould have crushed him nebraska, before he got to or gone, which was rocky strongest state -- rocky's strongest state. he delayed the announcement until the filing deadline passed. he pulled himself off the ballot in oregon. it were all calling nixon a loser but none of them wanted to come into the primaries and beat him, because he would have beaten every one of them. including governor reagan. at one point he could've beaten reagan for president. we didn't go into new york

because nixon felt like i can win this nomination by winning all the contested primaries, open primaries, without going after favorite sons. >> the other story in the book is how we got worn burger as our chief justice-- -- warren berger as our chief justice. >> i work of richard nixon on an article. nixon would have me work on the law and order stuff and price utsandingk on -- o speechwriter -- would work on vietnam. news, about a year after our piece went out, warren berger as appellate court judge, wrote an article which was very

similar to what we had said. the arguments were very similar. i took this and said, this is excellent. sentnt to did to nixon. -- i it into nixon. warren berger was appointed chief justice, i gave the press some of his thoughts. the only thing they had when this announcement broke was this. i sent that into nexen and he was impressed, but i also wasrstand later that berger at the 1948 convention. nixon might have seen him there man.se nixon was a doing -- dewey man.

he was no bob taft conservative. man?s berger a taft [laughter] >> one of the great achievements in my life is the staff of the 1992 primary. >> the story i want you to tell is the important story -- there may not have been a warren berger. 1968, in, in june of nixon had one or gone -- won or egon. democratic party battling between mccarthy and kennedy. windhappens is we get to in late june of 1968, that ear warren is about to resign and indeed he did resign as chief justice, contingent upon the

confirmation of his successor. named johnson immediately justice. to be chief you will see on the back of that book is a picture of me and nixon at the airport discussing this before nixon held a press conference at laguardia. before we got word, they should hold off naming someone -- he he shouldndicated name someone else. bob griffin, the senator from michigan, took up the cudgels and opposed fortis, and suddenly howard baker got out and said -- fifteen senators with nothing against fortis but we are not

going to let the chief justice be appointed by the next president. that next president should appoint him. i was working with the lot of theces, but bill rogers, secretary of state, would advise nixon threw me, tell me not to get involved. nixon to indicate to the senate republicans, to block fortis so we can have the choice to name the new chief justice. there was a real battle going on inside. "the fortis film festival was going to nail the coffin shut on our aspiring chief justice." >> fortis had been one lone dissenter to say this

transgender pornographic film was legitimate entertainment, 8-1 decision. to haveded the right this transgender hard-core pornography, in those days, to have it shown. senators got a room in the senate building and invited all the senators up to watch this. some of the senators went in and saw this film and said, this is what fortis thinks is acceptable. he told me that some of the senators came out with legs wobbling. it was very funny. this guy is not going to survive the fortis film festival. fortis couldn't

break the filibuster and he went down the tubes. >> here's richard nixon excepting the party's nomination. gives you a feeling of the moment. he talks about power back to the people. >> back to a. of 40 years wind power has gone from the cities and states that the government in washington, d.c. -- it is time to have power go back from washington to the states into the cities of this country all over america. [applause] we are going to win because at a time when america cries out for the unity that this administration has destroyed, the republican party, after a stands unitedst, before the nation tonight. >> sounds familiar today. >> it sure does. party was only

about half the size, or two thirds the size, the democratic party. nixon had put them all together. had the nixon center. we had a united party. this is one of the things of the you couldn't'68 predict. atlace had 21% of the vote one point. kennedy and jim mccarthy, the leaders of the antiwar movement. the campuses were very anti-vietnam. they were far left. then you have the democratic dick dailey.on,

it was being torn to pieces. nixon, in ourat captured, the northern catholics, blue-collar workers. future democrats and bring them in. when george wallace ran as a democrat, was out of the race in november, and civil rights as an issue was over. protestantouthern moved into the nixon coalition and the northern catholics and the goldwaterites and nixon ites. that is how we did it. wereey thing here -- we talking earlier -- that was revolution in 1968. social, cultural, moral, everything was up for grabs.

the whole revolution was contained inside the democratic party. the demonstrators at columbia, the liberal democrats, occupying professors offices, cops beating up demonstrators. e wallace folks and the urban writers were both democrats -- rioters were both democrats. >> you were friends with him for the rest of his life. adams -- i d, dr. would heads down, 60 miles south of montgomery, i would get off the plane in a state trooper was there. "the governor like to see you, mr. b cannon. -- buchanan." i got to know him very well. he had been up on the

mountaintop. we talked about the campaigns and things he did. he didn't like the press, either. >> you are a friend of barry goldwater's until the end. for goldwateren back in 1966. i can never once, the jockey club -- >> jockey club? >> it's gone now. her goldwater comes walking wn, starts talking to me for about 15 minutes. i really admired him, i really admired barry goldwater. he was your first political hero.

him and reagan and nixon -- >> you mentioned the drinking, richard nixon and drinking. think nixon had this reputation that he was a tremendously heavy drinker. there is no doubt he had some drinks, but my recollection is he was a spartan. of beer couple sips and go to sleep. -- wedon't think nixon got on a jet coming out of new hampshire or south dakota, he ottowa south dakota -- thought it was south dakota. "get vodka and fresca."

-- upnded back to him there at 41,000 feet, he has a couple sips. "i love thosen, little brown people." he would describe them. drink! we only given one there is a tremendous weariness, the weariness just came through. one picture of nixon in picture --es home dwight's home picture. you can see the weariness all over and. >> what is your plan from now on in what you want to write?

i am working on an idea for a follow-up book to do the nixon years through watergate and all the rest of it. nixon, justory of my vantage point. the great silent majority speech. david.t camp tape.e found the last i was asked to be head of the plumbers and i turned it down. all these episodes and where i , whatd what nixon was nixon did and what he said. i have got all my files here.

a thousand pieces of paper with nixon's handwriting. >> you worked in a lot of different laces -- places. worked for three different presidents. in 2012, they didn't renew your contract. what was that story? how you feel about it, looking back? >> my book came out, "suicide of the superpower." it was clearly a shocker to msnbc. they said, these ideas don't belong on my network. it became a new york times bestseller. c-span argued about it. places. fox and other they had the same take on the book that msnbc did.

i was told -- that was it. we worked out an arrangement. it was very fair to me in terms of contracts. . enjoyed working with msnbc i think they thought i was a strange beast. show sharpton has his own -- we were initially introduced to al sharpton, which are not -- turned out to be a complete fraud. why would they -- >> i can be more conservative than al sharpton. about -- i talk about racial and cultural issues that are very hot and controversial.

groups that i had never heard of were putting the pressure on to do something. i don't want to get back into enjoyed working, but that is part of a life that was over. me i had totold get back into the private sector. >> why? i cameere with him and back to the white house right after the nixon pardon in september, 1974. i wanted to leave, anyhow. >> he told you that himself? >> yes, he did. he said, you ought to go into the private sector. test the magic of the marketplace. i expected it. gone.ed out, i was

al offered me a selection of embassies and i pick south africa.- pick south for approved it, but the day after the pardon, novak column -- the white house was thunder struck. he was going to be appointed ambassador of south africa. all the ambassadors were gone after the pardon. they cleaned the place out. >> we only have a minute laugh. this is way off the subject. you are known to operate with a totally clean desk. no papers, nothing. where did you get that idea and why have you done it?

>> i just -- it is not exactly true. sometimes i do get papers -- but i don't know where it is. spent hours putting papers away, i am sure i got it for my mother, clean up your room that sort of thing. code and ties which are two or three blocks from here. i had a coat and tie, 13 years old so i was 21, totally got to nixon's law firm. >> because? >> they didn't want us walking around without a coat. it was a very stodgy firm that he belonged to. >> the name of the book is "the

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