i have to ay thatall his worries me a bit when selling make scum it's like john has made about my intelligence because i really think, well, they won't think that after they hear you talk. but we will see what happens today. hopefully it will be a better outcome. i have to say that i think john's book, "the struggle to limit government," is an extra important book. it's one that bears a great deal of serious thought and contemplation. and i mean that in the most fundamental sense of what can we learn from what has happened on this issue, how do we limit government. from the past because that is the central issue and it's very likely to continue to be the central issue for probably the lifetimes of all of us in this room today. paul johnson, the historian in modern times, describe the 20th century athe century of government demonstrating the evils to which it is susceptible and totalitarianism. i think that when he first century is going to be the century of crisis for government, because of entitlements, for exampe. and we are going to have politics dominated by the question of, well, do we re