of common sense one of the generals i was escorting around washington last two days is name to shlomo gazete. so, he read the first 70 pages of the book two nights ago. i gave it to him on his first night in town and he told me i didn't realize we had this connection but i was on the beach shooting at your father. [laughter] 63 years ago this past week. so, some of this is history in some of it is still living memory. anyhow, this all goes by way of saying that the first part of the book is a personal story. and telling how it is that i came to be rooted in the loveless israel and the concern for israel, and that's how i came to my own set of political views that much as my father sort of shifted from the left to the right, i shifted away over time from the view that my father held of these issues, and particularly post of the assassination i wanted to spend time in israel to explore these things personally. i spent three years listening and i studied and i ended up opening a business and contemplated in the late 90's after working at the white house for four years here and was nearly killed