nicosia various points with he was thinking back to a certain point in the plus four to afghanistan so in the summer of june june 2010 when general my crystal and the rolling stone article role that are ever sitting on the couch watching television and watching the faces flashed across who could potentially replace him. i had friends calling saying, do you think patraeus would go. no, no. he will never send him. this picture was flashing of there. but, as we portray in chapter one he already knew that his name was probably in the hat even though the media was all speculating about a time. he received a call from mcchrystal replan the article broke. and he said it was going to be bad. he was pretty sure that -- he was certain he would receive some vibes from the white house that he would probably lose his job. admiral mullen had called patraeus and said to me your name is not being speculated publicly, there is a pretty hyper ability that you will be the one for afghanistan. so if any of you have read that first chapter or the paper that followed everything, he he gets into the white ho