you know, american gis tended to be young and not surprisingly brash.e are coming over here to save you. the british not surprisingly thinking, it took you a long time to get here. we have been putting up with rationing, axa wow you guys are, you know, being paid much more than we are. you know, you have no shortages. there was a great amount of misunderstanding between the two. but at the same time american troops did come to know the british people and vice versa. by the end, you know, it is really interesting that when normandy occurred, when d-day occurred and american censors would go through the letters they found that of third of the letters being written by american soldiers from france were being written to british towns. to people that they had come to know and in some cases love. they certainly have become friends. and so that is one of the really interesting stories. two people had a lot in common, but really nothing in common at the same time. how they came together and had difficulties but finally did achieve their relationship. >> really

the gi bill was one of the things that made american the most educated done -- country in the world. of course, we had the strongest economy in the world and we were the largest economy in the world. one of the things that excite committee colleges about the attention the president is giving them -- and let me also say that president clinton and president bush, the last president bush, both havhad contributions to community colleges. but what president obama is focusing on and has challenged our colleges to participate in is making america the most educated country once again. we are about 11 or 12 internationally in terms of the percentage of our population that has obtained an education. these investments in our colleges and the pell grant program and other student aid programs are designed to help us retain -- regained about number one position. -- regain the no. 1 position. host: next call from arizona. caller: i came out of the service in 1978 after vietnam and i went to college on the gi bill in buffalo, new york. i sent two stepdaughters through college. basically, on the same

american public. there is not a lack of oil and there is not a lack of common sense. >> this is for old foeg gis like me. we remember the s&l crisis, the savings and loan crisis. it was disastrous. we never hear about that anymore. what happened then to get folks in check? what did our -- what went right and why shouldn't we been able to do that now? >> well, what went right is we went through a lot of regulations over those savings and loans. we don't have those problems anymore. we have to go back into these big banks that, quote, are too big to fail. they are too big to fail, because as taxpayers, we bail them out when they fail. we are going to have to put some rules back in and say, guys, you can't do some of the crazy things you were doing with this derivative market and let things go down. iag, big banks, it doesn't make any difference. >> give me some examples, you investigated these guys and tried to hold them accountable. tell me what you did get your hands on and how hard it was to prosecute and push everything through because of the power of money? >> money talks. money buys expensive law