someone said that i should look up bernard schriever. i asked for the file and library and handed it to me and i opened it up -- i ask for the file and library and handed it to me and i opened it up. he was on a table with a bunch of missiles around him. i said that this guy looked interesting. when i got home, i asked some questions about him. he was well known within the air force but not outside. when i got home, i looked him up in the phone book and he turned out to be a box -- eight blocks from my house. i arranged for him to come over and talk. was the first of many interviews with him. i realized that this man had stood at a pivotal point in the cold war. we look at the cold war as a long glacial period. there were changes. in the beginning, it was a very unstable business. we could have gone into nuclear war with the soviets. i realized after talking to this man that he had stood at the center of that pivotal. -- at that pivotal time. he had saved us from what could have been a nuclear war and you and i, but for him and those who