i had argued, and by looking at his bigleying onfy, you can see his success. i had argued that the first book or a book he should do after the memoirs was a book on his early life. and i was partly inspired by president carter's books about growing up and christmas in plains. but i thought that to tell the nixon story in yorba linda and whittier and fullerton and orange county in his youth and up to the time that he went away to -- that he responded to the ad in the paper and the letter from herman perry and started his political career is important formative charming and interesting. am i free to go? good lord. i think i'm sort of out of things to say. >> did you want to comment on irv? >> oh, irv. well, irv is -- first of all, it's great news that the second volume is going to be published. and soon. sooner than later. the first irv is an indefatiguable scholar, an impeccable researcher and i think remarkably fair-minded in terms of his judgment. so he's a triple threat and a great contribution to nixon literature and historyography. irv has gone back to the