the idea that came to a man named bill levitt was the wind up mass produced the elements that go to make up all the auto industry does what the parts that go into a new car. when i was living there it was at a very particular moment and that was coming out of post-war trajectory and that created the need for that type of housing. returning to that you can house for as little as $500.00 down and that $99.00 a night and that was partly because the federal government was ensuring your market . you had the g.i. bill in thirds in construction of new homes so the whole idea is your government wants you to have a home so this was an easy way to sort of jumpstart the housing industry and make homeownership possible without those subsidies lower middle class families could never been able to afford to massive movements into the suburbs that we saw in the late 1940 s. 950 s. soon to be 966. i was a police officer in the national county and we were the swat team as well. who i'm going to say you know to story about sticking it. in the middle of the windows i did i did it. right on that where. i swe

floor and passed that bill twice, but again, a great deal of credit to senator reid, to senator joe lieberman who stareered the bil through the senate with harry reid, chairman carl levitty us dous day for service members who were finally free to serve their country, they didn't have it fight to serve their country in silence. they were free to be who they were, and that was a day of great joy and pride for us because it meant that we had the right to serve our country if we were qualified. we didn't have to pretend to be someone else to serve. and we were enjoying full citizenship in many ways for the first time. >> aubrey, that moment that we showed of president obama making the announcement almost ten years ago is obviously just the end of a very long process, and you were there for most of it on the front lines. what was the process like? whose arms did you have to twist? how did you get to that day? >> well, let me say this, president obama made a determination early on that this was going to be a partnership with the congress and with the pentagon. he did not want to repeat the mistakes of the clinton administration that ended up giving us a federal statute, don't