i remember 10 years ago bob hoofer --hoover -- i bet none of you guys have ever heard of bob hoover. bob hoover was arguably the best pilot in the history of aviation. he had a strike of a twin-engine arrow commander. he'd put a glass of water up on the dash and start doing barrel rolls. this guy was really good. well, there was an inspection in the feed and bob hoover lost his pilot tion's license. and there was really no reason for it. and in order to get it back, i actually had to go to the -- it took a year to pass legislation that would stop that abuse from going on. and so that has continued and i've always helped people until it happened to me. and then that had a whole new feeling, because people who are involved in aviation the one thing they don't want to lose is their -- is their pilot's license. and the f.a.a. has the power to -- for one person in the field to do something that is not -- not right -- maybe it is because he doesn't like the particular version, whatever reason, can take away their license. for several years i was a developer down in texas. nobody knows wher

my question is, is, is it now time to retire the name of j edgar hoover? >> bob morgan one of the takeovers name off. we decided to wait a while. it would be great. why should hoover's name beyond the fbi? he was a great bureaucrat. he did so much harm to this country, not just to the people, but by confusing presidents to believe that communist controlled the civil rights movement and the anti-vietnam war movement. his name should not be on the public holding. now that it is a new building it doesn't have quite the same looking like the soviet gary hart union. it is a choice not to put it on the new building. >> i was going to talk about the drones it -- [laughter] the technology has been great in the last 40 years, and that is one of the. the use of drones is a sophisticated assignation. if you look, if you think about the use of drones in the battlefield or in the battlefield now, it's not a defined place in the battle of the bulge or the battlefields are in a way, all over the place. it raises a amazing moral questions, and we all know what those are in the s

edgar hoover? >> bob morgan wanted to take hoover's name off. he was on the committee. we decided to wait a while. it would be great. why should hoover's name be on the fbi? he was a great bureaucrat. he did so much harm to this country not just to people but by confusing people to believe that communists controlled the anti-vietnam war movement his name should not be on a public building. now that it is a new building it doesn't have quite the same, you know looking like the soviet union and the 1984 of changing things. it is a choice not to put it on a new building. >> yeah. i was back to drones and hadn't gotten to hoover yet. i mentioned technology earlier and the great changes in the last 40 years, and that's one of them. there are those who think, and i'm still pondering the use of drones as a sophisticated assassination in fact. if you look at it if you think about the use of drones in the battle field now is not a defined place in the battle of the bulge or battle fields all over the place. it raises amazing moral questions. we all know what those are in the sen

we had governor huckabee out at the hoover institution three weeks ago and bob hall and i tried to budge him off of it a little bit in favor of the flat tax and didn't get anywhere. but i wrote a piece once called "a friendly case against the fair tax why it's not as good for america but great for me." i just want to give you a couple of features of that. in the 1960s there were 12 european countries with a national retail sales tax. by 1980 there were zero. all had transformed themselves into a value-added tax. and the reason is a value-added tax is more of self enforcing up the chain and you can collect it whereas a retail sales tax is prone to cheating. i will tell you my early personal story in 1981. i was having dinner at a restaurant in rome. on the way out the cashier said now, listen we're not charging you value-added tax but sometimes police are outside the restaurant checking receipts. so if we see someone coming up to you, go ahead and show them the receipt because one of us is going to run out the door, right there as fast as we could, i'm sorry, sir, we gave you the wrong re