you mention bob rubin and hank paulsen, two others. even in the financial crisis that we've come through, the 2007 two 2008 crisis, goldman was able to see trouble coming and do something about it. they made a big bet against the mortgage market that paid off in terms of billions of dollars for goldman that every other firm did not see and just pretended didn't exist and basically all went down the tubes. but i think what you do get out of this story is how often goldman found itself in trouble, and how skilled it was of getting out of trouble. and so that was probably, you know, -- don't forget wall street has always been a dangerous place. firms have been going in and out of business their whole -- you know, for the history of wall street. most firms don't make it. and most firms before 1970 when they started going public and becoming public companies were small private partnerships that had limited amounts of capital that, you know, they got from their partners. if something happened, their partners were the ones that suffered the l

so once the player involved, say bob rubin, you know, did interview clinton down in little rock, sort of blessed him and had fund raisers and stuff like that, once bob reubin left the stage of goldman sachs and became the national economic, head of the national economic council in january of 1993, basically that was the end of bob ruben in my book. so i have to keep going on my narrative focus is who was left behind at goldman and what they did, how they have to sort of clean up the mess that bob rubin had left behind and then became the story of what happened in '93 and '94 of the firm when they almost ran out of business. hank paulson, interested in politics. the senior partner of goldman sachs and then was left alone when reubin went to washington and then eight years later i ron ackley steve got offered, steve friedman got offered the same job and the white house that bob rubin had in the national economic council you could come and work in the white house and that is exactly what he did. so, you know, yes, a whole nother book could have been written and probably has been written