four books in the series under way and various stages of progress and they'll take us through caspar weinberger in the early '80s. standing the test of time that will serve hopefully as useful information for current policymakers and finally inform the american public. we believe that ed's book is a great addition to this series and although its focus is vietnam, he covers a lot of other important topics from the dominican crisis in 1965 to the six-day war in the middle east in 1967 to the impact of vietnam on u.s. national defense posture. we hope we've put together a program that's equal to this topic. john is going to serve as the moderator. he is a historian who worked for 17 years for the u.s. army center of military history writing their volumes on 1965 in 1966 in vietnam. he spent another decade in hard labor at the foreign relations series of the united states at the state department doing their two books on the end of the vietnam war. the semiretired now and works part-time for us doing special projects like this. two of our presenters, of course, are dr. ed dre, ta and final member of