director inboden: for the william my name is charles inboden. i am one of your hosts for today, and i am honored to be here for the panel discussion. if we honored on my view reagan administration, so this one will be more informal recollections about what it was like working in the administration for president himself and the atmosphere at the time. each of our panelists will offer 10 to 15 minutes of prefatory comments, and then we will turn it over for q&a. especially for the historians, my fellow historians in the room, this is your time to do the expert interviews you have been wanting to do. introducing my three panelists, the man who needs no introduction. i mean that literally, because i introduced him three hours ago. ambassador ken adelman. for our purposes here, he served as one of president reagan's ambassadors to the u.n. and was also a troubleshooter in another way. i want to talk to you about your role in putting together the iran contra. in the middle here, again, a man to those of us who here in austin and many other americans,