dan ellsberg used to come in twice the semester when he was living here. i also talked about the navy perspective. chester cooper talked about the cia. we want to give people different contexts. the question i wanted to deal with was whether vietnam was an aberration. so many think it was a noble cause that went awry. let me explain that differently. in 2007, i was having dinner with oliver stone. he said, peter, let's do a documentary. we will make a one hour documentary about hiroshima and the cold war. i got to see oliver two weeks later in new york. hour, an idea for a 10 multipart documentary. we had 12 episodes. it took us five years to do it. we wrote a book with it, "the untold history of the united states," based on the documentary narratives, graphic novels coming up. is aat, we agreed -- it real challenge. oliver stone, a preeminent filmmaker about vietnam. challenge in a lot of ways. not that they disagreed, but our experiences were so different. oliver grew up in a right-wing cold war family in new york. at yale, he dropped out of yale to volu