david george ball joins us now to talk about it.so a former assistant secretary of labor in the bush administration and the author of "a marked heart." thank you for coming in. nice to meet you. >> pleasure to be here. >> your life has taken so many interesting turns. it's going to be hard to get to a whole lot of it here in this interview. let me start with, you know, you put on the cover the picture with you with dr. king, who you invited to yale university. tell us about that encounter and how that impacted your life. >> well, when i was an immigrant, i grew up in war town, england, and a scholarship student at yale, i invited martin luther king to come as my guest. he was my guest for three days. he inspired me to try to help make the world a better place, and at first i thought my calling was civil rights. i became a lawyer. i worked on wall street. but i discovered my calling wasn't civil rights. eventually, i discovered my calling was pensions. >> pensions? >> yes. >> that's interesting to me. before we get to the pensions, w