ladies and gentlemen, i give you david horowitz. [applause] >> thank you. thank you all for coming out. harold mcmillan, who this room is old enough to remember, the prime minister of england and at the end of his long career he was interviewed by a reporter who asked him, mr. mcmillan, what's the most difficult thing that you had to handle as a politician? what was most difficult about your political career? and mcmillan said, events. [laughter] and that's, that's because events are the unexpected, are often the unexpected. i never thought that i would be standing here today as a conservative with a book, actually, a series of volumes about a movement that is running our country and ruining it, the progressive so-called left. my parents were members of the communist party, card-carrying. which means they were part of a vast international conspiracy that was, indeed, orchestrated from moscow, and they were attempting to or their goal was to create a soviet america. of course, hay didn't call themselves communists -- they didn't call themselves communists, i