dr. john carlo, second from your right, who represents our office. i'll begin with a, in my very brief remarks way quote from robert mcnamara from 1964. i don't object to vietnam being called mcnamara's war. it's an important war and i am pleased to be identified with it and do whatever i can to win it. obviously it was a very important war but not necessarily for the reasons mack ma nair ra envisioned and he wasn't able to win the war but his reputation has been tied over the years closely to the u.s. failure in that conflict. we're here today, of course, to talk about and recognize the recent publication of ed drea's book, part of the ongone secretary of defense historical series put out by our office that focuses on the role of the secretaries and the office of the secretary of defense in developing and executing national defense policy. it's of course, equal to mcnamara in 1961 to 1965. we have the next 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 t