all of which brings me to dr. suess. you all read dr. suess, right, growing up? anybody read the butter battle book? it's about the cold war, folks. i'm not talking about the foot book and the abc book and all those classics. dr. suess wrote a book about the cold war, the butter battle book. i don't have time to read it to you. the library has a copy. i've got it in my office. classic. it's about two groups. zooks and the yooks. they don't like each other. why? because one group buttered their bread butter side up and the other is butter side down. now, there's a reason to go to war. how you butter your bread. but it's a children's story about the cold war and the es

and here's how dr. suess ends the book. grandpa, i shouted, be careful. who's going to drop it, will you or will he? be patient, said grandpa. we'll see, we'll see. it's a cliffhanger. dr. suess right there. who is going to drop the big boy boomeroo? it's the cold war. we have atomic weapons, the soviet union has atomic weapons. they have an atomic bomb, we have to have one. we have to have a hydrogen bomb that takes an atomic bomb to detonate, set it off. dr. suess. anyway, it's an arms race now. what is the soviets' response? here we go. it's not enough. they want to have the largest standing army in the world. they're going to develop one that encompasses nearly 3 million men. that's a lot of folks. they're going to escalate their atomic weapons program. if we're working op a hydrogen bomb, then they're going to be working on it as well or something else. the most interesting thing in terms of soviet response is this -- support for their satellites and i use that term in quotes because i mean not only their countries. they're going to ensure that their

her first book was dr. suess' "hop on pop" which she read at the tender age of 2. now she is the youngest person ever to qualify for the spelling bee, setting a record for the contest's 87-year history. even though most of the contestants she's facing are twice her age. the one word you won't hear lori ann madison spelling this morning -- >> that's correct. >> reporter: is f-e-a-r. >> i'm not scared. definitely not scared. >> reporter: at just 6 years old, she's the youngest contestant ever to qualify for wednesday's scripps national spelling bee. >> i'm not really like, oh, i'm in the spelling bee. i'm more like it's fine. >> reporter: a shocking feat for most children her age but not surprising for a little girl who's been reading since the age of 2, telling us in march -- >> i like to read every single bit of fantasy, mythology and dragons. >> reporter: in fact, lori ann hasn't just been reading. she's been competing in spelling bees since she was 3. that's her, 3 years ago, barely able to reach the mike, but holding her own. after a gifted program told her pare