during this period that the state department is engineering a big conspiracy to destroy partition, freda put together a huge dinner, rally with prominent speakers to protest the efforts of the state department to turn back partition and eleanor roosevelt was to be chairman of the meeting. and she put out the ad stop the state department conspiracy against jewish palestine. eleanor roosevelt said this is a grave embarrassment to the when the president said the worse than during the president and making a public protests. she did not want to go on record at the same time it to appear as a fast pressure dinner. >> what you are saying reminds me of my mother many decades ago when to a meeting where an american communist spoke and said the state department will always remain the same, presidents will come and go. [laughter] as i am reading your book and watching pbs behind closed doors, i am impressed with roosevelt thought he could charm and the entrances chant -- in transient people like staal and now we have a president who seems to feel likewise. i don't know there's a question and there