guadalcanal didn't look like that. guadalcanal wasn't quite that dramatic. it was a stinky, lousy, disgusting place. the island is something the waters around were confined and hazardous and lend themselves really to, you know, used by smaller ships but none of that told the japanese this was a decisive battle. i think they realized it too late. all through the campaign, i pointed out, trucks earlier. the great battleship yamato was anchored was never sent into the combat area. really for lack of fuel but i think the japanese ever saw the urgency of it. a number of their other major naval elements of the force never committed to the battle. it was to our good fortune ultimately, but it's also important to observe, old sides are fighting so far from home. just look off our guadalcanal is until key over and pearl harbor. the logistics train to sustain naval operations. it was far more than anybody could manage easily. these constraints of fuel and supply, and the japanese suffered as we did. anything else? if there's nothing else, i thank you for your attentio

pearl harbor, the long hard heroic road to victory for guadalcanal, iwo jima, okinawa, midway, on the deck of the battleship missouri with the surrender of the japanese. equally hard, our men who fought on a rough sand of africa and the beach of normandy, along the rhine washington--they're not the counterparts for freedom and equality. a day like all days to illuminate our time and you were there. >> who else misses that guy? that is what i was thinking. here is our first question. what is it that we miss about this guy? what is it that we miss about walter cronkite and this generation of journalism? why does it stirred the soul to see stuff like that? i will open it up to you guys. >> i should recuse myself. >> you were there. >> recused myself because i was there. the question is meant to be historical, not personal. i can only -- there are so many journalists today that there are plenty like him. that is my counterarguments. >> i wish that were true. >> my first reaction is not to your question i was about 12 years old when those shows were running and i remember them vividly. but

that is the year of guadalcanal and midway and the battle of the atlantic. the number of civilians and casualties by a factor of 20-1. and shocking to realize that 189 senior executives by on the job. and they paid the price for the war effort that they made and mobilizing their skills and talents and abilities for the great war effort here. the people you will meet in this book, as a result of writing, i fell in love with them. i hope after reading the book you will too. thank you very much. [applause] >> we will conduct a q&a. >> we are all friends here. >> dorr. okay. someone who used to try to teach principles of economics, economists are trying to look at the inefficiencies -- you can imagine all these different markets with a big increase in demand. how much did the attempt to control prices memo down this effort? >> i like the we put that. you are standing on heads. what they tried to impose on economic transactions was the issue about raw materials and price control. in the end what to many seemed like a good idea they remember during world war i tha