and i'm sure it was such an incredible -- are you going to ask me anything about harold macmillan? why don't you tell something about the premise of great britain? >> the reason i'm saying that is there were some relationships that formed during the kennedy presidency that brings it to mind. kennedy found not only in england, but particularly in harold macmillan, a father figure, a true father figure. and he also found his greatest ally. kennedy's greatest greatest desire, careerwise, was to get a nuclear test ban treaty. when you read the letters, i never would have believed this until i saw this. i always would have thought saving the world from nuclear holocaust is bad. but he really believed getting a definitive test ban treaty was the greatest triumph of all. and it was with the help of harold macmillan, and the relationship when you look at all these letters, and i use quite a bit of them, i want the book to sell but also the british addition to sell. when you look at all these letters, about halfway through, the only time this happened in his presence he isn't saying dear pr

always -- just finish of what i do is to depress you, let me leave you with one, return to harold macmillan'svents with the most difficult thing because their unexpected. and tv this very brief story. in 1986 i was on a panel in paris organized by the committee of the free world where there's a meeting between the vietnamese and the french and the americans, and i was on a panel. it was called, the title of the panel was, or subject, is communism reversible? and none of us really thought it was. i gave a very gloom and doom speech based on everything i thought a new. and lo and behold a few years later it was gone. so don't underestimate the unexpected. if the american people, this is the people most likely to ever accept a totalitarian system, is a country of individuals, we don't trust our government. actually my son gave me a t-shirt. i love my country but i fear my government. that's the conservative motto. we have a country of millions and millions of people like that. i believe they're going to fail. i believe there's a tsunami coming in the next congressional election. the democrats ar