i had argued, and by looking at his bibliography you can see his success. i had argued that the first book or a book he should do after the memoirs was a book on his early life. and i was partly inspired by president carter's books about growing up and christmas in plains. but i thought that to tell the nixon story in yorba linda and whittier and fullerton and orange county in his youth and up to the time that he went away to -- that he responded to the ad in the paper and the letter from herman perry and started his political career is important formative charming and interesting. am i free to go? good lord. i think i'm sort of out of things to say. >> did you want to comment on irv? >> oh, irv. well, irv is -- first of all, it's great news that the second volume is going to be published. and soon. sooner than later. the first irv is an indefatigable scholar, an impeccable researcher and i think remarkably fair-minded in terms of his judgment. so he's a triple threat and a great contribution to nixon literature and historiography. irv has gone back to the

and you can -- by looking at his bibliography, you can see my success, and you can see the first book or the book he should do after the memoirs was a book on his early life and i was inspired by president carter's book about growing up in christmas in plains. i thought to tell the nixon story in yorba linda in whittier, and orange county in the time that he went away in the paper for herman perry. and his political career. it's important, formative, charming and interesting. and -- three to go? good lord. and i'm sort of out of things to say. >> did you want to comment on irvs? well, irv, first of all, it's great news that the second volume is going to be published and sooner than later. the first irv was a scholar, an impeccable researcher and i think remarkable fair minded in terms of his judgment so he's a triple threat and he's a great contribution to nixon literature and his storiography. irv has gone back and actually gone back to the sources and read in human capacity the papers and documents and research to get back. why did nixon -- with most politicians if they succeed upwa