howard hughes. remember howard hughes? he had exited the top floor of the hotel, and we fed him, he didn't want to see anybody. we fed him under the door, every plate of food needed to fit under the door. that was the end of the life of this man. so all sort of crazy thing was asked for him to live on really. then after that i came back to france for a while, pastry chef all the -- at the george cingue hotel, which was a family-owned hotel, and then i worked at a restaurant in paris. and i was back in bermuda by popular demand. the homestead hotel was my next job where i spent five years, and this is where my family and i started our life in the united states. i also was a consultant to the greenbriar hotel for six years. so those were very significant places, jobs, where quality needed to be. not just anyone could work there and say, i'm going to be the pastry chef there tomorrow, no, no, no, you needed to be very experienced in many ways. by the way, after my speech, i will take some questions if you ever need clarificat

hughes is the bearded iceberg. aside from that, t.r. has a anointed a successor once before, william howard taft. that did not work out. he doesn't want to do it again. they've had -- hughes and t.r. have wrangled over patronage when hughes was governor, and des moines r. is not -- t.r. is not sure where hughes stands on the war, against preparedness. but will, what will the republicans do? the republicans nominate hughes. they say that nobody likes hughes, but everyone is for him. and because he is the sort of available man even though he is on the supreme court, they nominate him, and the whole progressive party folds into a big, big wreck. and hughes, this is interesting, hughes was basically offered, how shall we say it, a bribe, a consideration if he does not run against woodrow wilson, and that is to become chief justice of the supreme court. he says, no, wilson are never support me. and he's told by another supreme court justice, oh, no, he are, he want -- he will, he wants you on that court. so it's a very, very complex, interesting and machiavellian story. and we don't have the tapes like