>> that's a very fine question, and i'll start by saying i have enormous admiration for hr mcmaster, a brilliant general and a fine author. that book's been out for years, but it's still on the shelf. it has a long life. here i talked about the things you just asked about many times, and basically his bookends before my -- book ends before my account begins. we discussed his take on general johnson, whom i referred to several times. i wrote a biography of johnson called "honorable warrier" concluding he was one the finest officers we ever had, and one of the most honest, so some of the criticisms that hr makes of him in his book, i think are colored by the fact that had he covered a later period when proven makes its appearance and so on, it might have influenced how hr evaluated him, but let's talk about lyndon johnson. i think, i didn't have time to cover this in the prepared remarks, but i think you could also say besides the other criticisms i've leveled with him, that in the course of his conduct of the war, regime westmoreland was guilty of macrodiso bead yeans, and -- macrodis