this book is based on jim mccartney's experience including his service in world war ii on the front lines in france and germany and reporting more than 30 years starting in the early 1960s and continuing until his death in 2011 and because this represents his thinking i want to tell you about his background, came into the newspaper business, his style of reporting, and what he learned from his front row seat of history. i will also talk briefly about how i came to finish the book, and agent and first-class publisher, saint martin's press. then we will talk about the point of the book which covers the things mentioned in the introduction but jim wanted this to be an introduction to the ongoing washington debate, he wanted people to know what he had learned, he wanted people to care about this issue as much as he did, he wanted people to understand what he had come to understand, to know why it is important, how it affects your pocketbook and why everyone should care about this issue. i will begin with this quotation. naturally the common people don't want war, that is understood. but the p

jim mccartney covered that speech. the chicago daily news, making washington explained in detail what eisenhower was talking about. for example, $20 billion tug-of-war, it would be much bigger numbers. there are 5 parts to the series, the pressure is on for profit, and it talks about how lawmakers by for defense funds, the military rivaled the rivalries that are involved, and how defense pressures come to a 1-way road. there are two sides to this. and study at harvard university and dig deeper into this issue. and is anyone here 18 years old, there are some 18 years, when jim graduated from high school we are in the middle of world war ii. the world was on fire. the first thing that happens if you are 18 years old in 1943 you are drafted immediately, the innocence of that period, one thing that struck me about it is he is 18 years old, he has been drafted, he doesn't know how to drive a car. i am a texan, i started driving when i was 14 but this was the 1950s. in the 1940s gasoline was rationed, rubber was rations. if

jim mccartney covered that speech. in his story, at the the time, he was working for the chicago daily news but he was based in washington. it explained in detail what eisenhower was talking about. for example, our 25 billion-dollar tug-of-war, that's the kind of money that was involved then, today it would be much bigger numbers. there were five parts to the series he wrote. again you can see the pressure is on as the contractor's work for the approval of the weapons they want to build. it went on to talk about how lawmakers, the military rivalries that are involved and how these defense pressures really come down to a one-way road. so, what we know from eisenhower 's there are two elements to this. those stories by the way that i've just shown you led to jim winning a scholarship to study at harvard university for a year and dig deeper into this issue. it also led him to ultimately decide that america has an addiction to war. his passion to the tell the story grew out of his own story. is anybody in here 18 years old