independent institute senior fellow and author of good as gold, how to unleash the power of sound money, judy sheltont's talk about this , because she deserves that. >> [applause] charles: so let's talk about this because there was a huge battle in our country. some were silver, some were metal and then there was gold but ironically the democrats weren't crazy about silver per se, but then the speech, right? nobody ever heard of this dude and he gives a speech at the dnc and people go crazy, he becomes a nominee and now there's a battle. there's a battle, and talk about the fact that gold, mckinley won so gold won and how critical it was in the rise of the american century. >> well, as it turns out, william mckinley won very definitively and let me just say it's such an honor to be on your programmed to. i think that it's ingenius to make these compares, because the parallels between president trump ushering in a new golden age and all of the achievements of america during the era of mckinley are just striking, and from a monetary point of view, what's important is that mckinley embraced sound money