main branch and the regional branches such as the vice presidential papers that were formerly in laguna niguel. library of congress had special repositories at colleges and universities. i'd like to focus on julie nixon eisenhower's work "pat nixon" the untold biography of her mother. she had access to materials not available to other beingiograpb. she provided outstanding coverage of her parents' courtship and then in 1945 she detailed the story of how whittier banker herman perry contacted the nixons while they were in baltimore and that's september, 1945, and asked if richard was interested in running against the incumbent representative. and julie verified that her parents' savings, $10,000 went into-th presidential race. i'd like to talk about another biographer, morris who was an ivy league educated historian. he resigned in protest from the national security council after the cambodian incursion. he showed a strong underlying bias against nixon. at the same time he was actually a very methodical researcher, so you have to kind of weigh -- kind of proceed with caution these types of cove