i want to read that book about machiavelli. and then there's a book called "reckless" which is about what went on in terms of the financial crisis in the country and what led up to it and involved two local businesses, freddie mac and fannie mae. so i have -- i know lots of players. i'm curious to read and find out what happened there. and then there's some thing that is i want to go back and read. you know there was recently a controversy about huck finn. and the use of the n word. and there was a professor who took it out of the text. and this sparked a controversy about sanitizing american history or in the context of my own book, sort of politically correct speech code and how inappropriate it was given the fact that mark twain, samuel clemons wrote it with the power of that word intended. so i want to just take a look at what the sanitized, if you will, text looks like. i've picked up that book. again, that's sitting on my desk. and then there are -- there are two books. i'm trying to remember their names. it's such an opp

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[laughter] it comes from machiavelli a great leader must have aliments of both of the the lion and the fox also central principles that hentra or she appeared to but at must be able m to be as crafty as the fox to carry those principles out. in any case the book came out 1956 and was nominated for a pulitzer prize cahal one of the finalists and edged out of a book called "profiles in courage." there were many professional historiansau, i was six months old at the time that many felt as good as it was it may be should have garn to aat professional scholar and i will not votes when rate or anothert of there them this second volume was the winner of the pulitzer prize though the judges made it up as wasved. well-deserved. we will hear him read from "roosevelt and lion and the fox" but one thing you will lowered to is i reread it again recentlyg knowing how was coming here. i first read it when i was 16. i knew very little about the roosevelt period i did not new father called would was lowered many of the issues of the 1930's and it made those real. i felt by the time i had finished as if

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