recently i read h r mcmasters's book dereliction of duty. you knew him well and he stayed at your house when he was writing the book. in that book, he really lays it on president johnson and secretary mcnamara and he also said -- the crux of my question, he kept saying -- every time he saw the joint chiefs, largely ignored but every time he saw him he said that. with westmoreland's emphasis on body count, what did that have to do with leading to that? the cause of it? or is it somehow -- >> very fine question and i will start by saying i have enormous admiration for h r mcmasters. that is a wonderfully fine book and i am glad to see when i go into bookstores even though it has been out for many years you see it on the shelves. it has a long life. we talked about what you asked about many times. basically his book ends before my count begins. in particular we discussed his take on general johnson who i refer to several times, wrote a biography of general johnson called hon. warrior and i concluded he was one of the finest officers we ever had

mcmaster is. a brilliant scholar and that is a wonderfully fine book and i am glad to see when i go into bookstores even though it has been out for many years you see it on the shelves so it has a long life. we talked about what you asked about many times. basically his book ends before my count begins. in particular we discussed his take on general johnson and i wrote a biography of general johnson called hon. warrior and i concluded he was one of the finest officers we ever had and one of the most honest. some of the criticisms h.r. make of him in his book are colored by the fact that had he covered a later period in light of -- might have influenced our h.r. evaluated him. let's talk about lyndon johnson. i didn't have time to cover this in the prepared remarks but i think you could also say besides the other criticisms leveled at him that in the course of his conduct of the war generally westmoreland was guilty of macrodisobedience. the reason i say that is in early 1966 there was a major conf

mcmaster specter election of duty. i knew you knew him well, even a stitch or how silly was while he was writing about. and not vote, he lays it on president johnson, secretary mcnamara. and he also said in the crux of my question, he also kept saying every time he saw the joint chiefs of the largely ignored, but every time he saw him, he said that. now, with that with westmoreland synthesis, what did that have to do with leading to that? because other? or is it something else? >> that's a very fine question. i'll start by saying that enormous maturation and i think that's a wonderfully fine book. i'm glad to see when i go into bookstores and even though it's been out for many years to still see it on the shelves, so it has a long life. here again i've talked about the kinds of things you ask about and basically his book ends before my account begins. in particular, we discussed his take on general johnson referred to several times. i wrote one called honorable warrior and i concluded he was one of the finest officers

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geneticist hendrik poinar of mcmaster university in canada was a leading member of the team and he joinsme now. professor, welcome. why sequence the genome of a bacterium that was killing people almost 700 years ago? >> i think one of the reasons is really so that we can hope to understand perhaps why it was so deadly. so intrinsic changes that led to this high mortality which you just mentioned killed some 50% of the european population in 1346. >> suarez: so you managed to track down a sequencable piece of bacterium. what did it tell you once you were able to compare it with the plague bacterium of today? >> yeah, well, first we designed this methodology to remove like you mentioned, really small tiny fragments because the pathogen had been heavily degraded into little tiny pieces. we managed to pull that out using sort of an enrichment strategy and stitched these pieces back together and construct this ancient genome. using that we can compare it to the modern genome which allow us to deduce, a., that this turns out to be the grandmother of all modern circulating plague bacteria today