a long essay about the ocean that really distilled just about everything that was known about oceanographytime and this lovely poetic narrative and she turned it in and her boss said i am not going to publish the list -- publish this. you should sell the 2 atlantic monthly magazine. carson scented to atlantic monthly and they bought it and published it and a publisher in new york stock the articles, like it very much and contacted carson and encouraged her to write what would become her first book. that is how she was discovered. she had a lot of literary influencess. her first book was patterned on a book by a british writer named henry williamson. his book, called sailor the salmon, was the story of an atlantic salmon coming back to its home estuary and ritter and williams and -- carson loved them and she really wanted to emulate henry williamson and her first book was models to some extent on that genre and that approach. she was someone who had a lot of native talent but also paid close attention to other riders and studied other riders and tried to extract what she could from the thin

often remarked about how surprising it was how a woman would know about complicated things like oceanography and that a woman had actually gone out on a ship or put on a helmet and went under the water and looked at fish. this was sometimes overstated. she was much better in the library and better communicate with experts who would advisor on things but she always allow this stand that she was an intrepid voyager when in fact she wasn't. and that kind of like that because she sort of turned the tables on the people who said wow, can you believe the little woman like that? she used that to her advantage i think. >> thank you very much. one more round of applause. thank you. thank you, all. [applause] be at the end of world war ii we had 2000 flag officers and generals. today we have 1000 flag officers and generals and 1.2 million under officers. the ratio is totally out of whack. we almost now have an admiral for every ship. not a captain, an admiral so what we have done is go through and look at areas where we could not necessarily save all publica transfer responsibilities that are not trul