so i had the incredible experience of spending three hours with olivia dehavilland, who was on the cusp of her hundredth birthday at the time. she was fantastic. she was more elusive than may. she really had a perfect memory about reagan and how he fit into the hollywood community and how he approached his job as leader of the screen actors guild, during a very violent period in hollywood's history and she had all her notes from it as well. she still had them intact. i was really fortunate. those are the kinds of experiences i had when i was doing my research. ed meese spent about 80 hours with me, bud mcfarland, john poindexter, hundreds of hours. we talked long and hard about all the things in reagan's life. so i do that for about two and a half years. then i write. my writing lasts about two years. i write seven days a week. you really become acquainted with the person you're writing about, to the point where i could interview someone and they could tell me they were in the room with reagan and this is exactly what happened, and i would know that it didn't happen that way. you just g