so here's the gospel according to paolo balto.hat might hoover have thought about china now what do you think? >> guest: he was highly disturbed that it had undermined in the late 1940s and permitted them to take power. there are several books out and i think that hoover would say look at the cost of communism in china from 1949 until the turn towards greater economic freedom in the 80s so he was a think of what was lost before china found itself to move in a more prosperous direction but think of the tens of millions of people that lost their lives because of the utopian policies. china has gotten beyond that so he would go on to say we might have avoided all of that if we hadn't been so naÏve and thinking he was just one more reform. >> host: if you were a graduate in 1960 or 1971 to be learned is that china was different and it was their culture to be communist and anyone that said the chinese communism is terrible is a bit hysterical and we didn't really learn about the great famine the professor described in a book or other a