he was very, i think he was, you know, first and foremost, a politician, and in late 1943 at the teheran conference, he was one of the boosters of winston churchill's southern european front. he goes on at length in the state department papers. he goes on at length about how fantastic, this is the best way to get up through the pull river valley, do this, that, and the other thing, and light the, you know, the various islands and countries on fire, and in the yugoslavia area, and it's a very striking comem -- common tear he presented to the allied commanders in late 1943. in his memoir of the war, and when i read that, i bet harry hopkins chewed him for that or general marshall, a hop kin's stooge at times it seemed very clearly. it's not in the memoirs. the famous memoir in europe, doesn't discuss it says he was always phenomenon normandy. he was a politician. he wanted to hide the past. those papers were not published until about 1961 when it was all over, when all the debate was over, so it's kind of an interesting thing, but there's another thing about ike. i think that eisenhower wa