and my dear cousins, thurston balfour and renee. urston is probably the only person in the room who knew my father during world war ii. so -- he has talked to me a lot about that. so -- thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thanks, julia and thanks to everyone from the family for being here. why don't i -- before starting to ask questions just turn the floor over and whichever order you would like just to -- start things out and then i will -- i will start with some questions. >> good. i will be briefer than i thought i would be because you covered some of the points that -- i was thinking of making. this -- this story is one of great drama. and i think -- and as kennedy himself says in the book and as tom and i try to highlight in the introduction, it was a monumental news story in which a reporter had a choice and -- part of that choice was deciding whether to honor the pledge that had all of these 17 reporters who had gone to ream would honor about not breaking the story until they were allowed to. or deciding to break it because t