i'm a big fan of tom selleck but i don't think he has the same dreamy blue eyes as ike, but to answer your questions we did have -- the british canadians and americans, we didn't accept him as the national leader of the french. he wasn't an official we could negotiate with officially but to come back to your point about eisenhower, i don't think any man in the 20th century faces as much pressure as he did when he alone was able to give the decision to go and not churchill, not marshall in washington, not roosevelt, not the king of england. no matter how much they would have liked to influence ike, they might have wanted to tell him to go, only ike, 53 years old, only he could give the final position to go and it was a very, very serious decision because when he gave the decision, a storm was blowing. literally rain was pelting against the building in which he was holding his conference with the overlord commanders. when he looked he looked out the window on the 5th of june, 1944 and given the decision to give final order to go, he was thinking my god, what am i going to do? what am i