in my view just a tour de force campaign to defeat warren magnuson, just by not as the kids say today dissing maggie. it was the gold watch for maggie campaign, he had been a great senator and now how about washington's next great senator? but i think when you bring it full circle, if he had done none of that, none of that when you look at his achievement, singular achievement on the 9/11 commission appointed by trent lott and a service to america, that alone would have been worth a major book. he strides for consensus rather than this view we have that so often is painted as partisan, rather working with centrist democrats on the commission. he absolutely drove consensus and greased the skids, if you will, for fact-finding that i would assert makes america a safer because of it. enough of that, senator, the floor is yours. >> for almost 10 years after i left the senate in 2001, i would be asked by well-meaning acquaintances, when i was going to write my memoirs are and i always passed off that question with a murmur, because the director was never, not under any circumstances am i go