the road to cerfdom, witness, by whittaker chambers, and an extraordinary auto biography of an ex-soviet spy. and economics and hundred -- a lesson, a classic, and a back which i had not read, "the law." i said who is he? i learned later a 19th century economist, a free enterpriser, and someone who had influenced many, many people, including ronald reagan. i said, okay, but maybe he hadn't read them. so i reached out and began taking the become out of the shelves. ann said, don't do that. to -- i said, it's okay. picked them up, opened them up, dog-eared, unlined, little phrases in the margins. he had read these -- i'm not saying he read every book that closely, but those classics i'm talking about, yes, he had. and here was a thinking, reasoning person, who had arrived at his philosophy the old-fashioned way, one book at a time. and i said right then and there that reagan is an intellectual. he is an intellectual. he is comfortable with ideas, understands the power of idea, and with that kind of intellectual foundation, a political leader can do all kinds of marvelous things, which, as