if we had not picked those guys and if we would have picked winfield scott in zebulon pike canada would not have stayed. that is one of the remarkable twists and what's so exciting i think is every year i love the stories. every year a story comes out that someone went to a yard sale in lincoln nebraska and they bought a painting for the frame and they get home and they tear the frame out, and tear the pending out and what did they find? a letter from ben franklin. don't you love that? every year this happens. we are still discovering unknown satellite camps from the holocaust. six decades later with the world's greatest scholars studying it, there are still secrets out there. history still has secrets. warren harding's wife destroyed a lot of his letters. there is less we know about harding than any president of the 20th century. a year ago we found a heretofore letter from mary todd lincoln a year before her husband's death. i love the letter. even though the press tended to say it's not much of a form i loved it because mary todd is writing in 1864. she's having a big fancy white tie