[applause] >> lela, thank you very much. shouldn't have done. that thank you to everybody at university press for doing this. it's funny, when i thought about writing this book, i have a casual friendship with john meacham, and random house, and i married a girl from trivett, and i saw him and said itch i write a book about trinity i asked if he would be interested in publishing if called me back two weeks later and said i've been thinking about this, you ought to get university press in mississippi to do this. we're going to publish god knows how many books this year. they'll think that this is special because you have been governor and all that. i tried them. you think we can get it done in six months? and john was right. he gave me the right advice, and fortunately smart enough to take and it we appreciate y'all. i'd never wherein a book before. when i was chairman of the republican national committee, i edit a book on public sol policy that was wasn't by 13 committees we hat appointed on different subject matters and jurisdiction, as far as