available to be taught and are, in fact, being taught, at every single one of the university of california campuses. after a very long and for me very deeply intellectually satisfying discussion of that particular era with rick santorum's chief strategist at the time, on this program, in which the chief strategist, john brabender, a very nice man, told me that he thought that rick santorum took his reputation for honesty seriously enough that he would correct that assertion if it was, in fact, shown to him to have been wrong, after that, we wrote senator santorum and pointed out how he was wrong, and mr. santorum wrote me a letter back, trying to correct it. he took back, retracted his assertion that the university of california doesn't teach american history, and instead he asserted that what he meant to say is that the university of california doesn't teach survey courses in western civilization. and of course, day do teach survey courses in western civilization. so the replacement assertion was also untrue. but, at least he tried.