As rep. Tom cole, republican from oklahoma. We have asked you this question before. Always had a large reading list. What is on your current reading list. Tom i have just finished the splendid in the bio b is a wonderful recollection of his family during the war during 1940. Its really been day of the german and some of the countries in france. And then basically, what it was like to standalone against nothing germany. Until the june of 41, then the russians were in the war and then obviously, by december of 41, the United States were in the war. Its a wonderful read about a god that i consider literally the greatest person of the century. In the supreme ordeal of his long career. Also been reading. I just picked up the great historian by the name of jean edward smith. Great biographer. I read his biographies, tran10 eisenhower. And eisenhower was by far the best biography ever written about him and there have been good ones. It he died in 2000 in 19. So right now, i just got into what
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