depoliticize, as he put it, vietnam policy, he s not going to run and he had a hand signal that he gave to lady bird warning her, i m going to do it. i m going to drop out. and the fascinating thing that i discovered only in working on the book is, yes, he dropped out. it was over. lbj had been drumped, in effect, by the dump johnson movement. but as the convention was approaching, it wasn t over in his head. he was still thinking after the b bobby kennedy assassination, maybe i can go into chicago. he was actually making plans to travel to chicago. wow. the riots broke out. it was very clear to him there was no way to pull this off but he started to think maybe i m the solution, and i m the surprise nominee in chicago. the thing that i found reading your book is that it s the only thing that i have read in the past year that made me feel the same way that i felt about the overwhelming nature of the news in the past year and a half. yes.