And david price. We will start with david yepsen. Previously, he had a 34 year the morethe des and register. Moines register. He has also done graduate work in Mass Communications at iowa state and earned a masters degree from drake university. Was a fellow for the harvard political school. Theed a study group on nations president ial selection processes. He has also appeared on a number therograms commenting on iowa caucuses. During his career, he helped cover nine president ial campaigns in iowa. Please welcome david. [applause] mr. Yepsen thank you. A lot im thinking about. First of all, i want to thank the Hoover Library and the other policy institute for organizing this session. I have long thought that iowa was a little behind the curve in chronicling the history of this event. I spent some time in New Hampshire, and of course their primary process has been around longer than the iowa caucuses, but they have been much more diligent about writing and recording the history of New H