Historical accounts of Benedict Arnold and artifacts associated with the revolutionary war general in his new fictional thriller. [applause] so heres where were going to have some fun tonight, right . Weve got kids in the front row, and that means chaos, people. Right . [laughter] two, weve got cspan here, lets hear it for cspan, right . Right . We love cspan. [applause] there is no better nerdier crowd than the washington, d. C. Metro area. [laughter] in fact, all the viewers of cspan, i think, are in this room right now. We love you. We watch on a regular basis, i mean, the regular viewers, of course. We welcome everyone to cspan. But theres a couple other things were going to do nowhere else, and were going to do here. First, im going to tell you about difference between history and destiny. And we all know what history is, right . Its what happened, but destiny is what must happen. And this is true. I cant believe this is happening, but my father, may he rest in peace, was struck b