Well, thank you very much. First of all, the apologies. A slightly weird to be writing a book called the menu United States during its time when given that reason struggles and washington is seems more disunited and it has been prolonged a long time. Icons, a very short trip of music at the end. I just hope that there will be no telephones during his presentation. Otherwise i will feel like it was altered the had to answer actually addressing a huge political concept. So lets hope that does not happen. What i want to try and do tonight is to tell you a bit more of the background of this book which is a big sort of plum pudding of an affair. Once i tell you how it all come into being, plums from the putting. The background, quite a complex story. You might be able to tell english. I fell in love with this country quite literally when i first arrived here in 1962. Hitchhiking. I basically met at a science fair in london, the delegates, and met a young canadian women, 16. We met at the ho