Important and thorough contemporaneous record of a presidency thats ever existed. Among other things, it does give the lie to the notion reagan was either lazy or undisciplined because he clearly , was the opposite of both. He was the most disciplined person i ever knew, he really was. He would show up every morning at 9 00 on the button in the oval office. When i was chief of staff, i used to be with him at 9 00. We would have a meeting that lasted no more than 30 minutes. He would start each meeting with a funny little story. And it was a meeting or two before i realized when he finished, he expected me to have a funny little story. That was his stock and trade. I treasured that. Dole also had that same talent. He can put things in perspective, with humor, more effectively than most philosophers can do it with a serious dissertation and i admire that. Do you think thats a real weapon in making the senate work. A tool, not a weapon, but a tool. Its extraordinarily valuable. And someti