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Host tell me the story behind the headline. Guest you never know what will happen that gives you a lift. The first season republished was when the Star Report was published. The first book was called lawyer, about arthur lyman. And then on monday or tuesday they announced the Starr Report was coming out on friday. Before that, at Random House i did some been called rabbits, which is i would take a document, dusted off, and publish it. Because i could do that. It was a very successful way to do government documents at a time before people could really download them with the same kind of ease. So the Wall Street Journal reporter, a Publishing Reporter calls me and i am sitting in a tiny Conference Room and he says, peter, i know you like to do this. You will be will you be publishing the Starr Report echo i say, of course i will be. And then i go back in and say, im publishing the Starr Report. I made a single call. I called the Washington Post where i had worked for many years. I said,
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