frankly, it s clear what he s trying to do it. he s trying to tamp things down. i m sorry to take this literally from the book, but you have to do the literal moment when milley says to general lee, if we re going to attack, i m going to call you ahead of time. people have misconstrued that to say, oh, that means i m going to tip you off. what it means is there will be a build up. there will be tensions and they will be talking on this top secret back channel. that s what he says right there on page 129. if there s some kind of kinetic action, there s going to be a build up just like there s always been in history. but hearing your point about 1974, we have talked about this. with the final day its, president nixon talking to