two weeks and you choose based on seniority where you're going to seat. i heard it really doesn't matter. there are no bad seats. so i pulled open three or four desk drawers because i heard that senators write their names sort of like middle school, carve their names in the desk drawer. mcgovern, gore, tennessee, and kennedy. so i said to ted kennedy then in the senate, he walks over and i said ted, which brother's desk is this. he looks and says, well, it's got to be bobby's desk. i have jack's. so i started thinking about who some of these senators were. some of them i knew a lot about. not many. a few i knew nothing about. and i selected eight of them. no particular reason it was eight. and began writing and thinking and researching. and ten years later, the book was finished. so i didn't speed write this. i thought a lot about it. i read 150 books to prepare for it. but i wrote it mostly because i believe that the power of government can make a difference positively in people's lives. it's the reason i wear this canary pin.