as many of you know donald trump nicknamed me mad dog, but these days i've turned over a kinder je gentler leaf and i like to think of myself as less of a mad dog and more of an emotional support animal. and that's really great because now the airlines let me fly for free. it's been a year since i left the administration. the recovery process is going well. the counsel is good, i'll graduate soon. a year according to white house time is about 9,000 hours of executive time or 1,800 holes of golf. and that's given me some time to reflect and to think about what our country and where it's going, so i turned to history where we've been through tough times in the past in our country and often in history i have found a way forward. it's tempting this evening to look back exactly a century to 1919, the year that alfred,