In Springfield, they're eating the dogs, the people that came in, they're eating the cats, they're eating, they're eating the pets of the people that live there.

And this is what's happening in our country, and it's a shame.

It's Wednesday, September the 11th, 2024, and welcome back to Goodfellows, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow. I'll be your moderator today.

Joined by two, not three, but two of our Goodfellows, John Cochran is not with us. He is out doing the Lord's Business for Hoover

today. But in his absence, we're more than capably taken care of by the historian Neil Ferguson

and former Presidential National Security Advisor and Geostrategist, Lieutenant General

H.R. McMaster, who is in the crosshairs of this show because we're going to talk about his book.

Neil and HR, great to see you. It's been too long, my friends.

Hey, great to see both of you. And thanks again for the opportunity to talk about the book

with two people who I admire. And Neil, thanks so much for your advice at the outset of it when I

was framing it. I didn't want to name you by name because I didn't want you to be blamed for

anything to take the book. But thank you so much for both of you for your support and friendship on this.

Okay. And Nixon turns that makes Neil Ferguson an undidated co-conspirator in this book, I guess.

But let's get into it. The title of the book is at more with ourselves.

It is number two, HR on the bestseller in New York Times,

hardcover non-fiction list. Congratulations that is a coup, my friend.

I'm curious about one thing, HR.

I am a recovering Washingtonian.

I've spent half my life in that city.

I've spent my life in politics, so I've spent way too much time reading memoirs for people who spent time of Washington.

There are usually two defining features to a tell-all book HR. One is that the people who writes the book,

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