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Thanks, Chong! (And I'll take the compliment on the website -- you & Gary are too kind -- and good teachers). You are very welcome to reprint what you'd like from the President's chapter -- tell me the section & I'll dig it up from my files, if that's easier. So glad you're enjoying it.

Michael Kinsley wrote a column recently in which he concluded that writers write to have someone read, and that buyers buy books with no intention of reading them.

Well, Mr. Kinsley, go to hell. I loved every second of writing this book, all three years of it. If someone enjoys it, or better, learns from it, that's all the better. I had no particular affinity for the subject (limousines), but I always liked cars, and I thought this book could find a publisher. I treated it no differently than I would have any other topic, like... uh, a study of Taft's presidency. I gave it my all, and that's what matters more than anything, Kinsley notwithstanding.

Cynisim has its place. Kinsley don't know it.

I'm glad you've had fun with it, Chong. Thanks.

*Before and after this section, you address everybody else as President so and so for one thing. And I especially enjoyed your silent punches below.... I LOVE IT!*

Excepts from your book (and my 'commentaries' in red if I may) follows:

General Motors contributed the next line of presidential vehicles for Bill Clinton (1993-2001) (Geesh, Michael, it was an honest mistake not addressing him as president as you did all others, wasn't it?)

three 46-inch stretched limousines based on the 1993 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and built by Cadillac in-house.

Although the figure is not published, each car must have cost considerably more than the 1989 Ford's $600,000. (HA! Way more than what it cost to build President Reagan's limos per car.)

The cars have oversized windows for viewing of the president and interior lights to illuminate the passengers at night. (To match his oversized ego and sickness and other purposes?)