Ken Burns
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That's why, you know.
And we're constantly being bombarded with what is the correct way to see this?
You know, it's 1776 or it's 1619 or it's this.
No, it's from 1775 to 1781 or 1783, depending on whether it's Yorktown or the British leaving York.
It is.
You know what?
We've been talking about the Cold War.
I can't believe you brought that up, Chuck.
We're on the same wavelength.
So we've been talking for probably two decades about the Cold War.
And about a year ago, I said, I want to make it the CIA.
So we're doing a big, we're just beginning to sort of unload and create the space.
I like took all the books and stuff like that and put it in a corner of my house.
And I put a sign up over and said, Langley, you know, because that's where we're going to collect all the CIA notes and papers.
And we talked to some people.
We know how we're going to do it because you'll get the Cold War.
Yeah.
But you also get all the intimacies of the stories, you know?
Yeah.
Like I was just talking to Rick Atkinson, the historian who described a friend that he knew, a Russian, who disappeared because Aldrich Ames betrayed him.