Larry Schweikert

American industry took that very seriously, and they fixed it.

But we began this 21st century on a virus, and kind of at the end, not quite the end, but in 2020, we pretty much end the first quarter century with a real virus, the China virus or COVID, and it was a world-changing event.

People say, well, how do you know what's significant in history?

And my answer is always that which affects the greatest number of people over the longest period of time.

And I think almost any observer, even now, only five years later, will say the COVID virus affected a gigantic number of people and will affect them over a large period of time.

Yes.

So I deal in a lot of ironies.

in this book.

And another big irony, and you'll remember this quite well, when Obama came out and became president in 2009,

There was a view, especially on the left, that he was going to be a, quote, transformative president, that he was going to change our nation, he was going to end racism.

Well, actually, he made it worse.

But he was going to do all these great things, hope and change, and nothing came to pass at all.

He passed one major piece of legislation in eight years, which was the failed Obamacare bill.

The irony is that in the first quarter of the 21st century, the most transformational political figure has been Donald Trump.

Far and away.

He's changed everything.

Correct.

American Biography comes out on Father's Day 2026.

You're going to love it.

I mean, just these people's stories are incredible.