 to the idea that the Republic still stood. I spoke with him just this week. And he had been quite reluctant to do an interview at first and ghosted me for months at a time. But he finally agreed to do it. And he sent me a text after our last interview, which really gratified me, because he said since he spoke out, he's heard from dozens of his colleagues in the government as well who served through these times as well. And they reached out to him and said,