so who knew that jean dixon was a capitol hill real estate agent. so we did the transaction, and there was nothing interesting about it, but when we finished we were saying good-bye to miss dixon, and she took my 22-year-old wife's hand, kathleen's hand, and put it in hers and she turned her palm upwards and she looked at it and she collapsed it back in both her hands and said, my darling girl, you are going to have the longest and loveliest life full of friendship and full of prosperity. and then she shook hands with me and she turned my palm face up and then she turned back to just shaking hands and she said, i do so hope you enjoy your new house. so the connection between paul volcker and my starter house in the '80s, directionally i don't know that i would have been buying a house in the 1980s. i don't know if many of us would be buying a house in the '80s. i don't know how much of a housing market there would have been in the 1980s without paul volcker. 1979, summer of 1979 jimmy carter appoints him chairman of the fed. what i'd like to do is r