i didn't know hank paulsen when i worked at goldman. i wasn't -- i wasn't -- i had a good job. lots of interesting responsibilities, but i was not a big cheese. at goldman sachs in the five years i worked there in the late '90s. as my government career took me higher and higher positions, i found that also tended to elevate what i had done before so that in the telling of it, i went from being, you know, moderately senior official at goldman sachs to being a run in europe for goldman sachs, which i didn't. what i did know when i became chief of staff was that we had gone already five years, already five years in the bush administration without a significant financial crisis. i knew from my experience from goldman and elsewhere that it's very rare that an administration can go for years without some kind of internationally significant financial crisis. so when i came in as chief of staff, i told the president that as our incumbent treasury secretary was beginning to come to tend of his -- >> john snow? >> john snow. he had served for three years and was beginning to come to the