kings. peter the great, catherine the great, charlemagne, we don't do great in america. we don't. which is one of the reasons we in some respects set ourselves up for a fall. we hat great as commonly displayed. so jefferson answers the door of the white house in his slippers. much to the dismay of the british ambassador who complained. hari truman, when -- harry truman when he leavees the white house, gets a new york chrysler as a gift, and the president and bess drive 1200 miles up through new jersey and then over to michigan, he gets pulled over for speeding, they eat in diners. there is no security. there is no advance team. it was just the two of them. we fool and trick ourselves, doug. we say we don't want great, and yet we really do, except we wanted packaged in a way that is consistent with our own aversion to the quote-unquote trappings of conventional power. we want great as humility, with great humbleness, but we do want our presidents to be quote-unquote, greater than we are. so, we in some respects are already conflicted, and i think that's a -- the crucial point in un