i just came back, along with josh gotbalm from arlington cemetery, where today we commemorated the 50th anniversary of the end of robert kennedy's campaign. knowing the age group in this room, how many of you have heard of robert f. kennedy? oh, i feel much better. i asked the interns that and i get all these, like, who? i worked for him, as you may know. i was on his senate staff when i was the age of an intern. and you might say, today was as you might expect, a very difficult day, yet very uplifting. you might say, what does that have to do with this? in 1968, his campaign was an 85-day campaign. he gave one speech on social security. in michigan, i believe it was. and he called for a across-the-board increase in social security benefits. at the time, the average monthly benefit was $140. this is in april of 1968. and he wanted to do an across-the-board increase in benefits raising the average from $140 to $165. no one asked him then what we would have skhim today, which would be two questions. what will the impact be on the long-range financing of social security? and more important