well, i've always been in favor of saint lawrence seaway. you know, when i was in the senate i advocated it. i'm all for it now. the only problem is i don't want it to back water up so much that we lose a lot of our land. and i talked about one time or another and my family, that's still there, old, traditional places up there on, henderson harbor and so forth. we don't want to be swamped by the water, but i say you and i have been talking about that and i the indications are that water will not be so high as to do damage. and if they stabilize the water levels could be a great benefit to that area because it's a fluctuating water levels which do the most damage. well, know you've been very much interested personally in that problem. so many of the people in my area have had about this high water, i guess, mr. secretary, that you probably hold the record of travel as secretary of state, and that's obviously made possible. more face to face diplomacy. any of your predecessors practice, why do you think that's a good thing? let me say, first o