around that same time, she worked as an intern i would guess in the office of then congressman bill cullen of maine and that was at the time of the watergate and nixon impeachment period so that must have been quite a busy and exciting time to be in the congress. i might add, madame lagarde knows that this is a tough town and even request geo economics is sometimes a contact sport. i just hope the fact of it being a tough town is not connected with her limited mobility here today. she also knows as do we all that this is a season in washington that is distinguished by two things, cherry blossoms and the fund bank meetings so that's this latter of those is what she's going to talk to us about this morning. she's going to give us some insight into the activities and the meetings that will take place here during the weekend ahead. she will be talking about the state of the global economy. she will be giving us some thoughts on what it will take to keep the recovery on track, what it will take to a sure that there growth and indeed smart growth in the global economy, and i suspect that the sub