know, this did not occur to me until we talked about it, but i didn't know ned and john wilder and bill leech. i mean, i knew them, you know, we met, but we had never work together, and i was this new, young republican governor in the democrat establishment that had grown up over a half century. i mean everything was democratic. the newspaper, the lobbyists, the spring courts, everything was, and so how was this going to work the next four years, hopefully eight, from my point of view, but in that four or five hours, we found a way to work together on a way that was more difficult than we'd ever deal with in four the eight years, and developed a level of trust and respect for one another, and that carried on the whole time, and so when we got into how we going to, you know, pay for the road program? are we going to borrow money? raise taxes? talked about how to deal with the national education association, rewarding teaching, and we got a way to do it, a result, and so i was lucky. we survived the four or five hours, and it gave me a boot camp of how to get along with some really very, very g