and depending on how that argument was rejected, perhaps the graham rugman case would have come out somewhat differently, because that was a situation where no one was threatening to go after the controller general and, indeed, no president had ever wanted to go after a controller general in the entire history of the office, as far as i know. >> it does help, though, when you have the political support. peter fitzgerald -- it's peter, right? >> patrick. >> peter was the former senator. patrick fitzgerald had prosecuted scooter libby, republican. you could not really think of fitzgerald as anti-democrat after the scooter libby thing. and he's really about the most non -- apartisan person. just this prosecutor that just goes forward. and would have been politically costly for the president, you know, first impressions are lasting ones, to start off by saying let's get rid of this prosecutor. so, that would have been a cost. he might have gotten away with it. and we probably haven't heard the last of this. and i'm sure that the -- there are a lot of people in chicago that are happy that they di