harold brown under jimmy carter did a couple of very worthwhile things. he fought for arms control when usually secretaries of defense don't think that way. he was pretty successful in his arms control efforts. he helped move technology, especially stealth coming into our weapons programs, therefore -- the air force was strongly opposed to stealth. harold brown forced the air force to spend it the resources and develop the airplanes that we now rely on so heavily. finally, bill perry and the president, who more than most of his predecessors realized that putting special effort on improving the quality of life for military personnel, especially in listed people, and he spent a lot of time on diplomacy. he recognized early on that if we develop mill--mile military level contact with foreign countries it can make it easy to solve all lot of diplomatic problems in the short and long term. i think his opening to china have made it possible for us to develop a more cooperative relationship with china than we would have had if the secretary of defense had not be