matalin -- madeleine albright was saying that at the school of foreign service where she is a distinguished professor, students are in the school of foreign service but they do not want to go into the foreign service. there is a real concern that borders on discouragement from entering into the civil service or in the case of the state department, the foreign service, and that has to be rebuilt. i am hoping that the new secretary of state, who has told me and others that he intends to really try to rebuild the state department, to bring in and maybe bring back some of the expertise and experience that has been lost, will follow through on that and be permitted to follow through. it is not a question of valuing expertise over common sense or personal experience. it is all hands on deck. if you are running an agency of the government or in the white house in the situation room, notty,decisions are so k they would not get to the secretary of state or the president or the national security advisor unless they were difficult decisions. in that case, you want to have as much information -- dare i