senator mendsess? >> thank you. >> mr. president, thank you for your incredible continuing service to this country and the world. mr. gates, thank you for making a difference, an individual using their resources to make a difference in a powerful, pozztiff way. i would like to take your experiences a little bit -- and certainly i am with you foursquare on the global health initiatives. but to try to extend out some of those experiences on how we may do better. mr. president, you as the united nations spernl envoy to haiti have a tremendous amount of convening power as well as multilateral efforts in haiti. i know that work is only going to get harder. even though we have had a tremendous response, it is only going to get harder in some respects. haiti is not just a technical challenge, but a leadership challenge as well. i am wondering as we look at haiti and our responses there, are we doing enough, whether it be haiti or overall long-term thinking, about how we do foreign assistance and how in that context are we looking