susan page and mike duffy from "time" magazine. i'm candy crowley and this is "state of the union." >>> first our news of the day. former vice president dick cheney is recover from heart transplant surgery. joining me now for the latest from the hospital is cnn's athena jones. athen athena, do they have any idea how long he might be there? >> reporter: well, we understand that most heart patients who go through a surgery like this end up staying in the hospital for about a month. i should mention that vice president cheney at 71 is on the upper end of the age range of people who get heart transplants, at least according to the international society of heart and lung implantation. his age could play into how long he's kept here under observation, candy. >> certainly this is not the first time, as we all know, he's been hospitalized, maybe the most serious as far as i can tell, but nonetheless, he's had a long history. >> reporter: absolutely. he's had five heart attacks over the course of his life. the first one back in june of 1978

been ably helped by a team, including management policy chief bill haw and his team deputy, duffy winters and mike jacobs, as well as sounding boards molly moran and staff member curt vontrabuse and of course our exec team led so impeccably by steve moll. [ applause ] so, last but not least, i want to remind you the secretary's remarks are open press, so smile for the rest of the conference will be closed press as we move forward. so without further adieu, let me introduce secretary of state, hillary rodham clinton. >> thank you, cheryl. thank you all. [ applause ] >> so welcome. and welcome home. it is a great pleasure for me to start this conference, our second ever global chiefs of mission conference. most of the time i see any of you, i am causing you more work and maybe more headaches as i'm either on the end of a phone or actually in your country. and this time i get to host, and we've planned, as cheryl said, a full day of events. we could have filled a week but we know how busyh every one of you happen to be, so we couldn't take that much time away from what you're doing on behalf of our c

. >> we have tonight in this audience, joan removaling, gloria duffy, phillip jung, not in this audience, ash carter, sherwood, mike mcfall, all of whom to me represent the next generation coming along. beyond that, i teach a class every year at stanford, about 300 students in the class. and each year, about eight or ten of those come up at the end of the year and say i'm going to get into this field. and we do everything we can to encourage them along. so we have three generations represented here. the ones who are sitting on the stage, some oh who are sitting in the audience and is the students at stanford and other universities who are being aspired to follow this up. so we've got two generations waiting to pick up that baton. >> i think charlotte schultz put this question to her husband in a very succinct way. one day when we were on our way out to the airport in berlin and i was riding in the limousine with secretary schultz and charlotte and she turned to him and she said, george, when are you going to get some young people to work on this? to which secretary schultz said, well, we have madeline albright and

duffy and others. not in this audience, people in the administration, mike mcfall, all of whom represent the next generation coming along. beyond that, i teach a class every year at stanford. about 300 students in the class. each year, eight or 10 of those come up at the end of the year and say, "i am going to get into this field." we do everything we can to bring them along. we have three generations represented here. some are on the stage. some are in the audience. in the students of stanford and other universities are being inspired. we have 2 we would generations waiting to pick up the baton. -- we have two generations waiting to pick up the baton. >> one day when we were on our way out to the airport in berlin, i was driving in a limousine with secretary shultz and his wife, charlotte. she turned to him and she said, "george, when are you going to get some young people to work on this purpose?" to which secretary shultz said, "we have madeleine albright and colin powell." [laughter] at any rate, let me bring this evening to a close. i think it is appropriate to read something at the very end here that

duffy and others. not in this audience, people in the administration, mike mcfall, all of whom represent the next generation coming along. beyond that, i teach a class every year at stanford. about 300 students in the class. each year, eight or 10 of those come up at the end of the year and say, "i am going to get into this field." we do everything we can to bring them along. we have three generations represented here. some are on the stage. some are in the audience. in the students of stanford and other universities are being inspired. we have 2 we would generations waiting to pick up the baton. -- we have two generations waiting to pick up the baton. >> one day when we were on our way out to the airport in berlin, i was driving in a limousine with secretary shultz and his wife, charlotte. she turned to him and she said, "george, when are you going to get some young people to work on this purpose?" to which secretary shultz said, "we have madeleine albright and colin powell." [laughter] at any rate, let me bring this evening to a close. i think it is appropriate to read something at the very end here that