some guys i flew with in the crowd, shoney from the 91st, a classmate from the academy from 1963, mike foley, i haven't seen mike for a while, and others who may have stories that they want to tell, but i'm not going to let them. [laughter] including some people from high school back on the south side of chicago, parr and ron mays -- barb and ron mays. so it's fun to be back in the crowd of some folks of who have known you a little bit. also a bit intimidating, actually. i much prefer strangers. but starting with a washington story, it's attributed to bob dole. and he had had a falling out with his speech writer and had a major speech shortly thereafter. so he walked to the podium, and there's the folder, as it always is, and he starts to open it up. he told the crowd that tonight he was going to be pleased to offer solutions to the staggering economy. he was going to be offering, as well, considerations as to how we can really have affordable and effective and even universal health care. he was going to talk about refurbishing the military's equipment and to create an operational context th