don't just go back and forth to mississip mississippi, and see the country and see the world. he said, if you go and you meet with the world leaders, you will learn from them, and you will have a better understanding as a senator of foreign policy, which you are going to be intimately involved in because of the treaties and the confirmations and that was great advice. i took his advice and did that even though those were sometimes referred to in the media as junkets. you knew about that h, the junkets, but simple things, and great advice. you know, tom and i have developed a great relationship, and part of it was because of the problems across the aisle and going over the talk to tom. i didn't mind coming in the back door to his office when i had done something dumb or had, you know, made him mad about some way i had not told him about what we were planning on doing, and we kept that door open. that communication open. he would do the same thing. i can remember him coming to sit with me in my office, and frankly pouring out his heart about some things that he was dealing with.