first kosciuszko was not sure if he should take the offer because he had 12,000 soldiers sitting in sidey area -- siberia. he made a deal if you let mine in go i will go and the saar said okay but you can never come back to poland and have to promise never to attack again so in order to free his men who were imprisoned, kosciuszko agreed. so he also gave kosciuszko 6,000 -- 60,000 rubles that he would in a bank account in london and he gave him a fur coats because he was going to cross sweden in the river to go to england so he figured he needed to be warm. you see the call were here when kosciuszko made his way back to america after the revolution, he gave the coat to thomas jefferson. now thomas jefferson is seen here in the most famous portrait of him in addition to that if you go down to the jefferson memorial you will see jefferson is also portrayed wearing this fur coat. now it wasn't just blacks, jews and peasants that kosciuszko stood up for but he also stood up for the native americans when he saw the founding fathers began murdering them and pushing them west. well this is chief

and the effects were so great that the mexicans could not rely on them to perform the functions of sidey. now they are responding to the challenges of the belove lauper cav the other thing is important that we of scene that is important to us is the extent to which the mexican government once a close partnership with the united states, they said let's work together, let's help each other on this and for those of you who of dealt with mexican-american relations over the years, that is pretty remarkable. i think it is a great opportunity for the united states to develop a strong partnership to address some of the problems that really are in the american interests as well as in the mexican interest. we in the intelligence community are doing our part along with many other departments of the american government to try to assist mexico in this common problem. i see great possibilities for working together on this problem with mexico and i hope in future years the same spirit can work on other issues in u.s.-mexican relations with its baby immigration, how the border is handled, economic relat

and what do we do and how do we cast a positive alternative rather than pos lyndon johnson in the sidey program so i think eventually you will see emerging new faces, leaders, ideas but it's an ongoing to happen overnight but the process is under way. you just don't see all that much of it yet. >> i was thinking about this when i was reading about this arne duncan decision a couple of days ago and thinking now there's a vacuum the republican party should be occupied and right now. you look at -- it's not a question of people. it's a question of ideas and where are the ideas to counter the democratic ideas people are embracing frankly? you know if you are going to vote against the stimulus bill, up with something that's going to help these states survive the budget crises and keep the schools open and social services flowing that everyone agrees are necessary, things like medicaid. so, i think the search for an individual is, you know, it's not yielding anything so far but the ideas are i am sure percolating at local levels like they always are and, you know, the 2010 landscape doesn't l

they have-- we live in an instant gratification sidey. year from now the economy is not substantially better i think americans will say, what comes next? i think we will get back to the kind of policies that that will cause greater prosperity. if we do that i think america's well poised for another 25 to 30 year run of great increases in wealth and prosperity. so, arthur i will turn it over to you but i just want to say it was so much fun writing this book with you and peter and we have got to do another one again. [applause] >> the one thing i always liked about friedman and robert reich, they would always raise the microphones after they spoke. it is not that funny, cool it. if i can i just want to remind you of a story. of is the first chief of economist manatt omb was formed. iowa's george shultz's reihan person and these numbers are big numbers back then, at least we thought they were. i wrote my mom and told my mom and a number that is 49 million or less we barone's to zero. [laughter] 100 million was .1. which gives you a flavor. k