. >> sure, thanks susan, and i want to give my thanks to the eller center for the opportunity to speeak, and for the opportunity to learn. let me mention a few things, then. i want to remind rather than to instruct and i want to remind us that the miller center is intruding, but first and most basic is the broad placement that the clinton administration has, and what political scientists often call political time. a yale scholar writes about the cyclic shifts in parties and governing coalitions and leadership and the cycle either enable or in some cases restrain presidents who are elected he even if they are against the prevailing grain of the party order. then we want to talk about president's preemption, and we think of dwight eisenhower, who was elected despite the continuing dominance of the new deal coalition. bill clinton seems like a pretty good example of this, he comes into office in opposition to the quite successful effort of president reagan to shift the national policy to the right. at the same time, presidential preemption continues with those who are not in tuned with the