until a few weeks ago, a month ago, and i believe like the senator said, it's very, very possible that uare, in fact, an inspired choice. we look at the president to -- if you think about it, it approaches everything almost from an economic standpoint, and that has been the world he lived in and the fact that you led a global enterprise with 70,000 employees around the world, and have been there for 41 1/2 years, and have met world leaders and know them up close and personally, to me, that is going to give our new president much greater confidence in your ability to offer advice, and i think it's going to give the state department possibly the ability to have the appropriate balance with other forces as it relates within the white house and other places, as it relates to developing a vision for our country. if you think about it, not only does the world not really understand where america is today, and all of us have had leaders in our offices wondering what is next, all of us, but if you think about the body politic here in our own country, doesn't understand. you look at the election. we