accomplishments in that way. i want to bring back in david gergen who's a presidential advisor to pick up on what wolf blitzer was talking about. we have to remember during that time, david, there was the first gulf war that we dealt with. operation desert shield which became operation desert storm, but it lasted for less than a month from january 16th, 1991 to february 27th, 1991 where the u.s. declared victory in iraq. i'm wondering how much that had to do with the outcome of that particular election. >> well, you know, the -- there are two things that i think from a foreign policy standpoint stand out and then we can move to the politics of it. i think were particularly instructive how they handled foreign policy well and be successful at it.