Brief. I thought we would start the way we usually end these things. By saying thank you. This is the week we recognize the service of people who served our country in uniform and all of you served in public service. I will start by saying thank you. I remember every day of the oil spill was brutal. Spillmber during the oil poppedn Rolling Stone to their story about stanley mcchrystal, got a call about a fourstar general back from afghanistan and i remember walking to the residents and called the president. I said i think you need to read this story. I walked over and he met me downstairs and he read the first two paragraphs and we had a quick conversation and he said whos ever left, lets meet in the oval office. You had these events area i remember the shooting at fort hood, what awful day that was. A decent part of the evening, weise we probably spent hours in the oval office with bob gates and admiral mullen and bob mueller from the head of the fbi and the president talking some of