And I know, because I remember being where you are, what an honor and privilege it is to be where you are covering a White House.
And so one of the things I did, because you have to remember, right after the fall of Saddam Hussein, there was no telephone service at all, no electricity at all, days-long line for gasoline at the pump.
You may remember Chris because I have written about his colorful past as a hippie vagabond.
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Because if you may remember -- I know folks in this room do -- his State of the Union address last year, in 2011, he talked about the need for the United States to out-educate and out-innovate the competition globally.
If, at the time of the Cuban missile crisis, for example, which you and I remember because we were around, it had all gone wrong and the Russians had put a bolt from the blue on London and Mr MacMillan was killed, the decision whether to launch the B-force, the B-bombers with their hydrogen bombs, would have gone to the Chief of Bomber Command, an airman in uniform.
But the truth is -- and you have to remember, because I have to remind myself every day -- that is how change always happens in this country.
And so trying to let people know how dire the situation is because most people look back and say, you know, I remember the good old times.
Remember I said that squash is a great sport because you can enjoy it the first time you step onto the court?
Because I think we need to remember that, as John Major said when he was talking to you last week, they didn't - nobody in 1991 wanted to go beyond the Security Council resolution, but there was also a great deal of worry, a great deal of concern about what would happen if we took charge of Baghdad, if we were responsible for Iraq.
And I will remember that no proxy in the world could stand in for you, not truly, because you are irreplaceable to me, you are the man I was meant to spend my life with, and I hereby put my heart in your hands.
And I have to say, it got me a little choked up, because -- Patrick, you need to remember this.
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After -- some of you guys remember, after my foreign trip in 2008, I was attacked as a celebrity because I was so popular with our allies overseas.
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Remember, I told you this was a choice that we've got to make --because what's holding us back right now is not that we don't have good answers for how we could grow the economy faster or put more people back to work.
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