During his tenure as Secretary of the Navy, Lehman was responsible for building a 600 ship Navy, establishing a strategy of maritime supremacy, and reforming ship and aircraft procurement.
But the Mexican official's White House counterpart says Mexico is reforming its drug-fighting strategy and concedes the U.S. also shares some of the blame.
If the strategy worked, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush could both take credit for reforming health care by using market-based ideas and without raising taxes.