you have examples of presidents through history like president lincoln, like president kennedy, who benefited from doing nothing, saying nothing, at critical times. >> i mean this is another example of the tennis ball of reactivity and politics that is going through leadership. we have pressing challenges and problems and we want pro active, strategic, thoughtful leadership with integrity and wisdom and forbearance. can -- president kennedy during the cuban missile crisis, abraham lincoln at the center of the perfect storm in the civil war, harry truman in 1945, each of these leaders teach us forbearance, gathering lots of information, and turning that information into knowledge and understanding, before one speaks and fires another very incendiary salvo across the bow of the american citizenry and our system of governance is never -- is always good policy and the opposite what we're