guard, knowing that he had been sent up there by the white house told exxon that maybe they would have to take it up with the white house. exxon said, well, that's no problem. and a short time later, after receiving a call from exxon, the white house informed the commandant of the coast guard that actually, yeah, he was not getting those 5,000 cleanup workers that he had requested. fast forward to 2001. the state-owned oil company of india wants in on a giant oil drilling project happening off the coast of russia there's a little problem, the company that's operating the problem is exxonmobil. in a meeting at the white house that year, india's prime minister tries to lobby then president george w. bush, bush the jr., to push exxon along on this issue. saying, why don't you just tell them what to do. president bush's response, quote, nobody tells those guys what to do. for exxonmobil, one of the