to africa and jack lu at that time was the director. i tried to get ahold of him and said look, we need to sit down and the president and i and whoever is involved need to sit down and come to an agreement and we don't want to be stuck the first of august because we don't have an agreement. he said look, the president is in africa and can't get ahold of him. i kept banging him. i said at 10:00 tomorrow morning the president will be in turkey and if you go through the white house switchboard, we can get the president and he'll be in a limousin limousine. so here i am in washington d.c. and the president in turkey, 10 thousand miles apart and i get the president on the phone and the president hey, how are you doing and i said mr. president i understand you had a great trip to africa and he said we did this and he said what can i do for you? i said we have the budget coming