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Affairs. he has been very patient with us, watching all of this and taking in this pope's visit to the united states. mr. secretary, i haven't heard you out on this yet, but what do you make of what you've heard so far from the holy father? >> well, there's a lot of deja vu going on today. i was also chairman of the republican national committee when speaker newt gingrich abruptly resigned on me one day. but the thing i have been thinking about as i have been sitting here watching the ceremonies at ground zero, brian, is another thing that occurred to me. i presented my credentials to pope joh...

Martha: it's an amazing story. looking at the pictures of pope john paul brings it all back. there are a couple of occasions that you witnessed right after you took your position to ambassador to the value can, one was right after september 11th and you said it was very striking in terms of the way he spoke about what needed to happen after that. >> i presented my credentials to him on 9-13-01, 48 hours after the events of 9/11 and our formal remarks were put aside and we had a conversation. the first thing we did was to say a prayer together in his summer castle, and we prayed for the victims...