And I thought about it for a second, you know, because I knew most of the guys I knew who dealt, they had nice clothes, you know, they had pagers, they had all these things that I really wanted at the time.

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And I think he thought, as you all heard him talk about in the Oval Office on Monday, I think he thought of this as a parent.

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So one of the things we thought -- and I don't know about all of you -- is whether you wonder, what are these state dinners all about and these state visits?

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But I thought I would come along today and just talk to you about Australia and actually start by asking you a few questions, a bit of a pop quiz about Australia.

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You're excited about it, and I think people thought it was cool, but no one is carrying it here.

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There are certain cases in which I have done this, most recently in a column in these pages about a Microsoft offering I thought was badly positioned, and the client, I can tell you, was not happy.

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And with the storms that battered the country last week I thought I should respond to some of the queries you have about the best way to deal with the damage.

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I, like you, had long thought that the price of gold was a valuable and valid indicator of various points about the global economy.

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