Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

And then I thought about it.

and thought, no, I really won't be effective unless I'm in this agency and can actually get into the weeds and it has 82,000 employees and the biggest budget in government and that would actually give me the power to change the system.

And so then I went back to him and I said, I want HHS and he said, fine.

And then he allowed me to appoint all of my sub-agency heads, which no president has ever done with an HHS secretary in history.

He allowed me to appoint Marty McCary, choose Marty McCary, an FDA, Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Oz and CMS and everybody else below them.

So nobody has ever been able to do that.

And then he gave me a very prominent job on the transition committee.

to set this all in motion.

And then once I got in, he supported me on everything.

And that, I think, allowed me to do things more during... I think... I mean, I don't want to sound like, you know, vain or something, but...

Because of the great team that we have and because of the support of the president, we've been able to accomplish more in one year than I think any other HHS secretary has done in history in four years.

I'm pleased with what we've done, but there's still – I mean it's 20 percent of our economy.

And so it's a huge agency and there's – it's in everything and there's a lot to do.

But I think we're moving really fast.

So better than you'd hoped?

I would say, yeah, if you put this on the table and said you could have this, you know, the first day I got into office, I would snatch it off and say I'll take it.

That's not how I approach it.

I just did it one thing at a time.

And there's something to fix every single day.

And I have the smartest people in the country working with me.