Sarah Paine
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It's impressive, the level of analysis.
And I know that the CIA has several โ there's the analytical part of it, and then there's the send people out to do โ we aren't even going to talk about what they're โ
which is completely different, but they're very fine analysts.
And then we have like the Department of Agriculture has very fine analysts about agriculture, the whole world.
So we have a tremendous amount of expertise.
And the other thing that presidents get and also the high level bureaucrats get are these daily reports.
where, and they're very short because they have to be, about what's going on everywhere in the world that people think is important for them to know.
So there are a tremendous number of smart, well-educated people trying to get information to presidents, secretaries of states and things.
And then you have all these regional desks where there's, I don't know, I can't remember exactly.
I don't know the organization chart of the State Department, but you can look at it.
It's by region of the world.
People work there in
provide this.
So there are wonderful experts that are working on this.
I spent the grand total of a week in India.
It was a trip on the way back from Australia, and that was the amount of time we had.
But we went into the Mahatma Gandhi Museum in New Delhi, and there's a whole piece of it where Shankar Shek is giving him things.
And it became really clear that Shankar Shek had a really good relationship with
with India, deep respect for India, the shared desire of, we want to be independent.
We don't want Japanese running around our country.