 you could just kind of feel, or at least I could as I was there, that he was sort of almost pleading with the United States not to abandon this longtime role it's had in, as kind of, you know, as cliched as it sounds, leader of the free world. He closed by saying, I cannot tell you exactly what the next crisis or the next conflict or the next war will be, but as long as we stand together, no one can threaten us. We are safe.