He has been in the center of the effort to work through the mess of the Robertson Foundation. Each time he would stand up in the board meeting and report on that, you could see that the rest of the board was just gaining a tremendous sense of confidence [in him].

For the first time ever, this international effort will establish one world standard for ship and port security,

We don't have time to practice, and we needed to work on the things we're going to need tomorrow.

We're very pleased. We've certainly given our share in the federal effort.

Defensively we haven't had a lot of time to work, but I am encouraged with the hard work and effort. When we work on defensive skills, they have worked hard. We have better team chemistry; they all get along. Last year it was an individual thing.

This campaign is extremely important, both for Iraq and the global eradication effort. After tremendous efforts, Iraq was declared a polio-free country, with zero cases reported in 2001. The re-emergence of even a single polio case will take Iraq back to the pre-2001 situation, which would imply that millions of dollars more would have to be invested.