At a recent Harvard colloquium, a bigwig from one of the large consultancies told his audience of star professors that the only person he valued at the school was the admissions officer.
And my question to everybody else is, is this what we want: to let them get away with it, and to sit back and play with our phones, as this darkness falls?
He's also been incredibly successful at the box office and that of course is notoriously difficult circle to square as people in this room will know very well.
I'd like to sort of, maybe say and pay some respects to some of the people here today on the list, because we have to start with our great first lady, Melania.