One of the most difficult things to do in Washington is to be sure you're talking to the right person on an issue, because it's a very big place.
One of the things I was told when I first came to Washington was that if you don't like American foreign policy it's like the weather in central Europe; just wait five minutes and you'll get another one. There's the National Security Council. The White House has a foreign policy. The State Department has its vision, the Treasury, the Department of Defense, and they're not necessarily coordinated. Then you have the Congress, where every senator is his own secretary of state. It's very difficult, and you have to be able to deal with all of them. You can't just say we're going to deal with the administration. It's not possible.