I didn't know the circumstances. I hadn't paid much attention to where US Steel was in terms of its future. At least I wasn't up to date on its future outlook. And I was worried about foreign ownership of the iconic US Steel company. Not just Japanese, but foreign ownership. And then there was certainly someone who had been in the trade. I'd been in Japan many, many times as the undersecretary of Treasury. (05:42–05:49)
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