I never felt we had an agreement. I think in general there's a feeling that the Department of War, I guess I prefer it to call it The Department of Defense needs more money immediately and what we call a supplemental outside of their general appropriations. And I think the Department of War also wants a rather large 15 to 20% increase in their budget. And I think, you know, the representatives of the Department of Defense were not there. (01:15–01:27)
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