"I saw the President’s speech on the TV," said the old man, growing livelier. "That kid is all right! He’s not like his dad. Old George Bush, he used to come out to Area 51 when we were launching Blackbirds. Back when George was Company. ‘Fifty thousand dollars an hour,’ George Bush would say. No vision thing! He was a bean-counter! Anywhere on earth, any Sunday, a Blackbird could bring back pictures! High detail, too, shots the size of bedsheets!"