Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
Meeting Minutes - US Department of State
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is this one. This is one example that I mentioned<br />
briefly earlier. My biggest challenge is, and I'll<br />
call it mission impossible. I don't know that I've<br />
said that in front <strong>of</strong> General Williams before, but<br />
that is basically what it is. If you just think<br />
about it, you want the best location in the capital<br />
city <strong>of</strong> country, ready to build, low development<br />
costs, and you don't want to have to spend much<br />
money to buy it. Just think about that. Take a<br />
leap for a minute. If you had to go out and buy ten<br />
acres to develop in Washington, D.C. right now, on a<br />
metro stop, on The Mall, and you didn't want to have<br />
to pay much money for it. That's all I do every<br />
day.<br />
(Laughter.)<br />
MR. WILKIE: And all those other things,<br />
too. But, no, I mean, that's reality. If you go to<br />
London, if you go to Mexico City, it's a little<br />
different depending on the market, but if you go to<br />
even Bujumbura, you know, it's how are you going to<br />
do that? And you to into a capital city like<br />
Madrid, or London, or Mexico City, and how are you<br />
going to do that?<br />
And the first reaction you get from<br />
anybody, guaranteed, is you can't do that. Or in<br />
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