00:00So I said it and then I went back to my room and said, gosh, I hope I said the right thing.
00:04I got, in the next 24 hours, I got 40,000 emails from Marriott Associates around the world just
00:10saying thank you. It was interesting. The day the executive order came out, I sat with our
00:15senior leadership team and I said, given the industry leading position we have,
00:23we ought to make sure we're all aligned on not only philosophically how we think about this,
00:28which was the easy part, but what words we use, what language we use, we should talk with the board
00:33a little bit about it. So I said to the team, take this week and let's get together in a week.
00:38I'm off to Los Angeles. And I flew to Los Angeles that day and there's a very big hotel industry
00:44investment conference called the Alice Conference. And so the next morning, I did a media breakfast,
00:51I did six one-on-one media interviews, and then with Chris and some of my other peers,
00:56we did the CEO panel. This was the first question in all eight of those interactions.
01:03And obviously, I didn't have the benefit of the team having done the work. And I sort of joked and I
01:08said, well, I mentally phoned a friend. And I thought about what I'd heard from Bill Marriott all
01:13these decades. And what I said in response to those questions, we've been around for almost a
01:19century. Political winds blow all different directions, particularly when you operate in
01:25almost 150 countries. I said, but there are some fundamental truths about this company that have
01:31guided us for those 98 years. We welcome all to our hotels and we create opportunity for all.
01:38And fundamentally, those will never change. Right? The words might change, but that's who we are as a
01:44company.
