 make the Sandinistas cry, uncle. The election. Do you think they're liking to do that? Or are they going to give up the same job because you want democracy and Central America to do it? Since they are not going to be talking about it in this speech. But Senator Noye says that you knew about the money, sir. Senator Noye says you knew about the money to raise funds for the kind of military aid. Is that right or not? Yes, I was aware. But there was nothing in the budget anyone to do that. When you say you were aware, sir, were you aware that they were giving money for military aid? But even for military aid, sir? I had no detailed information. I did know, and the people that I met with, I met with the fact because they had raised money to put commercials on television, urging the Congress to support the Congress. Well, Senator Inouye seemed to suggest today that maybe you knew more than that. No, as the program went on, I listened to him very carefully. He made it plain what he was actually saying, that, you know, I did not have knowledge of things of that kind. What he had said in the first place was that I was not off someplace on an island, not paying any attention. Generation of Reverend Billy Graham. Stingless Gansburg up in the York Times. Shall we pray? All of this afternoon to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Constitutional Convention, we thank you for our Constitution, which is your proud freedom of the press. We remember with deep gratitude and racial justice for all our citizens. Our Father, as we remember your faithfulness and mercy to us in the past, so we pray for your future, that we are dependent on you. We need to carry out their tremendous responsibilities. We pray the same for the publishers here today that wield such an influence on our lives. We also pray for our world, tomorrow vision, and may we be zealous in building our future on its foundation. We pray that during the larger measure, the opportunities and responsibilities that are ours as a nation. We remember also your word, which says, the house they labor in vain to build it. Accept the Lord, keep the city, the watchman, wake it in vain. So we pray that this will become a year of moral and spiritual rededication for us all. Bring us the very moving and momentous message that we anticipate. We are honored that that man accepted our invitation. Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Thank you all very much. I'm just looking for the other woman in my life. It's a great old lady who for a hundred years now is going to watch over this gateway of freedom. It couldn't be more appropriate that a year later we gathered here on Ellis Island to celebrate with all of you, the ladies and gentlemen of the Fourth State, who also have stood watch over our freedoms and who have been the guardians of our liberty. It is, if those of us in government and press sometimes think of ourselves as antagonists, it's only in the context of transitory events, the rush of daily business that can obscure for us a deeper truth that we are two complementary institutions. Once again, the freedoms Americans enjoy. But my job today is more difficult. It's not about those who came to this land, but it's about the dream that brought them here. Today, another people are in search of that dream. I speak of the people of Central America. And let me begin in 1981. I wonder how many remember that when we first drew addition, they didn't want the chance for democracy that we offered. In fact, their sympathies lay with the communist guerrillas, we were told. But then one day, the silent, suffering people of El Salvador were offered a chance to choose for themselves a national election. And despite the bullets, the bombs, and the death threats of the communists, the people of El Salvador turned out in record numbers, standing in line for hours waiting to vote, to vote for democracy. Congressional absurdity speech and free press offers the only real hope for the long-term peace and security of the region. They know such a system provides a check and balance on any government, discourages the buyers of the place to their own people, that our objective in Nicaragua is clear, free elections. On the other hand, the Soviets and the Sandinistas have also been reduced. They've done the same. The Soviets are challenging the United States to attest to wills over the future of this country. The future they offer is one of ever-growing communist expansion and control. It's a choice before Congress and other people, a base that these Marxist leaveners never intended to honor those promises. We've seen them use negotiations time and again simply to delay, to manipulate world opinion. That's why the choice. World War II, without the pressure of the Central American democracies and the freedom fighters, the Soviets would soon solidify their base in Nicaragua and the subversion in El Salvador would reignite. And policy. Democratic Party, the party of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and John Kennedy have stood in firm support of democracy and our national security. The survival of democracy in our hemisphere requires a US policy consistent with that bipartisan finish. So today, I want to describe the framework of that policy. A policy that begins with support for the stable, long-lasting democracy in Costa Rica and the democracies taking root in El Salvador, Guatemala and the diplomatic efforts to achieve a lasting peace. Earlier this year, President Arias of Costa Rica put forward a proposal aimed at achieving a peaceful settlement of conflict in Nicaragua, that the center of his administration has always supported a mutual diplomatic initiative aimed at peace and democracy. Whether it be through Contador, through face-to-face meetings and the removal of the Soviet and Cuban military personnel from Nicaragua. And in policy. While I do not endorse everything in Nevada, I certainly join these countries in calling for the restoration of freedom of the press. Freedom of religion, freedom to assemble, freedom of speech and free elections. All of us are now denied by the government of Nicaragua. Our Senate passed by a 97 to 1 vote. Thank you, Mr. President.