 Is that just for people in poor areas? I think that was going to be for anyone. That's for everybody. That's what I thought. But what it will do is give, you know, the people who can afford it now choose private schools or something, but if you give the money as a voucher that the government puts up for students, to those that are poor, they too can choose. But also, we envision voucher systems not just for private schools, but the kids want to take that money and go to a different public school than they have to be allowed. The whole idea is not only to help the people, have some choice, but to make the schools competitive. That by golly, they got to pay attention to how good they're doing the job. Sure. It will be reflected in the drop in attendance. Well, I just wasn't sure. I thought that that was for everybody, and it would be a big event for people in the Rogiel schools. But when I read that, I thought, well, maybe it was just for the people in the country. No, we just, we've pointed to, we're pointing that up because we don't think that many people realize, I'll tell you, I met with a group of black leaders the other day. They are just heart and soul for this because they know that there's just too many schools in the inner city where they pass a kid to the next grade, whether he's learned anything or not, just to move them on and get rid of them. And there's an awful lot of that goes on. I had a black mother, that's when I was governor, come to me and she said, you know, don't talk to me about busing or whether that's rather long or anything. She said, keep our children in the grades they're in till I learn what they're supposed to learn in that grade. And then she told me, she had a son who had a high school diploma, he couldn't read his own diploma. Maybe it was a graduate or a husband. Would you know how many colleges have had to put in a course called Bonehead English? That's for freshmen to come in and that haven't learned what they should learn about English in high school. Another mother told me, this was a black mother, told me that her son got up every morning, she assumed he was going to school, and then found out on her own that for 10 weeks he had been leaving the house and playing hooky in the school, never not a call to find out where is he or why isn't he in school. Ten weeks that he hadn't been going to school. Does Rudy write well? Oh yes. That's some belt you have on the day. Ranchero's Vistadori's. Where's that? That's that group in California, I'm blown to it, have kept alive for 75 years or so. The old Spanish tradition of visiting the missions where they would ride for weeks. We come together for a week's ride and you have a camp, so forth, and it starts at a mission and then you just ride around this whole area and have two camps that you can stop at one or the other night. In the beginning you just carried a bedroll and did it on the ground, but now they have a regular camp and you have some hometown of entertaining at night. Oh, that's nice. And of course you can imagine from all over the country people come with their horses and this thing and you can imagine what we all look like by the end of a week out there in the woods, so every once in a while out on the road at a banquet or something, some guy will come up with his wife and he'll say, you don't remember me, we met at Rancheros, Mr. Dorey's, and I take delight in looking at him, all dressed up and so forth, and I say to his wife, I never saw this man before in my life. Do they all ride western or do some good riding? No, all have to ride western there. Counting down, ten, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, that Rancheros are so nationally known, you know, they have a constant waiting list of hundreds. And do you have to be a very good rider? Do they check your riding ability or anything? No, I'm just a horseman and I want to go for that kind of life for a week. This is a test of the audio circuit from Camp David for President Reagan's radio address, which will begin in one minute from our mark. Counting down, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. The next voice will be the President of the United States, which is radio address from Camp David. It will start in 30 seconds from our mark. Counting down, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, mark. Ten seconds, mics on. The first national holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. will be celebrated this Monday. But Dr. King's birthday fell this past week on Wednesday. I spent a good part of that morning at the Martin Luther King, Jr. elementary school in Washington, and believe me, that was the place to be. I've got a pen pal at the school, eight-year-old Rudy Hines, and he's kept me up on the doings at the school and what he and his friends are thinking about. So I wasn't surprised that in spite of their age, the children at the King's school knew all about his life and why it had meaning for all of us. Martin Luther King believed, as I and so many Americans do, that our country will never be completely free until all Americans enjoy the full benefits of freedom. It is now over seventeen years since his death, and enough time has gone by to get a sense of the progress made by minorities in America and by America in the area of equal justice since 1968. I think it's fair to say that we've come a long way in the pursuit of racial fairness in our country. We have a lot to be proud of, but nothing to be complacent about. We still have a way to go. We are committed to a society in which all men and women have equal opportunities to succeed, and so we oppose the use of quotas. We want a colorblind society, a society that in the words of Dr. King, judges people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Vigorous enforcement of the civil rights laws continues. More employment discrimination cases were filed by the Justice Department during our first administration than during the previous four years, and we have successfully prosecuted more criminal civil rights cases in more parts of the country. We've also continued strong support for the fair housing laws. I agree with the late Dr. King that our country won't be free until we're all free, but I take it a step further. Our nation won't really be prosperous until everyone in it enjoys a share of the fruits of prosperity. What progress have we made in this regard? Still not enough. Record high employment, lower tax rates, lower inflation, dropping interest rates, and continued economic growth have helped Americans, and that includes black Americans. The policies of the past five years have produced the biggest economic expansion since the 1960s. Because of these policies, about 400,000 black Americans moved up and out of poverty from 1983 to 1984. A record 10.7 million black Americans are holding jobs. In fact, blacks have gained an average of 40,000 new jobs a month for a total of one and a half million since the recovery began. In addition, the median family income of black Americans adjusted for inflation rose almost 2% in 1984. Another measure of expanding opportunity is minority entrepreneurship and, there too, the news is encouraging. The Commerce Department reports that the number of black-owned businesses increased 47% between 1977 and 1982. By the way, over the past three years, minority firms have enjoyed $15 billion in government business and at least another $15 billion with private sector companies. Now, none of this happened by accident. The economy is expanding because from the beginning, we made it clear that one of the prime motivating intentions of this administration was to get the economy going again. And it was clear the way to do that was cut tax rates, stop penalizing initiative, and sit back and watch the fireworks. All of us have benefited. The poverty statistics show John Kennedy was right when he said following his own tax cuts, a rising tide lifts all boats. So, we've done some boat lifting the past few years, but it's still not enough. We can do better. We can reform our tax system, make it fairer and lower most people's tax rates. We can also get spending under control and keep government from demanding more and more of your money. For years now, we've been asking for enterprise zones in depressed areas, areas that would get tax breaks to attract the businesses that create jobs. And in education, we propose the educational voucher system in which families that live in poor areas can use vouchers to send their children to any of a number of schools, whichever they think is doing better. No reason parents shouldn't be given more freedom of choice and no reason schools shouldn't compete for students. The answer to the question, how are blacks doing in America is better than ever before and still not good enough. There's work to be done. But if we continue to allow the economy to expand and continue to work for a more perfect society, the people of all colors will prosper. And isn't that what Dr. King's dream and the American dream are all about? Until next week, thanks for listening and God bless you. I wonder how long this weather's going to last. I said I wonder how long this weather's going to last. Not long enough? No. But it went up. But can you imagine? A little bit of rain, but it should be fairly pleasant for the rest of the day. Excuse me. That should be fairly pleasant for the next day or two. A little bit of rain tonight. Yeah, that's what I was hearing about rain. It's very warm. It's about 50 degrees down in Washington. So it's warm all over. Funny. Arthur Mounder says 70 degrees, but that's in the sun. All right. Bye. Okay. Okay. He doesn't miss a beat. Okay.