 I'm glad you're here to discuss the issues that many of you raised, and we want to reiterate our commitment to ensuring that even with economic equity for women, and that you welcome Elizabeth Dole back today to participate in this meeting since she worked so hard on women's equity and so long, fate can't be with us today, she's ill. And so Elizabeth is back here to help out because she's been familiar with all that is going on virtually at the present. And on this subject and we're pleased of course to have Secretary of HHS, Chess Margaret Aktler here, and both of us here at Harvard and Ed Schmaltz here to participate in this important discussion. We hope that everybody involved here today will be able to work together to solve very real problems and continue to confront women and hope together we can forge a public working youth ground in which to resolve these issues. Contrary to that reports, this administration I think we'll find out for the days over has been aggressively pursuing the development of policies that do just that. We want to hear from you about what more can be done and should be done, but we also want you to know what's already been done. For example, the recovery tax act, as you know increased childcare, but it also provided incentives for the private sector childcare and it raised the estate tax exemption and we'll wipe that out completely for whichever spouse becomes the heir or heirs that will be down the road in the ways in the program we passed. All of these proposals were contained in the Women's Economic Equity Act introduced in the 97th Congress and was subsequently enacted in the Economic Recovery and Tax Act. The title of three of the Job Training Partnership Act provides substantial retraining of displaced homeowners. As a matter of fact, our fiscal year budget request asked for an increase of 10 times what has been spent in that regard and that will be from $25 million going up to $240 million in this program. We can always do better. We realize that our administration and the Republicans in general have a perception problem in American women. I think this is just as dear to me as it is to all of you. However, we hope that working together we will be able to address and alleviate problems that are real and problems that are based on misinformation and misunderstanding. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, it's a real honor for me to have a chance to meet with this group this morning and to chair this session because as your assistant for public liaison and chair of your coordinating council on women I had an opportunity to meet with the women who are here this morning both as a group on Capitol Hill and then also I met with the number of you, of course, individually as we had pursued these issues of mutual concern. And I know this group was present to be anxious to work with us in both focusing on highlighting the problems that women have today, a very changed situation with the great numbers of women who entered the marketplace, entered the workforce recently. We had a new set of problems that we're faced with and they are anxious to work with us in identifying those problems and finding the answers to them. So I'm just delighted to welcome each of you today to the White House in the time that we have. They've just confirmed something that I feel about Congress in general, on meetings and all, and I don't mean any disrespect to this, but every time we have a congressional, a meeting with a congressional person else down here, we wind up behind with the schedule for the rest of the day. He's staying over there and I came over here and we're having a press opportunity in here. We'd like to small talk for a matter of a minute. I guess you picked the mic, huh? Yeah. I'd like to do that. Go ahead. Start with that. Start with Francisco Aga, run it out of Michigan. George Martinez, Robert Kirk in New Mexico, Steve Diaz from San Francisco. Pepe Mendoza, Denver. Lili Alasa, from New York. Sam W. W. from the great state of Florida. Steve Tarasino, from New York. I'm from the San Antonio. I'm from San Francisco, Michigan. Rafael Mada, from Church of Virginia. Dr. Luis Queralt Merida. He is Carl in New York City, New York Empire State. Mario W. W. from Big Upper New York. I'm from San Antonio, Texas. My big president, Octavio Alfonso, in New York City State. Okay? That's so funny. This president, Richard, I'm from San Antonio, Texas. I'm from San Antonio, Texas. I'm from San Antonio, Texas. I'm from Los Angeles, Puerto Rico. This means that the president of the office of the public of the state of San Antonio. We are going to do it today. The first time for many of those here today. It's my thanks to the help that you have been, the greater numbers in the past. They're grateful for this. I want to address the problems that you made. Personal and policy. We can't talk much further. Mr. President, how do you view the Soviet Union's comment that your speech was built most last night? I can't take questions out of the photo. We're out for them. Cheers. Mr. Hong Kong, I wonder if the Hispanic are united in support of the president's program, now more than ever. Mr. President, we have discussed your policies in South America, Central America, and the United States. Anything we can do to help you, we're ready. Thank you. Thank you. Well, we can certainly use that kind of help, because we have not progressed as fast as we want to with the Caribbean initiative. It is painful to regard your country, Central America, in the Congress. And we need, as I've said about the Congress, it isn't necessary to make them see the light and you just have to make them feel the heat. Said in here, I didn't mind if they heard that. We are grateful to you and the few minutes that we, when I have here, want to hear from you because I have always believed in having been a Democrat so much with my life, when I saw the light of a Republican. I have always believed that you had a lot more in common with Republican philosophy than you do with the philosophy of the other party from just getting the message, getting the message of what it is we represent, what we understand. This is the subject of the meeting in the other room. There is also that same thing about perception and the part of the people. Somehow there is a reluctance to believe that the Republican party here has a tendency to believe that if you're not on the first tee of the Burning Hill Country Club, we're not interested in you. You know, I've never been on the first tee. Yes, the speaker is there all. Matter of fact, every once in a while when I see him, the tip tells me, going now to make a speech in Florida, wherever it might be, and I say, and I'll bet there's a golf tournament down there. Yes, there is. Mr. President, is it true that Honduras' forces have invaded the Nicaragua? No, it is true, though, not through any news that I have at all. I think I'd have it first. You know, it is true that out of the revolution in Nicaragua, this was the usual thing that we've seen before. Years ago we saw it in Laos, and it was a Democratic administration. You remember that made the Laotian government take the path at Laos, Nicaragua, and deal with them into a kind of combat. They had a government in partnership, and the government automatically became the path at Laos. Well, in the revolution against some of us in Nicaragua, there were, yes, many years ago, it's nice to see you. Daddy, Ron, Mr. President, Mr. President, is that what we find out? This is Mr. Smith, the President of the Easter Seekers. George Garrison, the Executive Director. Very nice to meet you. Mr. President, how do you do? My name is John Bach. Faithfully, I'm Stephanie is the director. This is his first day in the House of Laos. Thank you. Okay. I think they really want to do it very much. I'm very honored to have that. I know that effectiveness is 64 years, $5.00 in dollars and dollars in years in the cause of Easter Seals. These are for my children. These are for my children. President, Matt Lafellette, Man d'Ode. Cuma from California. Well, you've almost been underwater out there. I don't see this morning. It's still raining again. Reverend Mancini, you're coming for me. Here, I'll get a few pictures. I'm on the liberation. And I, please, I'll have you back over. I'm very happy to have you with us today, Mr. President. Well. God bless you. Cuma, which is a great support of yours. Thank you. Thank you. I wish you a week's attention. There is no one who will forsake the world. I hope you said this to the President. God bless you with it. Did you meet with Cuma? Yes. I can't respond to that. Yeah. I know. Yes. We're satisfied with that. Thank you. That wasn't my question. Thank you. Thank you very much.