 You look pretty good in that. Mr. President, we've been listening to some suggestions. Iron Steel is about the steel companies. They are in very poor shape. They have been very good at investing in the last few years, modernizing their industry. They've certainly gotten caught up in the last year selling the facility that followed through on their original clients. They've come up with some suggestions in the areas of trade, taxation, and I trust joint management possibilities that we've been studying. And we've been having, kind of talking back and forth here just before you came, and we've run trade percent of your clients here. Good to keep on. I think so. I think it's a great, certainly great thing. You need to be doing so as well. Dave, since trade is your most important subject, why don't you cap it one more time? I like to start telling you where it's at. There you can. Good morning and welcome to the White House. I'm glad to hear as we all gathered that we're in one room, He's got a Nobel Peace Prize on the map. He did it in a Republican fashion. He was on a yacht at the time. Here with Bismarck's famous line that if you like sausages and loz, you should never wash out. They're one of them being made. The appropriation bill, I don't know if it's signed or not. That's an exception. The bill appropriates substantial funds for valuable human services, some 13 billion for the Department of Labor, about 15 billion for the Department of Education, and some 72 billion for the Department of Health and Human Services. While the overall funding increase in this appropriation has been kept under tight control, the bill provides the highest funding level in history for the basic income support programs on which many Americans depend. In the Department of Health and Human Services, for example, cash assistance, medical aid, social services, and other basic support programs receive 5% more funding than it did last year. It's a substantial but responsible increase. And we've also been able to incorporate increased funding for educational aid and services to handicapped. This bill represents proof that government can be compassionate with how it's being extracted. The bill also represents something of a historical landmark because it's been five years since any president has signed a bill like it. Since 1978, the Congress and the presidents have been unable to reach agreement on funding for federal human services. So until the day, those services have been financed not by appropriation bills, but by continuing resolutions. These disagreements over funding have taken place against the backdrop of a larger struggle. A struggle that transcends partisan politics and involves every American. A federal government struggle to regain control of its own budget. In the mid-70s, federal spending emerged out of control. Neither the Congress nor the presidents seemed able to hold down the upward spiral. In the 10 years before we took office, federal spending tripled. It became clear that unless something was done, our nation would move from a costly private economy with all the marvelous benefits of enterprise and innovation that entails to the grim stagnation of an economy where the government controls most resources. Our administration took office determined to get the budget under control, but to do so with compassion for all Americans. We cut taxes. We passed tax index. We cut the rate of growth of federal spending by nearly 40%. Now, those steps brought order back to the economy and cut inflation from more than 12% to under 3% restoring economic opportunity for all. And let's remember that while many government services are important to our nations and the needy, in the long run, no government program can help Americans in need as much as a healthy and growing economy. Again and again, our administration and responsible voices on the Hill have urged the Congress to join in our effort to bring the budget under control. Though far from perfect, this appropriation bill proves that both the executive and legislative branches of our government now recognize the overriding need for fiscal restraint and can work together to achieve it. I know a big bill like this will cost thousands of hours to put together. And I want to thank the chairman of the appropriations committees, their staffs, and those concerned in the executive branch for all their hard work. This bill is a big step forward. Their time and effort represent a genuine service to our nation. So I thank you and God bless you and now I'm going to see if those 10s are right. Thank you. On Lebanon, I still think that there are a few questions that you might have and that we can answer here this morning. And I'd like to start off with asking Secretary Schultz to speak first on something that you know they're meeting in Geneva now but we have hopes. Mr. President, it's hard for a Marine to speak about Lebanon right now without on the one hand a sense of pride and on the other alone in the throat. Nevertheless, we are there for important purposes connected with our overall objectives in the Middle East as well as in Lebanon. I think in terms of immediate things that aren't just repeating what everyone knows the talks have gotten underway in Geneva. The various leaders checked their pistols at the door and they have started. It's a tough situation. However, it's the first time in decades that they have done this and there is going to be, we expect, a real effort at national reconciliation. I'd like to point out one thing that is not noticed very much but which I think is a tremendous long term importance and long term importance to us as we think about the role of our own forces there and about the day when they may return. That is the development of the Lebanese Armed Forces their regular army. It's been a long time since the central government of Lebanon has had any armed force of its own and with the help of our military people that force has grown from a standing start eight or nine months ago to a force now of some 30,000 or so it is the one multi-confessional organized unit in Lebanon and it works. It's done well and since the ceasefire it has added to its rank it has continued to recruit it has received additional supplies from us and from the French and it's gaining in strength and I think that's an underlying thing it takes a while it will continue to take a while and that's an important development to keep your eye on because it has a great long term significance I know that you have a big agenda I'll stop at that point and find the questions or whatever you'd like to suggest Well, would you like to I'm going to call on Captain General to complete and then call you be available for anything that you might have here Captain? President, we've had in no tactical change in Beirut and no incidents fortunately overnight or in the last couple of days sniper fire continues to come in since the bombing and disaster which was only a week ago seems like a couple of years there have been two more wounded but not seriously and returning to duty but the sniper fire does continue there has been a new rifle company added for additional protection and to fill out the really relieved the people who have been working in such a terrible pace in the last few days to try and uncover the remaining bodies or see if there were anyone that's still there and the final count is at 231 or 69 and that is believed to be one in the sense that the rifle has been as thoroughly examined as possible at the moment the Marine group that has completed its working for NATO is on its way to its original mission and which is to relieve the normal rotation the group that is in Lebanon now and that will take place about the middle of this month and at that time the additional rifle company has been put there to relieve the people who are performing all of these special duties will come out also so they go back to our regular strength which will be about 1600 and generally testified yesterday he and I he testifies again today and he and I testify tomorrow on the various events and the security precautions and some of the have been outlined in a statement opening statement that he gave to the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday and will be the same statement that he used in the subsequent testimony today and tomorrow and basically this increases the chronology and the difficult part of the mission there which is to keep the airport open and enable them to act as a civilian government in Lebanese there are problems because when the airport is open or closed there is only Lebanese government control and the desire of ours is to have the maximum, or was to have the maximum access the period of time between the time of this suicide truck crashed through the first marine gate and thereby gained the first evidence of what it was about and the time of the explosion was 6 seconds and the truck was fired on but of course it was totally completely obliterated so we have no way of knowing whether the the fire had any effect or not but it was fired on and it was in that range of time that this bullets into a cliff and there are a number of things that could be done in the way of trying to reduce this specific time of accident it's also important to bear in mind that the men were in this building because of the impact, reinforced concrete solid structures that were standing and the principle threat up until the time this happened of course was the fear of sniper fire and machine gun mortar automatic weapons and the building did give great protection against that time to combat the protection against the suicides otherwise Mr. President there's been no change in the tactical situation there as you said Mr. Secretary that John Kelly has returned from his trip out there and the Deputy Commander of the US European Command also visited to look at new security measures that could be taken and I want to tell you that that's just the last and the long series of teams that have been sent out there to look at what security measures could be taken to increase the security of the Marines and that everything that they've recommended is being implemented with the exception of I shouldn't even say the exception but the other thing that hasn't been done is being examined is looking at moving to another position is it possible for us to turn over the airport to the Lebanese armed forces move to another position and move to the ships and once the impact on our mission of doing that I forgot to add one thing we have called a full investigation within the Department of Admiral, Retired Admiral Long, formerly Commander Chief of the Civic of hazelnut and they will get to work starting today and we'll have a full and complete report of their findings just as quickly as we can and that the conflict either is an independent body that will examine the whole thing. Mr. President, we had restrictions.