 Nice to meet you. Well, it's nice to meet you. Whoops. I'll be on your bus. Hi. Nice to see you. I want to say hello for everybody back in Illinois. I'm sure they'd like to. Can I see a big hug for you? I'll see you, especially. Yes, I was going to have to ask you. Where else is daughter going? No, I'm Vera's daughter. Right. And Elsie is my aunt. We were very close to her as well. Well... It's been every Christmas where there is. Well, the mother and all of them were... It was a very close relationship for quite a while there. We would make trips, and I remember his number coming in the winter, and this really dates me back when we'd get in the horse-grown slave with the buffalo roams and go out to fight pigeon. We had great times there. Right, I'm sure you did. I'm so proud to be meeting you. Well, thank you very much. You've done such a great job with this country. Thank you. All my friends are very proud also to have such a fine man in the White House. We just wish you could run another term. The foundation is laid there. Did you ever see a no-white pigeon? Oh, yes. We grew up real close together. We had great times there. We grew up real close together. We lived there for 20 years. I can still remember the great reward, and every day was, if we'd all been good and everything, was that nickel-bottle of strawberry pop in the basement. Maybe, yeah. Well, your grandmother was a wonderful, wonderful woman. I'm not sure she was. My mother was the youngest of the whole clan, the last child she... She really was devoted to. She was devoted to. To her sister, Kenny. Yeah, yeah. No, it was far away as we thought. Well, listen, I have just got a couple of souvenirs here. And I think, Terry, I want to get a nice post-fovo, too, right? That's just a pin for a souvenir. Thank you. Oh, thank you, sir. All right. Why don't we... You get in the middle of your pretty picture. All right. Yes. Thank you, sir. Nice meeting you, sir. Well, good to see you. Thank you. Okay. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Great pleasure to greet all of you. And to have you here. The decision-maker here. Yes. Well, somebody sent that. Right now. Yes. And maybe, and then you could really get rid of everybody by just turning up the screen. Ha-ha-ha-ha. I think we're in the best. We'll leave it out about tomorrow. No, someone sent it. I don't know whether they approve of what we're doing here in the district. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you all for the fine work that you've done this past year. There are a series of reports that represent the most comprehensive reviewer of the defense establishment, I think since World War II before. And you've shown the way to real reform and have conclusively laid to rest the myths about some of the defense procurement things that have bounded in the press only a year ago. Dave, your alluded leadership and your vast talents as a senior captain of industry have claimed the spotless record of integrity have made this commission successful and I think all Americans will use and your compatriots here a debt of gratitude. I understand that you want to tell me what's in the final report. Yes, I'll take a few minutes, Mr. President. Well, what's wrong? You got a problem? I got a huge problem. I'd like to see you. You're good to the next room here and you're good to my. So nice to see you. But why do you think there were short sessions of Congress? Congress happy to bail out of Washington. President was glad to see him go. Air conditioning was the scourge of the country. Yeah. And air conditioning is one of the most hurtful things that's happened to the government. People still want to come to Washington and seem to keep them away. A lot of air conditioning. Not that fast. Well, I think they want to become even. I read about her once on my phone. Do you remember the young lady? She was a teacher in the American school in Egypt and of Malta. She was the one that the hijackers shot in the head and then threw her down. 16 Democrats. So I learned the subject of contract. Well, last shot. Then it was after one. I was kind of thinking that the taste of candy wouldn't hurt. So I find that I would help myself to somehow pass the chance to see that girl down on the table. I found her. Oh, right. Let him in. A welcome to the White House and a special hello to your executive director, Julian Nijek. And it's certainly a pleasure for me as honorary chairman of the People to People program to have this opportunity to speak with you before you're off on a great adventure. These exchange programs in which you and many thousands of others participate, I think, to learn about our values and our views. During your time overseas you would likely be confronted with many foreign policy questions. There's every reason for Americans to be proud of our country's dealings with other nations. We've been a force for freedom and a force for peace on this planet. And when we turn over the reins to your generation that won't be so long from now. We want this to be a safer than it is today. That's what the negotiations in Geneva are all about. It's a great deal of maneuvering that goes on during such negotiations but I'm still optimistic. The United States is willing to do more than put a lid on the number of nuclear weapons. We're proposing to reduce U.S. and Soviet nuclear arms to an equal and verifiable level and it's in the interest of both the Soviet Union and the United States that the Soviets will agree we can get started on this right now. While trying to achieve nuclear and conventional arms reductions we're exploring technologies that will protect people from the threat of ballistic missiles. This is our research under our strategic defense initiative which everyone knows as SDI. If we're successful those missiles will be less effective and thus both sides will be all likely to agree to cut deeply the number of these weapons in their arms and if that one day leads to a shield against ballistic missiles the whole world I think will breathe easier. You young people more than any other group will have a stake in the future. I'm going to be speaking at a high school graduation in Glassboro, New Jersey next week. It will be my first high school graduation in quite some time and some of the matters under discussion the future of peace and freedom will be on the agenda and I know that you have some things that you'd like to discuss so we should allow the press to retire and we can get on with our discussions. Well Mr. President there's still a lot of confusion sir about the salt agreement last night. Did you mean to say that salt is dead and did you sign off on the limits for the air launch cruise missiles? Did you definitely decide to do that? It is salt there. We'll make the decision with regard to the ballistic missile or the cruise missile when that time comes but in the interim we're going to be dealing with the Soviet Union on their most recent proposal to us. The time has come to replace a treaty that was never ratified that has now gone beyond the length of time for which it was designed which they have never observed have been violating since its inception to replace that with a legitimate orange reduction treaty that was saying last night. Salt is dead. Salt is dead then we're going to try to replace it with a better deal. Why won't you say it when your spokesman is saying it very flatly to us we need it from you is it dead or isn't it? Yes. Larry's being told us very definitively that it is dead and yet you won't say it. Thanks very much. I think you could trust what Larry speaks for himself. Well he also told us sir this morning that you had signed off on definitely exceeding the limit for air launch cruise missiles. One of the reasons I'm not saying that is because right now we are utmost to engage the Soviet Union in an orange reduction agreement and anyone going into negotiations I think has a right to remain silent because whether nothing will be used against it. Okay. Let's go Frank. Thank you. We have good protectors here. Okay. This happens all the time. No more film. Let's go. Larry I know that I'm expecting to hear from you. Thank you very much. The program's mission will take this year's student ambassadors to 24 different countries throughout the world. This summer I will be participating in an initiative for understanding the American Soviet Union's tools. This program is a direct result of your United States Soviet Exchange Initiative following the recent Geneva summit conference. Its purpose is to provide the opportunity for direct communication between young people in the United States and the Soviet Union. My fellow student ambassadors are participating not only in the Soviet Initiative but in equally important exchanges at Eastern and Western Europe. Again, we sincerely appreciate this opportunity to be with you. Well, Mr. Hyde, I'm very pleased to be with all of you. I have long had a belief that we're only getting trouble when we're talking about each other instead of to each other. And I just have to believe that if all the young people in the world forget to know each other it's not by people. The tragic problem with regard to the Soviet Union is that unlike our country their people don't have any influence on the government. They're not even allowed to criticize it, let alone vote for it. So it does make a difference. But a generation, and I ask you something then and I will leave you guys some questions here. I don't know what preparation is given but we're going to go to these other countries and all over about our own. And I do know that when I was your age I had some pretty fixed ideas and was pretty cynical about some of the things that I'm doing. Having to do with government and the big business involved have become much more tolerant of the years that have gone on. For example I could understand if you had a belief that well corporations and so forth I had quite a lesson in that how wrong I was from feeling that way. I was doing a television show for eight years for the General Electric Theater. Part of that show the head of the company Ralph Corden that giant corporation thought that it would be wise if I was sent around to some 139 plants that General Electric had in 39 states and visit and meet the employees. I met a quarter of a million employers in those eight years. I grew on about 10 weeks a year in a row of about two weeks stretches meeting these people. And then they made me available to make speeches also like to the chambers of commerce or whoever asked me and there was always somebody asking. And one day the young man who went on these trips with me called me Tennessee Valley Authority TVA had told General Electric that if they didn't fire me they would take $50 million a year in business away from General Electric. It seems that General Electric in all those years of making speeches never told me once what to say or what not to say. I wrote my own speeches and I was pretty much then talking about free enterprise that was against government that government had gone to and so forth and I had used TVA as an example of the government getting into private business and competition with free enterprise and so forth and this was TVA's reaction and I asked this fellow and he called me and I said we're going out on the road in just a few days and I'm going to be making the same speech and I said what does Ralph Court say he says no one's heard from him so day or two goes by and I still haven't heard from Ralph Court and he finally dawned on me we weren't going to hear from him so I picked up the phone and I called Ralph Court now that isn't as easy as it sounds there was the head of this giant corporation a chairman of the Board of some board and all of that and I was an actor and I was getting used to pretty rarefied atmosphere and I told him what I'd heard and he said well I'm sorry that you heard about that he said it's my problem and he said I have told Tennessee Valley Authority the general electorate has never told an employee what they can or can't say we're not going to start and I said to Mr. Court and I'm not going to take up your time to tell you what that means to me to hear you say that but I would hate to think that some of those employees I met at the turbine plant the connectivity might be laid off because of something I said in the speech well he said that's a price we'd have to pay there's a principle involved and I said Mr. Court what would you say if I told you I can make that same speech and be just as effective and I don't have to use TVA as an example and then suppose that a very human voice said well it would make my job easier but I just thought you might hear but when you go you're going to find people with a lot of different viewpoints well yeah come on in and sit down oh I am thank you I was counting I was counting I don't get any thanks for the vote on the hour did I I don't get any thanks for the vote on the hour yes well Mr. President first of all thank you for seeing us on short notice secondly Bill Armstrong who requested