 Get a recording now, you know. So what's the name of the group here? Yeah. Yes, sir? I'm sleeping. I can imagine. Well, come in here. Nice to see you, Jesse. Yeah, all right. Nice to see you, sir. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Jim, how are you? Good to see you. Good to see you. Well, come in here. Good to see you. This guy right here is the president. That's the first one after the Lieutenant's family. Very special kind of. This is the agent. Come right in. Good to see you. Told you on the phone that there was something I wanted to tell you about your departure here that I didn't want to put on the phone as long as one end of the phone was in another country. But I will confess to misgivings that would have been true. Anyone coming in when we were negotiating, trying to get out there at the same time. I believe so much in individual freedom in the private sector and so forth. There was no way I was going to disappear with that. Were you going to prior to the mission? Yes, I was going to interfere with that at all. But in that regard then, the reason there was no meeting or anything was I was, I believe, the best chance you had was as a private sector going over there and not having them in any way as so serious you would think that you were an emissary being sent as part of the other negotiations. And you did it. You wrote it off. I think it's just great. Well, I think you, as I said on the phone, you had the option to intervene. And you did not. With a lately triggered day, because we thought you might come over. It's going to just set the person free. When we did, we felt free to go. Because for us, the issue was not the fine use. It was appealing to Assad to give a signal for a new direction and some breakthrough for peace. And when we first got the telegram back, we called some of the person immediately, which was the purpose I needed to do. He contacted the State Department, and that's the birthday. And he was very helpful in providing as much unclassified information as they could. And we felt that by getting as much information as we could and sharing as much as we could, that was the appropriate way to collaborate between governments that were as opposed to outside one of them. I met Assad four years ago. I felt he might be open to a way out, some kind of appeal. And of course, we had to walk that delicate line between appealing and negotiating. Yes. And let that line, let it be, let it be that line. And so these guys were just coming to us. Right. How are you, sir? Hey, this is really, oh, welcome. You guys are saying you're the answer to my question. You've got to be an honor for me. I can't imagine the way I'm going to do this. Go ahead. I'll do something nice. Go ahead. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to see you. Thank you. Thank you. Let me just ask you. I'm sorry. You're the gentleman. I was the gentleman. So let me just have some work. And how are you, sir? I'm sorry. You all know that very well. Yeah, sir. You're welcome. Thank you. Thanks, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Like Reverend Jackson's wife and children are in the other room, too, I think we should, all right. We'll get out of the way. It didn't work, it didn't work. He's getting in my eye. He's getting in my eye. He's getting in my eye. He needs a shake. Well, now with all these Navy types, I should explain a little something about this office. That carved desk there has a little Navy background. Also, there was an English ship many years ago that was lost trying to get in on rescue mission into the Arctic Lost in the Ice. Some years later, an American whaler came upon it, brought it out. We refurbished it and returned it. It was a naval vessel to Queen Victoria. And when that ship was decommissioned, one day a 1,300-pound package arrived at the White House. It was in the time of President Hayes, and they had out of the plants of that ship, they had made that carved desk. And people weren't as big in those days as we are today, because I finally had to add a layer around the bottom of it because I couldn't get my knees. But in those days, you could accept gifts from friends. Just my knees is better. Say hello now. Oh, boy, is that me? Yes. How are you doing? How are you? Good. Good to see you. That's right. Hello, Mr. Reddick. Nice to see you. The reason Jesse does not have a necktie is that we couldn't dress them roughly. We got them in jail. We had to catch them up. So somebody had to give them a T-shirt. Somebody gave them a necktie. Somebody gave them... I'll get you that. See? He just stripped it by station. Let me also say, I have a son who comes to the right of his room and get the necktie on here. It's quite a job. And because he hasn't got it, it goes with the age. Now, I understand the press is waiting out there. And we're going out and I'll say a few words. And I believe that... Now, I make sure I have it right. I believe that you will be on my right and you will be on my left out there at the podium, and the others will gather around and frame the picture. We'll go in the back now. A military man who's ever known. He was going to do it all properly and direct. And so he kept saying, well, we'll study things. The military people will tell him. We'll start getting high on him. So finally, at the end, I was, well, Reverend, you are going as high as I am going. Well, I hope you love her. And when you go, I'll be getting... If you don't get it, at least not going to find me. Get a picture of it. Tough man broke that. Call your family. I know we have to get out there. All of you are talking about the military there. My favorite story about the military is this was World War II. And it really happened. The young draftee, he was kind of confused about some of the dealings of the army. And he finally was talking, asking the old sergeant about it, the regular army sergeant. And the sergeant said, well, let me explain it to you this way. He said, if you were a new country, creating an army, beginning of an army, and you finally got a division put together, what would you call it? And the kid said, well, I guess I'd call it the first division. He said, in the United States, they called it the second division. And he said, when you understand that, you'll understand everything. Well, here we go. During and after, he exemplified qualities of leadership and loyalty, qualities so many, fine men and women in our military, that we're all proud of him. Reverend Jackson's mission was a personal mission of mercy. And he has earned our gratitude and our admiration. The Leonard Goodman's release affords us a unique opportunity to, well, I took advantage of the opportunity to write to President of Syria and called for Syrian cooperation in securing peace in Lebanon. Last night, Don Rumsfeld left to seek diplomatic solutions for the problems of the region. And today, on this happy occasion, I wish foreign forces from Lebanon. As I say, this is a homecoming. Thank you all for recording it for me. I would just like to once again thank all the people involved. Reverend Jackson, Ambassador Taganelli, thank you very much, and I appreciate all your support. To be expressed thanks to the economic department of medicine led by Dr. Howard, who put this risk admission for the people around this nation who wore their blue ribbons as a measure of solidarity as we pray together and fast together, trying to rise above the everydayness of our lives that we might be able to secure the release of Lieutenant Robert Goodman and to gain his freedom and have a breakthrough for peace. We want to thank Almighty God who heard our sincere and meaningful to us that once we got our telegram back from the prayers of Assad, we then called Senator Inglis in contact with the State Department, Ambassador Murphy and Mr. Lawrence Eberberger. It was the support of our State Department within the law that gave us the latitude that we needed to feel that we were doing the right thing within the law. It made it show us that not if a dealer has a fear, but if he has an interest to us, the fact that Ambassador Paganelli met us in Syria was a signal that our government had a reason to doubt because missions like this are not that successful often, but that was all that we needed was a reason to assure us and the support. I quote that the cycle of pain is now broken and that this mission of peace will take us to a never-lasting peace. Ambassador, it is significant that we were in Damascus while the apostle Paul, because we saw that new light, the world has never been the same since. As it were, December of this past year, President Assad used this opportunity to seize an initiative and we want to express our thanks to him. His hearts agree that we do have the capacity to save this generation from disaster. Thank you very much. I hope what you did. How they have grown. I thought that in this opening chart, it makes a little bit more than 30 years period, billion dollars, new taxes, no national taxes, nothing except current services. In 1989, that will grow to a trillion to 60 billion. In other words, just about double from 80 to 89. I told the next chart as President. It's very well granitized as that. This is the chart that Martin Kirk is asking about. What was the total portion of the GNP that came from total receipts and then Social Security and all of them? The yellow being Social Security. To be specific. Last meeting, that was in the figures we used the other day. That wasn't Brooks. I just looked him up again on my desk. That was wrong. It's in those figures in the charts that we used. That's my second book for this holiday season. The first one was new that I knew a certain poem. Really a rhyme and a system that I recited. It was Charlie Woodman. So I did. I had been a fan of Robert W. Service. I know the poems about the condy, and they still keep this ball cap on as a tourist attraction. So the poem that I know is the shooting of Dan McGrew. I had an old, very old book, which I thought was all that was a Robert Service. And the course of this whole poem was on Doug Wick. I didn't know they were still printing new and modern books. Robert W. Service sent me a book, The Hole. Everything he's ever written. So I think now I'll start learning the cremation of Sam McGee. Well, I know you're interested in this subject here. But you have the agenda. Let me just say we're really just a continuum issue alive. We're maybe sharing that level of education with children.