 a month or one day, I hadn't even scheduled it, but I thought, that result, the last couple of days I've been living in the mirror and thinking, Jesus, it was only a week, he didn't cut my hair short enough to happen, but also, but I think it was a big stir back there earlier about the federal reserve and the whole system, I think the whole system. I think they're going to even not oppose us on the minimum. And make it plain that we're not opposing tax, the tax was already imposed. We're just, I've seen recently that it began to drift through the college that we're, it's going to stay, it's still not going away. You got what you want? Yes, sir. I think we'll take one more. Here we go. Thank you very much. All right. We wanted one of these, and we wanted you to say, could you do that? Of course we would. It's young. You know, it's the most, yes, of course, yes. But the ladies, I suppose. Right down the corner. This was the, after the inauguration, I picked that up in New York and imagined my amazement to see my picture there. What's the young fella's name? Fred. Just Fred, yeah. He's real. That's great. Thank you so much. Well, how much time do we get? Any? We've got about two minutes. We've got to be a little more careful. So I know how it goes. A little more than that. It's on board. We won't keep you. But I've been in town for five days, and I'll keep you with me. Mr. President, how are you? Thank you to me for here, sir. Thank you for letting me come and have this picture made. And I'll see you in the family. Well, all right. Appreciate it. How are you doing? All right, again. Thank you, sir. Thank you for trying. Thanks, sir. Thank you, sir. All right, how are you? Good to see you. Good to see you. What's going on with the meeting? I just have another department, sir. I know you've been brief. So I'm not going to try to pry around when she's going over. I do want to say also thanks very much because I know the support of two days and the first to really endorse what we were trying to do. And I think it would be better off if we have a dialogue instead of a monologue, a thing that you have with a ground-driven show, and that's in our E3 budget. I assume that you've been talking about our federalism business, and it's kind of on my minds. And it's been explained to you that all we came forward with was a conceptual framework, and we expect to have it fleshed out with the help of the people who will be participating with this from you and city mayors and county officials and governors. In fact, I've got a list of governors to call, but I've got to be meeting here in a few days in Washington, and I've got to remind them of it. We'd like to have them speak to it. But for your point, I want you to take over. Mr. President, first of all, I want to thank you for a very great call for you and your staff to allow us to come to Washington and talk to you about the federalism program that you've designed. I'm, of course, the current president of the National Association of Townsend Townsend. I also elected a town clerk in Wisconsin, so I have to stand election two. So, but we want you to know that in February a year ago when we were here, we did support the economic recovery program and the Bob Graham program, and we even went to the Hill that supported it there. We can stand some more of that. We're back here now, and we want you to know that yesterday on the record, our association wants to be on record with supporting the federalism program. And I brought you a resolution signed by myself and Mark Russell to prove that. So, I guess we're here to say that we are ready to back and support what you're doing. If this weekend we may not disagree with all the specifics, but I think you're going in the right direction, and that's what we feel about it. We want you to know that. There are others here, of course, from our association, and I'll talk to you a little bit about the answer to the question. So with that, thank you for allowing us to come. Mr. President, I might follow our President Krieger. Back in 1976, I worked with Dan Strieger to put together a breakfast for you in Sicily. And at that time, I felt, as did many others, that your programs may be the salvation of small towns, rural parts of America. And I think that's where you got, you had in 1980 and you have today the major great deal of support. I think our concern now is that in the federalism program, those small towns may not be assured of something for them. In Illinois, for example, the city of Chicago is a local government. We're concerned that perhaps the revenue sharing formula won't be used to allocate funds to the small cities, the small rural communities. That's one of our vital concerns, and we hope that we can convey that to you and to our Congress. We know that you need the votes on the hill to get anything done. And we're trying to get that message across back on. Well, this is why we want all this input, so that we don't suddenly find that someplace along the line someone's bought it to be cracked. But it will make you feel a little better. I can tell you that I sat at this table with the mayors of the cities, and I have heard repeatedly that they fear the state legislatures are rural-minded and therefore city-minded. But we do want the features that will make sure of a pass that there's no sense in having a federal government, much as I believe in states and having to participate in that kind of work, that I can understand because there's no sense in substituting one for the other and then having the same properties and the same lack of flexibility is open. And the air representative in Michigan is talking about 6,500 local elected officials and media pass president of NATAC. And we want to thank the problems, we think, with the ACIR and the attempt to put some township officials. And we appreciate it. We just wonder, though, that in the event that that's unsuccessful, we've been attempting this for a thing that I'd like to bring to your attention, particularly in prior administrations, when things get rough politically. And obviously, let's have a series of town meetings. And I've noticed in the past that some of those people I don't believe knew what a town means on the 3rd of the year in September. And we will be representing 13,000 local communities and we'll have about a thousand extend to you that the invitation at this time and we'll follow it up with your staff of course. And know that I have to tell you that I'm still looking for whoever it is that tells me what I'm going to be doing. And then in just been closing, the Vice President told us what a great guy you were and we already knew that. But I want to say, personally, besides supporting you, that I, for one, am thankful that you're coming. My children are going to kill me if I don't give you these ballots. That's it. If you will. So good news is that by the way, we did a lot of press conferences. I for one, I think it's a little bit of a factual . . . Well, there's no question about it. I have a nice to see you, I love you. How are you? I was going to ask you on the back. I'm the worker. That's the only reason I'm here, I don't know how long, I don't know how much I want to do, I'm going to sit down here, I'm going to go the pathway, A-M-Y, P-E-A-B-O-D-Y. Yeah, these are our own. Just a minute, and then first for somebody to say, and then we'll go vote. It's going to be kind of interesting tonight, because based on seniority or however they... Oh, that's European. However they do it, the leader of the diplomats at the dinner is Dobrinin of the Soviet Union. Oh no! Do you know that? I guess they do it on numbers of years or something.