 The President is going to blame you for wronging your line policy. It's sweet. It takes blame for everything that's wrong. No question. You've got to get on with that. When are you giving your speech? What? Do you know when you'll give your speech? Because attended gates will ask me to first recognize that we can get the time. But it will be this week. Mr. President, Mr. Gates withdrawing is your CIA nominee. No questions now. Please let us sit down with you. Are you discerned by what you read in the Tower Report? There is, as some have said, a long time ago. You know when you'll give your speech? Because attended gates will ask me to first recognize that we can get the time. But it will be this week. Mr. President, Mr. Gates withdrawing is your CIA nominee. No questions now. Please let us sit down with you. Are you discerned by what you read in the Tower Report? There is, as some have said, a long time ago. Mr. Gates, Mr. Gates withdrawing is your CIA nominee. No questions now. Please let us sit down with you. Are you discerned by what you read in the Tower Report? There is, as some have said, a long time ago. I'm disturbed about being pressured to talk about it now. How are you? Good. How do I look? I've lived with that for a while. Let it go. How are you? Thank you. I am delighted. Do something to do it. Look at that. He does look. That just so it feels like we don't have to look like we don't have to feel. That's right. You're still solicit. My Chief of Staff. I have great admiration and respect for Howard and I know you all share my confidence in him and I'm certainly looking forward to working with you in the days ahead. Mr. President, thank you very much. It's one of the prime honors of my life to have an opportunity to continue in your service. I enjoyed working with you in the Senate. I look forward to working with you here and my commitment is like this administration in its final two years, the very best possible years of your presidency. And I'm happy to be here. I understand before we move on that even Wallace didn't have time to share. Mr. President, I was just trying to brief the cabinet on the talk about our boy thing now and the work of your governor, where he needs to see what's the second one. Mr. President, we're very grateful for the opportunity to meet with you and the Vice President and other members of the administration. And as Mayor Reinhard just assured you, you're with friends and I have a letter here signed by about a hundred Republican officials at the local level of government which we wanted to give to you because we just want you to know that we're supportive of you and I won't take time to read the whole thing but I do thank you for making America strong again, for bringing inflation and interest rates and unemployment down, for helping to broaden the base of our party and revitalize the Republican party and make it the party of growth, opportunity and progress, GOP. And I want to read the last sentence. We know the stress you're experiencing right now is tremendous. So we want to assure you of our prayers that God will give you the strength and the difficult decisions you must make what is best for the American people and is signed by a whole group of Republican officials. Making sure I'm looking at everybody when I... Well, I pleased all of you to be here today and I want to take this opportunity to compliment you for your dedication and commitment during very difficult times. You've exhibited creating leadership and revitalizing your cities. And I also want to thank you for your support as Republicans you're certainly a minority and local officials. I'm sure you walk around a hot seat because of it. Before Bill or you lead a discussion on all of this, I wanted to outline very briefly our top three initiatives. Well-fair reform. Our goal is to establish a process for communities to implement their own anti-poverty ideas. Education. We must work together to continue reforms for excellence in our schools. We must set high standards and improve skills and promote literacy and we also need to continue work toward drug-free schools. Incidentally on this I remember, I'm old enough to remember when the federal government wasn't even a penny's worth part of education in our country. That was the province of the local community and to a certain extent at the state level also. I also remember you might be interested to know that at the first time you know in that great growth of the federal government they dried up most of the tax resources took them for themselves and left the local communities with the difficulty of where could you turn for needed revenues. And having created you're short of money missed me. Then the government turned around and said well we will have to help you out with government grants and programs and the first time that was ever proposed a group of educators came to Washington and completely different than anything that you would imagine. They came to plead for the federal government not to do this because they feared would interfere with academic freedom and very right established policy. Will the then director of education over and over again assure them that no federal government had no intention of intervening in any way just wanted to make money available to them. Well one of the educators said well we have thought of an idea that could resolve this problem money-wise but without any risk of outside control. And he said to suppose that we took a figure we don't know what the figure should be but just for discussion a hundred dollars and then you would decide that that anyone could contribute that amount of money to the school of his or her choice and it would be a tax credit not a deduction just subtract that from your income tax that would be federal money but certainly the money in control. And the director of education who had been proclaiming that the government had no intention of interfering he said well no that wouldn't work. He said under that system we couldn't achieve our social objectives the social objectives I think could outweigh some of the money they're putting up but competitiveness is the third thing our people are our most valuable resource and we pull together a diverse package as diverse as the challenge I think reports and I'm going to challenge you as I did the governors last week to work with us on these initiatives to meet your ideas and your support for our legislation. Now I understand that you've agreed to moderate a discussion of your ideas for how we can lead a strong America into the next century and I also would be interested in hearing about some of the creative way. You forgot me. You remember Marlon. That's a real blubber. Don't worry about it. You've got your new kind of sincere suit. Really, that came back. You're right over here on that corner of the couch. Right over there. We're here and can I introduce Grant Green I think you've met Grant Green and Hank Cohen. Yes, President. Mr. President, we thought we would talk about some social matters in these few minutes and one of the things I would like to do is to have Hank Cohen who is the head of our African division talk to you a little bit about Mozambique and Ranamo because you've been hearing some things from the conservatives on Ranamo and he can tell you where that whole thing stands and what the State Department view is. That's interesting. President, let me tell Ambassador Cohen I sat by his son coming back and I mentioned that. Did he tell you why he doesn't get out of the house and go get an apartment? I feel wanted to talk to him about it. No. Well, thank you very much. Mayor, how are you sir? You've met our king for that and our ambassador. We're going to visit in a few minutes so we have a chance to talk to you. First of all to this possibility of having these features it's a very exciting time and knows that you are very busy and second of all is that I want to thank you very much for your plan to come in and join us celebrating the 750th anniversary in Milan. Thank you. I look forward very much to that visit speaking about the relationship I believe in you. I think it is very important we take part in this development which is necessary for our country we have the chance for solving problems in the middle of Europe. For example I have a great dream to process my kids to run for kids and preach without any problems. That's my dream for the future we have to work on it. Well, I think there are even some people in this country that dream about re-identification. We invest more of the new years on the interests of the city and also seeing the cooperation is key. The city opens the wall as much as possible. Some years ago I was there and spoke about the location near the wall and the medication and so the only time I had ever crossed through the wall and that was in East Britain it was quite a contrast because we went in to run just through the gate there and we were curious and we went in our party went in there was naturally a photographer with us and we started taking some pictures. Suddenly there was a hand on his shoulder and his camera was buttoned up quite quickly and as we came out we're crossing the parking lot all of a sudden right there playing sight word two of each German police seizing one of their citizens and starting to search him we didn't stop we didn't know what it brought it about but there was a contrast between east and west. We did. When as an after senator agrees we're supposed to the same day to run. Well that's going to be taken to the chair over there and I'll be the senator in between. Mr. President what do you think you have to do to restore your credibility in that question after a speech tonight? You still think that criminal north is a national hero? His military record was one of numerous rewards for his courage. How about his involvement in the Contra situation? Will you tonight? Toon him. What is Mrs. Reagan's role in running the government Mr. President? I think this is one of the things that has been handed about in the press. That is fiction and I think it is despicable fiction and a lot of people are ashamed of themselves. Which part of it do you have the greatest affection to Mr. President of the many reports that have been written about that? The idea that she is you realize I'm breaking my rule here. But the idea that she's involved in being kind of a dragon lady there is nothing to that. You know who said you know who said dragon lady your chief of staff. No, no Helen. I didn't say that. Are you upset about it all? Well obviously. She is, yes of course. What do you think can be done about it? Thank you. Well maybe I just said a few things here that some of you think twice before you defeat those things that have been said. Do you dispute the idea that she had a role in the portrait of this Beregan? No. As I stated in my statement he had spoken to me months before about his desire to lead. And then when all of this came up he decided that he would see it out and wait until after the tower commission report came in. Mr. President you do dispute the reports that she had her role in. As I say he had a letter of resignation dated October. He did? How come we didn't see it? What? How come we didn't see it? Because I say he decided to wait because of the problems. No phone hangouts. Thank you. We are not going to apologize tonight to the American people. Tune in. Mr. President Thank you. I say it as far as recently