 I guess this is the last one for me every year since 1981 and I think the spirit of volunteerism is around this table in this room has been just magnificent and I appreciate the leadership of John McGill Cuddy for chairing the 88th campaign here and I'm most grateful to him and I'm most successful in his presence. I'm pleased to present our report on behalf of the committee. We did have a very successful campaign thanks to the support from you from the Secretary of the Treasury and our treasurer K. R. Tiga and the people who work with her on the field. I might say also Mr. President that in my travels around the country I was fortified by the several jokes that you told us last year. I don't tell them as well as you do. But I did tell them at every stop and they always laughed politely because they knew that you told them better. But it was an umbilical cord back here to Washington and an affirmation of the fact that this was important to you personally as well as to the country in a no small way that's testimony to the successful campaign that we had. So on behalf of our committee I would like to thank you and we've had a poster that we commissioned that Leroy Neiman did and we have a framed poster signed by Leroy which all of the committee members have received from me and thanks and we want to present one to you as well for the thank you very much. Our thanks to you for your support because you make it possible. Well thank you very much. I wish I could remember what I was talking about. Well they were Russian stories. That's what I've been collecting though. Well now you've just tempted me too far. Because I've continued to hear them in the recent Moscow summit over there. Even before I came home they brought me one of the Zooming Around and had to do with the sun. It seems that they now were telling a story among themselves that Gorbachev and I were in his limousine. My unit chief of Secret Service was with me. His security man was with him and we were sightseeing and they took us out to a waterfall and we all got out of the car and were looking at the beautiful waterfall and then according to the story Gorbachev said to my Secret Service man go ahead and jump go over the falls and he said I've got a wife and three kids. And so Gorbachev turned to his man and said go ahead jump go over the falls and he did. And my man scrambled down the rocks around the fall to see if he could be of help at the bottom and found him down there wringing out his clothes and said why did you do that? And he told you to do that. Why did you jump? Well he said I've got a wife and three kids. They ever paid off 7 billion dollars in bond sales value this year and the outstanding bonds as of now are 108 billion and that's the first time in the history of the program we've had that and we've given I think now we have to meet the record of the 88 committee with the 89 committee and so now John Plantena, you have a target to shoot at. Well I'm grateful to you for taking this on. Well Mr. President it's the honor of our committee to print this booklet in the twilight of your presidency and it's an honor because that enables us to put your portrait in it and we are indeed proud of that. This is the campaign booklet with which we will start our effort to try to live up to the record that John McGillicuddy and John Creedon have set before us and we have a great team, we're up to the challenge, we're well armed with the story now and we'll do everything we can to support the important work that Secretary Brady and Treasurer K. Ortega apply in their support of this program and we pledge to you our full commitment. John I think you better roll for two stories. Well I could tell you the story. One or two that I've ever heard or learned of those that I felt I could tell Gorbachev and got a laugh from him. One had to do with this was fairly recent that they've got out an order now but anyone caught speeding in the Soviet Union gets a ticket, anyone no matter who it is but of course you know almost all the automobiles are driven by members of the bureaucracy over there and they, it's not the private people who can't very much afford them. This one has Gorbachev coming out of his country home, his dacha and the limousine and the driver are there and he knows he's late getting to the Kremlin and he tells the driver to get in the back seat and he gets in the front seat and down the road he goes, passes two motorcars, one of them takes out after him. A few minutes he's back with his friend. He says did you give him a ticket? He said no. Well he said well we're supposed to give anyone a ticket no matter. Well he said no, no, no, this one was too important. Well he said who was it? And he said I couldn't recognize it but his driver was Gorbachev. I wasn't fooling when I said I couldn't remember the jokes because just recently my, Kathy, my secretary uncovered, I don't know where they were stored away a whole packet of my cards and things that I use for speeches going way back into the 60s and I was amazed now looking at them and I didn't have speechwriters then. I had to do it myself and I came upon a couple of stories there and I can't ever remember myself telling them and connection with the speech but just to give you an idea how confused I must have been then this one was about the man in the maternity ward who said to the nurse, he said I, where's Yummkins? He said she had got any hair and she had got any teeth and she can't talk and she doesn't see so good and the nurse said but Yummkins is your daughter. He said no, no, my wife, I don't see so good either. Well, thank you. Present that official. Before and after. Well, I thank you and Victor Cayam, congratulations on winning the Kate Smith Award. Thank you. For your outstanding service, exceptional service. As you know that award is named because of all that Kate did in the Salem Bonds during World War II and after. She was tired of us in all of her efforts and you have been too. Thank you. Mr. President, this will also be my last one and so I am delighted to present you with this American equal on behalf of the Savings Bond Division and it does say Ronald W. Reagan, President of the United States with appreciation for his exceptional leadership and support for the U.S. Savings Bond Program, 1981-1989. Thank you very much for the Presidential Library. But thank you all also, this whole thing of privatization in our country and doing things this way has finally caught on. I don't know how many of you are aware that two years ago we received a plea from Paris, from France to send some people to Paris connected with the private sector programs in this country and there were representatives of most of the European countries they wanted to find out from us how this worked and how to establish a private sector initiative such as we have in this country because up until now governments have done everything not the private citizens so we were very pleased and proud to send some people there and they have now... Mr. Prime Minister. Thank you. It's great to meet you. Thank you. Thank you. Good morning. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. My friend, how are you? Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Thank you. Nice to see you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I thank you very much from the very bottom of my heart for bestaring the time of the day. Present, I'm very pleased and honored to be given this chance to meet yourself and also with the presence of the President, like Mr. Bush, I have no words to express how honored and pleased I am today. We're very pleased and honored to have you here and looking forward to this. I hope that you extend my best wishes to two good friends Prime Minister Cheshire, whom I refer to as Noboru, and Yasu, Mr. Nakasomu, because you perhaps know what economic summits are because all of us who are there are on a personal basis. Mr. Nakasomu. Mr. Nakasomu. Mr. Nakasomu. Mr. Nakasomu. Mr. Nakasomu. Rabbi Rachel? Rabbi Fowler? Rabbi Lazerot? Greetings on the State of Texas. Well pleased to have you here. Rabbi Rubin? Rabbi Smirkin? Rabbi Groner? Rabbi Korf? Rabbi Guari? Rabbi Gwari, Rabbi Raskin, and Rabbi Popak. How have you been? It's nice to meet you. I'm sure they want a group photo. President, you might want to go down the swing. Once again, I have the distinguished privilege and pleasure of presenting you with an honor. The menorah is a replica of the national menorah which is standing outside of the rips, which I think become known as the national menorah. The menorah signifies a very important event back in history in which there was an attempt to secularize the world and deprive the world of its values and traditions. On Hanukkah, the spiritual and the spirit triumph over those attempts. This is a struggle that lasts throughout history, and we in our time are also facing this struggle throughout the world. To the Baba Terebe, Rabbi Schneozen, whom we are privileged to represent here, he's championed this struggle during our lifetime, and you, Mr. President, have really been a tremendous contributor to the victory that we are noticing in many areas today, where value is beginning to triumph over material. You have succeeded in introducing a recognition and awareness that without tradition and without return to values, we are doomed, God forbid. And for what you have done in this area, we are all indebted to you, and we would like to express our appreciation to you on behalf of the more than 200 representatives of the Rebbe in the United States and many hundreds throughout the world, and all that stands for the same values and for the same ideals that you have been championing in our time. And with this, I present to you what you have done. This has been a ceremony for eight years that I just told you, and the friends of the Babacus have always been supportive of us and what we're doing, and I think Hanukkah, which does remind us of the importance of God and the role of this in our life, I'm most pleased and proud to have this, and I wish you all the best. This takes on additional significance now that you as the leader of the free world will also be meeting next week with one who is occupying an important position, and I think that in the tour you much can be accomplished in bringing the world back to where it's supposed to be. This is presented to you and Mrs. Reagan with best wishes for many years of health and happiness from representatives of the world-renowned spiritual leader, Rabbi Menaphem Schneeus and the Rebbe. Hanukkah 5749. This is a book just of the press which depicts the activities of the Babacus throughout the world, and we are certainly happy to present you with this book. I'm very proud to have it. Thank you very much. May you and Mrs. Reagan enjoy many, many years of health and happiness. Thank you. Thank you, Rabbi Schneeus. There you go. Let's all go out. Shall we? Rabbi Schneeus. I think you'll be good to go. You'll be able to bring, please, your right for no more than... God bless you, Mr. President. Hopefully we'll see you in California. Thank you. We'll be wrong now. God bless you. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President.