 Ladies and gentlemen, please help welcome not only the leaders of our country, but leaders in the private sector initiative, the private sector spirit. The President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, His Excellency, the Prime Minister of France, Jacques Chirac, and the Vice President of the United States, George Bush. Thank you all very much. Please be seated. Thank you all very much. Please be seated. As you know, encouraging greater citizen participation has been a priority with me throughout my life and a major part of our administration. One of the things I did early on as President was to establish a private sector initiatives program which would encourage charitable giving, volunteerism, corporate social responsibility, and the development of public and private partnerships. During the six years that I've been in office, we've seen Americans respond to our challenge in overwhelming numbers. And we've realized that we had something good in America and something that we might share with other countries. This past November, our private sector initiatives Board of Advisors organized the first international conference on private sector initiatives to be held in Paris. That conference attended by business and government leaders of seven countries marked an historic beginning. And in the months since, this concept has taken root in a number of the participating countries. We've seen that regardless of their history, all governments can encourage their own citizens to solve problems that government alone could never fully address. These private sector initiatives take a variety of forms in each country, whether it's a children's museum in Belgium, an historic restoration project in Italy, or a corporate sponsored project in England. We can see that when government and private citizens work together, great things happen. As we lead our nations into the 21st century, private sector initiatives will be a powerful force to meet the challenges ahead. As you know, Mr. Prime Minister, the Italian delegation to the International Conference has been very enthusiastic about promoting private sector initiatives within their country. In fact, a two-day conference has been planned to discuss application of this concept, and I look forward to participating in it when I visit Venice in June. And, Mr. Prime Minister, I know that your support proved crucial to the success of the Paris Conference, and I thank you. And now in order to share ideas about private sector initiatives still more widely, we have prepared this special report. It is a report that will be distributed to government officials, business leaders, and academic institutions around the world. Mr. Prime Minister, I am pleased today to present the first copy to you with our sincere gratitude. Thank you very much, Mr. Prime Minister. As you know, we support completely these private sector initiatives, and I personally participated in the meeting in Paris, and we listened to your message on this occasion with great, great attention. It's going to have a great success in Europe, as you mentioned, which is true. And may I tell you that, for France, we took in this initiative the inspiration of a new low, which has been prepared by the government, and which is going to be voted by the parliament within a few weeks to enable the private sector to participate more to this initiative. Then I want, Mr. President, to reassure you of our complete support for such a beautiful and very important initiative, and thank you very much for this report, which I shall read with great attention and give to the follow-up committee that the government organized after the last meeting of Paris. Thank you very much, Mr. Prime Minister.