 Processors and personal computers and at this time I'd like to introduce to you Ken Olson the president of digital and it is my personal honor and my privilege to introduce to you the president of the United States the leader of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth thank you very much thank you all very much and I understand that you even have time in here to do a little artwork up there well I'm I'm very proud and pleased to be here and when when you said about the most powerful nation on earth I think we're standing in the midst of part of the reason why it is what a typically American story this is Mr. Olson and two associates 25 years ago started with an idea that now is this company I can't remember it was only a few employees that you started with and it's now 65,000 in all in all of the various plants of this of this company I know that today and you probably were too busy last night to look at television but I was talking a little bit on it and I was talking about the unemployed that besets our country but this this is the future and you're part of it this is where we're going but now they've told me and they've warned me in advance that I only have a couple of minutes and then I have to move on to some other things that I'm doing while I'm here but I just thought and I probably can't take more than one or two that there must have been times when you said if I had a chance I'd like to ask that guy meaning me well if there's if you did think about it and you've got one fire away and I'll try to answer it yes what what is the I wish you'd asked an easier question what is the possibility of making Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday I believe that it is a day that should be nationally recognized but technically when you say national holiday you were then speaking of a day that closes down industry and the government closes down and so forth and the only one we've really ever done that for nationally of our own country was George Washington even Lincoln's birthday some states recognize it more especially than others but it is not that other and I know what has caused the problems in the Congress and in legislation with regard to that is what could be done that would not at the same time necessitate that being the kind of holiday where as I say that is only recognized in one other man George Washington and then you would have to ask well now wait a minute great as the service he performed have we opened the door to to many other people Thomas Jefferson for example or George Washington Carver and the great contribution he made but I would like to I'd like to sit down with people that are trying and are doing this drive to find if we can't have a kind of national recognition day that will be an annual observance of the birthday of this man because just a few days ago on his birthday I was talking about him and I made the statement then that Lincoln freed the black man Martin Luther King freed the white man and we didn't know until he did that how heavy the burden of racism was that we had been bearing for all those years and thank God for what he has done and he should be remembered I'm we're all having trouble I've got the mic and you haven't got a mic oh when I said earlier that we were standing in the middle of what has made America great that's part of it we came from every corner of the world came here because our ancestors some of us came directly and then some of us by way of our ancestors but the one common characteristic we have and we've proven to all the world with all their prejudices and their jealousies and their bickering that go on between ethnic groups and between racial and religious groups here in this country yes we've got our faults and our problems but we've made it work better than it has ever worked any place in the world and we're I think the common heritage of all of us is that somebody in our family or ourselves if we're the first to come here had a little ounce of courage and a love of freedom that made us tear up the roots in the homeland and come here to this place where we can truly be free he says he says says I can only take one more question and I don't into meeting us on that I proposed last November or a year ago November I proposed to begin with the Soviet Union has more than what about 340 intermediate range nuclear missiles aimed in Europe that's why they're called intermediate range and they're targeted on all of Europe and there is nothing there as a deterrent that could fire back in other words to keep them from firing in the first place and the NATO countries asked us some time ago if we would provide Pershing and cruise missiles in enough number to be based in Western Europe as a deterrent to those weapons and I proposed a year ago last November that we sit down with the Russians and see if we couldn't negotiate a zero option that they give up all of theirs and we won't put any in in Western Europe and free that whole area of the world from that threat that is hanging over it now so far they've only they've only met us halfway they're willing for us to have zero they want to keep on having missiles we're going to keep on negotiating but in addition to that we have a team in Geneva now that is negotiating also a reduction of the great intercontinental ballistic missiles that the Soviets have aimed at us and that we have aimed at them and we've asked them to join us in cutting way back to below the level we now have which is much less than they have and having us have an equal number and have it be verifiable so that we'll know whether each other is cheating or not and we're continuing with that but at the same time we have a third team that is negotiating with them to see if they won't join us in reducing what are called conventional arms just artillery tanks things of that kind now we're going to keep on doing that for just as long as we can keep them at a table because the goal has to be peace and yet the only answer to the threat they pose is a deterrent that in other words we have to be strong enough that until they will join us in disarming they've got to know that if they decided to lose those weapons on us they'd suffer enough damage themselves that wouldn't be worthwhile that's the only protection we have against that kind of weapon and as I say we are the ones who've made those proposals I think they came to the negotiating table because of our present military buildup the fact that we showed them or told them unless they did join us in disarming then they were going to have to face the fact that we were going to build our armaments up to the point that we could protect the freedom and the people of this country and of the free world and once we made that plane they were willing to come and sit down at the negotiating table and I hope they'll meet us in good faith and join us because this would be a contribution that this generation of Americans could make to the world that would be remembered for all time to come if the great nations would begin turning their swords into plowshares so just keep a prayer in your heart for us we're going to try to do it they tell me I got a quick thank you mr. president we feel proud to have you here today we have a deck made computer which we feel is the most sophisticated standalone word processor which we'd like to if we can figure out how give to the White House for the use of Jim Brady and we will be careful to be sure that it has the keyboard that was assembled by the president of the United States so it will be the most famous word processor in the world we feel proud to have you here today in addition he has been a driving force within so splendidly in massachusetts president ladies and gentlemen like private sector initiative free enterprise and the money has to be required to capitalize on the biological this country taxes and education let me first turn the job for a year we created sixty one thousand seven hundred jobs in these difficult times we could go to the second chart it shows that the total tax burden has dropped very significantly when we look at the yellow back and you're dropping the property time Alaska was higher and we have dropped the 12th massachusetts today most unemployment rate of our 17 industrial state for the last 38 second of months we have that we established the social the past five years we've had a major effort of education to ensure that we can grow resources approximately 150 we have written curriculum guides for universities in the technological field one year ago and we call it the 2% solution we're again through our own initiative we flashed that we would contribute 2% of our research and the volume of expenditures to universities essentially use funds equipment as well as support sponsored research our estimate was that this program was contributed fifteen million dollars the massachusetts university thanks in part to the equipment donation tax deduction 81 recovery act put forth by your administration we are now believing that our estimate is close to forty million dollars in just twelve months going to higher education from modern very tough to use the high technology the same is true of some of the other rates were increased with the capital gains tax and how the open market with a very few years a couple of years at the new higher rates and that wouldn't be a great lack of understanding how it functions that people study you brought up there second to it was education which was increasing in cost in 1982 it was somewhere in excess of what was an eighty-nine percent the same thing there that the governor of the states to our state and we expect our C. Martin TV studios they even had a revolving stage finally set to the man in charge was so proud of you that any of your graduates ever make it big and show business these were the things but we are children in the forty-five and a half pages help what it is that how many of those ads just after planting they were they started together we face some awesome problems that we've also made real progress and bring down the quickly interest rates in place in the tax rates that there's nothing to grow our crusade goes forward we will take new steps to rebuild our country we're still the technological leaders in the world and we must not only keep that we must increase so I intend to open a national dialogue in our private sector and export more goods and create more jobs at home and abroad the strength in our firms can be more effectively we need to better mobilize resources science and technology so let me tell you today we will still create a non-parts of commission on the industrial unless the commission makes the city policy recommendations to meet and asking all of you to let us yours to point out that in our tax structure the corporate tax is very hard to justify its existence that why isn't the so-called corporate tax simply passed on to the stockholders in which they