 First of all, thank you, Mr. President, to my personal pleasure and honor to be received by you. Today is my birthday, 76th birthday. I know that. I am just older than you are, and you look young, you know. I prefer that 76th, I prefer to refer to that as the 39th or the 37th anniversary of your 39th birthday. Well, I can tell you that you are younger than I am, so yeah. Well, that's very much about it. Well, come in and sit down. I know we only have a few minutes. Yeah, I know that you are a business man in the world, but you look fine, you look young. We're happy. Well, I say thank you again. Well, I give you a happy chance to meet you, even the three or four of you, but you should be my owner. Well, this time at nine members, they selected in the LDP, you know, the Liberal Democratic Party, Pandemic Party, as you know. And sometimes we have more power over the Prime Minister, Nakasone, I'm probably speaking. But the Prime Minister hasn't got that veto, you know. And the aim, the most important aim is to have a chance to meet the members of the Senators in the House of the Congressman. And staying about four days in Washington D.C., we had a nice meeting every day from morning to evening. And we had a chance to meet at the Senators and the Liberal Democrats and all other, quite many members. And we had exchanged different views on the opinion, Prime opinion, that's good. And at the same time that I had so many, the Congressman, you know, thought that I think about four days, staying four days. And I had, we had met about 70 Senators and the Congressman. Well, I think that's wonderful in the position. Good to see you. Good to see you. You know, look like from 50,000 miles from last week. You know, that certainly do. Good to see you. How you doing? Right. Not really. Did you ever have one? No. Stand up. Well, good to see you. I'll give you a few minutes. Can we twist your arm? Well, I know that you're giving this serious consideration. I know also that you're doing it out of the blue. Everybody has to follow that example. You've also demonstrated that former governors have some understanding of the problems of the nation. Yes. We need all the help we can get as former governors to fight off those people who think that states are just administrative districts of the federal government. Absolutely. I'll join you. That's great. One of the things the two of you have also had in common is you both took sabbaticals before you went on to higher office. But no record did I ever grow a beard. As a matter of fact, I would have had problems with that. I know that I'm kind of blessed by it, but I have a very light beard always had that. But I remember once in college when all the fellas used to let their beards grow before the game so they'd look tough on Saturday. Hell, it didn't make any difference with me. I only shaved about once a week. And one day, the fellow opposite me in the line came out of the hudlin' up to the line. And the little bitch made his eyes baby face. But that earned him one. I was triggered. There was a timeout called. He needed a little resuscitation after the play was over. I don't know if anyone has told either dog or you, Mr. President. How are you? Hi. How are you? Good to see you. You're in good company. How are you? We are. Good to see you. Hi. We are. Good to see you. Mr. President. Hi. Good to see you. Hello there. Down here to say a few words first for our visitors. It was good to see you and these Republican stalwarts again. I understand that Mitch and Natalie have given you a pretty good idea of where we've been and where we hope to go. I'm especially grateful to Phil Grammond, Warren Rudman, for joining us to talk about our plan to balance the budget. I can't emphasize too much our need to have this Gram-Rudman deficit reduction package. It finally provides the mechanisms we've needed for Congress to get its spending under control. Most of you have already made your support of Gram-Rudman known and I appreciate it, but I hope you keep the pressure on it. Almost every economic problem we're working on, particularly international trade and farm difficulties, would improve if we could make a breakthrough on the deficit. But that's enough of me restating what all of you already know. I intend to be here for a little bit to learn what's on your minds. Thank you. Have you heard indirectly? I already said that. We had a good exchange with the two senators of the U.S. and the U.N. and the U.N. We'd better go vote to feel revenue sharing. I'm going to try to put the full revenue sharing back in after we cut it down this year. And as President, I hate to cut it, but I think it'll pass. I don't. I hope Graham has always been more optimistic than I am, but it is proved positive why we need this, because people will vote symbolically for something when it comes down to the high votes. The only person who can do the hard things is the President, the Congress won't do the hard things. And that's what we've got to do. All these gentlemen who wish to know all about a veto. And what it can do, we sure do. We're going to have to get up on the Hill of the Vault, Mr. President. They need our votes on us. I think I know which way you'll vote. I'll take care of John. Thank you. Thank you for inviting us. Thank you. Thank you. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Let me say first, Mr. President, that I think I speak for all of us here, and I think the actions taken by you and our government from the Achilles' Laro situation have raised everybody's spirits. And I think it's a new sense of your determination to see that these acts did not go unpunished and made us all very proud. Secondly, I think on a more personal note, we're deeply appreciative of the support you've given to the Republican Governors Association. You're providing us this opportunity to share a couple of minutes with you and perhaps be more importantly in terms of next year's elections, your appearance tonight at our first dinner. These are both firsts for us. The first time we've had a Republican Governors Group to meet with you and the first time that you've been kind enough to spread your wings over us in the financial sense. We are supporters of the Grant-Rudman or Rudman-Gram Amendment. However, it may be styled. As you said, we have to do this every year, and we think it's time to become just placed up for the tough decisions and we'll be in their pitching on it. Many of us are already communicated with our legislative delegations and we'll continue to do so. I know my colleagues may have something they want to raise with you during the time remaining. I think we'll make it if you'll be so kind. When I first got here, a little 11-year-old girl wrote me a letter and she told me all the things that I should do. And by golly, she had a pretty good grasp on what was needed. But I brought it up. They're a tax plan. We need to talk to them in Congress. Their place is so full that they just don't see how many get to the tax plan. I just think it's going to be terrible if we have to wait a night and get this tax plan. I think it's very interesting to you or to anyone about this. You know, you're taxed in the income tax on the number of dollars you've earned, not on the value of those dollars. And these last couple of decades of inflation, you can imagine what's been happening, not only is you losing the value of the dollars because of inflation, but then moving you up into higher tax brackets and give you an example. In 1977, the average weekly wage in America was $189. By the President, it was going up to $299. Now, I haven't counted yet how many tax brackets or how much higher that $299 would take in your income tax brackets. But it's kind of interesting to note that if the dollars today had the same purchasing power as the 1977 dollars, that $299 would only be $171 in purchasing power. In other words, you didn't make a great increase in income to actually add a $19 a week loss in purchasing power. But Uncle Sam said you had to pay more income tax because there were more dollars. So this is what we're trying to straighten out here. So thank you very much. Come on in here. Nice to see you. Hi. Can you remember him? I sure do. How are you? How are you? I'm good. Hi, son. How are you? Mr. President, how are you? Hello there. Hello. This is Lisa. Pleasure. You're the two that we're going to be here in July and I double-crossed you or something. That's all right. I thought it was, too. Well, well, just fine. It's good to see you. Why don't we come over here and share a background and have a family picture? Oh, OK. It's wonderful. Great. Thank you. Now you say you want a picture just with them? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Well, all right. All right. You should, can't you? Yes. I don't know. Excuse me. Right away. You get in the middle. Never do it when it's just you. And you get in the middle. Oh. You know something? I'm standing on the wrong side. If I stand on this, I'm standing on the wrong side. If I stand on this, I'm standing on the wrong side. If I stand on this side, they will see that tape so much. Oh, yeah. That tape, I've had a lot of those. That too. All right. Got some tape on there for the lameration that was done. Come on. You're fine. You're fine right here. We'll put her in the middle. Oh, yes. It's me. Usually I'm fine. Thank you. I have that trouble myself. That is, that's just a bookmarker. It's kind of a souvenir with a seal. Those are cufflinks. And over here is just the same thing. It's just a bookmarker. Thank you. Those are cufflinks. Thank you, sir. Now, you two. In here is a jar with the seal. My name engraved on it. And in the jar, oops. In the jar are some jelly bellies. And we just thought two little packs so you wouldn't have to open the jar. Thank you very much. Right away. Thank you. They'll probably tell you that she was going to dinner or something. This is her. She bought this dress in July to wear a huge cloth for Christmas. I know. Well, all right. Every nine-year-old girl should never wear a white blue dress anyway. Yes. Yes. He lives out in California down near San Diego and home there in a place called Rancho Santa Fe. He's retired some years back. And while I was having my operation and, believe it or not, he went to the hospital and had the same operation. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. No worries. There's everything not to worry about. It should have known because I've had three...