 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. President, is it all for three this tonight? Well, two more days. And Saturday too. Yes, it's 8 o'clock tonight. We really have the first time. We'll see a Rostow who are representatives of Geneva on the talks going on in the intermediate range missiles. So, we're looking forward to hearing about the negotiations that's been going on. And, sir, do you think you'll eventually reach a satisfactory agreement with Russia somewhere down the line? No. I mean, you just thought the mystic that eventually there will be some agreement? I'll talk to that tonight. Are you going to go back to Geneva now? Well, I appreciate this opportunity for a first-hand report. This was Mr. President, how are you, sir? How are you? Oh, I got an ulcerated foot in there. I had a fight with a palm frond. That was just about Exxon Livingston. How are you? Good to see you. Good to see you. I was like president. He has a certain advantage. I just put me next to that. He had a curtain, it was still occurring. That was actually. In one area we could land a candle at a setting and he didn't live in the area where there was a most active. Sorry, he couldn't be here today. He's had to lose on the trip, I believe, and on her hand to go back and do some delegation. I'd just like to express my name, express a couple of observations that I think we all share, and then I know you all can hear individual comments. But it was something that was a very moving event for all. And I felt that it was a heartfelt expression of great intensity on the part of people for peace that ended the conflict in itself. And I think, secondly, that it was... I'm here to the White House and I'd like to begin by expressing my gratitude to the veterans of foreign wars for their active support of not only this program, but some of the things we've been trying to do here, like our economic recovery program. We've got to make sure that when you get out into the work-a-day world, there's a place for you all to work. Commander Felwalk, please extend my personal welcome to your 2,000 state and local VFW officials who are in town for your annual Washington conference. Our country is deeply indebted to the 1,700,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. And I'm especially pleased to be able to greet 52 high school student winners of your Voice of Democracy scholarship program. I understand that more than a quarter of a million students participated in this year's program from over 8,000 United States and US overseas schools. So that makes you a pretty select group. And I hear that this is a tripling of the student involvement and a doubling of the school participation over last year. I can't think of a place I'd rather be than here to share in honoring each one of you for your achievement and to pass along my congratulations to Scott Baker, this year's national winner. I compliment the VFW and the ladies auxiliary for the outstanding participation and support, I should say, sponsorship of this program. During its 20 years, over 4 and 1 half million students have participated and awards totally more than $2 and 1 half million have been given to winners at all levels. So I hope that we can count on each one of you to continue your fine example as you move to leadership positions within your generation. Let me just say something that happened just before I came over here this morning. I have just been getting a report from Nancy Cassabon, the senator from Kansas, and the fellow congressman who were with her on the bipartisan Democrat and Republican team that went down to supervise the elections in El Salvador. And it was just the most exciting and thrilling thing to hear about democracy. And people where they're trying to deny them democracy and what they'll do for it. Now you know in our country, and this is something for you to, now in the leadership positions that you have by way of your own achievement, to make sure that your generation helps and begins in correcting this. Our problem in this country, where we fought so many years to get the right to vote, is to get enough people that will go out and vote. And all they have to go is a few blocks from wherever they live to a polling place and walk in and do their voting. And they won't do it. But they were telling me it was a hot day down there in the tropics in El Salvador. The gorillas had said they would kill anyone. One woman that they talked to, they said, well, what about it? They'd found out that the gorillas had told her personally that they would cut off her finger. That was the finger that they had to dip in an invisible ink that then under a fluoroscope light would reveal if they tried to vote again, whether they were voting twice or not. So they would cut off her finger and kill her when she went home. But she was standing in line waiting for a chance to vote. And they said, but what did you say to that? She said, I told them they can kill me. They can kill my family. They can't kill us all. And they went out early in the morning. Lines for blocks and blocks stood there without breakfast or lunch, as long as 12 hours waiting in line for the privilege of voting. And the other thing that felt very good, you know, there had been some complaints about whether we should be helping them, whether we should be sending them aid or not. The other thing was to hear that they said when they were recognized, people would come out of the lines and say thank you. Thank the United States for its help to us and for what you're doing. We just want peace. We want to be free. We want to have the right to run our own lives. And we're grateful to you in the United States for doing this. And it was a pretty thrilling thing to hear. And as a matter of fact, when they would recognize, you know, there were about 500 correspondents down there, press and television and everything covering this. They said that when they would go by the lines, the people in the lines would start chanting, tell the truth, tell the truth about them. But I just thought you'd like to hear that there are people in the world like yourselves that believe in democracy. And it's worth supporting. And there is much to be left. Thank you all very much. You could tempt me into going on telling stories for them. Mr. President, on behalf of Scott Baker this year's winter and the veterans of foreign wars, we'd like to present this flag set to you, which is, of course, the American flag and the VFW flag and then our voice democracy flag. And since you have been president of the United States, the stars seem brighter and the colors seem purer as a result of what you're doing. Keep up the good work. Just by way of thank you, and I know I have to go back and go to work again. It's like that one of the letters I got in the first few weeks that I was here. A little girl that wrote me a letter and very nice letter and all the way and then added a PS and says, OK, now get back to the Oval Office and get to work. But I just, I was going to save this, and I probably will tell it again several times. About one of your generation, a young fellow that's far away from home now, he probably didn't study his English as well as he should. But I got a letter from the ambassador, our ambassador to Luxembourg. And he had gone up on the East German border and visited the second cavalry regiment, armored cavalry regiment of our forces there. And he said a 19-year-old land followed him over to the helicopter when it was time to leave and asked him if he by any chance could get a message to the president, one of the ambassadors, the representative of the president. He said he thought he could. Well, he said, well, you just please tell him, we're proud to be here and we ain't afraid of nothing. I say that for one reason also I tell that story. They and what they're doing and what we're trying to do is not to glorify or make possible a war. These gentlemen here have served in a war. They know what it is like. It is because of people willing to be like that young man that we hope we can prevent their ever being another war. And when they feel that way, we've got a lot better chance that you'll never be called upon or asked to do anything of that kind. And that's the goal of all of us, that known other generation of young Americans will have to bleed their lives into foreign battlefields to preserve what we all love here. God bless you all. President, can we have a right-wing sign? In the picture. This is the entrepreneur's official sign. And this is Mr. Mayfield. Very nice to meet you. We knew ourselves pretty long ago. Western is outside the city here. Yes, we appreciate it. That's right. We have two girls set for the couch here. Would you like a moment to sit down with us? We've got the first picture of you and everybody in that room. We have everybody else. Mm-hmm. My twin? I can have him. Well, thank you very much. I know him anywhere. Well, hi. Thank you very much. Well, your twin's already, so I can't do anything like that. But in here is a jar with this seal, the United States Congress seal engraved on it. And inside the jar are jelly beans. They were asking if they could get a jelly bean. You get a jelly bean jar. Lots of jelly beans. And more than welcome. Bless you all for what you're doing. Thank you. You look so pretty. I'll go with you. Yeah. I got my store-bought clothes out in here. Including these. It's great to see you. You're going to California. Thank you. Thank you. I thank big girls, Mr. President, five years old, and they're in kindergarten. And the big sister is in third grade. Well, she has an assignment due tomorrow. This is her homework. That's really important. A little show in town. A report to the nation. Thank you. You're giving me a twin. You see, now that can keep me company when my husband has to go away and I have a twin here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.