 They told me you were ill. Well, I'll get better. I'll get better. I'll see you. Hello, Mr. President. Good to see you. Well, I know we're all running behind schedule. Thank you for seeing us. Good to see you. Jesse. All right. The subject has to do with MMM. Sure, right, Mr. President. We're grateful to you for letting us come over and chat with you for a minute. I think both Jesse and I would really like to defer to Frank, but if I could just say a word to set the stage of the issue. Under Frank's leadership, the House has passed an amendment to the trade bill that suspends MFN status for Romania for six months. And after seeing what the House did, I put through an amendment to the Senate that does the same thing. And the reason is because after extending MFN status to Romania, they haven't made in our opinion an incredible show that they are adhering to any reasonable standard of human rights practices. In fact, it seems to be getting worse. They're bulldozing churches. They're persecuting the believers. They're in virtually every way from the publication and travel and harassment by the police and so on. They're setting an atrocious example. And certainly don't deserve MFN status. So I would like with that just to defer to Frank, the status of it and also a suggestion that he wants to make, which I endorse and I believe Jesse does too, as a way to perhaps involve your office in it and maybe to accomplish more with a less confrontational. That's it. President Joe Biden, how are you? Nice to see you. Nice to see you. I'll come in here with you. I'm forward to this. Joe, why don't you take the chair? In 1982 or 1983, we had gone over with Bill Cohen over to the Soviet Union and you were asking whether or not arms control could get back under way. I'm looking forward to helping you on that one in the foreign relations committee. I'd be very happy to have that. I think I'm looking forward to helping you on this one too. Well, I'm a bless your heart. It's nice of you to come down. This hearing can't be expeditious because I'm sure that we all feel the same way. Joe is very articulate. He can help you on his good speaking too. I'm great at kidding speeches. I've got some really good speech material I'd be happy to lend you now. Oh, my. We had a good meeting in my office, Mr. President, that I'm convinced that Senator Biden and Senator Thurmond are going to come through. Good to see you again. Sir, may I introduce the new Commander of the American Legion? Thank you, Mr. President. It's nice to see you again. Thank you very much. Great to be here. Mr. President, Bob, it's been a pleasure. Good to see you again. Mr. President, no, you'll cry. Nice to see you again, sir. Pleased to have you here. Thank you. Now, Mr. President, the official, would you like to start over here? I'd like to present to you the full copy of all of our resolutions that was recently passed at our convention at San Antonio, Texas, on the positions of the American Legion on many matters, national security, national defense, and certainly drugs, and so many other items that I know your community interested in. And we want to say I'll probably present these to you and know that you have the support of the American Legion and just about everything you do. Well, I thank you for this continued support, and I know how supportive that you are of them, particularly the Guard of Central America and all of them. Well, I'm going back there on December 6th to the 15th that if the last time we're here, we presented our P.K. report that you read on the October issue. As a member, I know that you would listen to that. But I'm going back December 6th to the 15th to speak to the very same people again to see how that peace plan is going to work and report back to you on my findings when I had that time. I also would like to, at your own leisure, if you'll read this letter, this is a letter I've sent to the editor of the Washington Post today because of the ridiculous statements they printed in the paper today, the day after Veterans Day about castigating the commissioner of the Director of Veterans Affairs and why we should not name this a secretary of which you are so much a part of it here and what they've said about the veterans of this nation tells me just about what's been happening. They only talk about us in good terms on Veterans Day and Memorial Day. And 363 other days a year, they really don't give a damn what we're doing. And it's sad that this came out the day after Veterans Day. They wouldn't dare print it yesterday. So I want you to see my answer to the press. I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy reading. I think, in fact, I think you're thinking of telling the Post several times that I'm going to give up using them to line the canary cage. Well, you have the same problems I have because remember, I'm from Boston. Mr. President, I want to suggest to you, sir, that we were so delighted with the action you took it in for yesterday with regard to this initiative and we've heard so many, many supportive messages relating to that and we thank you. Well, listen, I'm pleased to do it and I'm looking forward to the summit meeting and maybe looking forward to having you back to consult with you because I think that we're going to, if we manage to get that medium-range treaty, there's some people that are going to need a little persuading to support the ratification. We're calling an emergency meeting on December 21 in our Washington office of that same committee that was in here reporting at Central America and we're going to discuss the INF Treaty and how we can be helpful as we review it. Good. And secondly, how's our first lady? She's just fine. That's great. Before you run away, three of you. Oops, whoops. Hang on to it, it's yours. And I know it's something that won't break. Thank you very much. Thank you. So nice to be with you. It's good to see you. Thank you. I was with you for that beautiful evening on in the East Room that's going to come up on the 18th. My wife and I and that was a beautiful evening with that your own current life. Oh, you know something I'm just looking forward to. The little dances that would make someone. Someone in my life. A little girl. I know that was a good thing. Thank you, Mr. President. See you. Here's that message you want. Thank you. Good to see you again. Good to see you. Thank you. I'm Tom, the other one's here. Hello, Mr. President. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Thank you. This is Lorraine Smothers. Hi, Mr. President. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. We're going to take a photo together here. Can we plant a jigsaw? This is my brother. He'll be prettier if she's in the middle. Okay. He's got all the moves. We're calling on me. Yes, have a look there. Greetings. Greetings. Greetings. Greetings from downtown. Orange County, California. That's where all the good Republicans go before they die. Mrs. Robert King. Nice to see you. Mr. President. Nice to see you. I want you to know these opportunities are important to our organization. Happy to take the time for this. I'm pleased to be of any help with him. Nice to see you. Good to see you again. Nice to see you. Valerie Shields. Hello. Please stand. Mr. Keddie. I see you. I see you. Okay. How are you? Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Thank you. Oh, yeah. We have a picture of the Christmas seals. What's if we can't get everybody to see them? Some of you on the other side. Do you remember me? I was with your governor in 1960. Yes. We had a short conversation. It was pretty good, though. Let me say something about one day to be a liberal and you said I used to be. Let's look at the camera and maybe make sure that we never talk about it. Look at that. Come on in. Do you want to get in? Yes. This is a late American portion. And we're honored to be here. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We should be here. Thank you very much. I can't get there on them. Yeah, not this way. I'll get right there. Okay. The whole new kind of hair. All right. We're going to make one now. There's a lot of people. I need to get the other little doll. Doll in this car. Put the doll in there. There. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Let's have another one. I just want to get it. All right. Get this doll in there. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Great, thank you. Thank you. First man on the side. I thought that was for me. Of course, sir. Let's do a little story about... I'm just going to tell you a little story about Candy Claws. These are the names I'm saying. Oh, they're just there? They can go to the state, yeah. Basically Candy Claws is a new character that was here on our Christmas seal this year. And she is really according to the story, the talk of the children of the deaf. She was created four-centered class, specifically to be his little girl. It's a real, real impact that they're able to present this to you today. Well, thank you very much. Of course, I appreciate all that you do for us. Well, I appreciate all that you do. That's 80 years. It's 80 years that the Lion Association's been around. But we brought you some wine. I don't know if you drink a little radical liberal wine. Yeah, this is one of my favorite, one of my favorite whites. This is late harvest, and we have a wonderful Cabernet. Your wife likes wine, does she, right? Yes. Well, we hope you enjoy it. You're sure? It's liberal wine. You're sure that it doesn't blow up when I put it on? No. Mr. President, we've been doing it for ten years. This is a sideline. It's Napa Valley, Sonoma Valley. I think you'll love it. Anyway, thank you very much for the opportunity to meet you and help us. Siki can work this one. That must be a political yo-yo. It's a yo-yo, too. I'll leave it over there. It's kind of like transcendental meditation. It's kind of like transcendental meditation. It's a yo-yo. Is that a political yo-yo? Is that a political yo-yo? This is a... They don't work very well, though. They don't? What, is it government-made? What this cost? That works good. Bring it up. That's monkey under strength. It's part of our act. We do a song about the state of yo-yo. Let's see. Uh-oh. This is drag the dead dog. Well, thank you. Thank you all. Am I wrong in thinking with that large one that you brought some seals? Did we bring any... Is it seals? Anybody? I have some that we will get to, Mr. President. Well, all right, because I was prepared if you did have some... Oh, thank you very, very much. I'll get the seals to you. We certainly hoped you would come. We certainly hoped to urge all Americans to help the Lung Association in the work that we do. I'm kind of familiar with it. A few years ago, when we were in California, Nancy was the honorary state chairman for this campaign. So I'm a little familiar with it. Thank you very much. We will be sure to get some seals to you. Well... Is your wife in? Yes. Oh, yes. Still has to rest. Which surprised her. The doctor said day after the operation said she was way ahead of schedule on recovery. She said the day after the operation I was walking her up and down the corridor to the hospital. She's been a great first lady. Oh, I am. If you don't want to drink that wine, just say no. Oh! It's so moving. She's amazing. Yeah, I held cancer in the Navy. That's when it all started. No, we were married by that time. You were? And she had given up her career in order to be my wife. But when that picture came along and I suggested to the producer they hadn't picked a leading lady yet she played the love interest there and it was based on the actual World War II experience. Our Navy sent a whole group of submarines through the mines into the Sea of Japan where all the thing that was keeping the island going was coming in the freighters of the ships across from the mainland. They all hit the bottom. They laid there and on a given moment the next day all to the surface and they brought down just millions of tons of shipping in that thing on the mission Hillcat. And so this was the picture but our memory of that picture is of a scene where now I'm going out on that mission and my sweetheart nurse is there and we are starting to say the goodbye and all of a sudden and all of a sudden she started to cry. We had been married very long and she started to cry and then she knew what was happening to her and she started to giggle and then she cried. She would giggling and cry. She would wait because she kind of took a seriously about going away. But that's terrific. Nowadays you go to acting school and you start crying like that. You're really relating to all of that. I did that in an acting class that they said you were going to die and all the guys were dying of this pressure you had to come back and say goodbye to the one you loved the most. And I started crying because I was thinking you were my brother and I really got into it and it gave me such a headache I went out and got bombed. And I quit acting school. Thank you. Thank you very much. You know Tom, all of that talk about what's an actor doing in a job like this. I don't know if I'm wondering how anybody did it without him. Those senators are terrific. Those senators. I said they are. They got it. Why this for her too? I certainly will. I will enjoy the one. Well, and the same. And again, thank you for watching.