 President Seppard? How are you? What a great pleasure. Well, it's nice to see you. Oh, it's thrilling. I'm so happy to be here. I'd like you to meet my daughter, Clementine. This is my husband, Bruce Oppenheimer. I'd like to meet you. And my shy daughter, Clementine. Hi, Clementine. My darling Clementine. Well, I think we already know now. Why don't you come there and we get a family picture? That's great. She wanted to know how people were going to believe that she'd really been here with you. I said, well, they'll take a picture and you can show. Everybody's looking here for one. Thank you, Mr. President. In case I want to take up with you. Now, it's a missing person, isn't it? You're serious, husband. We don't pick up again for next season. They had to settle the writer's strike. Oh, it's still on. Yeah, so I don't have a TV show until I settle that and start writing some scripts. Anyway, this is really exciting. It's really a pleasure to be here. Well, it's nice to see you. Sayu, see you here, too. Well, thank you, Mr. President. Thank you so much. It's a great pleasure. Well, this is a great pleasure for me and unexpected also. Oh, I'm absolutely thrilled. Just to see you in that box. Oh, yes. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. It's a great pleasure. Can you say goodbye? Thank you so much. Sayu, can you just say it? I'm just going to teach you a little history here. Well, you see that thing on the floor, a double bow there. That is the great American seal, the national seal. And if you notice that the eagle in the middle has in his claws on that side an olive branch, which means peace. And on this side arrows, which mean war. And then if you look over at that old desk, which goes way back in years, the eagle is looking at the claw with the arrows. And it wasn't until after World War II that President Trump had the seal changed the eagle looking toward the olive branch and standing. That's beautiful. Well, I'm glad they did. I'm going to take the class and found them. Yeah, they'll never know that. Oh, right. I'm a chiropractor from Maryland. I would have to ask you if you want an adjustment. Oh, that will tell you. You're manicurist. Her name is Rose. Yes. Her son, Kenneth, is one of my best friends. And he's a chiropractor. He went to school together. Well, for heaven's sakes. I'm not a chiropractor. Where did you go to school? I went to Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. Because I, for some years, was an employee here. I know. That was your first job. That's right. That's right. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. I know. That was your first job. That's right. That's right. I knew it. WHL Radio. See, I remember that. WOC Davenport, which was in the Palmer School of Chiropractic. Right, right. WOC stood for World of Chiropractic. That's amazing. Tell them to sign you diploma. You signed my diploma from college. That's right. It was before it was Cal State Northridge. It was Valley State. Right. I guess 60. I don't know. I got 60. It was 1970. That's good. That's fine. Done well. Thank you so much. It was a great pleasure. Nice to see you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. It's good to see you again. Vice-President, foreign minister, special assistant, director of national security, and the ambassador. Excuse me, President. Good morning, Mr. President. General Powell. I'm very happy to be here. I'm very happy. Ken, do you know the president? Mr. President, Ken, do you know the president? I'm very happy to be here. It's great to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Madam. Yes, sir. Madam. Can you tell me one way of examining the process? Yes, exactly. What are you, from the White House or the State Department? State Department, right. Chet Crop is just back from Zaire about two weeks ago. I should remember that. I should remember that. But please say that this week more. I've never understood exactly how much English the President of Zaire speaks or understands. I think quite a bit. It's already a few words. I want to thank you when I was governor. A whole group of self-expressionists. You're speaking to me through words. I have a question. Can you speak to me through words? Then I got suspicious that maybe they understood more English when they were very young. I said they should understand more English. Nice to see you. Nice to see you, sir. You do cover the nation so well. Nice to see you, too. That was kind of home territory. Right. You know that you're all teammates so well. I am, too, Mr. President. I should have brought that up. We've said hello already. Mr. President, hello there. Well, please, you see this. We call that a wave. Sometimes there's three or four waves. The old man was going to sell time back to the Japanese and they had three waves and they kept coming in and he just sat there as if he was terrified. When it was over I thought, why? Well, I'll tell you. I think it's a crime. After a lifetime of propaganda about us, I've never seen it before. The opportunities when we had to be in person, be out in the automobile. You just couldn't get over their friendliness. It's a bureaucracy. I'm going to start with you. We really appreciate what you've done. Well, thank you. As you can see, I'm holding my hands. I've got some remarks to make here. I want to thank you all and welcome to the White House. It was called the Roosevelt Room. It was named after the Republican President, Teddy Roosevelt. And on the other hand, if you come here during the last administration, they'd have told you that the room is named after the Democratic Party. The truth, of course, is that the Roosevelt Room is named after both Roosevelt's. Teddy and Franklin alike. I'd like to point out that the Roosevelt family brought that in. Caleb to his heaven, this room. That is the Nobel Peace Award that Teddy Roosevelt won for settling the Russo-Japanese War. And sometimes with the right audience in here, I'd like to point out that he did it in what most people would say was typical Republican style. He was sitting in a yacht at the time. I think at the right here at the very center of the West Wing, where so many important decisions are made, has a powerful reminder that being a Republican or a Democrat takes second place to being an American. That's the answer. That's an especially appropriate thought, given the nature of our meetings here today. We're the Roosevelt Room, and it affects us all, regardless of party. And the need to involve the private sector in this great effort is not a need of this or that group, but a need of the entire nation. And it's a need that could hardly be more pressing. I've often said that when the federal government declared war on poverty, poverty won. The federal government saw 59 major welfare programs costing more than $100 billion a year. But there's good evidence that this federal money has only made dependency harder to escape. I've always believed that the key to reducing dependency and poverty lies in reaching out, out from Washington to the states and communities. And one of my biggest difficulties is getting Congress to believe this. Once again, Congress is about to vote on legislation that compounds and continues the failures of the past. The bill before the Senate and similarly flawed legislation already passed by the House of Representatives spends billions to expand the welfare system that hasn't worked. They do not require able-bodied welfare recipients to perform any work for community service, which is essential, I think, to welfare reform. In addition, these bills fail to show confidence in your abilities by excluding the broad waiver if necessary for the implementation of state and community-based reforms. You can rest assured that I continue to favor welfare reform, but welfare expansion of the type now under consideration in Congress will meet with a veto. Right there, by the way. Glad to hear that. As our administration has given the 50 states more flexibility, the states have responded. Demonstrating, for example, that we can have more effective child support informant practices, that we can have welfare systems that provide genuine job training, that we can have welfare programs that give the welfare recipients one of the highest forms of dignity known to man, the dignity of working for what they receive. And while I'm mentioning the innovations we've seen in the states, I want to commend Governor Tom Kane and Mayor William Morris under their leadership in the state of New Jersey and Shelby County, Tennessee, have been at the very forefront of these innovations. But the private sector has a role to play here as well, and that should come as no surprise. Once we get our hands off big government for just a moment, we can see that Americans have always been generous, always concerned about helping their neighbors. And indeed, during the economic expansion of the past six years, we've seen private donations to charity go up. Today, charitable giving in America is running at a rate 77 percent higher than that of just eight years ago. It shows what the private sector can do when government restrains itself from the economy control. Last year alone, the funds raised for various worthwhile causes came to an historic $84 billion. The biggest amount ever in our history. But the money itself, whether from government or private sources, is of no use unless there are more and more people like you, people who understand what it takes to escape dependency and are willing to lend a helping hand to others. I couldn't possibly recognize all of the good work that your conference here represents. I've just been hearing more about the innovative ideas Don Krebs has come up with. And there's the wonderful organization called Helping Ourselves Means Education. And those letters spell home. Founded by Carol Sasaki and a single mother on welfare. Homes help thousands of Americans who need come to understand the importance of education. And the self-esteem and successive fosters in leading people to independent and productive lives. There's the job training for hundreds of national women's employment and education incorporated. In 1985, along this program, headed by Lupe Anguiano saw more than 70 women there. Thank you very much. The sign was too close. Well, women have apparently trapped forever in welfare dependency, found jobs and become self-supporting. And that's Kimi Gray and her college Here We Come program. Kimi was raised right here in Washington. She had a rough childhood. By the time she was only 19, she was on welfare in the mother of five. Today, she's a nationally recognized leader in the movement for resident management of public housing. And listen to this. Back in the mid-1970s, the housing development Kimi herself lived in was breeding a high school dropout rate of 80%. In large part because of her efforts. Today, 80% of the development's young people are completing high school and 30% are going on to college. So I think you will agree. Government programs and money can't solve problems by themselves. What's needed is people. Committed people. People like Don, Kimi, B-Pay, Carol. People like all of you. I want you to know that you have my support and I think you've guessed at my appreciation and I'm looking forward to receiving your recommendations on promoting self-sufficiency by harnessing the genius of self-help. In the means of the Americans, you're pointing the way to a better future. The future of education, prosperity and perhaps the most valuable commodity of all self-respect. And I thank you all and God bless you all. Kimi, having talked about you, I thought maybe you might have something to add right here. Yes, Mr. President, a few words. Last year when I had the opportunity to sit before you, I explained very clearly that what we had done reduced our welfare and recidivism from 80% to 75% This year, that's been reduced to 2% but the ultimate goal for our community now is to purchase our housing development because also we know one of the goals of this administration and we intend to be the first person to like to do it this year if possible have you turned the key to us. One of the things we wanted to clearly make clear today was that HUD needs to full understand that there are no options to the regulations there right now for the local housing authorities to provide for HUD right now they do not understand that they need to abide by the housing laws and regulations right now they are writing against us in favor of us. If you can possibly assist us with that, Mr. President then all our goals will be reached on ownership, reducing welfare and recidivism and all. And we hope that you can assist us in that, Mr. President. Well, I'd like to very much the first glimpse I ever saw of that believe it or not was in that city in ancient Singapore and I think I'd like to leave one view Prime Minister there one of the world's great statesmen and he took me on a tour and he showed me yesterday in public housing and it looked so neat and clean and mowed and everything and he said well we don't mind building it but we don't like being the landlord so he said we've done everything we can to make it possible for the tenants to buy their units even to the point of allowing them to use their future social security as means of getting a mortgage that they could use that as to justify it and so to make it possible whatever is needed to get them to be the owners and the result was just what you found yourself once someone does own that place and they had a pretty good security also in case someone wanted to pull something and sell once you bought it and owned it became a property owner if you ever sold it you were ineligible for public housing but then you were a property owner President they've been tapping on my shoulder on your behalf I'll help Kimmy with that we really appreciate you going from summit to summit this way I appreciate all of your comments thank you I'm collecting jokes that I from the Soviet Union jokes that I find they're telling and this one was told to me after we got back by one of our Secret Service agents their story is that Gorbachev and I were in limousine my Secret Service man his KGB man he was sightseeing and he stopped and showed us a great waterfall and we all got out and we were looking and then he said to my agent go ahead jump over and my agent said I've got a wife and three kids and so he turned to his man and said jump over and his men jump well our man went scrambling down around the falls the rocks to get down there and find out what happened found it down there ringing out his clothes and he said look what he told you to do why did you jump he says I've got a wife and three kids it was issues associated with which will be the subject of your meeting on Sunday afternoon right after the arrival ceremony we'll go into a heads of state meeting where these issues will be covered except Mrs. Statue will leave the discussion but each head of state will be asked to provide their perspective on these issues and I think the easiest way to handle this one is to turn it over to Jim Baker for his presentation right after the process Mr. President as I understand it that that initial session is not for the purpose of the heads to focus on their own economies but really to market-oriented economic policies that you brought to the table in 1981 and 1982 and that were basically derided at the time I remember it I know you remember it there wasn't anybody there with us in 1981 and now they're following all over themselves to follow you and I think you can't say that but hopefully some of the others will I think it's the view Alan has been in these Sherpa meetings there's a view of the Canadians that they'd like to have that result but the one thing you can talk about are some of those very same policies new regulation tax reform reduced government spending they seem to me to be appropriate for you to talk a little bit about