 Hi, good morning, Mr. President. Good morning, Mr. Chairman. Gloria Chalmers, Wiley. Yes, sir. Yeah, sir. So put your seat. Hello, Clarence. How are you? You're fine, President? Good morning, everybody. How are you? Good. How are you? Yeah, good. What's up? Good. send over there Clarence. Come on Tom. Chalmers, you get in your suit guys. All right. If you're a court press. Well, we've had that before. This is not the first time I've ever been to a court. Well, that's the cover that the money-granger can't do. Well, I've been trying to think of something that we might talk about. Well, listen, I know all of you have concerns of varying degrees about this whole situation, and I just feel so strongly that the issue is so clear-cut that we really cut through all the disinformation that's been thrown out by the lobbyists for sending these to government. Look, at the property, we, for example, I talked to some of your colleagues here and said, should we just negotiate when negotiations? We've tried nine times, and the only one that refuses to negotiate is the Sandinista government. And we believe that it's absolutely imperative that we put the pressure on them that if anything will bring them to negotiations, this is what we want. There's no thought in our mind of putting in military forces. We wouldn't have an ally left in Latin America if we did. They've still got the memories of the big colossus of the North with the Marines and all, and we're not going to do that. But we feel that we do have, literally a Cuba, we've got a totalitarian Marxist government on the mainland. They've got a bigger military force now than all their neighbors combined. We know that their neighbors want us to continue doing what we're doing for him. And we believe that they have a sufficient force that they can make a difference there. If we provide them the weapons to, for example, stingers that deal with those Soviet gunships, helicopters, anti-tank weapons, we believe that they can bring that force on for the last few years other than the humanitarian aid, which was limited. We haven't been able to help them, and so they've got thousands of contras that are unable to win the combat they haven't got anything to shoot with. So we need to provide them with that help. But there's no more. Come in, why don't you sit here and make a move? I know, but it is important that you remind me of that. Maybe explain some of our consultants. Well, that's what I'd like to hear, because, Nancy, I just... We know that there is a gigantic disinformation program that has affected many of our people out there. It's one of the reasons why I'm going to go in the air. We know that the government, the Sandinista government is. Marx is an anonymous totalitarian. It is totalitarian. It is anti-religious. It is persecutive of the Jews. We burned their synagogues and so forth. We also know that the contras have a manpower. It is increasing. And none of their manpower or great many of these individuals are deserters from the Sandinista army. And they do not want to overthrow them. They're not envisioning going in a bloody civil war. They have announced time after time. They would lay down their armies and go back and negotiate because they were part of the anti-Simonist revolution. And the Sandinista stole the revolution after victory came. They ousted them. And what they want is to go back in, force negotiations that will then lead to, I'd like to take over the Philippines, that the people will make decisions about them and how they will run. And we think that this is what we support and believe in. And not us who will win, not now win. So this is what we want to support and see if we've tried. I've had some come in here, some of your colleagues, and say, well, yes, but why shouldn't you try to envision it first? We've tried nine times. I agree. And I thought it would come at some different angles than it would come because I couldn't agree with you more about most of what you said. In fact, all of them. Thank you. Yes, yes. Good to see you. Thank you. Good morning, sir. Good morning to you forever! Good morning to you forever! Good morning. And it's a pleasure to see you. Mr President, Elizabeth Ilcf shaky. Nice to see you this morning. Very interesting. Thank you. Chairman Bras ledge one. Here, sit over here. Senator. I remember it very well. Some of the cavalry were up in the rolled up Revistings General in Einstein and I remember a young cavalryman who sent a theater of message horseback to the two and he came up wide open on his horse and hit the reins and he must have had a sword on his horse. Because the horse put on the brakes and he summer-soldered right away. And the land was standing in front of the horse and he nodded the reins with his left hand straightened up and so good. Mr. President, that was the old balloon school too, but at the same time it was the Calvary School. Well, the visiting general very slowly returned to students. He did so, turned to his companion there and said, does he always dismount like this? Yes. Well, let's get down to serious business. You know what I'm going to talk about. And that's this situation coming up with the Contras and the aid. And I just don't think that there is really any choice here. What we're faced with is so strategically important and so vital. And if you think that we don't have support down in that part of the world, when I was down in Grenada, nine prime ministers of the nine little island Caribbean nations on their own, I never brought up the subject. They brought it up. And just pleadingly said, all nine said, you must continue what you put to help because Nicaragua under this government they have now represents the greatest threat to our nations and their tiny little nations that would be ours. And it was done to them. But we believe that it is absolutely essential if we're to get, we're not talking about a civil war that overthrows the government. We're talking about bringing this end in these two things, that they will recognize that it is advantageous to them to enter into negotiations with their former revolutionary allies because most of the Contras were in that revolution against some of us. What is that? What is it? Come on, tell me what the joke is. I'm hearing a hand somebody. Who's not? One big farm cat. I can't believe this. Let's have a picture. Is it going to explode in my hand? One big palm. What is this? What are you? I couldn't even spend talking to her on the phone. What are those? I have no idea. What is that from? I don't see a card. Wait a minute. Okay. Thank you. Jesus. I can't believe this. What did I do? Oh, it's for the President. Okay. What did he do? I love him. Okay, for the President. He says, thank you for inviting me to the presentation of what works. Last Tuesday. Watch out there now. God willing. Joe Gussman. Violin will teach you how funny isn't it? Anyone sent him balloons here before? Oh, God. I'm going to take them in. Sure. Okay. Well. I don't know. Who's he got going in there? Well, we have a press briefing. All right. Here we thought it was a present for you after we were all ready. I think somebody heard about Shelley's birthday or something. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. How are you doing? All right. Is this your Vice President? Hello. Since I'm going to see you at lunch, I'm going to sneak out of here. All right. All right. I want you to say something. I'm going to give him a present. I'm going to see him. He'll laugh. Jesus, that's for sure. I'm giving these out up on the hill and I thought you want to be the first and almost a president. You may want to turn this over to Bill Casey. A dollar for secrets cost 10 andress of KVG. And so. And when you need a little laugh, you might have one. Where'd you get that, Dave? All of my staff was an ex-Marine and apparently my no father's guys were a pedagogue. That's actually the real number, isn't it? I understand it's the consulate up in New York. It is. It is. It is. That's very nice. Thanks very much. See you next Friday. Thank you. So warm. Thank you. I know someone might need a laugh this morning. You must be terrible at having your name so much like that fellow's name that's on that horrible bill of grand. That's right. Well, you know, Hollings has got a great mind, Mr. President. The reason they don't call it grand program Hollings is because he's got more friends than the price that we do. Well, but we, you know, I'm delighted to read all of the crying and the bleeding and whatnot because interest rates are down, mortgage rates are down, and the stock market is up, people are optimistic, and that's not good. Just the bill is due to the President's policies. The bill gave it a push. The oil prices have helped, but obviously something's going on. Something's going right and the people know. Well, you know, you can explain it all. It's all due to hate. It's common. Oh, sure. Oh, sure. Absolutely. Well, listen, I'm concerned about our bill right now with preventing the Sandinistas from having a continued freehand to the point that we have another base on the name appeared. And I think it's so clear cut an issue that I realize that they've been a hell of a lot of disinformation that'll do on the country by a very sophisticated disinformation network. They have for me, I didn't know how it was sophisticated until the other day when a gentleman in here handed me a magazine, a slick paper, a big magazine, $3.75 a copy. You can send your subscription in the Nicaraguan Information Foundation and the lead article, Outright Propaganda by a noted professor at UCLA in this, but it's a Nicaraguan. Oh, that's incredible. There was a demonstration in my office in Fort Smith, USA. I was very pleased to be associated with you, Mr. President. Although I didn't like what it said. It said Reagan, Rudman, are murderers, right? And these were stewards from, because I have support of the President's policies, and these are students of the University of New Hampshire. And one of the statements that made in that press conference was, but after all, these people had fair and free elections in 1984. So I've just done a bit of a non-veg post that shot up the university. Now, you better run this.