 Well, this is a great pleasure to have you all here, and you're very typical of something that I think is the basic greatness of our country. I have often said I have one sound, going into mysticism or anything, but I've always thought there must have been some divine plan in putting this continent here between the two oceans and then leaving it here for people from every corner of the world to find it. The people who found it had one thing in common, that was special love of freedom, special kind of courage to uproot themselves, leave a homeland, and for instance, so forth, and come here. But between us all, for all Americans, I have the privilege and pleasure of being in every country that is represented here, although I must apologize to those of you that ground as Indian, because I never saw India, I never saw India, I was only there for a refueling stop in the middle of the night, I wanted a London Indian, but I want to rectify that. But you are the contribution, you're young people in our schools, academic prowess, entrepreneurship, people from Asia and background in our country, and the highest standard of living of any immigrant group that we've ever known. I've had a little of the other day, and it picks out one country represented here, but I'm sure it's typical of all of you, just happened to be from a young man who ten years ago, ten years ago last April, was in a boat off the Edmonton, they had some water left, but no food, and then a rescue ship came along and he was taken to an island refugee camp, he didn't say how long he was in that camp, but that's just part of the ten years, and then the remainder of the ten years he came to the United States, just thinking of ten years in that background, different language, and then ten years in our country, he graduated in high school with honors, won a scholarship to Harvard University, and was writing to tell me, at age 23, he'd been 13 years old in that boat, at age 23, he was now in Dartmouth Medical College, starting to be a doctor, and I appreciate incidentally the support that I've had so far, so many of you with regard to our church reform, it's not dead, it's just sleepy mother, the fellows are out of town, I look forward to having your support when they come back, they're going to have to understand that the people want that. The other thing I'm glad to see Bob tell of here is, all of your participation out there is private sector, which is most important in this particular country, but I'm glad to see that you have an interest also in participating in the public end of our country and our society in government. I've not been the greatest fan of government throughout my life, and serving in government hasn't changed my mind, but there's still improvements that can be made, so welcome. On behalf of the Asian American Voters Coalition, and I would like to thank you for inviting us, your consideration and sensitivity to our concerns, I think they appreciate it, and today they are more than 5.1 million Asian Americans, we are the fastest growing minority group. However, I think we have the highest average family income, and our children are striving to work for our kids' groups, and many people do very well in science, medicine, engineering, and business and all. However, in the area of politics, we have a long way to go. Our major concern is that among so many well-educated and talented Asian Americans, only very few are appointed to this administration and policy-making level. That's why I was happy to see both of you, but nothing has changed. We feel that Asian Americans are equally qualified to make a new contribution to this country, because of our bilingual and the cultural background. So we feel that Asian Americans can serve as bridges of communications to promote U.S. trade, scientific cultural exchanges, diplomatic functions, and U.S. information services to Asian countries, and most of us have first-hand experience with communism. That's why we love the United States, and we are so proud to be part of this great country, and we do want to participate and to make contribution to this country, and we all love you and support you as our president. Well, thank you very much, and we are very proud that you are Americans here with us, and if it will encourage you a little bit, things have improved. My grandfather's time, who was the first one who was on my father's side to come to this country from Ireland, we had a situation then where in many cities there were signs, no Irish or dogs allowed, and that's what the Irish turned to predominantly, particularly in the Northeast of our country, politics, became kind of their favorite stamping ground. But yes, we should do more about that, particularly so since I happen to believe that for a long time due to our heritage and discovery of America coming from the other side and the settling of the Atlantic, that we thought of ourselves as more attuned to Europe, I happen to believe that we are also a Pacific nation, on the rim of the Pacific, and our future and future progress is going to be to the West, so welcome aboard. So President, I would like to talk on behalf of the Indian community, we are very grateful to you and thank you for opening up, the initiative your administration has taken up in opening up India similar to what President Nixon did for China in the 70s. This initiative has resulted in increased trade at commerce and more cultural, social, economic, as well as scientific exchange, and we'd also like to thank Mrs. Reagan for presiding the American Committee for Festival of India, which has been a great event in the United States, and we wish you all the best. I think highly of India's Prime Minister, new Prime Minister too. He's following your step. Mr. President, as far as we are aware, I think you are the first President made this opportunity available to me, the Asian American leaders, and all of us will never forget it and be grateful to you for this opportunity. That shows how much you are concerned about all American people. We want you to know that we are behind 100%, in fact 150%, supporting freedom, particularly policy toward Nicaragua and also to the Libya. We hope that we will have many other opportunities to share the ideas with you and your steps. An article appeared in the Washington Post that Asian Americans outperform others in school and work. Academic and business and industry sectors recognize our talents and they are making the most effective use of it, and we like to see similar kind of usage of our talents. If we can do well in science and business, then we can likewise want to contribute to make America even greater. We are delighted that you brought the American spirit back. We are proud to be American. In fact, I did many speeches on the meaning of American freedom and many times I've coached you, because I believe our President is the leader of the freedom. From our discussion with the Idaho staff, Linda Chavez's office, and Bob Tuttle's office, we're getting very impressed with their responsiveness. In fact, the fact that we're meeting with you, they're very responsive to us and they're very responsive to our Asian American leadership conference. That we understand that Asian Americans are actively recruited. In fact, Mr. Bob Tuttle mentioned that just before you enter into it, and Mr. Tuttle, we will send you some resume. And that is why we are here to thank you and your staff for allowing us to have this opportunity, and we hope you'll have good results. Mr. President, according to California Institute of Technology study, 67% of Asian Americans voted for you in 1984. And probably, if you won again in 1988, you probably got a 35% of Asian Americans. So Mr. President, thank you very much for giving us this opportunity. Again, we want to repeat Jane's statement. We love you and we appreciate you, and we are behind you at 50%. Thank you very much. Mr. President, according to the script, I'm supposed to speak last, so it's going to be very, very brief. Mr. President, I'm supposed to summarize what my colleagues have said. As our role model for one alliance, let me attempt to translate into one line what my colleagues have said in so many lines. What we're trying to tell you, Mr. President, is we may not look like apple pies, but we certainly taste just as good. Mr. President, I'd also like to add that although I'm talking as a co-chair of the Asian American focus coalition, I've just been appointed recently as a judge of the orphan school and principal of this country in Maryland. Now, quite inadvertently, there is no reference to our memorandum about the judiciary in the United States. The coalition has done something great in the state of Maryland, and we know that this president, this great president, would do for us nationally what we have done locally. One point that I would like to stress is that when the Asian immigrant comes to this country, he comes coming from a country that's keeping what is called conservative philosophy. He comes to this country and he's exposed to what is known as the liberalism or the concept of liberalism. What invariably happens is the Asian immigrant draws from both the conservative and the liberal philosophy, and he comes up the winner because he is in an enviable position of striking a delicate balance between civil and human rights and property rights, and that is the Asian immigrant, born of unique cultural and historical experiences. On that note, Mr. President, thank you very much. I can understand what you said, and I think most of my life I'm a deal liberal, Democrat. Recently, a Republican, I don't think I changed so much in our country. I think the views of our two parties changed, and I found that I was more comfortable with the same views that I had, and I've often cited the Democratic platform of 1932, which was my first vote, and cast there, and cited that platform today, and you would have to ask yourself, which party could today run on that platform? They advocated a 25% reduction in the cost of the federal government, the elimination of useless bureaus and departments and agencies, and the return to states and local communities, the authority and autonomy that had been not just be seized by the federal government, and I think that sounds kind of like, I just followed that and went over to the other party. Mr. President, there are more 20,000 citizens and immigrants who have medical degrees who are not practicing in this country. If Senate Bill 1730 comes, it's passed and signed, they'll be completely cut off from their field. Would you consider appointing a commission to look into what can be done about people who are already here, who are in the medical profession? Let us look into that, yes. We understand the cloud the air may pass and the pressure they are putting on the lawmakers, but you can do this. Mr. President, I'm Andrew Chin, President of the Organization of Chinese Americans. On behalf of the Chinese American community, again, for the Asian leaders, thank you for the great service. You are people's president, and we feel especially close to you, many things which you promote kind of reflect the traditional values which we cherish as Asian Americans. Chinese Americans along this immigrant, and also the most severely or harsh, is discriminated ethnic minority in this country. And the reality I think about that Chin Chin mentioned, this is a historic occasion.