 You're the potter's amelior. So, let me check. I'll let you sit. Are you recovering? I'll get the chair. I'm going to sit next to you. I'm going to have a cup of coffee. You have. So what I'm going to have them around with is go to Iowa for water. I'll let you drive away. I'll let you drive away. Well, I'm going to get going here. As you know a lot has happened with George. You just say that I believe he's continued to seek a peaceful change in the situation there. Well, there has been a change, but a peaceful settlement. I don't think we're going to walk away. There's just too many of us. There has been a change in the situation. We've had to change our posture. You know, moving things all short and through the ships. I think we can still be a positive influence. I mean, we'll be less exposed. Some hope that a U.N. peacekeeping force can be moved into the Beirut area. And just to refresh your memories, since some of the press seem to be implying that that's some kind of contrary to all of this is known, that's what we would have liked from the first, that we couldn't get because of Russian vetoes and Syrian objections. We don't have to apologize for our policies there. I think the American people will come to understand and appreciate that we've made every effort to allow the legitimate government their chance to bring about a peaceful reconciliation. And I think I'm not going to at any time regret that we took the lead in trying to bring them out of peace in that very troubled area. And I think we're having quite some success. But I'm going to adjourn the camp now before we poison what's going on. President, members, the general status in Beirut at 3 a.m. our time this morning was that the Marine positions were quiet. There was fire in the long run. Who's closing this? It's very, very good to see you again. Thank you so much. Good to see you again. Thank you. Great things happening. Hello. Father Polidaro. Delicacy Francis. Father Yajura. Mr. President, this Franciscan delegation from Assisi comes to you because they know, Mr. President, that you are a man of peace in strong religious feelings. This is the motive which inspired their visit to you. To have you here can assure you that the civility and the peace in the world is, I think the greatest goal of my administration and my term in office here and what I would like to accomplish is very honored to have you present and let me also add that with the new regime in the Soviet Union we've made a great plan. We're ready to negotiate with other peoples' lines and to help bring this about I think more than anyone else, our two countries, other ones that can bring it about if we can resolve our differences. We want to do that. Mr. President, the Italian government support all initiatives as you do aimed at strengthening peace and security in the world and we hope that conditions will make it possible for you to hold a summit meeting with your Soviet counterpart to strengthen this peace and this security in the world. This is very much in our mind. What other place better than Assisi? St. Francis? Yes. I like to inform you that in Assisi you've got this international center of peace among the people and on behalf of everybody we are so happy today to be with you and to talk with you and Mr. Gianfranco Coste, the mayor, I'd like to say you something together with the father. It's a great peace and a great honor for us to come here because we need to follow with great attention all your generous efforts to the consolidation of peace. We follow you with great respect and friendship and admiration and we bring to you this message from Assisi in the spirit of St. Francis hoping that one day you may come to Assisi and perhaps meet there in Assisi with the Soviet leader in the spirit of peace. Assisi is your home. Assisi is your home. Assisi is your home. Please come and visit. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Well, I am very honored to have this and to receive this and I shall try to be deserving of it. The colors red and blue are the colors of the American flag and the same colors of the city of Assisi. Well, this is a bride, the poor clears made by him for you and on our message we say that if some people may eat the same bride they will be friend and they will maybe make new politics for the peace of the world and they made this for you and from Assisi from the poor clear who are praying and said us we are coming with you praying. I tell the president if he eat bread with some others he will be friend with them and he can make a lot of good politics. Well, thank you very much and please thank all those others who had anything to do with this. I appreciate this very much. In behavior what our general chapter did last year they invited the future president and also Janienko we come to give the Francis peace to you, to your family, to your nation and also we like to say that Assisi is a special place where people can meet each other and talk or find solutions for peace. This is our wish and we pray that it can be your goal as soon as you came. This comes from an olive tree that grows in the garden in the village of Assisi. The olive tree is for peace in the town of Assisi. Thank you very much. This is a small bouquet of flowers of some Francis life. Well, I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. But I am a desired result. Mr. President, I have something different. The poor clears of Assisi they send to your wife the special rose, the family rose of some Francis. These are the roses. This is the gift for your wife together with the nice prayer inside and together with one prayer wrought by the hands, by hands, by the sister. Well, thank you very much. I will have to wait until tomorrow to do this because they have sent her up to New York today on an errand up there but I will present this to her when she comes home tomorrow. The rose was grown right there in the area where St. Francis meditated in the Sisters of St. Clara which of course was the cohort and partner of St. Francis. What's the growth of this beautiful prayer here? This Mr. President, this is the black we have and we give to you and maybe to some others. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Perhaps I will pose to the one and the President on the long one. It's very full of mysticism and incredible beauty. It really comes to us straight from the Middle Ages and from the time of St. Francis. I think your suggestion there about a proper place for a meeting in regard to peace and a place for the day. We will try this and say in our small, we will do our best. Anyway, the city of St. Francis in 72 where it comes under the jurisdiction of Pope Eglise is very much because we've been there before. Yes. Many popes make a retreat there to St. Francis. St. John particularly. St. Pope John 23. He's been there several times but before he presented this in a cyclical. I don't see any retreats there. So it's a great place to be incidentally. My parents came just about eight or nine miles from Sisi so I'm very proud of that. Umbria. I'm also very proud of Umbria. We hope to see you there again together with them. Well, thank you very much. I would. I hope to see you again. The cameras be fantastic. Well, thank you all very much. On a more secular ground maybe the Olympic Games in Los Angeles will provide you with an opportunity to invite your Soviet counterpart to some kind of peace manifestation that could also be less inspiring but also very concrete. Let me talk to our people. The Olympics were born in the spirit of peace. It's a manifestation of peace and it couldn't be like that. Well, again, I thank you all very much. Thank you very much for receiving us. Well, I appreciate it. It's my honor. Thank you. My very best regards to Mr. King. Thank you very much. I always do. President, please. Say, wait a minute. I think before we get into anything substantive I think we're going to be covered by the photographic opportunity for the press. So we just have to look like we're discussing serious things. You're on the last floor. Vice President. Vice President? Yes. You look pretty good. I'm going to sit down. You look pretty good. I'm going to sit down. You know, it's over. I'm going to argue that you won't have the right to say that you should have said after you left. I've had that a few times. I've had that a few times. I've had that a few times. I can play it over all night. I just can't. I don't think I waited that long. I'm going to look down on you guys. I'm going to be very good. It's back to the riotous day. They came in, tore my t-shirts. It was a festive of the day. Some of them were barefoot. And they were all slouched in. And then one of them opened up. There's the spokesman. He opened by telling me it was impossible for my generation to understand that all this was going to happen. My generation will understand that all sons and daughters tried to pass it off. I said, well, we know more about being young than we do about being old. No, they didn't have a thing. He kept right on. And he started citing that our generation had never lived in a world of jet travel, of journeys into space, cybernetics, computing and so on. He used to take people to breath months to figure out what that was. My right answer did come. He paused for breath. I interrupted him and I said, you're absolutely right. We didn't have any of those things when we were growing up. We invented them. Mr. President, the speaker says that your version of a budget meeting is totally untrue. If you want to discipline him, you're going to talk about this one today. You've got anything in mind for him? Yeah, thank you. I don't know. Mr. President, you've said that young men's quotas don't ever cross anybody over 30. You have a letter on each 30 at work. Somebody is aware of it. I have to call my attention to that. So we have to congratulate them on reaching their 30s. They know the rules take no questions. They have a photo opportunity. Yeah. Well, Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, we appreciate your being here also. Since your decision to accept the report of the working group, Mr. President, early this year on the school discipline, quite a bit has been happening since then and we wanted to just review that a bit with you and maybe have an opportunity to have a conversation here with this group. First of all, there have been hearings in the House and the Senate and out of those hearings have emerged a general agreement that we need to be doing more to solve the problems of discipline in our schools. Here we do that. We're not going to attain the levels of excellence that we're trying to reach in this country. And I'd also like to tell you that the response of the secondary school principals to your fine address out in Las Vegas and incidentally, I think it's the warmest response that at least in my long years of education that the President has in education, I was really thrilled with the response there of those principals and because of that and the extensive outreach of that address out all over the country, I think we find large numbers of people in the school community and parents and others that are anxious to be helping us in improving in this area of the problem. And we're receiving almost every day letters and phone calls from parents and educators and others asking how we can help and urging you to continue to focus attention upon this problem. Well all of that is a prelude to say that we wanted to bring together this group this morning, a group that's interested in this subject and to have an opportunity for them to meet you and to hear some comments that you might want to make and for them to express themselves briefly and so we won't use too much time, I understand we need to be through here about 20 past, I'll invite to my colleagues starting on my right if it's okay Mr. President to introduce themselves. My name is Joe Clark and I'm principal of Patterson East Side High School, Patterson New Jersey.