 This is the 20th session of camp since Dr. Stu and I began in 1982. We will always be here for you, as long as there are children with cancer who need a camp, we're going to be here for you. They've given financial support, they've written letters to many of you and exchanged photographs and the gentleman here in the sweatshirt did a videotape for you and I want you to know that they care about your good health and your well-being as much as your nurses and doctors do and they want you to live your lives to the fullest as much as their counselors, your counselors do and they love you as much as your mom and dad do and now we're going to sing them a welcome song. So, Laura and Dr. Stu and this is our nurse Barbara Britt. This is just for you. We're so glad that you came here today. Now we can tell you from not so far away as your letters and cheers for the past few years. I present to the children of Camp Ronald McDonald for good times the President of the United States and the First Lady President Ronald Reagan. I want you to know that Nancy and I are very proud and happy to be here. Incidentally, we're neighbors. Just a few miles over the hills there a little way why we have a ranch that's very dear to us but hearing what Pepper had to say about love, yes, there is so much love here and we're very proud and happy to be a part of it and maybe you'd like to know that things like this, people like Pepper and these others here who have made this a reality and this camp out of love, this is pretty has been pretty unique and pretty peculiar to the United States. Other countries this doesn't happen. The government does things in the other countries or they don't get done but I thought you'd be happy to know that this year we have been doing a little talking to some of our friendly neighbors in the rest of the world and as a result of that there has been a meeting held in Paris, France representatives from those countries all those countries are neighbors and trading partners and those other countries for them to find out from us how we get things like this done by the people themselves doing it instead of waiting for a government program and so I think we're going to see things like this happening to help people all over the world. You know though I can't resist this I know I only have a few minutes because all of us have schedules and things to do. But I just thought instead of me instead of me going on here and talking just I could only do this for maybe two or three but sometimes you must have said to yourself if I had a chance I'd like to ask him if well why don't you ask me if and we'd have a dialogue instead of a monologue. Who's got a question for the president? Look at their tongue tied. These kids have not stopped talking. But who's there? Michael? On the on the ordeal of what? Well let me tell you he was just he was just back and came to the ranch Thursday and we had a nice visit here he's back was a very strenuous trip over there they seem to like to hold meetings being being meetings like eight hours but I think there is great reason for hope for the first time I don't think anyone's very much this hasn't been said enough that for the it's the first time there has ever been a Russian leader who has actually suggested eliminating doing away with some of the weapons there've been meetings before but it was always to decide well how fast or rate should we agree to build more weapons and this time they are actually suggesting as we have been let's do away with some of those weapons I think and he's come home very optimistic and we're all looking forward to carrying this through to where we can make some start in eliminating these terrible ballistic missiles and my ultimate goal is once we start that ultimately to get rid of nuclear missiles all over the world. Yes well well first I'm going to come back to the ranch and do some writing but I think there are some things to to be done you know someone once said life begins when you begin to serve well I think by virtue of holding this job maybe there's still some useful things that I can do one thing I have thought about the possibility of writing a book so that you can get the true story of what's been going on and but I think there'll be some things of that kind and still continuing to help and worthy and good causes Nancy can I tell them on you what Nancy said just say no in answer to a question from a little girl in school who asked what do you do when someone offers drugs and she said just say no today there are over 12,000 just say no clubs among young people across the United States oh yes well I was pleased to and I appreciate your writing thank you I think I think I'm getting the signal that I've been here too long if there was just one more and then I would quit yes well well Nancy takes good care of me she tucks me in at night and tells me to put something warm on if I start to go outdoors without it and so forth but no to tell you the truth and incident this is just for all of you and I know how much this means I was always in athletics I went to summer camps I like that very much and we have a little exercise room there in the White House we set up and every day when I come up in the office why I go into the Nautilus machine and start to work on some of the weights and so forth there and it does very well Dutch well with an Irish father and a mother that was English and Scotch I if I hadn't heard the real story myself I wouldn't know how I came to be called Dutch Reagan but my father would come home and I guess I was rather a chubby chubby baby and he would he would refer to me as the Dutchman and how is the Dutchman and having an older brother the rest of the kids in the neighborhood it stuck and I grew up with the name of Dutch Reagan thank you so much all right thank you we've got two more songs children will escort you over there we've got two more quick song by the way I cannot reveal the contents but we got another envelope from the president to help support our camp pretty wonderful uh stew is our program director stew Grossman come on stew one of the prerequisites of being program directors you're not allowed to use microphones you have to have a very loud voice so but I also am a little superstitious I don't want to talk about things until they happen