 President, this is Eleanor Swain who is the chairman of North Carolina State by the South of the United Arab Emirates, North Carolina. Gary Strong is the state librarian of California. How are you today? It's good to be here from California. Eunice Ellis is the director of Booked at Pizza Hut. Nice to meet you. Of course, Dr. Billington, a librarian of Congress. Good to see you. How are you doing? I'm good to see you, sir. Tisha Berger who is the president of Leisure American Library. And John Cole, director of the Center for the Booked. I appreciate everything that you're doing. I'm looking forward to signing this. My father came upon me lying on the floor with a newspaper. When he asked me what I was doing, I said I was reading. And he thought I was being funny. So he said, well, read me some. The next thing I knew he was out on the front porch, he had them for all the neighbors. But all I've been able to figure out is that my mother, we lived in Galesburg, and I had a brother below that made me slept in the same room together. And every night she would get between us and read us stories. And she always followed with the finger. And I guess I followed with the finger, too. And I entered first grade when I had to read. He couldn't have to be taught. But the only reason I tell it to you is because the importance of what you're kind of very concerned with television, that, first of all, we're taking away creative imagination from young people. And the second thing is that they won't, without that imagination also, they won't develop a taste for books. Because I became a voracious reader. When I was nine years old, I took out a library card in the public library. I used to make about a one-a-week trip there. Getting back on time? Did you get him back? My horror, the horrors traveling that I do, did out of the Managed Potato Circuit, is the possibility of being in a hotel room some night without something to read. I just, to think of kids growing up without that desire and that world that opens up to you. So I think I better shut up and sit down and sing. Sounds good. Very pleased that all of you have brought this about. And I can sign this confirmation declaring the coming year is the year for the, of the young readers. Wonderful. Thank you very much. Very pleased. Mr. President, thanks for your gratitude. I have a couple of colleagues from the library. I want to just present a couple of things to you. Since you mentioned about libraries and readings, the Center for the Book and Southern California Association has been very active already. It's produced a poster which provides a kind of image of what we've been talking about. So we thought the other people had a companion piece to take to your next new reading location. It has a little advanced propaganda for us, cause that you've launched for us all today. Well, I think that's just great. Thank you very much. Then we have just one other thing, sir. And that is the inevitable t-shirt. Red, white, and blue. And this one, sir, is for you. Give us books. Give us wings. And on this side, the 1989, the year of the young reader. Well, thank you very much. So that's, sir. And then because it is the young reader, we thought your two grandchildren should be the first two to bear the message into the 21st century. And so we have a few books and wings for the young. And all of this adds up to red, white, and blue. And three different sizes here. We hope they fit. And above all, we hope the word is a different size. There's one, and there's the other. So I think the difference in size is just fine. Well, we hope this wonderful legacy will be passed on. We thank you for this proclamation, sir. And all the library cards of the nation will be open to you and to all the young readers. Well, thank you very much. Thank you, sir. It's great. Well, when you return to residency in California, we have universal borrowing in the state, so you don't even need a library card. You can borrow from any library in the state of California. Yeah, I know. All right. And your staff will recognize his name. I have to see him. I'll tell you. It will be, I think, quite a while before I would need a library because we have been the recipient of so many gifts and books, and they're all stacked up where I do most of my readings in bed. And they're all stacked up to the bed, and I'm way behind catching up with them. Well, we're looking forward to the Presidential Library being built. Fred, I'd like to see you, sir. Thank you. Take the chair over there. No? That one, all right. Thank you. Just to bring you up to date quickly on this, we is a high-run agency for you, and I know I've stayed the course the full eight years, and we are an unusual agency in that we make money, and you may recall, it was only quite a while ago, I gave a check back for, to you, one year into Don Regan, the next, which totaled some $106 million out of our earnings, and that was the original appropriation that Congress had given us for OPIC. So it was sort of, we burned the mortgage, if you will, and returned to the taxpayer, which wasn't a bad idea. No, sir. Well, I, and what we are doing each year, we try to get a picture, but the closest we came was you there and me there, and it would be very nice for this last year if we could get a picture together like this. We're doing it. Well, I thank you very much, and it has been a pleasure to serve here, I might say. Well, listen, it's been a pleasure for me, but all that you've accomplished, I... Now, I'm going to do something else, which they told me I absolutely could not do, but this, sir, is the same photograph of the two of us. And at some time, between now and any time, you ever did self-addressed all your, and I've even suggested something you might want to write on there at some point in time. Would you mind doing that? I'd be very pleased to. Because I would treasure that, that these eight years have been great fun, and I must say, if you could ever have the time to jot that down in the bottom of that photograph. Can I get all this on this one? Well, I won't get less than that. There you might be even more creative than I was. Listen, why do we wait? Why don't I... Suppose I started some of it up here on the picture. I mean, it's yours. Just don't put it over your face. That's an awful slick surface here. No, this is a good family, but it's just a... This is very waxy. I wonder if I'm going to have to go to one of those big surfaces. You got your fat pen there, Pete? Yeah. That's... Thank you. That's hers. That's what it is. It's that surface. Even this is having trouble. Mr. Dragon's water case is leaving for New York. As I should say. Yeah. Sydney Plotkin. Nancy Lombardo. Hello. Lonnie Wallen. You look great. God bless you. Thank you. Sorry, Annette Truschke. Sheldon Seaback. And Nancy Cheney. Jack Pollock. Hello, Nancy. Senator Larry Pressler. Hi. Hi. Congresswoman Bill Owry. President. It's good to see you last night. We have a Westphal. And Congresswoman Mike Miller-Occas. President. Hello, Annette. I've been with you for the last time. It's good to see you. It's good to see you. It's cold out on the stage. Very nice. I know. It's nice to see you. Congratulations. Okay. This is very nice. You tell him we're going to swallow him out. Keep it all up. It's not okay. It's not okay. I'm just expressed my condolence to you and Tom. But as long as you're doing he know what a tragedy seems. It is that if you walk together here and what a pain it is, not only an individual with dental and families and so forth, I know there's no cure as yet. You have to keep trying until there is. It's a very tragic, tragic thing. We all know. Please go in the middle. Does anyone help us? Please bring us in. We need some more. We need some more. We need some more. Yeah. We just pray to God. We're good. Watch your feet right around. Watch your feet. Take the pictures like this. I always plan my son. OK, you guys. I have a double-roll maybe. Double-roll. Both ends of the line of the class. Right behind you. Not many are old enough to look at you. Still camera. And so the class picture. They didn't have it widely. It was slowly panning. You all stood there in motion. When my brother was walking into the line, and then the camera got off of him, he ducked down behind everybody, and ran to the other end of the station. Susan has to get this organized here. There we go. There we go. Tightly knit. Definitely wouldn't take up as much room if you turn sideways. Some of us don't. Thank you, President. Go ahead. Mr. President, we want to thank you on behalf of the 2.5 million victims of Alzheimer's disease and our 200 chapters of the Alzheimer's Association on the occasion of this consecutive signing of the Proclamation of Alzheimer's Month. You've done a great deal to create public awareness of the disease which has helped our cause. Well, the proclamation that I signed making November the month was carried through the weeds and became a reality because of Senator Presley and Congressman Lowry. Well, we certainly appreciate their efforts on our behalf as well. We're bringing out photographers. That's what we're doing. That's what we're doing. You were very gracious to do that video for Jerry Stone. That was seen by our entire board and over 400 members that are annual meeting as well as over 1,000 people at a gala of Jerry Stone. I'm pleased to do it. Chairman Lowry. Thank you, Mr. President. Our President has a consecutive time. He's off by one year. We have the opportunity of presenting you a momentary of the seven years that we've been with you in the White House. Gratiously, I've only given us a photo opportunity to acknowledge the tremendous awareness of Alzheimer's disease. I must say in this book that Yasmin and the women we are getting older and you are getting younger. You and I seem to like to say that. Oh, yes. Well, thank you very much. I think I know that. You care about your clients. Yes. Oh, that's wonderful. I remind you of your great one-liner on this one. We brought in the clock, gave us a terrible time. We just about got the clock back. You know, I recounted that today. We almost didn't make it. We said, well, we'll have to see the Secret Service on the job. It was ticking, wasn't it? We recounted that in the book for you. Yes. They're extremely careful that way. I hope so. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. We'll miss you. Thank you. Nancy left today. They're busy. And we're both here in New York and we won't see each other while we're there. We'll see each other when we come back. Well, good luck to you. We're glad to have you. We're glad to have you. We're glad to have you. This thing I just mentioned about Nancy when she left in New York was an extreme death battle. It was a pretty good job of separating them.