 Would you like to be off the joint? No way. All right. Lord Gryffindor, Nebraska. Good to see you. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Well, I'll keep it short, but I'm going to take it short. I'll keep it short, but I'm going to say here to open this because I just didn't start serving until I do finish. I just wanted to see you all, have you here, and I know what the chores ahead of you are. And yet I think the importance of what we're doing, and maybe all of you are aware or maybe some of you aren't, is that for almost 60 years now the other party has controlled for most of the time both houses of the Congress. They've had more than half of that period. They've had democratic presidents, and all those democratic presidents only were faced with the Republican Congress for one two-year period, and that was in Harry Truman's time. And the Republican presidents, more than 20 years here, I had one house for six years. The House of Representatives was still the other way. And other than that, the only Republican that had a Republican Congress was two years that I had one. And we know what has been responsible for that, Gary Mandarin and so forth. We've got to whittle and get back. I can tell you, this period now, where they're back to having both houses, if we hadn't had a Senate for the six years we did, we couldn't have accomplished any other things. I don't believe that we did accomplish. It's just the difference of night and day now. I mean, Howard, you're late. I don't know what you're saying, but it's so important to not only get a president, but then I think the argument has got to be to our people. If you're sending a president, it's the only one that is voted on by all the people. The only one that the whole population elects. Then does it make sense to send up congressmen and senators that are dedicated to opposing him in the things that he said he would do? So we've really got it tough. And the last thing I'd like to touch on before we eat and get into all the rest of the meeting here is the importance, and particularly when there was a little fiction or friction, I should say, that came into the present primary. Back in 66 was the birth of the 11th commandment, and it came from California. And I was running for governor at that time. I have to tell you that that made all the difference. Our party at that time was so split in California after the bitterness of the Goldwater campaign with factions that had grown up. And Justice of Indian came up with the idea of the 11th commandment, and then God bless our ladies, federated, limited Republican federation. They passed a resolution that they would not support the nominee of our party if that nominee had violated the 11th commandment. You never saw a primary that was conducted so much aimed at the opposition, not of your own party, but of whoever was going to be the nominee of the other party. And it brought the party together. And I remember we followed up to the point that the night of the primary when the election results came in, and I knew I was nominated, we called San Francisco where we knew they were having the same kind of a hearing meeting there. And got on the phone the people that were had been the high ranking people in the campaign of the leading contender there, and asked them and had the jobs picked out specifically of the same importance that they had had. That we would like to have them join our campaign in that role. And in those jobs. One of those was Cap Wainberg. Yep, that's right. I can't believe you had a question for Reagan. Not originally. No, it's been totally... Cap was for Rockefeller and the Goldwood. I know, there's no telling how much mileage I can get out of it. Well, listen, I think I'd better stop here and let us get on with lunch. All right. And then when lunch goes on, usually these people, they have to go to meetings. Burnley, who's the director of our victim services? Good to see you. I'm very pleased that you could be here. And... Okay. And Rick Abel, who is the assistant attorney general in the charge of our justice management division. Well, good to see you. Thank you. And these are the award winners, Clementine Barfield here, who was founded an organization to help victims of crime. And I want you to have one of our buttons. To help us save ourselves into orders. Well, thank you very much. I'm pleased to be able to present you with us. Thank you. And next is Frank Barnaba, who was founded an organization to help the victims of child abuse. Great pleasure. Great honor. Well, it's so important that you read it. Thank you. Next, we have Colonel Pruitt, who has... Hello there. He's representing Citizens and Victims for Justice Reform. And this is the award for the organization, which he's accepting on their behalf. Congratulations on behalf of Kentucky. So thank you for allowing us to be here. I think you know Ken Ikenberry here, who is an outstanding district attorney. I mean, attorney general, excuse me, who has done a lot for victims of crime as a leader in the National Association of Attorneys General. Thank you, Mr. President, for your supportive victims work, too. Well, I'm very pleased and very proud of what all of you are doing. Thank you very much. All right. Next is Jan Emmerich here. And Jan is one of our real leaders in the U.S. attorney's offices as a victim-witness coordinator. And she's been particularly effective with the Indian victims in Arizona. Well, and again. Congratulations. Thank you for your support. Well, thank you for what you did. And last, by no means least, is Sarah O'Meara. Hello there. I just saw you four days ago. How lucky can you get it? And she's the co-founder of Child Help USA International, working with children victims. There. This is such an honor, Mr. President. That's right. I didn't know that at the time when I got here. But you'll not know what your presentation looks like every day. Mr. President, we have three family members here. This is Mrs. Barnabas. We met her husband earlier. Very important, Mr. President. And we have here Mr. Emmerich and their son. Tony. Tony. Tony Emmerich. Hello there. Hello there. Just one second here, gentlemen. And I guess they're going to be a group picture here. I see a hole in the middle of that question. But I'm sure you won't know that I have signed this proclamation that this is the victim's week. Mr. President, we appreciate your time here. I think every year now, since you've been president, or virtually every year, you've signed that victim's proclamation. I know you've had an interest in this from our California days when you were governor. But we appreciate very much your support of this program, both budgetarily and otherwise. And we particularly appreciate all of these people as representative of literally thousands of people around the country that are now working to help the victims and the potential victims of crime. So this little ceremony here, while necessarily short, is I think very significant for people all over the country. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you, sir. Give me a seat, our fan. Mr. President, good morning. Good morning, Mr. President. and some of the others. Distinguished lawyers and leaders of the Bar and the White House, and I know one of the most fundamental of the self-evident truths set in our Declaration of Independence is that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the government. I have enjoyed telling our young people between us and some other countries many times when I got to go to schools and talk there. And this understanding, I think, is the cornerstone of our political order. And it's why, under our Constitution, we, the people, grant a limited sphere of authority to the government. In other countries, it's the other way around. The government gives some limited authority to the citizens. But I think also the theme of this law day, this particular law day, and that is the importance of voting is something that I think we should take very seriously. I think when we notice and look at recent elections and how great a decline there is in the number of people voting, I'm reminded of what Will Rogers said one day. He said that the people we send to public office are no better and no worse than the people who send them there. But they're all better than those who don't vote at all. So I think this whole theme here of emphasizing the importance of voting, I encourage you to do as much as you can on that. That is the thing most necessary today. And now I've talked enough, I'll start writing. The proclamation on May 1st, May Day is going to have a different meaning in this country than it has elsewhere. It will be law day, our law. So thank you all for coming in. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. I did get caught on the down princess of Japan. Ours is the only constitution there were to be passed. It says we, the people, tell the government what it is. That's very nice. I don't know if you have any questions. That's very nice. That's very nice. I'm going to turn to World War II. The Japanese changed the country. That's very nice. World War II. That was something I had in mind. Well, Mr. President, thank you very much for launching us this way. And this voter participation is a program we are pushing in everywhere in the United States. What was it? 53 percent of the votes. And you think that down there in El Salvador, gorillas were telling the people that if they voted in that election, they would be killed. The woman was shot and stayed in the land for hours refusing the other treatment. And Joseph got lured. And they had over 80 percent of their people. But the worst part is our young people, only 18 percent are voting there. And voting blocks, 18 to 24, are political connections. But we have the greatest percentage of that. And as you say, the lowest percentage actually voted of all these people. That's the value. That's the future. Yes.