 of the Republic of Puerto Rico. I'm delighted to have them here for this photo opportunity. My son died. Let's have a family. I'm presenting the Legion of Merit to Major John P. Klein, Jr., United States Marine Corps. For exceptional, the meritorious conduct and the performance of outstanding service while serving as Marine Corps aid to the President, Major Klein continually distinguished himself in an exemplary manner with sound judgment, diligence, untiring dedication, and exceptionally professional performance. The successful accomplishments of his assignment contributed immeasurably to the office of the President of the United States. Major Klein's simply distinctive achievements, personal endeavor, and unswerving devotion to duty reflect a great credit upon himself, and we're in keeping with the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States in any service. Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you very much. Very good, sir. Oh, good. And this is a jar with a seal and grade on it, but inside are jelly woods. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you very much. I don't want you to forget this. Oh, we're going, sir. I want to say this, but I'm very honored, sir. It's a real pleasure. Yes, sir. Thank you. It's been my pleasure, you know. I'm most grateful to you and wish you all the best. Thank you, sir. Godspeed. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. This is my son, Ricky. Ricky? How are you? How are you, Joe? Yes, I'm good. And my son, Joey. How are you? Oh, what a bunch of thoughts. The United States Army. For exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service to the United States, as Armied to the President, responsibilities which Lieutenant Colonel Morati was born in this position are unique to the President and the nation. His leadership, his temporary foresight, and ceaseless effort have contributed, immeasurably, to the office of the President and to the effectiveness of the White House Military Office. The seniorly distinguished achievements of Lieutenant Colonel Morati reflect great credit upon himself and the United States Army. More citizenship. Maybe that's a good thing. And thank you very much, my friends, for the thanks. This is a jar of steel engraved on it, but in the jar are jelly beads. Oh, two people that are real happy with that. Thank you very much. We're going to miss you. We're going to miss you. Here, it's been a while. Why are you so quiet? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Where? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And that's my third background. John. You're currently holding it. It's like, let me take the opportunity to first, today, I am going to stop the eldest of greetings to you. And secondly, to express on behalf of the class, our appreciation to you and to your staff for the support you've shown in White House program this year by Senator DeFlew. And secondly, we're grateful to you for taking the time up of your busy schedule and doing this today. So that's all I have in terms of introductory remarks. Well, I'm pleased to have you here on so many days. All right. Okay. Okay. All right. Good. Thank you. Much. Come on over and sit down. Count on you. This is a good room. Center for working. Working meeting. I was in T. Well, we very much appreciate the chance to come in. And have an opportunity to share some ideas with you. I'm looking forward to hearing from you. We need a lot of help out there. There's two. Not coincidentally. I'm sure you don't. I'm just going to ask about you. We're here to office. Okay. Thanks. Oh, that's true. Oh, it's true. I understand that. Why don't you just talk to the board first. Oh, it's all right. We're here to see your voices. We're here to hear from you. Very much. I am retired. I'm here to help you out. Thank you. I'm just going to ask you to come in. No, no. I'm just going to ask you to come in. There you have it. Thank you. Jim. There is a touch in handling of the formula. Yes. And the formula has to be known. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You take it here. Have a good chat. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Great. Thank you. I put in my first 50 years. Taking 50 years. You set a great example for everybody who is worried about the passing of the year. For sure. You've had a busy morning. I understand we have a new secretary of state. Yes. It was France and Chicago. Yes. There you go. Oh, it is. The White House, I know you're enjoying the fresh air. This is the air that in Washington, if it gets any more humid here, you have to swim to work. But I'm delighted to see you. I heard about this project as you know and made a statement about it some time ago. But I know that you now are learning on several different campuses about American industry and business and what the world of jobs is like and I think that is great. I had an experience many years later than you're having it when I once was doing a television show for about eight years that was called, that was before I quit making an honest living. No, I was doing a television show and for General Electric and the employer wanted as a part of an employee relations program that being seen every Sunday night in the air, I should visit their various plants for about 12 weeks out of each year which comes down to pretty much about the same time you're spending here. And I must say it was an experience I've never forgotten and the most valuable one. I visited in those eight years 139 plants in 38 states and met a quarter of a million employees individually. But to see there what we take for granted, every time we turn on a light bulb or look at TV or anything else, but to see these things made and what goes in to providing everything that we have and everything that we use during the day gave me a very healthy respect that I'd never had before for the whole thing that we call business and industry in America. It really is a miracle. I know when I got to the place where they were making the light bulbs and I know that Thomas Edison thought of that and I know it was a very great invention for all of us. But when I saw the machine that was making the light bulbs, I said never mind Thomas Edison who invented that machine and you're having that experience now, not too long ago. No one had such an experience as you're having but I'm not going to keep on talking. I know that I'm due some place in a minute and a half and you're going to have others that are going to meet with you. But rather than me keep on going, I know that maybe some of you, and I'll have to shut this off after a few, but maybe some of you might have a question that you'd like to ask and let me be a part of the whole summer experience. Yes? Well precious. And at the same time, I know you were talking about Poland. We were supporting South Africa and a whole lot of other places. And I want to know how you reconcile that statement with your actual policy. No, I think what I was talking about then was the fact that instead of just meeting or having summit meetings and so forth, that all of the things that were wrong, that we feel are wrong in those countries, all the violations of human rights should be on that table as a part of what we discuss. Now we have employed sanctions against the Soviet Union because of what we think they have done in creating this oppression in Poland. Right now I'm being castigated by some of the people in Europe because I have imposed the sanctions on American-made equipment that they need for the Russian gas pipeline to Europe. In the first place, I don't think the pipeline is a good idea. I think that the Western world should make itself dependent on the Soviet Union for the energy they need to run their industries and warm their homes so that one day the Soviet Union, if it wants to turn off the valve, can pressure them into doing things they might not want to do. But I meant that those things should be on the table. Now the matter, for example, of sales, commerce with those countries, at the same time let them know how much better they could get along and that the world could be for them if they weren't doing some things like the young man who's starving himself to death because Russia will not allow him to come to this country to join his wife and his two-year-old daughter whom he's never seen. And then to make things even more cruel a few days ago, they said they were going to let him come. He could come to America and join his wife. And about two days later they changed their minds and said, No, he can't come. And I just believe that those have to be things that we don't just remain quiet about. But at the same time, let me also say this to you. In a world of politics, and that is their political figures too, these leaders that you meet with just as we are, I find that if you try to do business on the front page of the papers and demand and say, Hey, you do this or my golly, we won't do this for you, you've put him in an impossible position because if he then gives in, his own people see him as having been forced into something by the leader of another country. So my own belief is in what I've called quiet diplomacy. You don't do it in the front page of the paper where he then is pushed into a corner where he can't back down. You quietly say to him, Hey, do you know how much better things could be? Just between us. If you did this, and how much easier it would be for me to do something right that you're talking about. And that quiet diplomacy has worked in a couple of instances. I know one person who was in jail in a foreign country had done nothing wrong. A lady that was thrown in jail, an American lady. And I persuaded someone of another country to say to the authorities in that country that something they wanted very much from us, they had a lot better chance of getting if that lady was allowed to come home. And 48 hours later, she was on her way home. So if sometimes you don't read about it in the paper, don't think that we're being quiet about it. We're doing things. Oh, bless you. The question, if all the rest of you couldn't hear it, was one about that we're cutting back on college grants and loans and so forth and what this does to underprivileged students who might not have a chance otherwise to go. This has been very unfairly portrayed. We're not doing that. We found that a great many of the loans and the grants were going to people whose family incomes were of a level that we felt that family could do more than they were doing to help their son or daughter go to school. For example, when some of these grants and loans were being given to young people whose family income was $30, $35,000 a year, we have redirected those programs. Granted, we've taken them away from people at that level and redirected them to families whose incomes were only $12,000 a year because obviously today's world at $12,000 a year, you're not going to have enough money to send someone to college. So we have redirected the programs to aim more of them at the truly needy students with regard to getting college help. And in some instances also, we have trimmed what we thought was excessive administrative cost. And this is true of a great many of the so-called social reforms. So I can assure you that we have redirected the help to people who need it the most. It isn't a case of cutting it back. When I say administrative overhead, government has a way of instituting a program and then a bureaucracy grows up to administer that program. And when I was governor of California, I'll just give an example to make it short. I vetoed a program, a federal program that was going to come into California in one county and they were going to take 17 unemployed welfare recipients and give them jobs cleaning up and working in the parks. Now you'd think I'd be all for that. I vetoed it because I found out that half the budget was going for 11 administrators' salaries to make sure that the 17 got to work on time. And I figured that that budget was a little unbalanced that they could hire more than 17 if they didn't have so many bureaucrats. So we're trying to reduce at that level, the administrative level of the bureaucracy. Now, I said you next, yeah. First of all, I'd like to ask you, this is my second time coming to Washington and I had come years before and I've noticed on my second visit that Washington as a city itself is somewhat declining and I'm a person that's very interested in urban action and sociology and I was just wondering if it's true that you can get into a car and drive maybe two minutes in either direction and be faced with quite vivid adversity at quite a pungent, just very strong. And I was just wondering how does that motivate you? How does that actuate you and how does that lie on your heart? What do you think of that? Well, since there has been no real...