 Mr. Betty, and these two people really don't leave. The nine of them don't try to leave. I see. Just fine. Good to see you. I'm sorry. I thought we'd have some battle plans this afternoon. Yeah. Well, thank you so much. Good to see you. Well, it's good to see you. I guess you're mine. This is great that you're home. Well, that was awesome. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank you so much. Thank you. See you. I had a great trip. It was a wonderful honor to be here. It was a small variety. One day we could meet, we'll take the whole trip, and if you'd like to find a helicopter, maybe work that out. I don't know if your security people would like that, right? Not unless you tell me where we're going. The only thing left for you to do now is to do it with the shuttle. No, don't. I don't know. I've got a lot of girls to worry about me, son. I don't think I can put them through that again. No. Well, he's just magnificent, though. Thank you so much. Congratulations. That's all right. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. I shouldn't have said that, should I? Jokey. Well, we've got the perfect solutions. Going in the Air and Space Museum, and that solves everybody's problems, because we won't be in here again. I don't have to worry where there are either. That's a good idea. So that puts it to bed. Jokey. It's a happy memory at this point. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you. It's just, and thank you for the flags, and I thank you on behalf of NACI. I wish you a very honored, very pleased, right? Thank you. All right. Good to see you. Well, all right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So congratulations today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, all right. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. Thank you. I know you don't believe it. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Tim. You're welcome. Next year would be in the 150 or $200 billion range unless something is done. Let me ask you, can you confirm for the American people that the prospective deficit for 1984 is between $100 billion $150 billion, $200 billion. I'm not going to get into the numbers game with regard to how big they might be. There's no question about the seriousness of the situation. But we will be announcing our projection for the deficits in January when we present the budget. I'm not going to start this far ahead in trying to say what they will be. I might just add something in here that I think needs correcting. It doesn't have anything to do with regard to this year's deficits. That is last year when we frankly and honestly were predicting and came within percentage point or two of what the deficit actually was in our projection. There were those on the hill who, right down to the wire, insisted that we were exaggerating the seriousness of the situation in order to justify some of the things that we wanted to reduce to the budget. And I just thought I'd call attention to the fact that without saying, I told you so that we were almost 100% accurate in our projection. And they were tens of billions of dollars off in their own estimates. If I may ask a CBS type follow up. Mr. President, why won't you tell the American people what kind of deficits we're facing? Because I again come back down to what our situation has been and has been since the day we arrived here, our administration has been stolen. That is that we inherited a very dangerous situation of this country with regard to our national security. I had promised throughout the campaign and continue to promise that we were going to embark on a program of restoring our national defenses. We have been doing that. The percentage of our budget that goes to national defense is less than was customary back over the decades since World War II. So it is not basically our economic problem today. As for tax cuts or taxi increases, in the state of the economy today, I think the tax cuts which we called 481 and which were adopted are absolutely essential because the only way we're going to rectify the present situation basically is to restore the economy. To get our economy back at full capacity are people employed. And cutting taxes in this kind of an economic situation I think would be self-defeating because or to I mean to increase taxes would be self-defeating because it would slow the economy even down further. We already government has been too much of a drag on the economy. We must reduce the percentage of the gross national product that government is spending at present. Government and government alone is responsible for the economic situation which we find ourselves. Well your answers then sir really indicate that you are sticking to higher defense spending and you are sticking to no increase in taxes. Sounds like you're pretty well set in concrete and yet with the election results all kinds of people are now saying that they're looking to cut your defense budget and raise taxes the only way to bring those deficits down. Well I haven't exactly accepted the democratic interpretation of the election results. I think there are all kinds of signs that indicated that the people as always that went out and candidates won or lost depending on issues in their own particular districts. The very fact that only 28 of the bold weevils were running for reelection and 27 of them were elected indicates to me that we could make a case that maybe there was being a message sent for us to shall I coin an expression and say stay the course. Mr. President Moreau in the economics last summer you said that your economic plan would keep deficits going down in a steady level and that you would have a balanced budget by 1987. You still hold to that prediction you still stand by that prediction. I don't believe that I can face with reality of what we're going to be able to get from the Congress with regard to budget cuts. I do believe that we can if we have cooperation we can have a declining pattern in the deficits that will indicate down the road ways eventually a balanced budget. I might point out that our deficits wouldn't be as big as they are if we had obtained the budget cuts that we asked for. We still have never obtained those. Right now I'm waiting for the Congress to implement their promise in the last budget cut and tax increase package that we sought before the recess and which we obtained their pledge to give us three dollars in cuts for every one dollar of increase in revenue.