 Thank you very much. And welcome to the White House. Please be seated. I'm pleased that the Congress has completed action on a bill to reauthorize and improve the Older Americans Act. And it's not because I'm often reminded of what Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman meant when he said there were three ages, youth, middle age, and you're looking wonderful. Now, before I say anything else, please let me thank all those in the Congress who worked so hard on behalf of this important legislation. Our senior citizens want and deserve to be full participants in American life. They want and deserve independence, quality, health care, and economic security. The legislation that I'm about to sign will help older Americans achieve these worthy goals. This legislation will continue a program which has provided essential services for older Americans since 1965. Nutritious meals, information and referral services, transportation, and other types of assistance which make it easier to find self-fulfillment and rewarding involvement in community life. These important programs serve an estimated 13 million older Americans each year. And I would also like to point out that the bill provides new help and hope for the victims of Alzheimer's disease and their families. As you know, Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of intellectual impairment in older Americans. Until recently, this indiscriminate killer of mind and life had gone virtually undetected with the families of its victims virtually helpless. This legislation means more help is on the way. All of us have much to do to make the lives of our senior citizens safe, rewarding, and enjoyable. This legislation will help to do that and do it in a way that provides greater flexibility in the management of the grants that finance these programs. But in signing this important piece of legislation, I must note my strong constitutional reservations regarding the provisions that give the President Pro Tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House the power to appoint two-thirds of the members of the federal council in the aging. Under this legislation, the council clearly remains within the executive branch. Under the Constitution, therefore, members of the council should not be appointed by officers of the Congress. And accordingly, I strongly urge the Congress to enact legislation to repeal these new appointment provisions before June 5th, 1985. And having gotten that message across, I'll sign the bill and thank you. And God bless you all. I think that is a statement that I've released has all has been made clear. That's exactly what I meant the other night. Yes, it is really. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, I'm sorry that I'm a little late, but I see somebody's been taken care of you. So welcome to the White House. It's a pleasure to have all of you who are doing so much for your fellow citizens here today. It was over 150 years ago when a young Frenchman came to this country, Alexis de Tocqueville. He came here out of curiosity. He wanted to know what was the secret even then, how we were becoming so great. And it's chronicled in his observations in democracy in America. He went back to France and wrote a book, and he spoke of the spirit of enterprise of our forefathers. And not just enterprise in business, but also in problem solving in endeavors to help the less fortunate acts of charity. And he wrote, he said, you know, there's something strange in the United States when individuals see a problem. They walk across the street to a friend or a neighbor, and they tell them of what they've seen and what the problem is. They talk about it. And pretty soon a committee is formed. And the very next thing you know, they're solving the problem. And then he added to his fellow Frenchman, you won't believe this, but not a single bureaucrat was involved. And he noted that wherever at the head of some new undertaking, you see the government in France or a man of rank in England in the United States, you'll be sure to find an association. Well, I sense that kind of spirit in this room today. Since coming to Washington, we've made encouraging private sector initiatives a major goal of our administration. Wherever we've traveled in this country, we found heartwarming examples of this benevolent aspect of the American character. There were workers at General Motors who helped feed the needy in their cities. And there was a worker up at West, the Westinghouse plant in Grand Rapids, Michigan that I visited a few weeks ago. And he had sported some mighty long hair. And then during a drive to raise funds for the fight against muscular dystrophy, he pledged to donate one inch of hair for every $10 his fellow workers contributed. He wound up with a crew cut. So looking out over this room, I can, I can see individuals who represent the rich cultural diversity of our country. Well, in our efforts to lender a helping hand, however, no matter how diverse we are truly united in this spirit of direct involvement of individual responsibility, rather than always looking to the government of to solve every problem is something of which we can be very proud. Last year, for example, individual giving to charitable causes went up 8%. That same Detokeville said America is great because she is good. And it if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. Just some time ago in a dinner that we were having here in the White House and instead of in the state dining room in a couple of the rooms in there, you'll be going through in a few minutes. I was at a table with an ambassador's wife and I was talking about something that we were doing and in this country some endeavor. And I won't name the country. I don't want to embarrass anyone. But she interrupted me. And she said, Yes, in your country. And I said, Well, what do you mean? She says only in your country. She said you are unique. She said in the rest of the world and the other countries, they don't do things the way you do them at the voluntary level, it's left to government. And I thought coming from a representative or the wife of a representative of another government. And it was one of the major nations that was something for us to be proud of. So I thank you for all that you're doing to keep our country the good and decent place it was intended to be. And I know that I'm going in there and I'm going to have a chance to meet you individually in just a few minutes. So I will just say thank you and really, God bless you all. I'll be here for signing this. I know it's called the Joint Research and Development Bill. And it's a fitting that in its age of high tech that we could get together with such a bipartisan effort that's brought forth in this legislation. I know that it's carefully crafted and the it's going to encourage joint research and development. It's probably going to lead to necessary amendments and the antitrust and the patent and the copyright laws. So Senator 1841 will allow us to undertake projects that will help maintain our competitive advantage in the world. Of you here behind me for the success of it's not the more of something you do share it to me. Okay. Well, I think you can all be very proud of what we've accomplished here. Thank you so much. Let's see. Thanks for all your hard work. Thank you very much, gentlemen. Well, welcome to lunch. Slumping hair. I hear you had a great day yesterday, Jim. Well, before and that there's going to be a new Reagan with no facts. I told him that I had done a lot of homework myself, much other than sitting back and relaxing. Are you going to sign the continuing resolution with cutoff and you throw out the lead? I haven't seen it yet. But what's coming out of it? Questions about today? What kind of challenge are you thinking he's going to win? Well, I know is he's done a wonderful job for just about four years now and I expect him to do with that demand. Give him any advice on how to win? He understands how I learned the hard way on that. Everybody's from the master. I keep reading. Mr. President, Mr. Falwell is predicting that in your second term he will be able to convince you to put on two conservative meaning numbers on the Supreme Court. Both stages of that. I made one appointment and I give that as a pattern as to the criteria that will be employed. So do you think in any way that your briefers are to blame for your performance last Sunday? No. You don't blame them at all? No and I still say that if you read the transcript, you'll find that none of the facts that I presented were refuted. And my refuting of the misstatements of fact on the other side, there was no response to that. Do you feel as though you might want to do something a little differently the next to prepare for the next debate or something you might do that you didn't do last time or cut out something that you did? Just going to be talking about foreign affairs instead of domestic affairs. Please. Thank you. We'll write this one. What do you think went wrong? What do you think really went wrong? So you think that the incumbent is always at a disadvantage, sir? Sure. I look back now at the time debates when I wasn't the incumbent, never realized how easy it was to be on the other side. Are you a little anxious about the next debate? And are you anxious about Mr. Bush's performance tonight? Why are you anxious, Mr. Bush? Well, we got a great record. Thank you. I got it. It's a way of remembering. Okay. Back up. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. That's your language. Well, this is... Yes. Yes, wait a minute. Okay. No, you can't put it there. That's good. Yeah. That's good over there. That's exactly right. See? He's suggesting we go through a lot of this reason at once and then he's sort of written and he does a lot of copy. He may have some suggestions on read, you know, emphasis on things that we've been personally... Sorry. Is there a timing on these? Yeah, we have... The first one we went down to 55. 55. You taking the time? He's taking time. See the paper. Okay, where's the script? He just wants to read it. He just wants to look at it at the same time. Yeah. You want to... 55 seconds down there. We really need to be able to get out of the light. Shout out. Okay. Let's just... Mark it. What are you going to do with it? Yeah. Speed. Let's down the water. Action. Campaign in 1980, we said we would reduce inflation and we had. We said we would lower interest rates and we had. We said we would reduce crime and we had. We said we would lower taxes, rebuild our defenses and get America working again. But today taxes are down. Our defenses are strong and more than 6 million new jobs have been created. But during the next four years we've got more to do. We must build a lasting peace while protecting our freedoms. We must help those who haven't fully shared in the recovery. We must create millions of new jobs, improve education, lower interest rates and further protect our citizens from crime. We must provide greater security for our elderly and greater opportunity for our young. We pledge cities of a promise, a countryside of renewed vigor and a nation strong with opportunity and pride. I don't think America ever stops wanting to be better because Americans are only satisfied with doing our best. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. I'll let you go. The kind of future our young people will have is something you never forget. They'll live here. Their security, their job opportunities and the dreams they'll take into the next century all begin with what we do today. When we work hard to ensure a strong economy with inflation and taxes under control we're taking care of tomorrow. In this magnificent house Yes. We said we would create new jobs lower time. We must help those who haven't shared. We pledge cities of promise.