 President, Secretary General, they tell. I'm so glad to see you. Good to see you. Thank you for receiving me. Well, please do have your seat. Come in. I'm so glad to see you. Bye. Well, come in. Take a chair over there. Thank you. We'll have to small talk for a few minutes. We'll have to press the control. Okay. Well, how do you feel? How do you feel? Fine. Last speech last speech I saw was your speech of the convention. I was in Great Britain and was touring of my wife, holiday. And the BBC broadcasted it. I stood up one o'clock in the morning for four hours and I said, thank you. Tremendous for what I said. That strikes above and beyond the corner duty. Just a few people here. Yeah. Tourism press. Welcome. During your time of practice the third Secretary General was made to first of all, the one. Yes. Then a little fan. You know this old star not the first Secretary General when asked what made us about he said please come at the emergency room and be sure to start. With one exception. That was the first And this one will be one of the problems Friday. That's the usual exercise. Mr. President, what do you think of Secretary Schultz's proposal to cut the staff, the embassy staff and Panama by half including closing DEA there? Well, I have to respect his judgment on that. We're concerned right now about some of our people there and I think that this is just a measure that we're taking and probably temporary. Is there any concern that if DEA is pulled out of Panama that that could interfere with our drug interdiction program? No, I don't think we're doing anything that will reduce our ability to intercept drugs. Ladies, thank you. Thank you. Thank you all. Jelly beans or beer spoons? Well, both are bad habits. Which is worse. Cameras are swipe please. And we see. Come on. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Our most recent television show. I'd like to begin if I could by reaffirming to you America's strong support for the NATO alliance and the defense of Europe. Our commitment to NATO is rock solid and bipartisan. We can't say that about too many things with our political situation. The vast majority of Americans understand fully the importance of this alliance and of maintaining forces in Europe to guarantee Europe's defense. I've said before but it's worth repeating that the history of NATO was a success story. The alliance has preserved peace for 40 years and can do so indefinitely if it remains strong and united. And Americans know that this is in their interest as well as the interest of Europeans. You're taking over the leadership of NATO at a good time and the alliance is healthy and when prospects are for important progress in east-west relations are opening up. To take advantage of these opportunities we must maintain the alliance solidarity and strength which have been key to past successes such as the INF Treaty. Close consultation has shown itself vital to the maintenance of Allied unity and I've tried during my administration to self-fully within the alliance on all matters which affect our common security. I'll stress the importance of continuing this to my successor, whoever he may be. We must also continue to focus attention on strengthening public support for NATO in both the United States and Europe. Leadership in our countries is starting to pass to younger generations who often do not remember the Cold War and the origins of NATO and we must assure that they're aware that NATO was a success and there's no substitute for it. And I think we must stress the broad community of values which unites us as free democratic countries. While the alliance is in excellent shape I want to stress three issues which I think will commend your early attention and about which we do have some concern. The first is a disagreement within NATO on burden sharing. This has been, has the potential in the long run to undermine U.S. support for NATO. There's a growing perception among our people that some allies are not shouldering their fair share of the defense burdens. And the perception isn't helped by the difficulties we're having with Greece and Spain in negotiating renewal of basic rights. We agree that differences on burden sharing should be handled within the alliance context but we need better European understanding of our concerns and movement to solve the problem. The second issue is nuclear modernization as long as United States forces in Europe will lie upon nuclear weapons within the context of flexible response. I think we have to insist that these weapons remain to date. We support development of a comprehensive concept of arms reduction but this can't substitute for implementing previous decisions to modernize our deterrent. The third issue is alliance preparation for the Convention on Stability Talks with the Warsaw Pact. I think we need to arrive at consensus on an opening position as soon as possible and worth the bill's support for Western positions among our publics. And there I know you have an important role to play but I think that's enough for me now. I'd be pleased to hear your views on these issues and we could perhaps discuss broader East-West relations over lunch. Thank you very much Mr President. Thank you. Let's give my candidature and I'm even more grateful. There are some stories like that that's highly amusing. Incidentally because of our humanitarian affairs that little musical group out there have a female general who is an American and what I wonder is that when we did that it was a great tradition and it is so renowned that it was a musical group that only have a musician family but because who are the group out there ladies I thought I should tell you that last summer there was 105 degrees Fahrenheit here in humidity the same. There was a formal marine ceremony for the rest uniform and in that heat 7 marines collapsed from the heat all male. No ladies collapsed. Our female marine general just took command of one of your favorite places Quantico The Lady General in command down there That's where I went in a boot camp Mr President do you know that we both the senator and myself families when that families went down the Colorado in the Grand Canyon oh you made that I've never made that right oh you missed something it's really great of course I was afraid he was not