 Shall we or can we? I Apologize very much for keeping you waiting There's something. Oh, yeah There's there's something that sets your schedule back very frequently, but this one was a rather unusual one So I'll tell you about it this morning as Beatitude from Lebanon Patriarch Antioch was brought in by Cardinal Cook this morning and You don't exactly interrupt he was Telling me the problems of Lebanon and so forth But I thought it was fascinating and I certainly wasn't going to interrupt when I learned that the man who was talking to me for almost 30 minutes in English Had simply learned the language To make this trip and If I were planning a trip to Lebanon I couldn't I couldn't duplicate that but it was fascinating and Very few times that he had to pause and fish for a word and maybe if someone This group coach him with a word, but he conducted and went forward with this presentation for all that time in English And I wonder if he forgets it now that he's been here Well President has other unique Opportunities and one of those meeting with you who are doing things to make this this country better. I See faces of individuals here, of course that I've already had enormous responsibilities and yet all of you here are willing to take on a little more in order to to help the The Commission on executive exchange is something that I'm sure you all believe without my saying it will pay dividends for years to come by improving the understanding between prime movers of the public in the private sector and I Talked to to those who are in the exchange program yesterday and Was telling them that I have had many comments in the past about Partnerships between governor and government in the private sector The trouble with too many of them was that the government always came out as the senior partner and Assumed the prerogatives, but none of the responsibilities of management and this is an entirely different kind of partnership as I'm sure we're all aware Established as it was in the final year of the Johnson administration when there was a growing alienation between business and the And the government or I should turn that around because I think that it was government that had developed a hostile attitude toward its own business community and this is a means of meeting with that problem Many executives have gone through the program and gained insights that have been invaluable in Overcoming the complexities of a mixed economy It gives the private sector a chance to get a look at the inside of government Sometimes isn't completely inspiring and On the other hand it gives government executives a chance to Get out and See the havoc that can be created even with the best of intentions out in the private sector I've always felt that the Really the best thing that government could do for the private sector is get out of the way of business and industry That's a little difficult to achieve So maybe programs like this Can take its place and Achieve that better understanding the other hand to be fair there are those in private companies that don't fully appreciate the legal responsibilities of government executives So if we understand the other fellas job There's the old Indian said it if we walk a mile in the other man's moccasins Maybe we'll all come out with more understanding. I Know that this program has involved corporations with long-term vision businesses that know what investment in the future really means so Gives me a great deal of pleasure to announce that James E. Burke Chairman chief executive officer of Johnson and Johnson will be serving as chairman. Thank you, Mr. Commission. I'm very honored Thank you I'm pleased that you would do this looking forward to working very closely with you and the Commission in this program So I want all of you though to know how deeply grateful I am for For what you're doing for the extra involvement You're willing to engage in here and now I'm going to step aside and Let justice William Renquist proceed with the business at hand, which is swearing in the new members of the Commission Thank you Mr. Burke if you would place your hand on the Bible is a symbol for the rest and if all of the rest you would raise your Stand and raise your hand and repeat after me And Use your own name naturally I Do solemnly swear That I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States Against all enemies foreign and domestic That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same That I take this obligation freely Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion Not any mental reservation or purpose of evasion that I will well and faithfully discharge The duties of the office on which I'm about to enter so help me God And thank you very much, thank you mr.. Responsibility you've taken on And now I guess if I'm not going to be 15 minutes late to the next I Shall let you all proceed and I will leave you here, but again heartfelt thanks. I am a great believer in volunteerism and in What the private sector can bring to government and you? haven't done what I once addressed the executives or the The great at Albert Hall the great Meeting of all the board members of private corporations in the United Kingdom 6000 people there and spoke about at that time what we had done in California of Involving the private sector and I happen to use the term that when you do it send your best To government not your cast-offs and afterward in my presence an elderly English gentleman said to the chairman He said and you know he's right He said we don't do that. He says when when we send someone to government. We say all good Here's a chance to get rid of old shrub shop There aren't any old shrub shots here Thank you