 Mr. President, you're about to lose your Air Force Aids. I know. Well, Mr. President. What a great timing. I'm going to move this over. These are my daughters. This is Lail. This is an answer. I know we get a family picture of you two girls in front. All right. You and the medical. Okay. You and the medical. Right here or here? No, right? There. Okay, good. All right. I know your family would excuse you for a moment to come over here. In the award of Defense Superior Service Medal to Major Stephen R. G. Lander, United States Air Force. Major Stephen R. G. Lander, United States Air Force, distinguished himself by exceptionally superior service as the Air Force Aided the President, the White House from July 1986 to June 1988. In this highly visible position, he routinely planned and coordinated numerous events of national and international significance. His role as the Emergency Actions Officer for the Presidential Travel was accomplished with expertise and professional. Major G. Lander served as the White House agent responsible for supervising the use of Department of Defense resources supporting Commander-in-Chief travel throughout the world. His performance as military coordinator for the 1987 Economic Summit in Venice and the visit of the Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev to the United States was particularly noteworthy and contributed majorly to the office of the President and the effectiveness of the White House Military Office. The distinctive accomplishments of Major G. Lander reflect great credit upon himself, the United States Air Force, and the Department of Defense, signed Frank C. Carlucci. Attention to orders. The President of the United States has placed special trust and confidence in the patriotism, loyalty, integrity, and abilities of Major Stephen R. G. Lander. In view of the special qualities and his demonstrated potential for increased responsibility, he has promoted in the United States Air Force to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel 23 June 1988 by order of the Secretary of the Air Force, signed Larry D. Welch, General United States Air Force Chief of Staff. I've got to take those off first. That's already good. And congratulations again, sir. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to have you do that for me. Well, this is a great having you here. And the only other thing we did was, knowing that you were going to Williams Air Force Base in Phoenix, we brought in the hot water to show you the hot weather to sort of act on it. Well, I hope it's not as humid there as it is. No, it won't be. And no, it'll be different. Well, we do just one more group shot. One more group shot? Yeah, why don't you come on over there? Okay. Thank you, Mr. President. All right. I'm going to want to serve you and be with you. Well, I appreciate everything you've done. We're going to miss you. I'm going to miss you, too. Oh, yes, a few little items here. I like them. Yes, that's right. And then you can do it without submitting clothes. I'm not very out there. Thank you. Thank you. And since two among you here, I'm sure they'll bring books home from school and found them for homework. Why, there are some book bags. Thank you. Please do it. Did you want to ask them anything or say anything? I'm excited about going back to California when you're done serving, Mr. President. Well, I have to tell you that the Californians do have a way of being homesick all the time they were in California. That's right. So yes, it'll be nice to go back. On the other hand, there are things to miss here and a few things that we didn't get from them. Regret not getting through the Congress and so forth, but maybe out there I can ask you just about it and the people will tell the Congressman to vote for them. Get them done. I'm glad my dad got to work with you because I get to say goodbye to you. Well, and it's my pleasure. Well, it really isn't a pleasure to say goodbye to you. It's my pleasure to see you. Well, thank you, Mr. President. Like I say again, it's been a real honor. God bless you. Thank you very much. God bless you. Thank you very much. Well, thank you. Good night. Thank you. Bye. I'm excited to say goodbye to you. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, thank you. You served all part of it for so good. Okay, we're going to have everybody gather for a group photo and a treat presentation. Thank you. Over here? It goes to the other side. Yes. It takes time. Let's go. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I see that. I guess restaurant?MYRIN That's three down, of course. That's three down, Sir. Yes. Maybe. I know that. What minutes and go? You know what I meant. I thinkino. I think we have a few minutes, we could sit down and talk, let's chair there and we can through humanitarian assistance for the support. I know the upcoming election is a very important one for Lebanon. You have a unique role to play in that. I'm sure that you will do all that you can to urge or ensure Christian support for the future of the election. Thank you Mr. President, for all you have done for Lebanon. And I saw you are doing much and I saw what sacrifices the United States has made in favor of peace in Lebanon. And you know many fights. I know you are. But I just had to come in here and see a bunch of young presidents. I know that I no longer classify. This is Jim Ellison, chapter president. We need to scope and go on for your picture. I think we all ought to look that way so we're not getting profiles. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I should tell you something though, there are three signs to advance in years. First, you begin to forget this. I can't remember the other two. I need you to position yourself so that you can very clearly see the camera and then you'll be able to see you as you come in much closer around this side please. This gentleman gets that, right? Even tighter. Thank you. I know you're on a tight schedule but maybe one Russian story. Was Russia what you anticipated or was it very different? There was one big surprise. After all the years of propaganda, I wasn't prepared for the warmth and friendliness of the people. It was evening, we were going someplace in the limo in the daytime. I don't know how they found out the streets would be long with thousands of people and you couldn't ask for a warm greeting and then to work. Sometimes when we got out, actually got out and were able to meet them in Red Square and they just came at you with extended hands and the most smiling warmth you've ever seen. And these are just the rank and file. And Nancy went to the, I can't remember, one of the great writers of Toon's when they were in the meeting. There were some elderly women there and they recognized her well. Some of them were crying, they were embracing, they were telling her how happy they were to see her and all those wonderful, but those stories that were, I have a new hobby, it is amazing. They've got a great sense of humor with those people and they also have a sort of cynical viewpoint on their system. Like, I've got an American student. So I collect these jokes that I can actually confirm are their jokes told by them. And one of the first ones that I ever got, I told to Gorbachev when we met and that was the usual thing of an American and a Russian arguing about their countries. And the Americans said, look, I can walk into the local office, I can clean the president's desk and I can say, Mr. President, I don't like the way you're running our country. And the Russians said, I can do that. The Americans said, you can? He said, yes. I can walk into the Kremlin and the general secretary self-respond his desk. Say, Mr. General Secretary, I don't like the way President Reagan's running his office. The second one that I told you was the one about that he, an order had gone out that anyone caught speedy was to get a ticket. You know, that's pretty significant there, because most of the automobiles are driven by the normal culture, as they call it, bureaucracy. In fact, when we flew in to Moscow and down there, it was a freeway that was as big and grand as anything that we had. We went up to the Clover leaks and so forth. Only no automobiles. Finally, we did see one little automobile creeping along. Well, anyway, no. They were to get a ticket. So Gorbachev came out of his country home one morning, late heading to the Kremlin, his driver, and then over there he told his driver, you get in the back seat, I'll drive, and down the road he passed two motorcycle cops. One of them took out after, came back a little while later, his buddies, but he said, did you give him a ticket? And he said, no. Well, he said, what? He said, we're told him, would you give everybody a ticket? He said, I don't know, this one was too important. Well, he said, who was it? He said, I couldn't recognize it. The driver was Gorbachev. But there's a difference between two systems. I've got to tell him one car, one of our Secret Service agents told it to me, after we got home from the trip, he'd heard it over there. Gorbachev and I were in the limelight. I had my top Secret Service man. He had his top security man with him. Sightseeing. Took us out and there was a great waterfall. Stop, the waterfall all got out. Gorbachev said to my agent, he said, go ahead and jump, go over the phone. He said, I got a wife and three kids. We turned to his own man. He said, don't jump, go over the phone. Over he went. Well, my man clamored down the rocks around the base to see what had happened. Found the fellow down there bringing out his clothes. And he said, well, why did you do that? Why did you jump when he told you to jump? He said, I got a wife and three kids. Thank you very much. I'll close with this one. I'm sure Niko affected his death. St. Peter and St. Peter said to him, you can't come in here, of course. You're an atheist and he said, you have to go down to hell. But he said, you've got a choice. There's two hells. Communist hell and the capitalist hell. Well, Niko said, I'll choose the communist hell. And St. Peter said, well, I think you ought to know the capitalist hell is a little more comfortable. And he says, yes, but the communist hell is the only one where I can be sure that the heating system will fail. He told me to tell St. Peter. Well, a great job here for us. Thank you. Thank you. So are you here. Well, thank you very much. You're doing a great job for us. Thank you. We'll look forward to seeing Los Angeles. We'll look forward to seeing Los Angeles. I'm kind of loving forward to seeing Los Angeles. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you. I can't resist. Sometimes when I get a group like this in here, I have to tell them, you know, this is the Roosevelt Room. And that is the Nobel Peace Prize, the Teddy Roosevelt one for settling the Russo-Japanese war. And I like to tell a group, sometimes I take a chance on their political leanings, that he did that one there in a typical Republican fashion when he settled it.