 It's been a clear and unqualified success, I know, in proving its local, state, and federal authorities can make a real difference in protecting our citizens from crime. The battle has just begun. In October 1982, I'm now announcing a sweeping nationwide initiative developed by Attorney General Smith to combat drug trafficking by organized crime. The 12 task forces have been established gaining momentum. Investigators and prosecutors have been assigned and are already pursuing drug cases. So today we take the next step. Establishing a national border interdiction program to complement the investigated effort with an equally vigorous effort to strengthen control along our borders to detect and intercept the smugglers and stop the drugs. I've asked the Vice President to coordinate and oversee the national interdiction apparatus that's done so successfully with the South Florida Task Force. So I know you're giving me complete support so we can bring the full force of the federal, the state, and local agencies to bear on stopping the drugs before they get into domestic distribution. You, as heads of the Department's concerned, will constitute an effective executive board shared with the Vice President to provide top-level policy guidance for this national interdiction program. A coordinating board composed of your subordinates in the various agencies will provide coordination and develop resource recommendations. Control over specific agency operations will remain with the particular units of your departments and allow a large part of the success of the South Florida effort was attributable to support and assistance provided by our military. And the same high level of involvement of our military in the national interdiction program will continue. I want to program and relentlessly pursue the drug smugglers wherever and however they try to bring illegal drugs into the country. I know we all want the same thing. I remember paraphrasing the great heavyweight champion Joe Lewis when he was asked what he was going to do with my command. I was notorious for his footwork and he said he'd run, but he can't hide. They can run, but they can't hide. So I want you all to work together and drive them out of the United States and out of business. Having said that, I will turn the meeting over to George. And I'll go back to what I was doing. It's been quite a day dealing with the dopes on the hill of the Democratic and drugs of another kind. And that military is very important because they still haven't found a yacht of the type that we need for the... All right. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, sir. Let me just... I think you can say about being March. It's a nice day, and I was talking about this. And I said, well, wait a minute. This may be the only normal period we've had all year in that March is supposed to be abnormal. I don't know. March is supposed to be normal like a lion. Well, you've got the big... When did the cherry blossoms pop out? What day? One more week. Because, you know, some time ago... I don't know, either, and some time ago, some of the commentators, you know, and the weather on the air and all were talking about, well, it was almost cherry blossom time, and I was beginning to look for them like the day after. It was close. The whole town was ready to explode. You can't even drive around there with that cherry blossom. You've ever been here? It's beautiful. You know, you see going to Camp David, you see a real nature thing going up the mountain. This last trip, the trees down below are beginning to look red, and you know that those buds that have pondled and then they've got a reddish look and a whole reddish castle, and you start up the mountain, and all of a sudden, it's just that gray look of bigger branches, no buds. A few weeks behind, 24, well, put them over 2,000 feet. If you could take a pass the other day when you went up there in the chopper and it couldn't get in, or did they just say are they trying to get in now? No, from the beginning they knew they couldn't. So you stop at that little village down below and get in the car, and it's just about 10 or 12 minutes of me healing my car. Have you heard there's a queen about the weather? I got a handwritten law on her today. I think I'll say that and maybe send my grandchild to college. But nice of a letter from her and she remarked about it. She said that the... And they all said this. The governor's residence last night telling the story about you and Gene Autry and getting an agent. Wasn't getting an agent. He said, and I wonder if this is true, you said you went out to California with the band and the radio station to be in an Autry movie. Is that right? So what really happened was Gene Autry was a great merchandising stunt when he was making those pictures about a half a dozen or eight a year. He would go around them and places like our station which was a clear channel station which meant a great big section of them had a barn dance frolling and he would get some kind of a country music group or something with a western flavor and then incorporate him in one of his movies. Then when his movie went out and played in that area where this outfit was known he had that extra play and by doing it section to section. So on ours it was a group on our barn dance whole Saturday night program which was a big feature. The Oklahoma Outlaws. So he took that group out. Well then I went out to California. I was a sports announcer and I went out with the Chicago Cubs and their spring training trip. And of course I always had a fancy for that business and everything and the fact that we had an act there I went to the studio before I went over to Catalina where they train I went out to the studio to visit them on the set and Gene of course was there so I met him and in the course of conversation I told him that I'd always had an interest in that particular business and all. Now it wasn't that he did anything about getting the agent someone else did that but he was very kind and talked to me and everything about the whole thing introduced me to the casting director there at that studio. But then I went on over to Catalina and it was when we came back and still remembering all of this because when we came back to the mainland then there was some exhibition games and I was going to be in town for a few days in L.A. I thought well maybe go back out and I met that casting director and the gal that was singing with Jimmy Greer's orchestra would have been on our station and would have been on that Des Moines and I asked her we had dinner together where Jimmy Greer was singing or playing and I asked her how you got into that business because she had some parts and pictures and she was the one that said well I know an agent and he's very honest and he thinks you shouldn't think about it. He'll be the first one to tell you and if you want to know why I said sure so she made a date the next day I met this agent he took me to Warner Brothers and I got his screen test and started the program 1937 and that was the same year that you talked what was the same trip I just was over at Catalina for the couple of weeks and their exhibition games were going on and then came back over for the exhibition games on the mainland with the team and did he remember that? He remembered talking to me out Eddie said he got the impression that Autry remembered that event just as he did it was amazing he spoke out from the center there there there there there how are they? how are they? the DCM Republicans asked me to give you this we're 100% behind in your campaign against the freeze and it says they know what freeze means they know what freeze means in Siberia and who buys them a freeze hey thank you very much that's cute and it makes sense too Mr. President I'll be just there Mr. President I'll see you Mr. President where are you from? Belvedere Mr. President unless you've met my wife because of you during the campaign we can get you elected we'll get you elected again and this is for Mr. Washington it's a yes thank you very much Mr. President good to see you Mr. President I'm David Bowman good to see you thank you for having us over it's been a real privilege for us thank you for me I'm missing you on the right that's fine on the right see him in the back you're going to have to be in the back thank you thank you I sure appreciate you you've always helped me I just come from across the street from doing a broadcast I do it for a few weeks or a month they bring me this c-span station brings in a bunch of high school students and I just do a Q&A revealing of how unsuccessful we've been in coloring that drum beat of propaganda of oppression and you know he's being polite but he says it's going on about this and your program is a failure I've got a chance to say to him now they started saying it was a failure before it was even in effect but now 4% growth in a growth percentage that was in 1965 it was revealed that the whole defense budget then you know that's what I went on the year did an excellent job it was excellent it was excellent I worked in a private diesel firm back home and our gross business has doubled since January in terms of orders from conventional mortgage companies and housing to booming I mean it's just going a lot we've had to hire more people because the three of us on the staff can't handle the load well the sale of new houses and the building rate for new houses is up the permits and the automobile business is up a little town out in Arizona I just saw a clip in the paper the 21 automobile dealers decided that maybe desperation would have an automobile fair so they in the city park they sold 825 automobiles in three days well the recovery is working it really is they named it when they kept saying it was a failure they named it Reaganite I wonder what they're going to call it three of us on it three of us on it we'll be out there working for that we'll be out there for that I appreciate it cost town everything's on the recovery we thought that it was a step further than our last motto that showed that we stayed to the cost and now we're already succeeding this has already been entered in the congressional record by the way with Larry Craig and the Idaho Bunch started the campaign but it's picked up nationally thank you very much thank you good thank you good luck thank you we're with