 Wendy's on camera. Question first. Do you want to sit or do you want to just ask people to sit? No, it doesn't matter. Just want to just run over here. Do you want to sit? Over here. Roland, you've been doing these for a long time now. Do you still enjoy it? Can you tell me what you like most about it and if you think people are listening to you on the radio? When I started thinking I've been in the radio business myself and people weren't still listening, probably wouldn't be hearing it anymore. But I do like, I like radio for one thing. I always have that being in my background. But also it's an opportunity. There are so many things that get misunderstood and particularly in the way they're played up, that it's an opportunity to set the record straight and during those six minutes there's no one to argue with me. And you really enjoy doing that? Yes. I'd like to ask you a little bit about how you deliver your radio address. Your aide Patrick Buchanan says he likes to give you a chance to shock people out of their lethargy. Other people say that they like to give you an opportunity to get something off your chest. Well, that's a good part of it. As I say, in the discussion, and I know I don't mean this deliberate distortion or anything, but most people, particularly in the media and even members of the administration, don't have access to all the information on a lot of issues. And there's conversation and then there are talk shows and so forth and all of this. And sometimes I sit there frustrated and say, look, you don't know the whole truth yet and what you're discussing. And here is an opportunity to straighten the record on some of those things. Your aides also say that you take a great personal interest in crafting your speeches. Yes. And that you are very careful about the timing that you come out perfectly on. Is this something that you've gotten from the training? Well, yes, having been in radio and television, I know the importance of time. And it has to come out at exactly five minutes. And so I've got my own system of timing. And that's why when I'm on, you'll see somebody with their hand coming down frequently. That's because I have marked it minute by minute. And I can tell whether I'm ahead or behind in my timing by a more clear check mark that I've made on the script and where that finger comes down. But they also say that you're known as one take Ronnie. So do you have to go through it very often in order to practice so that you deliver it right on time? Not an awful lot. I do the timing and maybe a glance at it while I'm sitting here waiting for the broadcast to start. And that's about it. Who is it that you think that you are talking to? Is it one of your aides said that when you approach that microphone, still that microphone is a person? Are you thinking of someone in particular when you do hear addresses? Or are you talking to America as a whole? What's in your mind about who your audience is? Well now you go way back to my sports announcing days on that. I would get mail and it would frequently remark that I sounded like I was talking directly to them, these people. And I couldn't figure this out. How did they get that idea? And then I realized that a group of friends of mine that usually gathered in a barbershop where I was a customer also to listen to the bulking broadcast. And lots of times the things I said I was thinking of them. And if it was any little quip or anything I was doing it for them. But everybody listening got that same effect. And I learned then that the microphone with the camera, if you start thinking I am talking to an audience out there of X millions of people, you're going to have an impersonal tone as compared to thinking. If I'm talking to somebody I know about this and trying to convince them it will sound that way to everybody listening. How do you compare doing a radio address? It's rather isolated although there's more people here than I would have expected to giving a speech. Do you enjoy being out in the crowds or you have a very intimate relationship with radio? Oh well, yes. But I also enjoy very much getting out with the people and talking with the people. But I think it's pretty much the same tone. It's just that in this case I'm doing the same thing when I can't see them. But I figure they're there. There is a large part of the country that have trouble getting the radio address. Some networks don't carry it or little stations don't have it. What do you think about that? Well, you always wish it could be otherwise, but I know it can. But then I found that the media does give us, pay some attention to these broadcasts so at least a part of them is carried then later in the day or the next day to more people. Do you listen to the newscast then to pick up on your strategy? I try to listen to the news and keep abreast of the news in the press. Do you ever say, oh, they got it just right or they got it all wrong? Once in a great while I say they got it just right. One more question. Okay. I was wondering where you got your voice. Have you trained yourself to speak? No, I... People often talk about how they feel as though you put them in the same room with you. Well, as I said, way back in the radio days I learned that secret that, you know, they used to talk in radio when it was so relatively new. They used to talk about mic fright. Well, that was when the person stood there and looked at that microphone in front of them and suddenly thought X millions of people are out there listening and they freeze up inside. As I say, I have always thought that if you just keep in mind you're talking to somebody you know that, you know, they don't get that but that anyone else listening gets that same feeling. Is it true you borrowed your father's old model to look for a job in radio? He felt kind of sorry. I'd been hitchhiking all around the northern Illinois and Chicago and all looking for a job and then finally came home and there was a new national store that had opened in our hometown and they were looking for someone to head up the sports department. This was a great depression. A job is a job. And I didn't get that job and I guess he thought I was pretty disappointed and then I said that I'd like to go down to the Quad Cities where there were a couple radio stations and try again and this time I didn't have to hitchhike. He let me borrow the car and I got a job. W.H.O. is starting to run your radio buses again. Well I'm glad to hear that. Thank you very much Mr. President. My pleasure. I'm going to have to remove the microphone and get you back to business. Alright. Excuse me. My fellow Americans, this weekend we marked the 90 second observance of Labor Day. A day when we celebrate the strong backs, keen minds, hard work and dedication that have made America the mightiest nation on earth. We celebrate this land of immigrants and their descendants, the men and women who came to this land in search of freedom and hope and the opportunity to make an honest wage. We honor the laborers who built our great cities brick by brick, who poured the concrete, laid the macadamans, riveted the steel girders, the worker in the factory and the farmer in the field, the secretary at a desk and the trucker at the wheel of a semi hauling freight from coast to coast. And today we also celebrate good news for America's workers. We've seen 45 months of economic expansion and the creation of over ten and a half million jobs. 1.6 million in the last seven months. 200,000 just last month alone. Employment figures have never looked better. 61.2% of all Americans, 16 years old and up, male and female, are working. That's the highest employment ratio since they started keeping records. Because we cut taxes and squashed inflation, America's workers once again can have faith in the future. They know they'll get a fair reward for their labor and that more and more of their paycheck won't be swallowed up by big government. The Census Bureau reports that real median family income rose in 1985 for the third year in a row. Inflation is the lowest it's been in more than 20 years and interest rates continue to drop, making home ownership possible once again for average Americans. In other words, more Americans are working. They're earning more and their money is going farther. More good news. Economic growth is winning against poverty. In the past, big government policies of high taxes mixed with high inflation pushed millions into poverty. We turned that around. Poverty has dropped for the second year in a row as jobs and opportunity conquer dependence and hopelessness, once again proving that a growing vibrant economy is the best anti-poverty program there is. Now, some workers in some sections of the economy haven't benefited from our prosperity. I'm thinking especially of some of our farmers who, after years of government interference in agriculture, are having difficulty adjusting to a non-inflationary economy. Record levels of farm supports are helping farmers weather hard times and we're committed to helping them move to a market-oriented farm economy. Also, the changing face of industry has left some workers without jobs where unfair foreign trade practices the culprit. This administration will continue to be the most aggressive ever in protecting the rights of American workers, making sure that free trade is also fair trade. Our Job Training Partnership Act has also helped over 2 million workers find new jobs. But the best answer is tax reform. By cutting tax rates, we're going to rev the engines of entrepreneurship and job creation. We're raising exemptions for dependence and giving families a long overdue break and we're dropping millions of working poor off the income tax rolls altogether. Tax reform will be the best thing to happen to the American workers since... well, since our tax cut in 1981. That's why I urge Congress this Labor Day to remember our responsibility to America's working men and women to waste no time passing tax reform when they return to Washington. You know, some people say it's America's natural resources that make our country so great. But the greatest resource of all is our working men and women. Their skill, hard work, guts and determination. It's like the fellow who took some land down by a creek bottom, all covered with brush and rocks and he cleared the brush and he hauled the rocks away and then he started cultivating and he planted and finally he had a beautiful garden. He was so proud that one Sunday after the church service he asked the minister if he wouldn't come and see what he'd done. So the minister came by and when he saw the corn that had been planted there he said he'd never seen any corn so tall and the Lord had really blessed this land and then he looked at some melons and said he'd never seen any as big as that and to thank the Lord for that and he went on praising the Lord for everything, the squash and the beans and everything else. When he was getting a little fidgety finally he interrupted and said Reverend I wish you could have seen this place when the Lord was doing it all by himself. I've always liked that story because it makes an important point. God gave us this great and good land but it's up to us to make it flourish to preserve its freedom and to see it grow in greatness. And this Labor Day thanks to the American people our country is growing stronger every minute. I just have one final thing to say keep it up America you're doing great. Until next week thanks for listening God bless you. Oh No and usually come out pretty close to the mark because in that last minute or I've got all the marks for that last minute then I have looked at where my second hand is when he gives me the signal so then for that last minute I know whether to speed up or slow down watching that second hand go around this time I couldn't stall any longer a few seconds ahead. Four seconds off. Four seconds. Sorry. Looks like somebody scalp luckily looks like somebody scalp luckily looks like somebody scalp luckily. I'm fine. How are you doing? I got him just right here.