 Nice to see you. This is Sandy McDonald. How are you, Mr. President? How are you last year? Yes, good to see you again. And be in love. We've got some presentations to make to you, Mr. President, on behalf of the report of the Nation Delegation of the Boy Scouts of America. And we'd like to start out with this young man here, who is Roberto Bergardo. And he is the Cub Scout who is the huge representative of the Board of Nations Delegation. Mr. President, I'm honored to present you with your 1986 registration card. We are very pleased that you are continuing to serve as the honorary president of the Boy Scouts of America. We're very honored to serve in your presence. Next we have Bill Kulow, who is a Deagle Scout and he comes from where? Miami. Mr. President, this report covers the highlights and accomplishments of the Boy Scouts of America for 1985. And we're also proud to report that for the sixth consecutive year this movement has increased in membership and service to the United Nations. Well, congratulations. Thank you very much. Next we have David Erb, who is also a Deagle Scout. We have to be the head of the Order of the Era, Mr. President. He has 1,000 Honor Scout campers and he has a presentation for you. The latest edition of the Boy Scout anthem. Now as we get lost in the woods. Next we have David Lomar. He's an Eagle Scout. He's on our executive board and he has a presentation of the history of 75 years of Scouting. Let me have a Boy Scouts of America. Thank you very much. Next is another Eagle Scout, David Barnhart. He is a distinguished scholar and he was on the expedition to the Antarctica. He has a special propellant for you. You got warmed up? Yes, I am. Well, thank you very much. And the next presentation is for three young people. Come on in. This is Gregory Coons. This is Danielle Brilette. This is Ernest Vichette. And these three young people were voted outstanding leaders in 1985 by the Boy Scouts of America. Well, congratulations. They have a presentation to give you a silver crystal obelisk which commemorates the dedication that we all have through the Boy Scouts of America. Well, thank you very much. Please, Ernest. Mr. President, I'd like to say just a few words. The Benjamin Franklin once said only virtuous people are capable of freedom. And the best thing that we can do is to teach our young to be virtuous. And throughout most of our history, these values of Benjamin Franklin were passed down from father to son, generation after generation, in our home, our school, and our religious institution. Each one I'm reinforcing and undergirding the others. We had a consensus in this nation not only on values, but on the importance of those values. And from that consensus, we knew who we were as a people and where we were going as a nation. And somehow much of that has changed here lately. Our religious institutions have fallen down on that traditional role of being promoters and protectors of our freedom, our basic American heritage. Far too many young people really are growing up with almost no exposure to the values that made our country great. At about the 1800, there was a professor-titler that made this prophetic statement. He said all of the great civilizations lasted only about 200 years and they went through this kind of a cycle. They started out in bondage. They developed great spiritual faith. On their faith, they developed great courage. On their courage, they won their freedom. On their freedom, they got great abundance. But then they developed selfishness, complacency, apathy, dependency and then back into bondage again. And it's interesting to speculate about where we are in that cycle when you consider special interest groups that are putting their own special interests ahead of the nation. Consider apathy and the number of people that don't turn out the polls to vote. And you consider dependency in which far too many of the people in this nation have thrown out that great American value of self-reliance and have their hands out for entitlements from the U.S. government. And you went on to say that a democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It will only survive until its people discover that they can vote themselves largest on the public treasury and from then on, the majority will vote for the candidates that promise them the most benefits from the public treasury. With the result that a democracy collapses from fiscal irresponsibility always followed by dictatorship. Now, haven't we done a super job of voting ourselves in entitlements in this country when they were almost one-half of our federal budget in entitlements. And I'd just like to say this, Mr. President, that if you were to go on nationwide television and appeal to those retirees who really didn't need their social security and offered them the proper kind of recognition for giving up voluntarily their social security, I bet you would be amazed at how many people are grass-indicated and be willing to be counted as a modern-day patriot who believes in self-reliance. So we have a nation that has gotten two selfish whether there's no trust in almost anything, they don't live by the values on which our nation was founded. And we have the answer. You just have to have the answer. And that is the Boy Scouts of America in the last 76 years have unswervingly kept to their course of instilling the values of our American heritage and the hearts and the minds of the young people of this nation. And if these values are once again to become a major part of our American way of life, we need your help, Mr. President. We need your help to ensure that when these young people in Scouting join the adult world that their values are reinforced, not torn down. And we need your help, Mr. President, to give us leadership so that honor, duty, service, loyalty, hard work, self-reliance and above all, honesty and trust are once again taught in our homes, taught in practice in our homes, our schools, our universities, our religious institutions, our businesses and in our government. And we need that kind of leadership, Mr. President, which you alone can give to meet that high and lofty objective. And I had a discussion last month with George Bush on this subject and I have a little follow-up letter I'd like to leave with you some ideas that I had in mind that might be helpful. But in closing, in closing, we want you to know that the Bar Scouts of America are dedicated and committed to the values of our American heritage upon which this nation was founded. And we want to close our meeting with you here today by reciting to you the Scout Holds and Law and I'm going to lead them in that. On my honor, I will do my best to do my duty to guard in my country and to obey the Scout Law and to obey the Scout Law to help other people at all times keep myself physically strong to keep myself physically strong mentally awake and morally straight the Scout is trustworthy, large and helpful friendly and courteous kind friendly and courteous kind obedient, cheerful, thrifty obedient, cheerful, thrifty brave, clean and revered brave, clean and revered Mr. President, we of the Bar Scouts of America on our honor will do our part in what we hope will be your great America if you say it. Thank you, sir. Well, thank you and let me just say I've known of course that helping others is a very great principle of the Scouts and I would like to say that I think there's great evidence that that sleeping giant out there in this country of ours it hasn't forgotten all the great values maybe dependency on the government too many people away from that but they're coming back and last year the total contributions in our country to worthy causes $74 billion of voluntary giving and what you're doing I know and I think about helping others it's a great part of this and most valuable and I can answer your request but telling you that yes I'll do everything I can to help ensure that that great American spirit of generosity and volunteerism is kept alive and in connection with that I know that it has been traditional that now and then a president can make a request of the Boy Scouts and I have a request just one subject that is not treated too often the publicly or officially but that I think is a great need and so I'm going to ask if in this coming year or in this year that is before us if the Boy Scouts can take on this task you must have all read or heard of the young lad out in California who nearly was facing death pledged his heart to his girlfriend a 14 year old girl who also had to die if she did not get a heart transplant she now is living with his heart and if Boy Scouts could do anything to enhance the awareness of our people in becoming donors this usually is something that takes place when people pass on but there is a great need for tissue for organs can be transplanted for corneas and harness that the disease no longer needs and if you could enhance I'm asking you to do what you can to enhance interest in knowledge of the way people can arrange that they will add those organs that are so vital of some who cannot live without the request of you Mr. President, on behalf of the Boy Scouts in America we accept that challenge with pleasure and enthusiasm alright thank you I will grab a group photo here with the Scouts it must be roughly about two Scouts our Chief Scouts Executive's father voluntarily refused to accept any Social Security throughout his lifetime and if you know it if only 10% of the people responded to that you'd say $19 billion a year and I put it there there are people out there beyond any need at all but who don't understand that they could do this I have heard a lot of wealthy people not on the growth course I said this is silly this check comes to me and I'm sure they give it to some worthy cause or something but they just never occurred to them they could say don't take it here's the one that can do that Mr. President you can make that a pre-order not a pre-order to help you a voluntary fund where people can contribute to not need to pay off the national debt cause that can't really take place until we get this deficit they need some kind of recognition and then every transfer of that fund I've been a little questioning about mentioning Social Security to you they hung me out and drove me out wasn't that show Congress something though wasn't that show that how many people out there really wanted to do that I don't really show those well for holders over there it ought to start from out there I think maybe I should talk to a few people and see if they would start looking like the government requested sir well pleased to see you on the young thank you thank you thank you very much thanks again Mr. President thank you see you in another year thank you sir a little souvenir okay thank you very much I will miss our meetings I have plenty coming in here alone I usually have a group of people visiting you in a different capacity next year at this time give me some help over there where you need it