 Hi. How are you? I'm good. I think I left in. Sure. There you are. Same order this way. Hi, dad. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Thank you very much. Sorry, I'm going out. I was going to get in the ring. I'm going to put a press line in the front seat. Well, I'm going to put a press line in the front seat. You're going to have to start in the back seat. You're right here in this chair. You're going to have to start in the back seat. Right here. We have the report of the commission on executive legislative and judicial salaries delivered to a UNFIMA. This weighs three pounds. It's a unanimous recommendation. I think as we got into the process, we realized what an important issue we were dealing with here, and one that needs fiction. And our firm in hope is that you will look at those recommendations in favor and do as much as you can about them. Well, Dave, how are you doing? I don't know what you're playing, but I want to say hello to everybody. Right here. I hope you can look around. Hello. Hello. I'm Michael. How do you do, sir? I'm a bit of a major, sir. I think we'd better move in. We're about to have a room. So, I just want to say this program, 39 years at a time, the reserve of the dormitory, such as the one that we have here today. Thank you very much, sir. So, we have something that we'd like to present to you. It's from the United States Marine Corps Reserve, and it's a certificate of appreciation presented to the President of the United States for outstanding support of toys for tots. Thank you very much, sir. Well, thank you very much. Thank you very much. I was giving you this and all you've been for many years. Of course, Cavalry. Well, just one minute, sir. I give myself a thank you very much for that. For the Toys for Tots program. Do you remember that, sir? Oh, thank you very much. Oh, thank you very much. Just a few years for your visit here. White House Island. All right. Did I miss something? Did I miscount it? I've got one left, huh? Oh, yeah. Thanks, sir. Thank you. So, somebody said that's the way to go? That's the way to go. Myself. You're new use. Yes, it will. You know how to work it. Get your dad to teach you how to work it. Dad, do you know? I teach you that. Very wonderful. Merry Christmas. Thank you, sir. Sir, please. Okay. Try it outside. I'll show you the clock. Thanks, sir. That's your legend, sir. That didn't lie. Oh, Glennon. Wipe off the staff. Hey. Hey, it's all on the wrist, isn't it? Oops. Hey, it's been a while. They work. They work. Yes. You go. Shut up. I'm always interrupted. Well, I do. Thank you all for coming. And as you know, in the State of the Union Address last January, I charged our domestic council to come up with some evaluation of our welfare programs and to provide a strategy for our family and welfare recipients to see if we can't get around to what always should have been the goal of welfare. And that is not to see how long you could keep people on, but how quickly could you make them independent of it and put them back out into the mainstream. And that certainly has not been the goal of the welfare programs that we have. I think there's an old rule that is maintain the bureaucracy. So that it became a permanent clientele. I know that many of you have contributed to this effort, and I wanted to meet with you prior to making the final decision so I could hear firsthand your advice on making the system more pro-family and efficient and most important to, as I say, encourage people to become productive. I know that true reform can occur until many of the innovative suggestions contained in the report are tried on an experimental basis in the state and local level. In fact, true reform may well end up being nothing more than those very experiments that various tests of how individuals, families, and communities can work together with welfare resources to increase self-respect and reduce dependency. My particular interest to me is hearing how some of these approaches have been successful and how they can be expanded to other communities. I may have told you, some of you before in previous meetings, about a letter that I have kept to this day that I received as I was governor. When we started our welfare reforms in California, I received a letter from the young several children, told me how she had been on welfare and how much this had meant to her and so forth, and I thought, oh boy, I'm going to get it now. And it turned out the opposite of what I thought. She told me that she had even turned down offers of marriage rather than give up the security of that one. But it was a security blanket, that check. Then she said my announcement came from the welfare reforms. She said I'd always felt down inside it couldn't go on forever. I thought this was it. So she said I took $600 that I'd saved from my welfare from Jackson. And I went to Alaska with my children to where there's some relatives up there. She got a job, she's been working, all of this. And she was writing to thank me because she said I never would have left if I hadn't been scared off by your suggestion. And she wound up with a line that I think topped everything. She said it's your least day time today. Well, I came to listen, not to talk. President, I came to listen to you. Representatives of Jesuit University, 18th December, Cabinet Room, closed, coverage, camera person, foreman, recordist, baller, 6NG. Good, good. Yes, okay. We're doing 100 years in our own history and we remember them very well. The Schiff University was founded in so small theological school. A tiny group of immigrants came to our left country down in Lower Manhattan 100 years ago. We still have our seminaries and affiliates, but we're now in major university medicine, law school, the Benjamin Cardinals School of Law, graduate school of social work and psychology, undergraduate schools for men and women in New York, in various sections of New York. Just a few days ago, we announced the creation of our new Sising School of Business and the degree of Mr. Sings Theatre this afternoon. Mr. President, we're proud that you've joined us for the celebration of our centennial in the president of the Schiff University. Dr. Norman Land was proud to bestow our highest academic honor upon you, the honor of president of our country. Dr. Land, I'm privileged to present the president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, for the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. As president, you are a place of staff of your unique personality on New York and our great country. As a unique American institution, the Schiff University is proud to celebrate its 100th birthday in back era. The Schiff University draws confidence from the confidence of the Reagan hero, and we are confident that this larger confidence will neither fail nor falter. A Jewish sage once said, when a man is able to take abuse and not respond in kind, he is worthy to become a leader upon whom the sun will shine. Even during crises and criticism, you have never wavered from basic human pieces. You have never lost your sunny sense of humor, and we know you will never permit a passing cloud to dim the luster of real leadership. Today, as we approach our holiday season, we offer you, Mr. President, the gift of a Chanukah menorah of candlelight. During the time of trial for the Jewish people, the menorah symbolizes both faith and freedom. Chanukah is a time that we thank the Lord, saying that this will deliver the strong in the hands of the weak, the many in the hands of the few, the wicked in the hands of the righteous. Surely a source of courage and hope for all peoples. And the oil that was the last but one day, miraculously lasted for eight days. As we honor you today, Mr. President, we hope that the light of your leadership continues to shine ever more brightly for the remainder of the eight years of your presidency. It is my privilege to confer upon you the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, and token thereof, I hand you this diploma. And Mr. President, in the gift of the menorah of candlelight, it comes from the... Welcome. Why don't we try to regroup for one more time? This comes from typically in the 18th century. And I wanted to just give you my name, the Jefferson letter, who recently acquired the letter on this Jefferson to the Jewish community, giving this very, very wonderful evaluation of American means in terms of tolerance and religious freedom. I think it would be nice if we gave this to the President of the United States as a successor to the Jefferson. Along with that, Mr. President, there are two things. Number one, our prayers to your help in recovering and the Hebrew words, the ancient Hebrew words, we wish you with the Koulash Lema a speedy recovery. And we hope that if your calendar permits it and we're confident that you're healthy now, well, thank you very much. I hope and pray that I can accept that invitation when the time comes. I'm deeply grateful for this. I do know the meaning of it. And for that letter also, Jefferson's words about religious tolerance, I think our country's tolerance more than any other nation has, lived up to those words. And Yeshiva University is an example. Small story, started at the Lower East Side of New York a hundred years ago today. The university sends out some students going to graduate schools that make it great in addition to its undergraduate schools. I must say one thing regarding the honorary degree. You have come home with a sense of guilt that I have nursed for some 50 odd years now because I always had a suspicion that the first degree I received was gone. But this is wonderful about you and I and I am very grateful. Thank you. We also have a hood to present to you. Thank you.