 President, it's a great honor for me to be here. Thank you very much. The foreign minister. And Ambassador Jackfield. There we go. Come on. And this is the son of the President. Ambassador Parran. Good morning. President, how are you? I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine. You're doing too big. The方 is. Recently in the west is downtown. We cannot spot. Creamy. Well, let's all get seated and then we'll do it. I'm going to take a bin and go to your market. I thank you for coming to talk with us about your campaigns this year to win more legislative seats in your states. And I commend your efforts to make the Republican Party the majority party of the state level. I think that's vitally important. As Governor of California, I had a Democrat majority against me in both houses for seven over the eight years and I was Governor and how much more we could have accomplished if we had the votes. I can't resist giving you one little hint of what the difference made in that one year when due to a couple of special elections we got a very majority. Well, that gave us the chairmanship of the committees. That year we passed 41 anti-crime bills. None of them knew. All of them had been buried in a committee under the Democratic majority and the Democratic chairman. When we brought them out to the floor, nobody dared vote against them. Well, Republicans must gain a majority in the states as well as at the Congress if we're to continue the progress we've made under this administration. Getting a fair shake in the reapportionment process is critical and due to Gary Mandarin the GOP is under strength in the Congress as well as in the state legislatures. We can gain 15 to 25 seats in the Congress if we get fair redistricting. If we have a good year in 1992 when that takes place again, we could gain control of the House and imagine what good we could do with a Republican Speaker and a Republican Committee Chairman. In California in 1984, the Republican candidates got a majority of the votes cast for Congress statewide. A majority of the votes. They won only 42% of the Congressional seats. That is Gary Mandarin really at work. Bill Burton, who brought a plan out to California from the Congress, boasted that the Congressional district lines were his contribution to modern art. And they were. The Democrats have controlled the House of Representatives since the election of 1954. Eisenhower had just two years with the Republican House and Senate. I had six years with a Republican Senate and we couldn't have accomplished any of the things that we have if it hadn't been for at least that one House. I want George Bush to have a Congress that will work with him and not against him. But I said for 34 years that was back. But before there was a Republican in both houses. 56 years as of now. The Democrats have held the House of Representatives for 52 of those 56 years. At four that I mentioned. Two years in Ike's Term and two years in Truman's. And they've had both houses because of the six terms that I had a Senate for 46 of the 56 years. I know you're doing what you can to elect more Republicans in the States and I want to help. Because success is so important I've asked Ed Rollins, my 1984 campaign manager, to make a donation to your legislative election committees from the 1984 campaign treasury. Tell them it's a token of how important I think your struggle is. Go home and win one for yourselves. Win one for your states and for the Republican Party and I can't resist. Win one for the government. George Bush is going to win. The Democrats are in for a rude surprise. Thank you and I want to hear your reports from Iran. It's going to be lunch and we can talk with our mouths full. Thank you Mr. President. On behalf of the House of Representatives, I want to tell you that while re-apportionment does not take place for two more years, important elections at the state level that affect that re-apportionment takes place this year in 1988, all of the chambers represented today are up for re-election in 1988. So on election days, important not just that we win the White House, but that as many state representatives from these key states as possible are elected. And that's the purpose of our meeting today is for you, as you've often expressed an interest in this subject, to hear. This Grant Village is the area where we evacuated people because we feared the fire would come in. And when I was out there, we had 50-some firefighters there to fight the fire, keep it off of Grant Village. We have wood ropes. The woods are so dry that it's drier than a kill-dried lumber. Now, when I went out there, I had exactly the same reaction you did. You mean we're going to burn up Yellowstone National Park because it's our policy not to fight fires? Well, it turns out, I say it the other way. We do fight wildfires in the park. Wildfires, any fire that they haven't got pretty good control over. So we have 3,000 firefighters in the park. This fire is way away from any habitation and we're basically letting it go because we don't have the resources. We would have to pull resources from the timber fires all over the west to try to contain that fire. We think it's coming under control on its own. This fire we've had very substantial protection. I was out there, I saw them building backfires out here to try to stop this. When an area like that is marked on the map as a fire, it in fact doesn't burn everything in it. This is a complete burnout. This will become an alpine meta. This area here, you can see a lot of dead trees are in here. Hang it in there. Good morning. What do you think is, I think, if FDR were around, he'd be on our side. If you look back at the things that he ran on and so forth. And then I guess what happens is the bureaucracy just stalled all the way. Well listen, I've done with this the welcome, all your comments here. Discussion among all of us, but just a couple of things. Here with regard to the drought, I think we've got to do everything we can to stay as close to four billion dollars as possible to prevent a sequestration under Graham Rutland. And then there's a little matter of drugs in that task force that we proposed to be put together, which hasn't been called together because the Democrats have refused to nominate or offer to participants. I'll leave it to you to just think over yourselves whether there wouldn't be an advantage if we called a meeting of it without them and then made it very evident that they were invited and have refused to participate in this program. They've certainly had enough notice. Yeah. I'll leave that to your judgment from there on. The meeting is open. Well I just covered two or three things. I think we're getting down to the iron on the boats and the Senate to sustain the veto. And we did make eight changes on the Senate side. It was not quite the same. See, there might be some high ground again there. If you'd like that to come along and challenge us to get you a trade bill in the next three weeks on the... I'll go with 19 and his son, my stepson, Jesse. That's between you. Isn't he wonderful? You are lovely, by the way, to do this. I'm very pleased to. Why don't you stay in the middle? Why don't you move in? Why don't you know you come in front? Can I ask a picture with the three gentlemen? I think that'd be pretty nice. Justin had a picture when he was 18 months old with you. I will come back. I will come back. Right here? I will. You're so nice to do this. Well, I'm very pleased to. Representative from my home district in Illinois where I grew up. He's also a cub fan, Justin. I used to broadcast their games in radio. This is his first trip, Mr. President, to Washington. Justin's never been here before. So he's relatively thrilled he's getting to meet you, I think. My pleasure. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, you can't know how I hate to do this. But remember I am from your district. These are, you know, these are they from your district in my office? Could you there for the people that support you, ma'am? I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. There's four of them. Oh, thank you. Well, I'm supposed to share a hate to write on the late. I'll just put this regards. One of them were for me, Mr. President. Hi, B. I'm glad to judge you. Another Illinois. Well, because, Mr. President, you promised to your supporters. You know, in Dixon, they believe you should be president for life. They just feel that they don't see any need for new elections. You remember George Washington said that shouldn't happen. I know. I guess it was a Republican bill, wasn't it, too, that said FPR. There it is. Yep. It was revenge. This is all you wanted to do in an afternoon, wasn't it? Yes, you're very embarrassed. I just would like to die. Not at all. Yes, it does. This is tacky. Thank you. Sir, thank you. We used to do it right outside there. Inside the door. Thank you. Thank you. You're thinking I'd take that to school? Thank you.