 The White House here in the Roosevelt Room just to show that bipartisan things can happen why it's a Roosevelt Room for a Republican Teddy and for a Democrat FDR. I don't know whether they're had an opportunity to tell any of you before but behind me there on the mantle the family of Theodore Roosevelt brought that in a few years ago and presented it for this room to the White House that is the Nobel Prize Teddy won for stopping the war between Russia and Japan. A little while ago in here I had all the brand new congressman the fresh one that had just been elected and roughly half and half Democrat and Republican and I knew I was opening myself up to something terrible when I told them that I thought I ought to even though those Democratic ones might hold it against us sometime or use it against us that I've always thought the Teddy won that Nobel Peace Prize solving that war in a typical Republican manner. He was on a yacht. I'm so proud of all you've done on this 100th birthday as a matter of fact I get encouraged anymore when I hear something's a hundred times. And also for you know just what you've been doing for what the cause has been doing for a hundred years is so typical American but now maybe it's going to spread to the rest of the world and you've had a big hand in that too in the recent private enterprise meeting that was held in Paris and this came from our European allies and friends they wanted to hear about how we do it in America and you were one of the big sponsors of that particular undertaking. Well, I better get this signed now. Yes sir, I have another pen here for something else I understand what it has to do with it. A little extra signing up here, but you saved the top box. Thank you very much. We have a chance to read each one of you individually now with a photo, so again I want to thank all of you for all that you're doing. Well, this was your great leadership and support that we were able to do a lot that we do and it's most appreciative. Why Gina? Hello there. First why don't you get in the middle right here? That's great. They're a little daughter of Alice Allison. Yes, that's an Alice Allison. We're the boss. That's how we know. I've got some good girls like you. They're taking your picture. Not sure about that either. You have no idea where you are. That's quite an honor. They're in from California. You're going to stay here. We're in Orange County. We're in Orange County. We are. That's right, we're all in good recovery because you go before they die. Mike's a CPA in downtown LA. He commutes back and forth. Do you want a family picture and then we all have a group picture? Sure. Hello there. Who is that? Can't she say hi? Kevin. Can't she say hi? Can you look at the camera? Why don't you move it a little bit there? Caitlin, that's it. Smile, Greggy. Why don't you jump in here and we'll do the whole group here real quick. Do you want to come over to this side? No, I got one. It looks like Caitlin's really weird. Oh really? Okay. It doesn't matter. I'm not picking either one of you. But one of these days, you're going to find the kids can pick you up. I know. I'm sure. Real soon. Can you smile? Get the camera, Greggy. What does Mrs. Raiden always say, belly button? Belly button. There we go. She learned that. You know that very sober and serious actor John Bodiac. He always seemed so very austere and everything. She was doing a picture with him. There was a scene that called for and they're kind of walking across UCLA campus. And they're supposed to be laughing uproariously as they come within range of the cameras. That's some joke. Well, they just weren't getting it. Finally they started to take it again and Nancy whispered to them as they started to walk. She said, say something funny. I just run out of laughs. I can't laugh. And there's a very sober above-it-all character as they were approaching the camera. So belly button. What do you think of this room, Greg? What do you think? They're new. What do you mean? They've been staying in our war-torn house. You know, we just moved and we've got boxes and things all over the place. But we found a little hole for them to live on. Yeah, it is in my great-grandson's house. I just tried to advise him. I told him when we moved into our new house in California, I managed to be busy filming it. Perfect. I think this is the first movie today. That's right because we moved once before and I was on a trip somewhere and you had to deal with that one. But this one was much more difficult than that one. Well, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Can you say goodbye? Thank you. Say goodbye to us. Say see you at Camp David. Can you say see you at Camp David? Well then I'll see you at Camp David. There you go. She's got a little bit of a cold. When you give them that paramedic to dry them off, they get a little bit down on the album. She's under pressure today. Thank you very much. Okay. See you. See you at Camp David. Thank you. Mr. President, Dean Harder from Minnesota. It's a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, and we will be back in a few minutes. Alright, good day. This is what was on considering about $20,000 a month? Yes over there? Yeah. We're beginning to feel a little bit like that. Increased fuel love cigarettes there in a transparent Hudah Circuit circuit. You were like, gotta be busy on the day and then you had an evening affair and so forth. Always have a schedule so you can change your clothes between the end of the day. Right. And the most important of all was, have a fresh pair of shoes to put on. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, sir. Seems to be a great... God bless you. Thank you, Mr. President. Great pleasure to see you. Mr. President, I guess we certainly look to you with great leadership. We think you're a person of great character and integrity. Hopefully you can serve as our role model through this year as we go out in this country and try to motivate the values in the young people so they can be useful citizens in our democracy. We thank you so much for letting us come in here today. Thank you very much. You mean very much to this country, sir. Mr. President, the biggest youth organization in the United States in the audience. Thank you. Four hundred and seven thousand, isn't it? Four hundred and thirty thousand. You have a national name, sir. Very good. I do appreciate it. I'll let you do it. We believe in you, sir. We believe in you. Doubly here. Doubly here. Thank you very much. Thank you. You're out of your way. Thank you. God bless you. Thank you. Thank you very much. God bless you. Bring in this trophy. Two or nine. Get the family who's here. It's really a nice gift. Here, Van, you'll put that over here. We're going to do one more group photo for the press here while we're in. I think everybody can hear it. We're proud of you. Can we tighten it up? Can we tighten it up real close? A little tighter. Well, nice to see you. I'm going to press this going. I just have a few little souvenirs. A little souvenir office here. Thank you. We're going to come out shortly. This test really gets the bookmark. Oh! The trains gave you the wrong thing. It's good to come out right. Maybe we had a black player. And a key ring. Over here. We've got a bookmark for you and a key ring over here. Thank you. We missed it. The briefing missed. You're right back. You were all listed as just sisters. Well, we'll take care of that. Congratulations. Off to the fiesta bowl. What day is that? That's our second. We only came on that night. We're trying to get the calls there. The national championship. 280. We had a different football experience than that. We played way over our head. We was to size on the schools we played. So if we broke even, it was a tremendously successful season. I remember a little group of us went to the coach one day and we were kind of tired of getting beat. We said, you know, can we have a schedule that gave us a better chance? And he said, yes. He said, I could probably schedule right now. We probably win every game. But he said, would you rather do that than be able to say when it's all true, down through the years, that you played against and you would name your teams. I played out as a fellow in the line, but well, about eight years off road, I'll weight you 100 pounds. And, you know, we thought it over and the years have gone and it was absolutely right. Games that we lost to you. On there and playing, let's see your hands. So it's been carried into a real emergency. There it is. The President has it. Bad news is I think you have a meeting at 11 o'clock in the town while the President directs us. Yes, it is. I like this meeting better. We're spending our time not talking about the budget. The press is talking about something else. We have a deal with the budget. Well, I'm honored to see you all again. Please, you must try. Yes, I know. I'm glad to see you. Pleasure to meet you. It's been 17 years. Thank you. Writing things up, though, they don't... But he said what they've done, they've done a lot of research on birds, why the eagles don't need sunglasses. And they have found out that there's some factors that take out certain elements of light and, like, reflection off bright surfaces and so forth. And this is supposed to... These came by way of our medical shop over there. And they were just... They said, you know, if I don't want to leave them with that... Yeah. Anyone want to try and see how pretty the world can be? Write everything up a little bit, don't you think? Bothers wants the record, but he does make mistakes. And they go to about a football game. Felt like a ground in, breaks into the clearance, going down the sideline, in the clear for a touchdown. But he has the wrong man carrying the ball. And, of course, when that fell across the goal line, everybody's going to know that he gave the touchdown to the wrong man. And one of his assistants was pointing to the name in front of him, the number in front of him. Didn't phase him a bit. He says he's gone to the 35-yard line, he laterals off. No, no, no. No, I said this was radio, not television. They're radios. I used to produce the Redskins Radio Network. Ten seconds, mics on. My fellow Americans, with a new year just a few weeks away, Washington is starting to get ready for the 100th Congress, which will be sworn in this January. The most important challenge facing that Congress will be joining with us in keeping a growing America on the road to a brighter future, the road that you and I and all Americans started on just six years ago. That was when we said that the way to make America grow was not by feeding government more of your tax dollars, but by the way that America has always grown through the ingenuity, energy, and determination of the American people. Together, we set out to cut your taxes and cut the growth of government spending so that you could get on with the important work of building a better future for yourself, your family, and all America. We first cut tax rates with our 1981 tax cut. Since the lower tax rates in that bill took effect, America has created over 12 million new jobs. We've had 48 straight months of economic growth and one of the longest periods of uninterrupted growth in the last 50 years. And after a decade-long decline, the American family's real income has been rising again and rising faster. Yes, thanks to our first tax cut, there are more and better jobs, more new businesses, and more new opportunities in America today than ever before in our history. But that's just the beginning because earlier this year, with your help, Congress pushed aside the special interest and the tax and spend crowd, rolled up its sleeves and shaped the tools that will help you and all Americans build on that record. That's when Congress passed the new tax reform bill, which will cut the top tax rate from 50% to 28%, and for 8 out of 10 Americans will mean a top rate of no more than 15%. For the four years since our first tax cut found its footing, the American economy has been climbing to the mountaintop. With tax reform, America is going to shoot for the stars. That's why I was disappointed this week to hear some talk from the new Congress that we should stop the climb, turn around, and start back in the direction we've come from. Even before they take their oath of office, some in the new Congress are talking about breaking faith with the American people and taking back part of tax reform before it has taken effect. Yes, they say that to reduce the deficit, they want to keep some people's tax rates high. Well, we know where that road leads. First, they take one step toward raising taxes, and then another, and then another, and pretty soon every family in America is paying more to the government again. And we're back to the days of high taxes and no economic growth. Well, you can be sure I'm not going to let that happen. I hope that instead of trying to return to the tax and spend policies of the past, the new Congress will work with us in getting the growth of federal spending under control. We've begun to make progress here, too. The figures are coming in now for the spending the government is actually doing this year, and the news is good. When this year is ended, the deficit will be down by $50 billion. Yes, this year, for the first time in two decades, the federal government will spend less after taking out inflation than it did last year. That's an historic step on the road to a balanced budget, and it couldn't have happened without the Graham-Rudman legislation. Now it's time to take a second step. On January 5th, we will send next year's budget up to Capitol Hill. It'll be the federal government's first trillion-dollar budget request. It will be lean enough to meet the Graham-Rudman deficit targets, but it will also meet the government's commitments. We will be spending more than ever before in such areas as support for America's elderly, law and drug enforcement to protect America's young people, and health care for America's finest for our veterans. And yet in the coming budget, after taking out inflation, the federal government will spend less in the coming year than it will this year. It will be two years of real falling spending. We in the administration have worked hard to meet the new earlier deadline for sending this budget to Congress. I hope Congress will work just as hard to meet its required deadlines and not let them slip by, as has happened too many times in the past. And I hope the new Congress will take a constructive approach to this firm-but-fair budget. We're bound to disagree here and there, but let's work together for the good of the country to iron out our differences. The leadership of the outgoing 99th Congress gave America lower tax rates and began the process of putting the lid on spending. As we look to the new year, this is the challenge for the leadership of the incoming 100th Congress to build on that record and help lead America into the future. I hope they'll accept that challenge. Until next week, thanks for listening, and God bless you.