 I guess, Mr. President, this is over. Have we located the Korean Am I in a black box, sir? Do you want to answer the white question, then? Why not the black box? We've located the black box. I'm going to try to get this door here. Can you kick that? Right. I don't know if that's why I made a good change. Good to see you. I've been expecting this concern. The absence of our work could be maybe turning the agenda around a little bit and talk first about continuing resolution. I just wanted to say, I know many of you must be about only four appropriation bills that have been signed. We've actually been out before, but case has been made, and I think we do hold the line on this. So, where is Dave? I thought I'd call on Dave for some comments. I remember when they all told me I was going to make a cancel. Mr. President, let's start on good news. Larry Pressler has moved from undecided to voting for the 18 months as of one moment ago. That's right. We thank you. And we thank you. Believe me. I'm not going to risk a word. Meeting is adjourned. Well, the reason we really wanted to get together is that at a very crucial point, we had lost, we were going to lose our resolution on arms control. We were going to lose our resolution on arms control. We had already defeated the freeze 10 to 7. We were going to lose our rights by two votes. Larry did one of them in the fire. those, there are just one of them in the fire. By the way, I have a question for you. I think we have a question for you. Look, we're very concerned with regard to the matters coming up right now and the agreement with regard to our troops in Lebanon. And if I could just let me say a few words about that situation and explain how important why I think it is one of the most important things confronting us and the passage of that resolution. First of all, the mission of the Marines going in there in the first place was based on part of our continuing effort to, let's say, continuing when other administrations for years back have been doing, trying to bring about peace in the Middle East, basically between the Arab states and the Israelis. 74, when Lebanon fell apart, that has complicated things because the PLO, born out of refugees there in Lebanon, began their terrorist activities across the northern border into Israel, which finally led, as we know, this Israel invasion to actually not an attack on the Lebanese, but an attack to drive the PLO out. We came up with this on our believing that we could influence, particularly the more moderate states, Arab states, to follow the lead of Egypt and become more Egypt with regard to the Israelis. Remember, the situation was that the Arab states said Israel did not have a right to exist as a nation, and their purpose was to drive them into the sea. We've come a long way since then, and I don't believe there's any Arab state that could possibly be the one that's causing the trouble today, Syria, that has not agreed that it can negotiate and sit down and that peace can come to the Middle East. First, we had to quiet this thing in Lebanon. Now, we're not alone. We're only one of four, the Western Europe, realizing the state they have in the Middle East, the United Kingdom, Italy, France, the United States, with this multinational force, that was not in there to bring about the peace. It was in there with the idea of providing stability because Lebanon's situation was not one of the Israelis or Syria. They complicated things, but it was one of, for several years, there had been a half a dozen warlords with their own militias in there, a country divided into the Sunni Muslims, the Shia Muslims, the Druze, the PLO, and now that's two factions, not one. And the idea was that for Lebanon, establish its government, and we have, incidentally, helped in training their army during this period. In general, as he says, we've done a great job. He says their army is first aid. And they've proven in this multiple engagement that they've been in, they certainly superior to the forces that they've been fighting. But the idea was of the multinational force that then, as the others withdrew, Israel and Syria and the PLO and the PLO did was ushered out as a part of the fighting. They have been infiltrated back in and our presence again. But the idea that we would help provide stability then, as the Lebanese army moved out to reassert Lebanon's governance control over its own territory. At that point, Syria and Israel had both agreed that they wouldn't, everybody leave when everyone else did. And then Syria reneged on that promise, as you know. And it said, no, they're not believing this. And there's no question that Syria has territorial ambitions. It really nurses a belief that Lebanon is the nation that really is a part of a greater Syria. And with the Soviets in their company. But remember this about the Middle East. There is no way, first of all, every government of the United States since 1948 in the creation of Israel has gone on record, pledging its support for the existence, continued existence of Israel as a nation. I don't believe there's any way that we could walk away from the moral obligation to Israel itself. But also, Japan, Western Europe, and to a lesser extent ourselves, it would be a traumatic experience for us, as we found out in the oil boycott, if the Middle East is denied to the Western world. It would be sheer disaster for Europe and Japan, because that's where virtually all of their energy comes from for all of their industry. So with the Soviet Union stirring the pot as it has been for years, and with its eye on the Middle East, not because it needs the Soviet Union as the biggest oil producing country in the world, there's no way that we could stand back. That's why, as I say, it hasn't just been altruism, it's been our own interest to try and bring peace and stabilize that area. Now the stabilization begins with Lebanon. And I can tell you in the words from the ambassador of Lebanon, that the ceasefire and this attempt now to get together and resolve the Lebanese situation by those war infections is due to this agreement on this resolution, this compromise agreement. This is what has convinced them that it's time to maybe settle things. I think that to amend this, I think to reduce down the time, with only torpedo, the negotiations that are going on, Syria would be encouraged to believe that particularly with an election year coming up, that there'd be no reason for them not to continue to harass, and I think it would cost us more American lives. We'd rather have it cut in half. I thought it was my handbag. They would have every reason to stall and to make this a political issue in the United States. I think the time, I hope we don't need that, but I think the time that has been agreed upon, 18 months, gives us the chance that they can't outweigh us. So I just noted after discussion, I can't be with any details. I and I might say all of us have been very seriously concerned about the effects of the drought in the areas of the country represented by the gentleman here, and I've asked Secretary Bach to a lot, and he has gone out and worked with people in those areas, and I have directed that where possible he is to lower into place to be at the help of the victims of this drought. I know there will be a briefing later, and you'll be able to brief on any questions that any of you might have. Mr. President, does the Chief of China think you're not the one? No questions and photo ops, I'm sorry. Thank you. Can you join us? Thank you. Thank you. That's funny. The International Exhibition of the Day, so this is why they have a lot of lives. Well, they were leading you around, but it wasn't good for you. I had a little laugh, but then he couldn't laugh. Thank you. He was roughly the head of the road, but it broke me during the next few minutes. This was my style. I get an agricultural picture here with us. This is an agricultural picture, not a challenge picture. Listen to everybody. Here's a darn entertainment. Just catapulted out of the saddle. It must have a spring. That takes a lot of skill to do. Well, it's often nice to turn, give Washington, D.C. some world. Some culture. Yeah, man. Cap comes in. That's good, too. You mean when that bull got loose coming down the road? Jack, the rodeo here sleeps in a really chatty Washington ride. Yeah. We'll never miss it. President, it was very good to meet you, sir. It's an honor. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Show last night. President, it was very good. President, could you stand? Okay. That's it. With your help.