 Good morning, Mr. President. Good morning, Mr. Minister. How do you do? Ambassador? Yes, hello. How do you do? George Bush. Nice to see you, sir. Hello, my friend. You're back. Nice to see you. Another friend. Nice to see you, sir. So we can get a little more of you down there. Good morning, Mr. President. Nice to see you. Nice to see you, too. Mr. President, thank you, first of all, for receiving me this lecture. Today, hard and tight schedule, I much appreciate this opportunity. And also, I'd like to congratulate you and American people for the success of the Columbia, which I just watched over time. Commissioner Pill. Commissioner Zagoria. Commissioner Sloan. Commissioner Sepp. And all of you. Good morning. Pleased to welcome all of you here to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the National Poison Prevention Week that was sponsored by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Poison Prevention Week Council. It made great progress for the last two decades in reducing death and injury to young children, particularly from medicines and household products within the home. The efforts of the great many of you have been required. Over the years, consumers and health professionals, industry and government have worked toward a common goal. And the extent of your partnership this year has particularly commended. It's the kind of approach this administration wholeheartedly supports. I'm pleased that there are representatives here, 29 organizations of the Poison Prevention Week Council, marked this occasion. The individual programs, the accomplishments of each of your organizations, have long contributed to the reduction of accidental poisonings. And Nancy, one of this administration's high level appointees, I want to compliment you and your able leadership with Consumer Product Safety Commission. Your commitment to safety and to the American public, work with the private sector to seek the most effective and responsive methods for reducing these hazardous and unsafe products is to be applauded. And congratulations to all of you for the work that you are doing. I wish you continued success with this program and know of the great importance as you do of what it means to families to be able to cross this land. I can't help but tell a little thing. This isn't to suggest that there is something additional you should be doing. I just thought you might be interested. And maybe this is more widespread than I know as Californians are a little provincial. But not too long before coming here, I learned that in California there is a doctor at a children's hospital. And outside that hospital he has a garden of death. And his parents got him to visit and to visit their children. And he takes them out there. And he has created a garden in which all the things that might be found around in shrubbery and in flowers and so forth that actually are poisonous, such as the castor bean from the castor tree. Mike Dealer knows about that. He turned around one day just in time to see his baby son swallowing the castor bean. And just that accidental sight meant the life of the child as you got it inside. But I just thought that you with all that you're doing might be interested in hearing this unique and innovative way of telling parents that, you know, I think everyone in California has got a few only-handed bushes around. And that can actually be so poisonous that there is on record the case of a death of someone who simply took a limb off one of those trees and sharpened it to use it as a wiener roast. Roasting wieners died from the poison from that one limb. But again, I just want to thank all of you here. And I know that someone wants some pictures. How are we going to do this here? I'd like Commissioner Hayes. My pleasure, sir. I come with a small reminder of FDA's interest in your personal well-being. Seventy-five years of protecting jelly beans. I understand they'll get individuals if you come by. Are you doing all my work by yourself? Not all of them. Thank you very much. No, no, thank you. I'm going to go to the dentist and see if I should check. It's a reminder. I'm Dr. Weaver from the American Collegiate Institute, and we appreciate your support in this important event. No. I appreciate all your help. We bring you water jelly beans, Mr. President. President Stoner. Thank you. You know, his first request was he wanted to put a tag on each one of the jugs of jelly beans in there and immediately wash and rinse. You want to go for it? Hey, listen. It's a good life. I'm Karen from the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Poison Prevention Week Council. We can say a very special thank you to you. 25 national organizations represent 9 million people. This week, we're working for Poison Prevention. We are delighted to have the support of you and the women. So long. I love these people. I'm excited. Mr. President. Mr. President. Thank you. Hey. For Heaven's Sites, thanks. It's good to see you. I got it. Thank you. You take that chair over there for a while, and I'll go back to Vermillion. Most of them want to sit. Yes. Hey, that's great. Well, sit down. We missed you. Sorry. I'm surprised to see you. I'm sure you did. Thanks, Mr. President. We've been devoted to this federalism issue. I remember meeting and we had this very same room on December 15, 1981. Many of the suggestions which were received that day reflected in the conceptual framework we announced on January 26th that there must be a large bull program rather than in the words of Governor Snelling and just a piecemeal attack on federalism. The need for the true sorting out and responsibilities among the various levels of government. I remember Pete Domenici talking about increasing the revenue share dramatically. Well, in a sense that $28 billion trust fund is a giant revenue sharing program for the states and localities. And there's the need for the pass-through of the funds to local units of government. And I guarantee you that that mandatory pass-through will be a part of this package. The need for a match between revenues turned back in programs of sort is important. And this is part of the proposal that we'll provide for. A dollar-for-dollar match of revenues and programs. And we'll continue the structural proposal so that no winners, no losers will be found among the states. Finally, we've responded to the request that there be an adequate transition not making the program fully effective until fiscal year 1991. All of your time in the meeting today and I think was perfect. I didn't nail down the details of our proposal yet but the issues have been sufficiently crystallized by now that your input can be very effective. I know there's some concerns about full state assumption of the AFDC and the food stamps. We're willing to look at alternative swaps in the income maintenance area. We want your guidance on pass-through and we're willing to look at the revenue sources in place of the windfall profit stamps. We need your advice on the 43 programs that would be turned back. In short, we're eager to listen. This is the first opportunity that I've had since January 26 to sit down with representatives of all levels of government. And I look forward to hearing from you in this particular session. All before we open up the discussion, I want to express a special thanks to you for your leadership on this important committee. I knew when I asked you to chair this committee that you shared an ice-drown feelings on the importance of returning power to authority of the state and local government to the people. You've done a great job and I appreciate it. And now it's your turn. Thank you, Mr. President. I might say that we have another very productive meeting and the more that I associate with this group, people the more impressed I am. If you had to hand-pick this country in terms of filling the bases on the local, county, city, state and federal levels, you couldn't do better than with this hand-pick group.