 Bob Jones on what you guys are doing. He's going to see you. Good, Harry. Hi, Mr. President. How are you? Good to see you again. Thank you. See you. Nice to meet you, sir. This is how it falls. This is represented. Oh, just a quick thank you. Hello, how are you? I like to come under, Harry. He's got his left side of me going to the brink. How are you? How do you do? Good to see you. How are you? I see you. It's fine. Great. Hi, John. How are you? Fine. I guess I've been doing well. General John. Thank you. We'll speak to you. Let's sit on the couch tonight. Let's sit here, my dear friend. Let's follow you. Great, you're right. You get a better shot. Mr. President, I think you were right. I'm not too very persuasive. This is an important occasion for us. We want to thank you for meeting with us. I used to. I sort of feel like we're literally carrying the mantle of the industry on our backs at this meeting. I think it's one of our last challenges to talk with you before the conference committee acts. And in our conversation the other day, I thought you said some very wise things. But first of all, we want to tell you that the people in this room, and I think most Americans, even within the audit gas industry, share their desire to lower income tax rates for the American people. When they do come down, though, that does hurt the industry because it tends to dry up outside income. It makes the dollars that they invest in more real dollars. But we still think that that should be done. In our conversation, you talked about, as I recall, the farm minister of Bolivia. Hello, sir. It's a pleasure to see you. I got a personal letter of mixed past and show it to you. Thank you very much. And I wish you a happy, big, new person. Thank you. I want to send you my wonderful, big, new plan. I'm glad to see you. I'm glad to see you. I'm glad to see you. I'm glad to see you. I'm glad to see you. I'm glad to see you. I'm glad to see you. Thank you. I mean, you're talking here with some of ourselves. Those supply excellent. The operation there, I know the decent problems. But, is it the beginning of the hazard to start the growing of the cocoa beans? But there we would have to find some substitute crop for the farmers. I think that was a pleasure to meet you. I want to sit down here and sort of look like an interview. He's got a couple of questions, Mr. President. Senator Goldwater, a piece he's doing on his retirement that he won't pay. I'm wondering if you could tell me how you think Americans would remember Senator Goldwater if he steps down and shit. I hope they'll remember him as he honestly is. I think this, I think Barry Goldwater, even in the face of a defeat in his campaign for president, but he made a mark that I think changed the course the Republican party with and to what it presently is. He, uh, did you stay in touch with him very much? Oh yes, yeah. Good, another question on Supreme Court. Are you pleased with today's vote by the Judiciary Committee to recommend? No one has come in and told me how they vote. Thirteen-five on a request. I'm not sure what the vote was escalated, but they approved him too. Not pleased, yes. It should have been unanimous to vote cases, but there were some there that I think were 10 toward each. People back in Phoenix want to know why have two-thirds of your Supreme Court appointees been from Arizona and how many more than they expect? Well, that didn't figure in. It was the individuals themselves that... There's nothing special about Arizonians that qualifies them for this. Well, no, don't tell me saying that because that's been kind of a second home to Nancy and me for a decade and years. Okay, I think that will pretty much do it, Ari. I appreciate that. Though I would be remiss if I did not show you a picture of my new baby daughter, who at the age of four months had dinner at the White House when we had a backstage tour here one night and she got hungry and whipped down a bottle. Well, now let me just say having preceded you a long time in this sort of thing let me warn you, enjoy it because day after tomorrow she'll be as tall as you are. Thank you so much, Mr. President. I think they might as well just come in and sit down. Thank you very much for those. So what would you attribute the late interest which has been posed by members of the Senate as well as the high officials of your government regarding the fact that the New Mexico government? Well, maybe it has come about because of some of the things the... such as the closer relationship now with regard to drugs and so forth. But it was something that I had determined we needed before I became president that here we are, three neighbors here in North America, Canada, the United States, Mexico, from north to south, and that I just thought that there should be a closer relationship between these three and so President Delemaud Ridd and I have met every year. In fact, our first meeting was when he was just the president-elect before he'd even taken office and we have kept that relationship going and I think it is closer and better. And I know right now on the problems, drugs that concerns us both the Attorney General of Mexico and our Attorney General are working very closely together. Mr. Reagan, what would be the most important result of the conversations that you held to with President Delemaud Ridd yesterday? Well, again, as I say, as we keep in touch, you know, I've always believed that you want to get in trouble when you're talking about each other and talk to each other. And we discussed a number of things. Our concerns in Central America with regard to the Nicaragua situation, again, the drug policy and strengthened again our resolve to work together and resolving that. And also the economic problems that are besetting Mexico and how we could possibly cooperate and work and help them through this particular period. Did you reach some agreement in the problem of Nicaragua? Yes, I think we did. Mainly, I think what was necessary was it was an opportunity for me to reassure him as to what our intentions were and what it was we were trying to bring about there. You are important, and the points of view are different. You still want to push against the Nicaragua because it's a dictatorship. And I respect with this $100 million to reach what? Well, since we have met nine times with the leaders of the Sandinista government in an attempt to get them to agree to sit down and negotiate with the others who were in the revolution against Samoza and who are now the freedom fighters because the Sandinista seized power and violated the pledge that they had all made to the Organization of American States, a pledge that their goal, a revolutionary goal was democracy, free speech, free Democrats, free labor unions, all the things associated with democracy. When the Sandinistas took over, they ousted their former allies and they made a totalitarian government. And what our attempt has always been in these nine meetings with them is to persuade them to sit down and negotiate the democratization of Nicaragua, to return to those principles that they had once pledged. And in every instance, the freedom fighters had agreed with us, they would lay down their arms to come to the table and have a peaceful political solution to the problem. And nine times there was failure on the part of the Nicaraguans, or the Sandinista government, they refused. We believe that it's going to take the pressure of the freedom fighters. And what we really think would be the best goal is if they have the strength to exert leverage on the Sandinista government, then we could still have a peaceful political settlement. And the alternative would have to be then if Nicaragua still won't see the light, the Sandinista government won't. Then the only alternative is for the freedom fighters to have their way and take over. So do you think these $100 million are enough to pressure them? Well, it depends on how long it might take for a resolution of this problem. But I think right now it can go much further than most people think it will. Because, you know, the needs of fighters or soldiers using guerrilla tactics are much less than those of a more formal military structure. As a matter of fact, the rule of thumb in such a relationship is that normally a government with its forces has to outnumber the guerrillas 10 to 1 in order to succeed. Thank you, Mr. President. Do you think there's any danger in Mexico for the democracy because it's the way to come to the United States by the Nicaraguan communist people? Well, I don't know whether I understand your question. Could there be any danger that Mexico might be the bridge in order that communism might go through there in order to reach the United States? Well, let me just answer that in a broader sense. The Sandinistas themselves, early on after they took over, they proclaimed that their revolution was not going to be confined to their own borders. In other words, they were going to pursue communist revolution throughout Latin America. Now, that was their statement, not ours. And so I feel we ought to take up their word. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Pleasure. Hi, Mr. President. Nice to see you again. We appreciate, Mr. President, very much for hosting the Vote America lunch in here two weeks ago at the White House. It was a tremendous success, and we appreciate your support of our program. We're very, very grateful. Vern is president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, and his association has donated 10,000 billboards to run at 8,000 markets to get the message to our young people, 18 to 24 to please register and vote. He has a small mock-up here that I'd like to show you. I'd like to present that to you, Mr. President. We have the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. How many small businesses are there? Very much. We have to work to be a part of making America's youth a cognizant of the city to vote. I think that's one of the 10,000 of these. Full size. Full size. That's a little mock-up, right? We're so grateful to you for what you're doing. It's our pleasure. This is from Martin. We really enjoyed being part of the program. It's just strange that there are the lowest percentage of moorings in this age group. That's right. We're going to get that up. Well, youngsters are in the cars today, and that's where we'll be finishing. We'll reach them. I think it's great to be part of the group when they were here before about Will Rogers' statement. Will Rogers said that the people we elect upon the office are no better and no worse than anyone else, but they're all better than those who don't vote at all. That's great. That's great. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you very much. Thanks for everything. God bless. Thank you, sir. Okay, we have 10 shots. Giving us the opportunity to serve on your team, and hopefully to get you to play on our team and to present you with our White House Fellows Ball Camp.