 I don't know how many of you had a chance to meet with President Magana when he was here. I think he certainly convinced me and convinced us in our meetings here that they are sincere about the efforts that they are making to improve things and to deal with human rights violations. But we all know that the appropriations thus far just aren't going to meet the objectives. If we're going to save that country, your support's been very helpful with the critically needed reprogramming. But if we don't get the rest of that money, the 30 million and the 50 million supplemental, I don't think we'll be able to save that nation. I, as I say, spoke to President Magana about the things that are a concern and I know to many of them he'll be with regard to the progress that they're making. And regarding the Bolanza blocky bill, I think its passage would effectively turn Nicaragua into a sanctuary protected from all interdiction efforts. Now the bill's correct in its findings and be helpful in uniting the American people to understand the threat. Nicaragua's the major transit point for arms sent to Cuba and I think you probably should then familiarize with these booklets that you have there. The Salvador and Gorillas rely on sites in Nicaragua for communication, command, control, and logistics. The operations in El Salvador over the FMLN are planned and sponsored or supported from Nicaragua. Gorillas are trained there in Cuba but the conclusions and remedies proposed I think are woefully deficient. The contemplated over program just can't work and I think would be incredibly expensive. Our first look at that suggests it would cost up to 300 million dollars the first year, 100 million dollars in each subsequent year against ground movement alone. And we're preparing a new finding for submission to the appropriate House and Senate committees which will allow funding for activities that are essential if we're to stop the spread of these communist-inspired insurgencies. I don't think I have to tell you, we've said it many times and I still think it's true. We're really talking about our own serious national security interests not in this whole situation down there. That's all from me because now I'm here, we're here from you so if you've been there for me but again you didn't stop and pick me up off the south lawn like I asked you to. I'm guilty sir. Listen I just want to congratulate you all. This has been a wonderful mission and I'm sure as you know already all of America was watching you and what you were accomplishing up there and it was a first in many ways one of which is the largest crew to ever go up and I guess the first retrieval of a satellite. There's another first that has been talked about incessantly and I understand that Dr. Wright wishes there wasn't so much talk about that. Well Dr. Wright let me just remind you that when we had lunch here at the White House before your flight that somebody said that sometimes the best man for a job was a woman and in this particular instance you were handling that long arm and that retrieval and all that did indicate you were there for one reason you were there because you were the best person for the job and I think that sets a standard it's going to be followed for men and women and the in the force from now on with these experiments. People are picked neither because of nor in spite of but simply because like all five of you you were the best for this assignment and you've done so much and think that people as far away as Indonesia which didn't look far away to you when you were going over but but people that far away will have better telephone service because of what you've accomplished and what you did up there it's just a most thrilling thing and I can't tell you how much all of us appreciate it but also how proud you've made everyone in America. Oh thank you I appreciate that very much. Yes we all do Mr. President and I think maybe you indicated to us the other other day when we were having lunch that seven was a particularly valuable number in your life I think you've bestowed upon us some of the luck that is associated with it and as John Favett indicated to you it was a truly international mission and it came off from our standpoint as well as we could have asked. We would have liked to have landed as a Kennedy we have lots of friends here at Edwards and we're always proud to come back. We were all hard to fly I've got a fantastic crew and hopefully we'll all get a chance to do it again sometime I think we proved that the Challenger and the Columbia before it is a super machine that can do many many things for not only the United States but for the people of the world. Well there's no question about that and all five of you here and very frankly and seriously I am sorry that the people who were all waiting down in Florida were disappointed at the fact that the the landing had to be changed because of the weather I guess still with all of our miracles that's the one thing we haven't been able to overcome yet no one could do anything about the weather but it didn't detract at all from your accomplishment and we know that you will be flying again in future columbias and challengers and you'll have the full cooperation that we can give to keep on with this magnificent work God bless all five of you thank you for what you've done for the world. Thank you very much. Thank you sir. Thank you sir. Thank you sir. All right well back to your briefing. Deep briefing. Thank you sir. Mr. President I wanted to ask if you have a comment about the Carter briefing book matter upon your aid to the letters. No I think there's much to do about nothing. The letter is going up there an explanation that I myself would like to get at the bottom of it. I had no knowledge of any such thing and frankly I don't think there ever was a briefing book as such. Is there any merit in putting the constraint below that nobody from top to bottom in the staff remembers how the book papers whatever they were got into the uh. I don't think it's a good honesty to think about a campaign of hundreds of people involved and the reviews of paper that are constantly coming in with suggestions, proposals, reports and so forth. Look ask me what paper were came to my desk last week and I couldn't tell you. Budget resolution. Thank you Mr. President. Budget resolution.