 Thank you. That's the first one. Are you real president? Be sure. The last I've heard, I was. That desk was once a ship, many, many years ago, it was an English warship in the days of sailing vessels and it had gone up into the Arctic to rescue some explorers and got trapped in the ice. Some years later an American whaling captain of his ship found it and brought it out and our country fixed it all up and delivered it back to England. And some years later when the ship was decommissioned, the Queen Victoria of England had their craftsman carved out from the planks of that ship and delivered it here to the President of the United States. We raised it a little bit. Well listen, it's awfully good of you to come here. I'm very pleased to see you. I still wouldn't want to hear it. That's why we needed that to present to you that you've been here. Yes. Just don't want to hear it. In the time that they knew me, I'm coming home. You want to know something? Sometimes I don't believe I'm here. Well, thank you very much for coming. I'm watching you, man. Now she's, they have a dinner for her in California. Four years off. We got to cut these pictures. We'll send you these pictures so you'll have proof of it. Yes. Listen. I'll be back to visit you very soon. I want to join Marines. That's great. That's great. We'll introduce you to Pete Peterson, the Marine Aid to the President, right out here. Yes, sir. I heard this. This is Corporal David Bamholtzer. This is Corporal Donald Miss Duffy. I know you're both moving on. Do you know what your assignments are? Where are you going? Yes, sir. Back to the dog section. We're here in the... NTC. Same for you. Well, I'm going in further away than they have. I'm completely lost here. These are just a couple of time bars. I know you won't wear them with uniforms. When you're in submission, we'll see what happens to the presidential press on the bar. Well, thank you for being here. It's been an honor. I'm pleased to have you. Did any of you know when the young man, I understand, went out and did he tell you he wanted to join the Marines? Yes, sir, he did. He knows us quite well. Did they tell you what he had done? Why he's here? He's 14 years old. He was born at 4 feet 9. In Detroit, he saw a man dragging a little girl into an abandoned building. He ran to the first house, told them to call the police, came back out, picked up a stick, went into the building, cornered the 220,000, 650-inch man that was attacking the 11-year-old girl and held him in a corner with the stick until the police So I think he qualifies. Well, it's good to see you, sir. We'll see that you get these pictures. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. No, Mr. President. Frank, you're welcome. Well, this is a nice fish for you. I have a little argument with you. What's your estimate? I'll put it at about 35,000. Oh, boy, you're on my side. This represents, from all the western states, the conclusion of the Pacific salmon treaty. You're going up to Canada and resolve that treaty and others. This has been 14 years in the making, not this particular fish, but that treaty. Yes, I am. Well, it's 14 and a half. This is Mark O'Connel, Barry. Mark O'Connel is a legislator and was Ted Stevens' administrative assistant here in Washington for a number of years. I was with the Alec Group on Monday when we spoke on the EPD and really enjoyed it. Thank you. Well, now how close am I to the weight? It's about 12 and a half hours. We'll get you a big one down here. Oh, no, my memory tricked me. I thought I was coming close, but no. Now I remember that the fish I caught holding on here to reach the floor, I caught first time ever salmon fishing. In fact, it turned out to be the only time so far. First time I proved that beginners... Beginners lost more? About 54 pounds salmon. And son, I was remembering it as a little bit bigger than this. It was bigger than that. Yeah, it was. Now that I remember holding it out here, it touched down here. About here. I think it was about this length. That's about right. About to your elbow would be a 55 pounder, but this is a little smaller than that because it's the first one of the season. A little later in the season would be 50 pounds, Mr. President. Why do I mind that? Offshore. I was off the bounce of the river when I was getting ready. What you want to do is find out who baited your hook to because that's a real trick to catching the fish that big. My wife always baits mine, Nancy. It's an executive session, formally passed the treaty on March 7th. Great pleasure. All our colleagues on the west coast we very pushed in and put forward to not working out very well. Yes, it's good to help. Thank you. I just want to give you a little letter from our delegation and our governor. We felt that since you've extended an invitation for the summit meeting that perhaps you're looking for some neutral ground and we thought Alaskan might offer that neutral ground and as much as it's halfway. It used to belong to the Soviets. It's a security and the facility. So we are among the first to extend a possible location for the summit meeting in the United States. The Senate, he wouldn't even ask for Alaskan back. That's a good start. That's what that letter is. I want to present it on behalf of all Alaskans. You will forgive me if I say that if we accept that gracious invitation here we'll have to see the committee schedule in the summer. I understand. We have hot water in the house now. We're all set. Could I shift subject master? You hired all the young men, 12 year old that you said you were going to hire to help you do some of your work here to look at that stick. I saw him out here. He's 14. I thought he was 14 and the victim that he saved, the little girl, was 11. And the guy that he counted bathed in the building with just a stick. The day you were 6 feet 2 and 220 pounds. The day you had the meeting down here on, let's say, Cap Weinberger and George Shultz and we made it through in March he said you had to go make a telephone call you were going to try to hire him on. I swung her. I thought maybe he'd sign him up. I think he do. He is a very self-possessed young man. It's wonderful of you to take the time to give that kind of honor to those young men. Not only the courage, but the presence of mind. He saw it happen. I saw him dragging the girl in. He ran first to a house told him to call the police. Then ran back to the building to pick up the stick. Did you see one television man do his commentator asking how he felt? And he smiled. He said, oh, I feel so good. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. And with his wife and his daughter and the President of the Federal Managers Association I think that would be nice to give Mr. Scoppy and the President of the Association a couple of links. His wife, the stick pin, and his daughter, the charm. All right. And there will be one photographer in here with a present. Mr. Scoppy? Mr. Scoppy? Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. See, this is by the day. I know you were twenty-two years a Marine. But it just left you. Fourteen years old. Performed a very heroic dream in Detroit. It came in a year. He was our Marine. The dentist that he wants to join the Marines. A retired woman and a recruit. I think he has a few years to wait. A little more than four nights to grow. Mr. President, could I leave you with a hand with the Association? Slow. Thank you very much. You stand right there. Presidential seal. Thank you, sir. Oh, thank you. In case you didn't have a charm bracelet. Presidential seal. Oh. Mr. President, it was Shannon's birthday yesterday. It is. It's a letter. Do you still have to wait for your age? Up to a second. Thank you. Thank you. I made you. You and I are going to go over for a picture in front of the final place. And then you're going to come in and join us for a picture. All right. Thank you. We're going to have branches around Chicago. No, but it's closer to the San Barbara. So we'll be able to get out that way. Come in. Thank you, sir. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well, good luck to you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. President. Mr. President. Mr. President. Mr. President. You and I are going over in front of the final place for the picture. And then you two will kind of join us for the second picture. Okay. All right. Great. We can spoil it. Thank you, sir. Well, thank you. Thank you, Dave. Thank you, sir. You won't be too far away. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It's the press over there that we've got to get organized. The way I see it, there's no more fitting way to mark the coming of St. Patrick's Day than by greeting the Green Wave. So welcome to the White House, of you. Oh, we're very happy to see and meet our champions, the members of the City High School basketball championship team of 1985. And we congratulate you. And I can tell you that I know a little more about your victory than you think I do. I've heard about how Anthony Duckett, Manuel Jones, and Ernest Hall got together to control the boards. And I know that Robert Smith played with the flu. And I know that Sherman Douglas got 14 points. And I know Melvin Middleton played in spite of an injury that he received in the first play of the game. And I know that you faced a really strong and fine team in Demathe. Do I have the name right on that? All right. And that you had to work hard to win. I know all this because Kathy Reed, the wife of Joe Reed, your English teacher, is an assistant to Don Regan here in the White House. And Kathy gave us no peace. We couldn't get any work done in the White House until Spingarn won. So believe me, on behalf of a grateful nation, I thank you. We really are proud of you and of all the people who've helped you. I think you ought to be proud of your coach, John Wood, who himself graduated from Spingarn. And I hope you thank your assistant coach, Robert Burrell. This ceremony is part of a plot to wean him from his lollipops. We're going to get him on jelly beans. And I appreciate or congratulate your principal, Clemmie Strayhorn. You know the past few years, the Spingarn concert choir sung at the White House during Christmas tours. And the graduates of Spingarn include Michael Graham and Elgin Baylor, Earl Jones and Dave Bing. That's quite a powerhouse that you've been running, Clemmie. Spingarn has brought honor to this city. And even though Nancy and I came here just a few years ago, we liked it enough to ask for a few more, as you know. We feel like citizens or members of the city of Washington and we personally feel that you've done us all proud here in this city. So thanks and God bless to all of you and thank you for coming by to say hello. Mr. President, we would like to thank you for the generous invitation that you have extended to the Spingarn basketball team and also the cheerleading staff. At this particular time, we would like for you to sign a basketball for us and we will treasure this basketball for a great deal of time. This particular round here, I've got a pen. That'll be fine wherever your signature, wherever you put it. I like the room under there. Also, Mr. President, we would like to give to you something we would like for you to cherish, a picture of the Spingarn basketball team and also we would like for you to have a basketball, the basketball that we use to beat the math and we are extending that to you. Thank you. You mean I get the game ball? You get the game ball. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Very pleased all of this and to have this picture. Isn't that the Lincoln Memorial? Yes, it is. Well, that's great. It exemplifies academic excellence. Well, I'm glad to hear that that goes along with the basketball championship, too. That's fine. I must say, I'm glad there's still some here that are along about my height. You all aren't growing bigger these days. But pleased to have you welcome down. I had hoped that there was going to be an opportunity to have a little visit and I was reading about Reverend Jackson's appearance before your student body the other day. And I thought it was a very wonderful thing that he did with regard to drugs. I thought that was just great. I did, though, then think that maybe he didn't quite understand or quite understand our program with regard to aid to education for college aid. We're not really cutting that back. We're redirecting it a little. We found out and we don't think that people with incomes of $100,000 a year need your parents and others like them paying taxes to help put their kids through college. They ought to be able to do that themselves. And so what we've done is redirect the aid to people who really can claim a need for having help. And we've set a cap of so that we can increase the numbers of $4,000 of student aid in the form of jobs, grants, and so forth, which is the average across the country, total thing of tuition, fees, and so forth at all the state colleges and universities in the country. And in addition, students would be eligible for $1,000 and we actually will be spending that. So I was glad that he suggested that you ask when it started that we didn't have a chance to answer, so I just decided to hand through. Okay, here for you. But again, God bless you and congratulations. You're really 31 straight. That's quite a record. Good luck to all of you. Let me see that. Go ahead, Teresa. Let me see that. Okay. Okay. Okay Yeah, I'm going to take him to the roof