 Well, hey, hey, listen, my vice-president of the Army, Bill Piper, from out in Oregon, Coast Guard vice-president, then departs from your state, California, as well as Iowa. Please be patient. And according to Carl Sirwin, the vice-president for the Air Force, and of course, you know, General Roberts, our executive executive. Thank you, sir. I'm going to talk about your commissioning right there for the morning. Yes, sir. We'll bring back members of the day. So we get down into business, we thought we'd bring you a member of R.O.A. You've got to turn it over there. So you don't get into any trouble at home. So you don't get into any more trouble, there's a spare set. There's a pair of them. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. God bless you. And I also appreciate all that you've all done in support of our AWACS program. And a few other things that you've helped on. We'll meet your support and your support, and we'll keep having that together. Amen. Amen. Thank you, sir, for your support on the registration thing. And we know that was a very difficult matter, and we want you to know how much we respect the problems that you have in those kinds of situations. Well, I'll tell you, it wasn't so difficult, because I am opposed to the draft. I still believe that you're doing what is the most necessary thing we must have, and that is the organized reserve that must be present in this bill. But I had opposed the registration when Selective Service itself earlier said that it would only increase mobilization by a few days. It doesn't seem to be wasted again. Well, the latest manpower study revealed that it would save 42 days, and it seemed to me that it was worth it. Let me take those on. Well, Mr. President, you have a photo in front of the fireplace. All right. God bless you, sir. We'll follow you. Let me know. I've got a little kinship with you. Where do we... How do you want it, sir? How do you want it, sir? All right. Come on in tight. All right. A little kinship here, you know. It's the worst cavalry, but... Well, we're keeping the fort open for you, sir. My unit... I'll be there this weekend again, and... That's about a station there now. I have the largest reserve army support unit, it's at 130 Costco. In fact, this weekend, our counterpart is from Germany without getting into... And we need continued support. And I think that's a key on the budget area. The reserve is still the most economical force that we've got. Yes. I think we think that's a mistake, our association, where we're having to eliminate about 10 or 12 percent of the Coast Guard. We've cut to 10 or 12 percent. We're... Well, the things... Actually, it was... I think that it was aimed at things not actually having to do with, you know, the functions out there that they... The whole Coast Guard is an armed service. Yeah, absolutely. For mobilization, it's, you know, not only 100 percent, but maybe 200 percent of the Coast Guard is armed. But the Navy wants... We're just appealing for you to look at that. Sure, because I will. But I was assured that it was not actually getting into the... The meat that... We went over to see Secretary Goodwin recently, and that's... The news isn't too good. We're concerned. We are. I think the front... Military perception. Very good. There are lots of things in the Air Force, as well as in other ways. But in the Air Force, the reserve carries out a very large percentage of the activity of the total Air Force mission. We think that we can do a lot more of those things at very cost-effective basis, for about 30 to 40 percent of what it costs to have a full-time on some of those response orders. You suppose I should confess to him that it's a horse gallery, and I flew a desk for four years, and broke over two for the Air Force. Well, that's alright. Another appointment. Alright. I'm from Ireland, and I'm going to do a lot more. Enjoy. What do you get? Virtually. Of course, I guess now I can confess that a doctor helped me cheat. You get my commission on the counter. What he did was... He let me... He let me put my own hand over my... I mean, with all the glasses. And, you know, if you push a pinhole in the air, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, it's like, there's a pinhole in a piece of paper or something, and look through it if you're near sighted. It acts the same as a lens. You can see. So what I was really doing was reading the card with this on. I got the commission on... When the war came, you couldn't get away with that. They stood there with that black paddle over there, and I remember when they finished the test of a Fort Mason where I was first on duty. I went to medical officers there and they finished testing my eyes, and one of them asked me how I got the commission, and I said, well, that's a long story. And the other one says, well, you're a limited service. I didn't know that man then, and then he explained it to me, but he said, you're a limited service. And he said, we sent you overseas, you'd shoot the general. Forgive me if the other doctor says, and you miss him. I'll have to give you a short message for the NATO. You know, there's a reserve side of NATO too. The Federation has been for a long time. The President is very glad to be here. Well, nice to see you and congratulations. Thank you, sir. I'd like to introduce you, Jack Tancrede. Jack Tancrede. I'd like to introduce you. I'm Benovo Lyre. I'm the President. Hi, pleasure. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. I'm Emilio Krier. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. I'd like to go in from the far place. All right. They like a group picture. Right there. All right. For a perfect application, do you mind if we work? Not at all. Not at all. I'd be the only one without one. I'd insist. I thought I'd be a coach. So I had one. No, he's upstairs. No, he's not. Are you on there? Sure. They don't even know. There you go. Well, thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you. Well, listen, thank you. All right. What was your present? Well, things like egg wax. And I'd like it if you'd continue to give us that support on that defense program. We're going to have to have that. Without that, you do find a few points. I know that right here, the President is a copy of all of our resolutions that require legislation, which we have a lot of defense issues in there, as well as concern for veterans. Well, thank you. And in addition, we have a letter here asking you to wish and you take part in our boy's tape program. And they need to be here in July. The boy's tape program concerns the junior high school student who was given the opportunity to study the government at the local level and go out to state. And with this, we're going to have to each state here at the National University of Massachusetts. They've been passed. They've been able to meet out in the city garden. And we hope that you can find your schedule. You might be able to... I hope I can, too. I know they're planning a lot of trips and things down the road for me. I don't know just when they're going to take place, but isn't this the same thing as it used to as a governor? Yes, sir. Mm-hmm. That's right. California. Another letter we have is an extended invitation to come to our National Convention in Chicago on August of 2026. It would be a flexible day there with my future schedule. And I want to tell you that back in 6667, when I was state commander of Texas, I went through my Republican committee trying to get you a nice picture for the Department of Convention. And they said, you couldn't leave California. I'm hoping to make this... But we do have that invitation to be lettered to my president. Oh, that's great. And then there's one other subject I'm bringing up. Last year, a couple of times this year, you talked about voluntarism. Well, this is what we're all a bit about. We have been for 63 years. I know. And as you know here, we've got figures here that have 40 million people that's 3 out of 10 to a later time, which that gives you a figure of about 3.5 million people working full-time for one year. When we have 3.5 million people within our organization, auxiliary, we're a good percentage of that time. That's just about the total of 2.6 million members. But last year, we gave over two and a quarter million hours to the administration hospital, over 281,000 pints of blood, over 500 hours to the community service. And so we have worked in many fields, and we've contributed over $500 million to our children's programs such as Boy's State, North Oregon, what have you. But the one thing that you could have us on is the fact that being a volunteer server, we've been a great deal on our programs such as Bingo and the IRS Tax and Unrelated Income worked a hardship on our volunteer program. It takes money away from us to carry on these volunteer programs. And then the program of a volunteer worker is where they can deduct $0.09 on a service. We would not see that increased to $0.20 a mile where we crawled for interest within the volunteer worker. And of course, there's a copyright bill on the music in there and all of that. That's taxation and personal organization. It takes away from the funds we have for our community service. And any help you could give us an output would be great. He said he happens to be my choice, but I know there are other views by us. We ought to hear all of the arguments first. Good. I saw you being unfairly treated on the air. Well, that's nightline show. Yeah. You watched that over the weekend. All right. Yup. I saw you being unfairly treated on the air. Oh, that nightline show? Yeah. You watched that over the weekend? Yeah. I don't like the thing I know will not be very I appreciate it, no, I think you didn't find it. They were actually unfairly treated, it was very obvious that when you were on, they'd keep cutting away with that smirking editor, or when he was on, they didn't cut away. They had left him half out of there. Geez, he was up. If he were in Hollywood, I can tell you automatically he would play villains. They gave one look at his face and you'd don't like it. But how is the discussion Des Moines, so mean? Oh, they've got the Des Moines registry number. Yes. I know, but if I didn't interrupt anyone, I mean if you know a few things, I know Dave has briefed you and said, practically anything I say will probably be repeating, then I'll justify it on the grounds that it bears repeating. I know that I've been reading a lot and enjoying it less about deep budget cuts and the social programs and how we're over-standing on defense and it's kind of inhumane and so forth. And I don't know whether Dave has told you this or not, but actually the social reform cuts don't sound so deep when you recognize that not counting social security for a number of years, they've been increasing in the way of 15% a year in cost. And they're still increasing in the 83 by 60, not 15%. We think that's a goal to be aimed at. And that we're actually spending almost as much on the elderly alone as we are on national defense with the vet what we're spending next year and the elderly will be twice as much as it was five years ago. And I know on the State of the Union address, I spoke at 95 million meters that we're subsidizing, that's one out of seven, 19 million people are still left on food stamps. But what I'm leading to with just these figures, not to burden you with a lot of statistics, is that much of what we're trying to do is not to take away from those that truly are in need, but to recognize that the goal from the very beginning with regard to those programs, and let's say sung them up in the subject well there, should always have been to see how many people each year, how much we could increase the number of people who were made independent of those services and self-sufficient. But what we've created is a permanent structure and an bureaucracy for whom the poor have become a clientele. And so in good times and bad, we find this great increase in need. And we think that what we're trying to do is some of the programs, some of the changes we're making are not just aimed at cutting down the numbers of people, but aimed at this more constructive goal in defense, get back to that for just a minute, manpower, maintenance, readiness is the biggest part of the budget. If we eliminated all of the big weapons systems, we would only reduce the 1983 budget by six and a half billion dollars. And yet doing that would be unilateral disarmament, which I think would send the worst message we could possibly send all over the world. The defense spending, the 6.3% of the gross national product in the decade of the 50s, it was 90%. And the last thing I'll say isn't we believe that the answer to the deficit problem, the answer to the things that have been going on is restoration of the economy. We know there's a limit below where you can't go in cutting government spending in order to raise that deficit. But we know the raising taxes and do it, because we've been raising taxes for years. And consistent with that had been the continued deficits when they won balance budget in 20 years. But we do believe that the way to end that is to increase government revenues by increasing the economic base and the number of people who are taxpayers and not subsisting on tax funds. And we think that our tax program is geared to doing that. I just had one figure here that I wanted to, I'd like to find one that I know Dave hasn't used yet. My one he doesn't know. Well, let me just give you an example of this, of what we're talking about in these social reforms. In the Great Storm we cut CEDA and job training program. 1980s budget was $3.2 billion. And we're not going to call it CEDA, but our job training program, let's say 83 budget is one point. I'm a little surprised at his proposal and they must put some of his colleagues in his own party, pretty much on the spot. Because a freeze, it sounds very simple, but a freeze would result in even further cuts than we're making in the social reforms programs. I feel very definitely, where I would disagree again, I feel very definitely that to send the CEDA with regard to defense training, that a cut in that would send would be the worst thing we could do in the international scene. I have to disagree with the freeze on that. And then of course, that freeze would also apply to the tax reform, which we think are going to offer the best opportunity of stimulating the economy. Do you see any possible, we'll grudgingly give in. That's it, that's all. Yes, I, even the talk about other taxation that would not interfere with the increase taxes over here, that doesn't interfere with the same tax rate. And if you didn't tax cut here, at the same time you get the tax increase.