 I just left your stomping. I got everything started Take the left chair over there. Well, I didn't have chance to say hello this morning Thank you all for coming down. And I understand what the house did, you know, the pressure and all of you are very concerned about the same things you said, wasn't it? We've got some things that we're planning and all, but I still feel adamantly opposed to punitive sanctions because they would do to the wrong people over there, but I'm supposed to hear from you, so I want to take her off. Well, I just say, you know, it recently is known that aiming birds all over me during the little trying to work out the schedule was a balance. Mr. President, good to see you. Chairman Luger for a revisit. I want to introduce you to my constituents, Debbie Rayholt and Bobby Rayholt, the president of the family who led her in the winter of the 500th and winter of yesterday. You went yesterday in Toronto. We're on a hot spring. That's right, that's right. It was a race that almost couldn't be run until it came out. Well, I thought somebody had said, what were you going to talk about? And I said, well, I knew the president at one time had been a sports announcer and had done some racing, I think. Well, no, I wasn't talking about it, and I remember, I know that everybody, even if you're younger, you remember the name of Barney Goldfield. Oh, sure. But when he retired from that, he got a job with one of the, well, with Chrysler. And he used to travel around, he was still in Kansas, in our town where they were having a state fair. And he had a car, and what he used to do was give safety lectures and so forth, but doing so advertising. You won't believe this, you think, was made up. I interviewed him on the radio station. And then, this evening, we were going out to the fair, and I'm going to drive out with him, and a cop picked this up. He was going through it too fast. And that day, the running board was out of the car and everything. It was always standard that the policeman would put his foot on the running board and then say, what do you think you are? And believe it or not, he said it. Barney said, yes. The policeman didn't know, and he knew who I was. The policeman did the vocally there, and I said, officer, I'm just Barney, no fear. He didn't give me the day. Well, after he qualified two years ago, I was down there, and he came to me and said, do you think there's any way I can get a picture of President Reagan? Because I'm a strong supporter, it is. I came back here and wrote down to the liaison people, and I sent them out to him. They got on our way down to all of my office. I think you're doing great things. Proud of you. You're a pretty good answer. Oh, I think so. He's charged the track. We're alumni of Denison University together. We have that tie also. We're proud of you. We're proud of you. At the senator, we get the magazine from Denison University, and we're very proud of you. The senator has been a great ambassador to our school. We have some things that you thought you might like for your memorabilia at some point. That's a picture of our team the day after the 500. Thank you very much. You're very welcome. And we thought we'd make you an honorary member of the Budweiser Tree Sports Racing Team. Of course now, if you ever come to a race, you have to wear this. I think we ought to get a good group photo grab here. I just read the inscription. Thank you. Mine's kind of honorary. Yours is for me. No, no, no. Your job is much tougher than mine. Going on around the track, and that's where there's a bookmark. Oh, thank you. This is key ring now. Put the key on there. I will. Thank you very much. I will. A great honor. Well, very much. Thank you very much. Nice meeting you. Thank you again. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Our great win in the house on the Karate. Thank you. He's a good man. He's a good stage, isn't he? You are just unbelievable. Our support and best wishes to you. Thank you. I'm glad to see you. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm just going to remember it all. Good to see you. Good to see you. I guess we should let everyone see you. Now, that's on campus. They do that. It's a photo, Jack, but... I'll tell you what happened to you and Elizabeth in 1976. I was there at the holiday evening. It was when you were campaigning, and a fellow took this with a telephoto lens, and then he's been working on it up until about six or nine months ago. Little by little. Little by little. And he repainted it and did the whole thing. And how did they do this on campus? You know, his name is on the back of the photographer. Yes. Phil Berkeblon. Well, listen, when you... maybe I can get my ring and thank him myself for doing this, or would you prefer to thank him? I think he'd be delighted if he ever got a call from you, but I think he'd be very grateful. All right. Well, I shall do that, and thank you very much. You're welcome. Good to see you. I just wanted to mention one of the people you met up with Elizabeth a couple of times, and they were very, very pleased by what you did recently. They're glad that you speak with us. As one person put it to me, maybe one of his, they said, you know, I supported President Reagan on aid to the countries. He said, but we have a bigger problem. He said, from communism within. He said, and I think that's what's behind this whole business. So, Ben, I want to give you a little personal letter of appreciation. And I would hope, you know, that the Narcotics Officers Association and the Majority would hope that you'd do a lot more of the Army, even if it means sealing off the borders. It's the only way you can stop it. I know that's not the purpose of the visit, but thanks very much. Good to see you. Good to see you. I don't know. As Perry Coma used to say, I've got letters, lots and lots of letters. That's what I hear. Our National Guest Guest Guest Club, or it's our Golden Guest Guest Club, put this on as a project, third grade to sixth grade, to write to you, because as the walk of the child, they'll hear about peace. And so I have about 1,300 letters from... 1,300? Yes, sir. Good. And some of them are very interesting. Some of the top ones are some of the better ones. They've sorted them out. But they written to you about peace. For heaven's sakes. Well, would you please continue my thanks to the Kiwanis for their... We serve our... We serve the well. We're going to work with your staff to see if I can get a signed letter from you for each of those as well. Each of the photographs, not your personal signature, but somehow get a response to each of them. We're going to work with your staff here and see if it can be done. All right. Thank you so much. Well, thank you very much. Well, listen, thank you for the help there. We'll be down tomorrow. We'll be down... Step toward peace. We'll be down tomorrow. Yes, I know. We'll see you about that. Okay. Thank you so much. All right. Mr. President, how are you, sir? Fine. Thank you very much for taking time. We have a nice present. This is Alan Marriage from Mountain Home, Idaho. He sculpted this for you. This is Idaho Cherry, California Redwood for you. Well, my godly thank you very much. And that's very generous of you to do this. You know, I'm always embarrassed about saying thanks because I think if I say thanks, it sounds like I'm saying I look good. I just look like... You do look good, Mr. President. But no, thank you. Let me hold that. I don't think shake hands with the present there. All right. Okay, thank you. Now, Mr. President, if you need a place to set that for a couple of years till you go back to California, I'd be glad to keep it on loan from you and we'll put it right in my office where all the people come in so you can think about that. Well, but that's probably be putting it in some place here and then until we can... because I see a future for that at the Presidential Library. That's right. I mean, that's what I think. That's perfect. I salute you for the new regular with the White House. All right with you, people. I'll see you for a while. That's fine. All right. We'll keep it down here. I mean, I want to take away from you right now that I just wanted to make that offer. Well, thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Delilah's going to be coming out since again. Things are going better in my campaign here. I don't know whether you've got any reports, but we picked out... Oh, good. ...they took the money back ahead now. So... All right. I have to tell you, I'm always baffled by you, Woodcarve. I mean, he didn't... How long does it take you, Alan? Oh, a couple hundred hours overall. Oh, not that. I had to study it all back then. I wasn't even a good whittler. I'll need it. Hi, Gumby. Oh, thank you very much. What's your name, sir? It's a real pleasure to meet you. Good to meet you, too. He's... His mother's a barit-cho. Mm-hmm. So he's a bass, like your friend Paul Bassett. Oh, wow. There are a few of us. Let's just go ahead and sit down. That's fine. Yes. Okay. All right. Thank you again, Mr. President. Thank you. All right. You bet. You look good. I feel good. And we really appreciate the action of Clayton Yider and Mack Baldridge on these specific gunfare trade practices. We really appreciate it. It's meaning a lot to people out there. Yeah. So we've got to keep doing it. We've got to stay on that. And that's the best way to fight the trade. I always have to give you my little lobby. Mr. President, this is the President of the Postmaster's Association, Mr. Hugh Davis. Thank you so much for having me here today. Well, I'm pleased to have you. The first second time I was here, you came to Clanton, Alabama when you were a friend of the office and you spoke at a football stadium. The smallest town you've probably ever spoken in. And I shook your hand at the Holiday Inn. Okay. Ever since. And now I'm President of the National Association of Postmasters. I want you to know here that as part of the federal government, we're here to back in support you and do what's best for the American people. Well, thank you very much. Thank you very much. And I want you to know that we're working for you. I appreciate it. We would like to have a picture, and we'd want it, but if you don't mind, by using your picture on the front page of our national magazine and with my friend Jerry here, and President just came back from hell, you know. He did, and I got to miss it because I was here in Washington. It would be possible to take just one minute to sit at the desk with you to make it look like I was officially... I want you to work for it one or the other. And we want to take a lot of your time there, but it does mean a lot to us. Well, I thought it would be close to being your best customer. I understand that you know it's about $500,000 a month here. Well, we do appreciate it because without it, we wouldn't have a job. We've paid it for 210 years. We want to keep it. And I'd like to just keep in the back of your mind if I can make that something official in half a minute. When they get ready to appoint a new postmaster general next month, we'd like to have someone from within the side of the postal service if Mr. McKean and the other board of governors could see fit. We've got $700,000 with qualified cane, and you feel like you want to insert a word? We'd appreciate it. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate your time. I wish you the best of luck. God bless you and your family. Thank you very much. You know where we're going now about it. How about the South African? South African, you know, prevo? Yes, I think so. Still keeping an eye on what I'm going to be saying to you. I don't like apartheid, but I like commoners. At least the ball, I think. Yes. And it's improving. Yeah. And that's it for you. But we're going to try to be as helpful as we can. We're going to do the job that you've got to do. Oh, God bless you, sir. You know, you can do sanctions. I've heard the people talk. Can you say that? Thank you so much. Thank you. When could we contact someone? I'll get him. Mr. President, this is Katie Lauer. Congressman Bill Lauer. It's a pleasure. It's just a pleasure. Well, nice to see you. Well, it's nice to see you. Hello, Mr. President. My name's Ashley. We practiced. Hello, Mr. President. My name's Bill. Good to see you. And this is Thomas. Hi, Thomas. Thomas Harrington. Hi, Thomas. Thomas likes your house. Good. Why don't we come over here and get a group? That would be great. This is great. My heart can maybe stop pounding so fast. I'm holding my gun. Oh, OK. There's a trauma. Is there something from the Miramar Naval Air Station? Well, we understand you might have seen the movie the last time. Yes, did see a week. We landed up at Camp David. Did you like it? Yes, very much. Well, well... The top man should get a top gun here, right? Well, listen, I know that meeting a family with somebody in public life this way is not the easiest thing in the world. It's got its rewards. We're enjoying it. I know that there's someone here who is not too many weeks from now is going to have a birthday. Actually, it exists in here as a jar with a seal. Nice to see you, Ahmed. And in the jar are jelly beans. And the aces might be an attenuation for some of you to get into them. Sooner or later, Mama and Papa would like to have you. Why, there's a little sample of what's in the jar. If you want to thank you, Mr. Brett. Thank you, Mr. President. That would be the specialist gift you get. No, no. Actually, don't present all the jelly beans. See, in the jar will be jelly beans. You can be eight, that's for you. As a mother, I just want to thank you and Mr. Brett. I'm going to be in the middle of dogs. Because I look at these little innocent people and I think how long can it last. Black jelly beans? We're seeing a black jelly bean. I'm going to be trying to be kind. I'm going to be trying to be kind. You're never going to do that. The only way is better than one. I just want to really thank you. Anything we can do, we'll go out and walk in and talk and do our part too. I'm going to make a joiner, just say no. That's right. That's Hunky Brewster for just saying no. All right. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I know obviously we're always sure to appreciate it. We appreciate it very much. Good to see you. Thank you, Mr. President. You're more than welcome to anything. Sure. I know Mrs. Reagan is probably like that. She doesn't like to wear a lot of things on her head at all times. I'm going to have to go to the ranch when she's out there. So I'm going to be coming in and working as my protector. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you again. Thank you. This is a thank you very much. Well, I want to thank you for the privilege and honor of serving. I'm going to leave you this letter. It's just in two words what it says. The effort to fund the Civil Rights Commission is an effort to strangle the truth before it's broken. There are four reports that are due to be myth distressed and will tell the world that the early exception of your administration yesterday is just not through. And I hope they won't let it be until those reports are out. Then I'd like to see you go out of business by giving your staff the basic reasons for not saying that. The only other thing I want to take this opportunity to say, Mr. President, is that I just come back from Israel and now the chairman of the President's Conference. Yes. Say that the confidence of people in you and your administration is absolutely superb. And you are much loved and respected. They are, of course, in this community. Reading the Daily Press. No one. Yes, it's the truth. I, the prime minister, I stress with you one thing, which I have stressed at this time, and I'm stressed at this, right, Mr. Bush is going out. And that is if you could have an arrangement by which Israel enjoyed the preferences of NATO in terms of prices of the military hardware that it does so that it gets a very hardware effect, don't have price increase, which is not a dependable alloy. And I think the economic conditions are greatly improved. That is a big study of that. That is a first point. As far as the present problems are concerned, they realize that many links have nothing to do with this administration. Nothing to do with it means nothing whatsoever to do with all the shifts he created with a lot of respect to it. But we can't do that with a total difference. I know. It wouldn't really be as bad if some of you, if all of the leaks were honest. I'd say I'm a total extortion of what's going on. Clusterbond is actually a distortion. President, finally, when I was over here last time, I told you that I met Franklin Roosevelt when I was a 19-year-old boy at Walnut Springs in the North of New York County, Mississippi. And I said, I don't smoke. Sure, I won't take it without the President. I'd have to be home. And I said to you, you have jelly beans. I want a 20-year-old jelly beans. And you put them in a symbol, and I say, oh, I'd ask you to put your joint handcock on that envelope. But my children won't believe it unless you do that. We're having sex. But you rushed over and got an envelope because you said you can't walk out of the room that way. Oh, I missed that move there. Well, that's fine. I want you to know that it's been a great pleasure to serve you, and I certainly wouldn't have resigned. Well, listen, I know you were able to get a majority and would you go take that majority? Well, I'm grateful for all that you've done. Thank you, sir, and your courage. Thank you so much, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you, sir. And said the speech was outstanding. You know, her remarks to me came at an appropriate moment because I just came from watching on TV there the Democratic answer and Mr. Weicker and a few of the other people. And the whole thing sounded like a complete disaster. She said she was, of course, carrying on CNN and she watched CNN afterwards and they had a colored member of the South African Parliament, the opposition party, on it. And he was saying what a great speech he thought it was, how he thought that you understood thoroughly what the problem was, how sensitive you were to the issues and what you recommended were exactly the right things to do. Everybody else is saying I didn't recommend anything to do with it. But the CNN commentator sort of taken aback by the positive support. I didn't see that. Mr. President, Dr. Clay. Mr. President. Thank you very much, sir. And Dr. Wilkney is our Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Space and we have completed our work. Jim, good to see you again. And Dr. Johnson, the science advisor. We've got the final product to turn it over to you of our final report of the National Commission on Space. We're so proud of it and so pleased to have the chance to get it to you. We also have a leather bound edition for the library which I assume will be out at Stanford somewhere. Give a little class. But the one that we're distributing to the public is this abandoned books version here. We're just so proud and pleased to be able to give it to you today. Well, thank you very much, and I appreciate all that you've done. I believe very much in this program that we are the leaders of therapy. Continuing on that, I think that this thing, I look forward to implementing the recommendations. Well, wonderful. We think that we've got a number of things here that are consistent with the notion of America as a pioneer nation, a vigorous young nation, and we don't have to spend all the money this year. We understand the problems. But we think it's important to know where we're going and try to lay out a program. But I think we'll be consistent with your view of the United States. By the way, there's some fabulous pictures, cartoons, that you can just thumb through and we'll take a look. We'll paint it by some of the best artists in the country, by the way. Well, since we had the artwork done, we decided we'd also make a video tape of the thing, because we can, you know, come in with the camera. So we've also put together a 30-minute video of a presentation of our report, which we're giving. We've given one to every one of the school teachers in the school teacher and space program for her to use in her classroom. And we'd like to also give you a copy of our 30-minute video. Thank you very much. I look forward to running that. Oh, we have to call the Escher's office. Tell them to tell us what channel we're putting it on. Well, you know, we had our first open public forum in Los Angeles and Louis Lamour, the Western author, came in and testified. And he gave such an eloquent comparison of the space frontier of the next century with the Western frontier of the last century that we asked him to appear and he gives us a little bitch in there about the importance of the frontier in America's life. Well, I'm a great fan of yours. I've read quite a number. You can't say you've ever read them all in Los Angeles. But I've read a number of them and I don't know if you know about his latest one. I've written in the same kind of format and all. It takes place in Siberia. It is modern. And he is one of our fliers. But he is Indian. And he has been taken prisoner in a devious conflict. There again to get information out of him. He escapes. And now he is making his way through the mountains of Siberia over the course of his return. And all in all, it is native instinct as an Indian and everything in this. The big search, the sound for him and everything. And I couldn't believe it. These numbers have the same intentions of being taken location and everything and where the streams and rivers and ridges are and so forth. I just wish we had the movie rights. Thank you again, President. Thank you. The light has turned it over to you. Thank you. Well, you've already directed your Office of Science and Technology Policy in 60 days to come back with some specific recommendations and we're looking forward to doing it. And you'll not want to touch the work. Yes. I got confused, I think, without thinking. I was interpreting 88 and something like that to the fourth shuttle. No, no. 88 is just when we expect to fly again first quarter. Now, what delay, is there going to be with all of this and with the delay in going to our space station program? Well, it depends really on whether we get the replacement orbiter. We can get that, it can be slipped a little bit, but if we get that in time to start building the space station in 1992, we'll be in good shape. We only have three orbiters. We may have to stretch out that time, but we could delay a little bit on the fourth orbiter and still be there in time for the space station. And now that is the schedule to time for it. In other words, no delay has been brought about by the Challenger in the beginning. Not by the Challenger, no, not at all. We expect to be back on track just when we sat in the first quarter. I hope it's early in the first quarter. I had someone leaning on me about that and that Russia was now going to advance and I would leave office and five years from now would be castigated as a man that let the Soviets beat us down in space. No, not on account of the delay in the flying again. And hopefully the space station won't get delayed either, but that depends really. We could probably do it with three orbiters, but it would be a tight program to try to do it with three orbiters. And we're still waiting a decision. We're going to have it spread in the city in this coming Friday. I heard that. Is it firm now? It's firm. Somebody just told me that it was not going to be on Friday. No. I'm supposed to be in Houston settling the Texas delegation down in Friday, but I'll be here. That's why I heard that you weren't going to be here sort of in the suburbs. It would be better if you could, because this is a mighty angry delegation. They're angry because they think we shifted some work from the Johnson Space Center to Huntsville, which we didn't. Whatever you say, I'll be there. But Monday would be better. All right. There are several decisions, Mr. President. One is the question of whether we have a push-up or not, and I think you already have one. The question is, will you start funding it? And that does impact on the space station. If it waits too long, it'll be crowded up on the space station, but we don't want that to happen. But we'll talk about it when we get together, Mr. President. Sorry about the confusion. No, I just let myself get confused. Okay. Thanks, Mr. President.