 The first dinner was held on the White House News Photographers Association in honor of the President of the United States. A picture of that event was to celebrate professional life and it's our association to prove more professional. It is my honor to say that on our 65th anniversary of the White House News Photographers Association, today we're honoring you. You are the first president of this organization to serve a third consecutive term. Congratulations to the White House News Photographers Association on your 65th anniversary. I guess I better begin with an apology for being a little late. I told the man at the hotel desk I was looking for a room full of people in blue jeans. I said, we're late to see you without all those foreign-made cameras for once. I was told as the press plane entered Tokyo airspace for the summit. Your equipment started beeping, home sweet home. But there isn't a person here who is willing to go to great lengths to get a good shot. Just this afternoon I stepped outside the Oval Office to feed the squirrels. Six photographers came out of the bushes. I was okay, I had enough peanuts to go around. For instance, I told everybody, my right side is my good side. My far right side. Keeping my right side to the cameras is no problem when I walk home from the Oval Office in the evening. But morning is a different thing. You know what it's like to start the day by walking to the office backwards? Tim O'Neill once asked me, how do I keep looking myself looking so young for the cameras? I told him I have a good makeup team. The same people have been repairing the statue of liberty. I know that sometime there's a little professional jealousy between you and the other news people in the White House, especially the TV reporters. One item I hear from time to time is how much more those TV journalists get paid. But I do have to understand how they have to spend the difference on hairspray. But the serious protest moment, new work has an appeal and a power roll of its own. The TV reporter is on for a few minutes and then he's off. Your work lasts. The print journalist may be able to analyze and explain a story at length. Your work presents a story in a second, vividly, unforgettably. It was a photographer, Matthew Brady, who gave us the images of Lincoln that fixed the face of that great president in the mind of every school child. It was news photographers who gave us pictures of the epic battles of World War II. The Marines, struggling to rage the flag on Igwo Jima. Landing barges crashing ashore on the Normandy beaches. And his news photographers, the photographers here in this room, who have shared with the country both the high drama and the simple humanity of this office, the presidency. Sanding, for example, JFK concentrating his desk by John John, right up the floor. Your work is not passing that so much of the news. But a living part of our historic record. And now I talk long enough, and can lay like a ball of lines. I think you're supposed to come over here and look in the three of us for the sense of awards. As our suggestion, do flip a coin. And you decide who keeps it for six years. John and Reeves will come up here. To all of you. Thank all of you very much. God bless you.