 Mr. President, the Vice President of Switzerland. Mr. Vice President, welcome. Welcome, Mr. President, to see you, dear President, and a big honor for me and for my country. Well, we're honored to have you. Yes, well, Mr. President, hello, nice to see you again. Wonderful to see you, Mr. President. I bet it's good to see you again. Thank you for your entertainment last night. Please, good evening. Hey, how are you? Good to see you, Mr. President. And we're good. How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? How are you? Tantaro, Tantaro. Tantaro, I see you. I see you. I see you. My name is Welch. How are you? Good to see you. I see you. My name is Wilch. I'm going to the Grand Festival. OK. Santa Barbara, the childcare. Hi, they're coming down now. They're right here. They're coming out at first. Well now, I'll be back. You go ahead. Hello, how are you? Hello there. I'm Rebecca Darwin. I'm the publisher of The New Yorker. I know, and I... Nice to see you. He's all gentlemen. Well. This is Gretchen D'Assimson. Hello. Nice to meet you. Nice to see you. Thank you. Hello, President Morrigan. Alicia Hahn. How are you? Just fine. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Mr. President. T. Adams. Hello there. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Ms. Adams brought her camera. Mr. President. How are you? How are you? Just fine. Good. I'm going to ask Nancy to come out with me and see the moon. Oh, yes. Very good. Thank you. George Booth. Hello, President. Nice to see you. Same here. You know that I'm not on a different path. It was on a counter trip here. I never missed that. Did you want a group? Yes, sir. I'll do that. Shall we get in here somewhere? Sure. All right. All right. Why don't you slide back so you can even cross? Okay. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, that's correct. Okay. Everybody look right here. All right. Thank you. You must be blind after all this every day. What? Blinking. Blinking. Blashes. You forget about 25 years in Hollywood. That's going to be one of somebody's favorite. Well, we'd like to present you with a gift if we could. This is our latest Cartoon album. And you can see Mr. Adams has been at work here. Yes. And also Mr. Lorenz and Mr. Booth and Gretchen has signed it for you. So I'm very pleased to give that to you. Thank you for that time reading. Could I show you a little gallery of mine that actually was inspired by my getting shot? That's your old album. Yes. Just hold right here. Just step in here. Oh. Wow. Glad to be home as a presidential lab. What? Take your picture. No. No. Put your lens on it. Cover it. I have to go to the president to keep my mouth shut a little bit. There's two ways. We don't want drug smuggling over that. No, we can't shoot at those invading planes. This policy board is under Ed Meese at the Justice Department. I can't take any flight. We have a serious meeting here on the budget and I can't switch gears. So I'm not going to take any questions. You can't switch gears today, but you're working on Mexico, I know. Mr. President, Mr. President, Lytton Opsiger was convicted on three out of four counts of illegal lobbying this morning. He's the second former close advisor of yours in the last three months to be convicted. What's your response to that? That's a question. Well, how are you going to respond to those who say this darkens the ethical cloud over your administration? I have no questions. Thank you, Ed. Any questions? I know we've got a busy session here. I haven't changed the subject just for a couple of minutes. I have just received a letter. I would even have my life for it if I had it a few weeks ago for the Congress. This letter says a few days ago I returned from Honduras where I had taken a group of Bethany College journalism students to see the real impact of the Sandinista Revolution. What we've witnessed in Nicaraguan refugee camp along the Honduras-Nicaraguan border, I believe, tells the story seldom told in media reports. Last summer I visited the same refugee camp near the town of Banley, Honduras, about 90 miles east of Tegucigal. There I met and talked to the hundreds of Nicaraguans who fled the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. There were as many heart-rendering stories as there were people, but the tale told to me by one mother was taken away. Her two teenage sons were drafted into the Sandinista army. After a brief training period, they were sent into combat and were sickened by the orders their officers gave them. They were forced to take part in raiding Indian villages, burning homes, and killing innocent villages. Unable to take this, the two boys deserted when they turned to their homes around them. They were soon captured by the Nicaraguan authorities and were beaten, tortured, and even burned. Eventually, they were returned to duty. Again, they deserved the time they fled north and joined the conference. To escape persecution, the mother fled north to the refugee camp where we found her and the rest of her family. While the supply of such stories is virtually unlimited, the real impact of the situation in Nicaragua is more apparent in the faces of the hundreds of children who live in the refugee camp. Mr. Reagan, President, they have nothing. On my first visit to the camp, I had a few packs of Del Monte trail mix in my pack. When I tried to split what I had with the hundreds of hungry children, it soon became apparent that the sympathetic gesture was a mistake that nearly ended in a riot. Then and there, I vowed that if I ever returned, I would bring enough treats for every kid in that camp. When I returned to the campus where I teach, Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia, I wrote about my experience in the refugee camp in an article in the campus newspaper. To my surprise, several students came to me asking if I would lead an expedition of students back to the camp during the Christmas break to bring treats to the refugee children I had written about. To make a long story short, I agreed that the students succeeded in delivering candy, food, and toys to some 1,000 children living in the camp. It would probably be the greatest experience of my life as a journalist or now as a college professor. It really renewed my faith in the American student to see how this handful of kids gave up their Christmas vacations, paying their own expenses to help the victims of a less humane ideology. Neither I nor my students are kidding ourselves that we solved any of these children's real problems, hunger, and conditions for being forced from their homes by terrorism and tyranny. Our objective was simple and limited to bring a moment of brightness and possibly hope into otherwise dismal eyes. And maybe even more important to let the next generation of adults in Nicaragua know that some ordinary Americans really care about them. It's possible that one of those kids just might one day end up being a legislator or even president of a Democratic Nicaragua, a friend thanks to a handful of caring students from the small college in West Virginia. Already plans are afoot for more goodwill expeditions during the spring break and summer vacation. Any support, encouragement, not money from the White House would be appreciated. The students' names aren't any name. There's six, two girls, and four, but as they range from senior juniors to one sophomore. Thanks in advance for your consideration. I just think that is a different picture than the media generally gives us. Who's right and who's wrong? Who's good and who's bad in Nicaragua? Just don't feel as annoyed as I was about raising up on these kids. So I've already answered. Well, I guess I'd now better switch to business. As you all know, I'll be sending the budget up to Congress next week, but before I leave town, I want to go over it with you. Now, as you know, this budget carries out the five-partisan budget agreement that we reached last November. It also meets the Grand Rev. Collins deficit, $136 billion for first of the year, 1939. Progress won't be as fast as I hoped earlier. This budget does keep us on a downward-drive path for the balanced budget around 1993. And I worried before Jim gets into the budget, I know you've got a couple of comments on our budget, and on the National Economic Commission, for you to back Congress. Mr. President, thank you very much.