 I want you to meet our sports captain, Kelly Michelle. Okay. Well, listen, I wanted to meet you. I had a home day at Sportsnet. Not for myself. You kind of made me feel I was a little late starting. She's off from 7-8 every morning. Well, that's wonderful. Isn't that great? Just wonderful. Good morning, Mr. President. You're on the position of the Speaker. Appreciate it. Is that ringing or TV? Nice to meet you, sir. Nice to see you. That's right. Nice to see you. Nice to meet you. So, before you all have to go out there and head of the team, should we get a full picture here? Perfect. Thank you, sir. This would be a place to tell a story here, but my home sports in those days, there was a wrestler in those days named Ed Strangler-Bluis. Sure. And I was interviewing him on the station. He came in, and usually I'd ask him. I had any particular questions they'd like me to ask and so I asked him. And he said, yeah. He said, you might ask me why wrestlers nanks are so bad. Sorry. By the way, his answer was, would you tell me why announcer's heads are so thick on the floor? You said that. That's wonderful. You said that. You said that. You said that. I remember that. I remember that. You asked me to do that. That must be good. A whole hour. It's a minute and a half, Oh! She's designed herself to just win the playoffs. I wonder how that went. The radio was really, I don't know if this story, I was broadcasting a Chicago Cubs Cardinals game on its ninth inning all tied up. Vissy Dean out of the mound. And I was doing a telegraphic report. I wasn't at the ballpark looking at it. I fell on the other side of the window. I was here in the morse code and tapping out and coming through to me and yelling S-1-C. I couldn't sell any Wheaties yelling S-1-C so I'd say it's a call of strike breaking over the outside corner and so on and so forth. Describe what was going on. And I saw him start to type at that particular point in the game and he starts shaking his hand when I started. Vissy Dean getting his sign comes out of the wind up. I haven't got the paper yet and comes through to me and says I've got a ball on the weight of the weight of the juice. So I decided those days there were half a dozen guys broadcasting the same game. So in those days I wasn't going to say we'll have a brief interlude of transcribed music lose the audience. So I decided to take a chance. I hadn't followed one off. And I hadn't followed another one. And I described the two kids back at third base that he had to fight over the ball and I hadn't followed one that just missed being a home run by a foot. Well pretty soon I'm ready to get you to sweat because I think I am setting a world's record for a man hitting six this year. I don't know how many minutes I really had him up there playing all the long time and all of a sudden Curly on the other side started to type and I waited and one thing came true to me I started to think I could hardly talk. I thought Mr. President I think we're ready. You're going out first President, Secretary Brock will remain inside everyone else we'll go outside and you're going to be escorted by Mr. President I want to go over the scenario if I could real quick Ben, you're going to join them on the side since you have remarks at the end and just want to go over this. When we go out, Mr. President you'll be announced with Secretary Brock Secretary will go directly to the podium and introduce you. You're going to stand on the secretary's tow mark to the right of the podium during his introduction and then you'll basically flip-flop with Ben Scully who's going to be standing to your left so you're going to stand on Secretary Brock's tow mark when you first go out to the right and then you're going to speak and when you finish you step to your left and then Ben is going to go to the podium and present you with a golden telephone and it's important that when you actually answer the president that you do it to the left of the podium because the podium is so big a lot of times it blies out the presentation that doesn't you'll make thank you remarks and come to the ceremony so we're going to go ahead and have Ben and we'll be right behind you. Nice to see you again, Secretary. Hey, good to see you. Tom said he did not I was just going to make some remarks and then step back and not introduce the president since he did me. Okay, however, whatever, that's fine. That's fine, Mr. Secretary. Well, no, that's good I don't have any to introduce him he just steps up without being You'll just switch places and the president will go to the podium and then he'll stand with the president while standing while you make your remarks. Thank you for your support. These sports guys are just going to do a job for us. There'll be a lot of a lot of people thank you very much and I just welcome you and it's my pleasure and appreciation that you're coming over really seek more than anything else that first opportunity is to get a job skill so that they can borrow the pride and self-respect of terms of human productivity the support that you have given this and similar programs to give our young people that first meaningful job experience and the opportunity to become prideful, productive members daily on her radio station Kelly is sports announcer these past couple of months as the trees have begun to leaf out and the flowers to blossom spring has come to America and America that is in good economic health jobs have been created in more than 200,000 last month alone as summer follows spring inflation will remain low and very young people who will find it hardest to get work are the ones who need jobs the most to them a summer job means a chance to escape poverty and disadvantage a chance to get the work for foundation house construction I have to confess that picket shovel work got a little heavy at times I was one day I was hard at it swinging a pick for me to get it if certain laws in place today maybe in our effort to do good maybe we have been successful as we thought we were when we passed some of those laws under the current minimum wage law for some of these personnel Mr. President, Mr. Secretary, distinguished ladies and gentlemen I play a very small and modest part here frankly I am well over my head it's a long way from a baseball dugout to the Rose Garden but I'm honored to be here all of us in the American Sports Broadcast as Association of America Real the American Sports Castors of America will remind you if they want to come to us for counsel, for advice we even have a scorecard so that they might check off the right things to do in looking for a job so that's why I'm here to join with the National Alliance of Business to salute you folks and also to make this presentation it could very well be a belated gold mic working the great relays or it could even be for his outstanding broadcasting for the Chicago Cubs but it's not instead this award today is from the American Sports Broadcast as Association of America to the President of the United States the Honorable Ronald Reagan for his constant efforts on behalf of the youth of America sir it is yours can't help or can't find the words to thank the American Sports Castors Association I can't say one thing then you said it was a long way from the dugout to the rose garden how do you think I feel thank you for your kind words the other night that kind of made my evening I appreciate it nice to see you nice to see you we had a big weekend with Mayo the ones from my land Higgins over there at the Mayo Department 1,380,000 came in from April 7th from April 7th to May 16th but then she picks up some of the samples that she thinks I might want to see and sends them over to pack it up and I can't resist I answer them all myself send them back to her I got one day a son of fella telling me about all the troubles he had economically and everything and not a rumor out of him and he's back at it and so forth he wants more cuts in government spending and he doesn't believe in all those programs and you're wondering what that means he coined this, it's a proper sticker and what it means got two meanings the first one and now a follow up what that stands for is liberal appropriations made are over extended budget and the second one means let's all manage our own business that's his lambeau lambeau well it's taken us a while to get around it I'm glad we're here looking forward to it come in Pat appreciate it sometimes I see you I get up and I see them there and take them on my clothes after work turn on them and see some of them and send them to the empty congressional chamber to at least a quarter of a million Americans yes I know a gift from my father I understand I tried to present it to a year and a half ago when you were in the pulpit but it's been a little hard getting it to you but now we've got it this is the gun case from Dan Frank with my father along and that's one of your weapons just looking through here and this is for Nancy this is a baby belt the way it works is she slips it over the shoulder I know she's not going to have a baby but maybe one of her daughters or granddaughters slips it over the shoulders and they tie it in the baby's shell like this on her back it goes under the baby's arm I'm going to enlarge for this it goes like this it goes across the baby back here that's the way the whole one that's what the 80s do but she saw that when you were up in Alaska the Pope had one made for the his robe and it was presented by a lady up there my father was there and watched your view in the Pope and he said I want to give this gift and I'd appreciate it if the proper time you could autograph a picture for him stand right here for a second now I've got the two kinds here I've got one loose candle like I'm in the office and I've got another one it looks like I'm at the ranch these are the ones I prefer and it's the day of the frame I can't tell you to do this all the time I'll hand it over that's what you're saying thank you I'm just saying Mr. President daughter Tory and my daughter Catherine I don't really get it oh that would be wonderful come here Catherine you want Dad to hold you huh? look at the book thank you Mr. President this is the 250th anniversary of St. Genevieve Missouri which is known as the mother city of the west it was the first European settlement west of the Mississippi founded in 1735 it's a great well preserved city there are homes there approximately 50 that are over 200 years old and it's considered one of the finest examples of French colonial architecture anywhere in the world and they're going all out this year for their celebration you were very kind to send them a written message a month or so ago but they have had a medal struck this is a .999 fine silver and they want you to have medal number one in commemoration of their 250th anniversary here is a certificate of authentication and Catherine wants you to have that letter wonderful you know it was a great surprise to people in the west of the Mississippi St. Louis was founded some 30 years later in fact most people don't know that please convey my heartfelt thanks certainly well and we're honored that you would see us and accept this that's from Catherine she wrote that to you well thank you very much now why did you say you were going to she would like to give you a hug President Reagan a hug because I know you wanted to do it she says she wants to give you a hug she's a little bashful I like that oh boy Catherine you got to let go now what do you say to President Reagan what were you going to tell him what were you going to tell him you what all right thank you I was wondering if she wanted me to explain that with a squeal there that's what she was listening to okay Catherine thank you very much did you say thank you Mr. President she's now Tori what did you want to tell Mr. President you were presenting the same day that's right that was recent wow that's a good day that makes us I'm great yes Catherine Mr. President thank you so much she's too happy she's too happy to be at home Tori thank you very much thank you Mr. President so good to be here I'll think happy birthday when my birthday comes say bye bye thank you let us come by happy birthday to my daughter happy birthday to my son happy birthday to me you're great to let us do that well I don't appreciate maybe we can get somebody home that's a great way to celebrate that way pretty good thank you it's a great pleasure thank you for coming down I know you're and told me that your wife went to Siblo for a small period of time that's true I don't know if that's true at some point you think it was a child maybe it was a child in Washington there's a rumor there's a rumor that your wife went to Siblo friend school Quaker's school up in northwest Washington now and she didn't graduate from there we went there for transfer now I'm wondering because there was a time when Nancy was very small when her mother was out on the road and she stayed with an aunt and uncle Bethesda that's the area we'll do a little research what you know it wasn't in the scrapbook she got the other day check that out thank you very much well listen we appreciate it thank you for a couple recent votes you were on the beam of those I'll be there to get it we'll get the chance nice to meet you nice to meet you okay President Howard is it good to see you listen yes that's a terrific find how you coming on Patrick well that got my fingers crossed here we've just we're pretty close we're still good how do you know this you fellas are the experts This is from St. Genevieve, Missouri. Congressman just came in. This is silver commemorating you. I'm sure it brought you sunshine. Well, this is their 250th anniversary. I never knew there was anything west of the Mississippi 250 years ago. But the French started that as the oldest town west of the Mississippi that was created there. And he said they've got 40 or 50 homes that are 200 years old in that town. St. Genevieve. So this is their celebration. Did your tax reform go as close to camping, casting, as you did? Well, we've been going through a lot of things. We disagree with him on the 30. This was the 35. Well, he's got 24 now, on individual rates. And they kept boiling gas and minerals in. That's the way current law is. See, now the Treasury will tell you that the revenues cost $282 billion and they don't know how much it'll cost. They have no idea. Well, he has been able to give us some substantiation for some of the things that are in there. But we're pretty determined that the 15, 25... And on some, if I can help you on it, if there's any of those congressmen that you need some help on, tell your people to have me call them. I mean, I've been calling some of them to not cut defense anymore because this whole thing that goes down, interest rates are going down every day right now. And I think it's a result of people are positive. They think we're making headway on the budget. I think so too. And they're feeling good about it. But if this whole thing blows up, if they cut defense, you're going to have a bunch of other people upset about it and the thing will blow up. And I got a plan for you on Nicaragua but I hesitate to bring it up to you. I told Bill Casey, I've recently given to the commander-in-chief, you know, in a nutshell, if you can go in there and get really hard for about two days with our air power, land some troops, take out the main part of their army and leave a lot of supplies there and just pull all of our people out and be turned all over with the Contras and be the biggest hero in the world and then you wouldn't have to ask Congress for the money. You could give me a $25 million worth of equipment. Think about it. Just think about the possibility of Steve and I have to tell you, my own business down there and for the other countries, even if they want us our help and they want us to straighten things out, you'd be surprised if they wouldn't do this. Well, you wouldn't leave them there for very long. But even three days or so, they'd do it another way or two. We want to stay away from them. Thank you. I appreciate you. Thank you very much. How are you? Good. How are you? Fine, fine, fine. In the bedroom picture. Yes, yes. This is Claude Tyden, who's Executive Vice President of the Wild Rights Association. I see you. Thanks to you. Shirley. Hello. How are you? The Wild Rights is almost a specialty. I know. I kind of like it myself. Great. I'd like to make a presentation to you. This is Minnesota Wild Rights Association. I've honored it in here. And here is another one. There's restrooms in there. It's the only native name in North America. And it is now, it's also the state name in the state of Minnesota. So we're very happy to have it. Hopefully, maybe we can put it in the White House kitchen to serve the dignity. I'm going to use something about that. And I'm very pleased with the whole idea. I'm going to tell it to the food budget. Yes. I'm going to put you all together and we're going to have a formal of this group picture here. They're going to send you 80 pounds, which is like, almost like gold. And keep your stuff, you know. It's very, very tasty. They're very hopeful that you use it as some of the state functions. Because it's becoming a nice place. We also want to have some recipe ideas and other languages. So if you have somebody say, recipe ideas in the German language. Right. But is it really any member of the nice family? No, it really isn't. It's an aquatic branch, actually. It has very little similarity to rice. And of course, it's a native staple of our community. And at this particular time, we have investigated it. And we are doing native farming with wild rice. But what we're saying is we've got a lot of waste. We still have a lot of waste in the Minnesota. So I got to thank you all very much. First of all, I'd like to give you a wild rice recipe for the food that was prepared by my wife and myself. And we have things for you and Nancy too. Thank you. Thank you. The recipe is in there. I'll give you a name until I time to cook for you again. And that's what you will enjoy. Thank you. That's very much. Thank you. Thank you. What's happening? What are you doing? What's happening outside? Big help. Oh, that's goodbye for my people. Oh, is that right? Very nice. Very nice to be with you. Thank you. Thank you all very much. It is a pleasure. My pleasure. Thank you. Great victory we had over there. That will work out in detail. All right. Thank you.