 And you saw how I chose the student, didn't you? Yeah. You don't want to resist on it. OK. To represent the class. Hi, Mr. President. How are you? Oh, I got a couple of special guests. Christina Gray, Mr. President, and her teacher, David C. Heiner. Collchester, Illinois. And then the fifth grade class. And they may be still want to present the U.N. You know, I had it earlier in the year. We couldn't make it in the range. Finally, then it would be nice to have the teacher himself come out. And then they all got enthused and wonder, oh, how can we send somebody from the class? They had a drawing. I don't know, 41 members of the class. She won the lucky number. So she has to see the president. How about that? We've got something special to present to the president, too, there, right? I'm not sure on the pictures of the class, too. So you've got everything. Oh, my god. How about that? That's wonderful. My pleasure, Mr. President. What that is, Mr. President, is it's a late-slammed project. Oh, well, sure. We'll have that a little bit later. And on behalf of the fifth grade class, what are you going to present? Sure, you get that up here. Right. OK. We'll take a little bit of a bullet like that, so that the picture gets to look really good there. Something like that. So we can pass the state fair and everything else, won't we? Thank you, sir. Oh, thank you, Mr. President, very, very much. Great, you'll be able to tell the class now when we've been in the oval on this. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you very much, Mr. Bookmark. Oh, man. How's your health, guys? For the rest of the class, for everybody in here is a jar filled with jelly beans. Oh, thank you, man. How about that? The jar has the seed on it, my name on it. Thank you, sir. And please, give them that mix. Well, we'll help them out very much. I appreciate this. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Well, let's get this old baby on. I don't know, I guess we've got to leave this here. No, we're ready. OK, thanks for taking it. All right. Pleasure. Thank you again, sir. Why? I don't know why. Follow up to your reviews, I think. Well, that's not him. This is the thrill of my life, sir, to meet you. Oh, listen. I hate this a little bit. Sure. You don't mind? Sure. I'm not so crazy about my kitchen. And I thought that maybe at the end of the month, you could sort of sort of get in my mind. Will, how do I do this, sir? Don White Jeannie, Mr. President. Mr. President. Nice to see you again. You look wonderful. I don't feel good. Yes, sir. It's that child of yours. I haven't seen him, but I've been hearing him. Come on, I think it's just the only picture of it. You look real well. Will, here I go again. He's got some. Mr. President, I'd like to give you this, if I may. Just a token of our appreciation. Red and white and blue. Red and white and blue, too. That's my picture. It looks like me. If I can share this with you, Mr. President, my son, who's... Remember Stuart. Stuart. Stuart. Who's five. He said, now, Daddy, be sure to tell him. He said, Daddy, we tried some, but don't tell him. Okay? He says it's very good. Don't tell him that we tried some. Just tell him that it's good. But you knew that. Yes, well, just one second here. Just a couple of little windows for you. Your presence with the seal. Thank you very much. And I took care of it. Oh, thank you, Mr. President. That's what I was trying to tell you. Absolutely. Thank you so much. He's got a booklet of some of his reviews. You appreciate reviews. Some of the reviews that he did. I don't like that one about that he does a better Reagan than that. Of course, the Los Angeles Times. There I can expect things. Justice O'Connor. Yes. Well, can I? Bonzo. That was the first thing I did, Mr. President. They didn't like the show, but they loved me. You know that Bonzo died the night the picture was on. There was a fire out there. An animal world out there. Where the trained animals and things used in pictures. And that night, there was a fire there. This is when we did the saving of the President. Oh. I was you and... I remember. This is wonderful. Now, could I tell you a little story about imitating the President's building? Maybe you might find it useful sometime. I understood that this was supposed to... Kennedy, John Kennedy. And he was getting kind of campaigned out or not campaigned out. He was just getting kind of weary of a lot of the times people were engaged in something. So he found a little bit of that. That could imitate him just personally. Looked like him in everything. So he told him, okay, here's a speech here to go out there and out to this crowd out there. He said, you tell them the end of your speech that you're going to cut taxes by 10%. And so, one million did well. They applauded the crowd. They were really applauded. And being show business and all, he motioned for quiet. And he said, I'll make it 20%. Well, now they were going wild. And he looked off and saw somebody off the wings from the President's office saying no more. Couldn't make it any more. And finally, he motioned for quiet. And he says, there's an anchor. He said, I was saying, Yankee doodled down by drinking the glass of water at the same time. That's show business. Well, Mr. President, it's an honor, sir. And I just want to say that it's the honor of my life. And Mr. President, I'm just thrilled. And you've made us feel great, Mr. President. Well, keep up the good work. We're all behind you 100%. Thank you very much. Imitation is the sincerest one. That's right. Oh, and so good. We need you. Thank you, Mr. President. Please, one night. Please. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. Goodbye. Now, there's only one thing here. And happy birthday to you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Best birthday present I'll have all day. Well, you did a terrific job. We're all pleased. Oh, wow. We end up with more goodies because I know they can't come to you. Yeah. We have some fine goodies over there. And the legislative affairs will have to come back. Well, why don't you just take that car? Oh, no. It's a birthday present. Why not? Oh, no, that's for you. That goes upstairs. No, every place I turn, as you can see, we've gotten there. They'd still be here three years from now. He's better in a skit. He wasn't. I didn't think he was so terrific. Did you come in the door? It was very funny. It was funny. But he is on stage. He's not bad. They've done it on stage at Don Regan's. Yeah, I'm sure it takes a little while to get warmed up. I mean, watch into your office and do it. It's not easy. I know. It's scary. But it was interesting watching him watching you. He was looking for new things to do. He never took his eyes off. He was just a whole time. And he wants to buy a copy of the videotape, too. That's great. Well, we're ahead of schedule. So I'm getting out on my head. Thank you, Mr. President. You're welcome. Okay. I think you've fouled up logistically. Yeah, I can come. You got your roll down now? Yeah, I got mine. How are you, sir? I'm just fine. And, uh... How are you, Mr. President? How are you, sir? This is all about. We're just waiting for a very special dessert. That is a cake. And it is commemorating your 20th anniversary here, in this position. That is so exciting. And, uh... There's just a little soul in here. There's a little token there. Thank you, sir. All right? So it's up to you to open that and, uh... see that we get dessert. I must say, it wasn't a surprise. It was. We were on a wonderful job, getting me in the back office, and talk some very... Oh, and this is our favorite cake. Oh, yes, sir. Congratulations on your 20th anniversary. How do we get to eat his cake? Oh, that's beautiful. I hope so. Well, we got to taste it. All right. What did he tell you I wanted? He started talking about our trip to Geneva, and the city had something. And it wasn't very important. Is it 20 today or 20 really? It'll be tomorrow, sir. The 31st. Oh, that's very fast. That's what we have today. Well, that's close enough for a couple of years. I think this is the first time in 20 years I've been totally nervous about it. We're going to set that aside. Here you go. I think anybody that's been around a West Wing for 20 years has got a right to be nervous. I think it did. In fact, shortly. Excuse me, I wished it. Yes, sir. Are you off to Geneva? Yes, sir, sure. Looking forward to that. It'll be nice and quiet around here when this crowd takes off. I'm delighted. Do you hear that? Do you hear what he said? I'm delighted when we leave. Oh, and Ron leaves those things out of there. But really the changes in this place it's amazing when you guys take off. Do you mean with a nose of wax? No, but it's just the pet. I mean, it's just in so many ways. Is that your brim? It's the president's relations. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. I'm not sure it's brim, though, that mate. Oh, I see where the hand is. Maybe it was broken off. Well, is there kind of a take-out? Ron, what's it been like? What are the visible physical differences between 20 years? Has this been all pretty much the same? I think so. I think probably one of the finest things I've ever done. When I say a few words from the White House it's saying welcome to the White House but now it's welcome to the Republican Party. I hosted some 150 of your number here last summer. I never had any idea that so many more would follow so quickly. Well, believe me, we're glad you did. I know what you've done wasn't easy. Changing parties while in office and coming as many of you do from staunchly in democratic areas is tough. For some, like Jim O'Grady, here from Chicago's Cook County, it could have been terrifying. That is, one who has stood in your shoes, I can tell all of you, you've made the right choice. Anyone looking in on this room is seeing freedom of choice in the American political system at work. Can I see John Hankel? Am I pronouncing that right? Yes. Louisiana's former Speaker of the House or Houston District Judge David Hittner just named the best judge in Harris County and best lawyer in Texas. Or Pete Drew, Chairman of Tennessee's Legislative Black Caucus or any of the rest of you. Did you? There you are. For any of the rest of you here, I see the future of the Republican Party. Congratulations in particular to the largest delegation here, Louisiana's, with 17 new Republicans. For campaigning in Louisiana on behalf of someone running for governor some years ago, Newie didn't have a chance to win but simply was trying to create a state that would have be a two-party state and his goal was if we could achieve 40% of the voters in the state at that time. And he was successful. He didn't win but they got the 40% of the voters and now you're showing the results of those beginning days. In fact, as a group, you represent 13 states in the south, the west, and the northeast and you're diverse by age, race, and gender, proof that the principle and the courage that you've shown is not a narrow or regional development. You all know why you felt you had to do what you have. School board member Kevin Walsh of Alabama said he was tired of the Democrats quote, 1930s way of thinking, unquote. Maryland County Executive Hugh Nichols said, his democratic shoes no longer fit. Well, we recognize that your party change offers an obligation on us as Republicans. I think it was Mayor Larry Barton of Talladega, Alabama who said it all for us when he told the press that his party switch carries a price tag. Quote, and that price tag is that the Republican party opened the doors not to let us be water carriers, but to become the nightmare. Well, as I say, but way back in the 30s, in the time of the New Deal, a staunch of Democrats there was in the world, a smiling warrior from New York who had been a presidential candidate who had been the governor of New York. He stood up and he went on national radio on television at the time and he made a speech that went down in political history, it was famous, about his own party and closed it saying, I'm taking a walk. He cited that people had begun to take over the party of Jackson and Jefferson. And so I thought about myself and the change and I can say to you if you haven't thought about it, it isn't entirely you didn't change so much. There's been a change in the party that we all once belonged to. When I cast my first vote and that was back. The Democratic platform in that election called for a 25% reduction in the cost of the federal government. It called for the elimination of useless government bureaus and commissions. It called also for the returning to the states and local communities and to the people powers and authority that had been unjustly seized by the federal government. Now, any one of us could run on that platform today but you'd have to run in the Republican Party. Because it was not alone that we changed, we recognized a change that we could not go along with. So whether it's our fair share tax plan or the backing of the Graham Rudman plan to achieve a balanced budget by 1990 or our efforts for peace through strength this administration and this party are dedicated to achieving what the people want. Not what the organized interests in Washington desire. It was Winston Churchill who said because he changed parties too in his country. He said some men change principle for party and some change party for principle. In my home state of California I'm proud to know that just last week in that state where as long as I can remember the Democrats were in a majority a statewide poll showed that the number of voters there identifying themselves as Republicans now equals the number saying that they are Democrats. So you see you're not alone. Congratulations to all of you for doing what was right. Consider yourselves as of this moment full fledged members of a party to benefit from your full participation. I thank you all for coming here today and making this a renewed sorts for me also. I know that we're just going over there and then we're going to have some photographs but we're going to have some over there while some of the last to sign sign. Which reminds me of my own experience. I had switched actually but had not gotten around to re-registering in California because for one thing the party that we now belong to thought in that election that would be more fitting. If I would campaign on their side but as still a member of the other party but then I became so identified with the party I was doing fundraisers and everything else just two years later and I was doing a Republican fundraiser. And a woman stood up right out in the middle of the room with my speech during my speech and she said have you re-registered yet? And I had to say well no I haven't, I'm going to I haven't gotten around to that. She said I'm a re-register. I put the thing on the podium I signed up and said now where was I? But some people coming over there and you and I you and Frank are going there will be no initiations and we will give you a tour of the city. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Well I thought they didn't know what to do. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We're going to take them over to see George now. That's right. I got to go back to work. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. There's a Henry VIII has rolled here in a kind of a political propaganda picture. You see Henry with his son, Henry VI has another picture of Edward over on the side who died at 16 so he only ruled six years and then you remember the next in line was his daughter Mary who refused to go over to Protestantism so after all this upheaval and the break of the Pope and so forth suddenly they found themselves Catholic again and she married King of Spain for like a second and then a few years later Elizabeth his daughter by Anne Boleyn took over and the allegory is that if you mess around with all of this business of going back to Rome you're only going to bring war and there's Mars, the guard of war coming in but if you go with Elizabeth it's peace and prosperity and here they are, here's peace treading on the sword and disarming and here is prosperity with everything coming up roses and it all says you see a face of much nobility love in a little room four states with their conditions a father and virtuous son a zealous daughter and when she was a zealous in her kind what is the world of no and last of all a virgin queen to England's joy would see successively to hold the bright and virtuous at the three and there she is vote for Elizabeth but maybe I'll try I'll try I'll try