 Well, Mr. President, yes, a bittersweet occasion, yes it is, you know, sir, of course, you are. Hello, I'm Christine, nice to see you. We met five years ago. Hello, Mr. President. He's the one that runs the farm and that caught you in the hall one day. I invite you to the farm and I invite you once again today. If you want to see the question of agriculture, stop by. We'd love to host you. Thank you very much. I don't have an awful idea, say, about where I go and what I do. Tell me the night before what I'm going to do. I know what that's like from Dad's schedule I've seen. The whole day is mapped out. I'd like for you to meet some others. This is Hanson's fiancee, and this is Rosanne Stockman. This is Joyce Hamilton. She has been living with us the last three years. You may recall when the family went on the food stamp program. I did that about three years ago and caught a little flock for doing it. But it was Sue and me and Christine and Joyce that was the family of four that was on this food stamp program. And my mother-in-law, Mrs. Rafferty, and Linda and Bill Barnes, don't hang back so much. Mr. President, my pleasure to see you again. My brother-in-law, Louis Rafferty. Okay, right here. Thank you. Thank you for all your time. Heard that you were leaving, I assumed that you decided to go on to bigger things like doing a tour of the Poconos with your William Nelson routine. Seriously, I was saddened when you told me that you were leaving government service. You've done a remarkable job, Secretary of Agriculture, and we're all going to miss you. And I think that you'll be able to, I think you were, thanks to you, I was able to sign a farm bill that will begin to move American agriculture closer to the free market. It's the start of, I think, toward an emancipation of the farmer from 50 years of failed government policies. And you did this when the agriculture community was going through very troubled and difficult times. Now, I, well, it would have been easier for you to walk away, leave the job to somebody else, but you're never in one to take the easy way out. Whether it was your service to the country at West Point or here in your own career as a successful farmer, you've shown dedication, character, and the moral fiber that I think is keeping the pioneer tradition of our country. I owe you a debt of gratitude, and so does this administration. But more importantly, the American farmers owe you the same kind of a debt for your tireless commitment to their well-being. And I know that Sue and your family are going to be happy to have you back, even though, as you said yourself, it's a bittersweet moment of this kind of time for the next emotions. So God bless you and you will have our good wishes wherever you may be. Thank you, Mr. President. There's a little souvenir, so we won't forget it. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you very much. Well, Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, friends of mine, I was asked in the last two days what I'm going to miss most about being Secretary of Agriculture, the building, the job, the prestige, and I said, and I believe this sincerely, what I'm going to miss most are my friends, Mr. President, the good people that I work with in government and outside of government and the people of the country, working with you, working with a cabinet team that I have to believe is second to none. And as we held a cabinet session just this morning, the President said some good words on my departure at that time. And I just said at that time, we have a great team here in this administration. And I've been proud to be a part of this great team. We've done a lot of things in the last five years. Some I think we've gotten great acclaim for and the people have been proud of our actions. And sometimes those some are proud and others are critical. And I remember quite well taking my family on the Foodstamp program for a week. And I had Sue and Christine and Joyce Hamilton living with us then. And we spent a week on that program. And then after it was over, we proclaimed that we'd had plenty of food and hadn't lost a pound of weight. And they really got after us for saying that. But it was true. And then I guess we can look back to the days when we decided that ketchup was a vegetable and we hit the press on that. It's not the best vegetable, but it could be a vegetable. And a whole host of other exciting events. I've spent many occasions in this room, as you know, Mr. President, hammering out difficult issues before the Economic Policy Council. And some of the ones are the most frustrating are those that deal with the strength of the dollar and the unemployment, which had an impact on our exports and so on and so forth. And I remember telling in a lighter moment that we need light moments occasionally, the Economic Policy Council that I had been in here listening to different, you have the cabinet at the table, then the economists, so I'm in the back and they get up and they give you these projections, usually conflicting from week to week. They rarely are consistent. And I went back to my farm and after we put the 1,000 pigs away in the hog barn, we went out to the shop to have a cup of coffee with my hired hands and what were they talking about? The unemployment, the strength of the dollar, our exports, giving me different advice on how to manage this. And as I climbed on that airplane heading back to Washington, D.C., a thought crossed my mind that it might be a good idea to take those economists out of that Cabinet Council room and put my hired men in there, get some real practical solutions to the problems of the day. But I didn't pursue that because I knew that those economists would not be able to run my farm. Mr. President, thank you for everything. Thank you. Thank you, and you've tempted me beyond my strength. I have to respond with an Atlantic dose. It has to do with the distinguished gentleman who is now head of the Mormon Church but who was once Secretary Benson, Secretary of Agriculture. And at a time of trouble for farmers, he was out traveling around and meeting with groups of them. In one group there was one gentleman who was giving him a very bad time just complaining about everything. Benson stepped back to one of his aides and looked at some figures that he had there and came back up, and when there was a pause, he said, well, now, just a minute, you didn't have it all that bad. He said, you had 29 inches of rain last year. And the fellow said, I remember the night it happened. Listen, carry on. I'm going to have to go back to work before I try to forget that I've already had lunch. Well, best wishes, Mr. President. You know I'll be there to help you in the private sector as I have working for you in the capital. Thank you, I know that. Stay longer, but Donnery can tell me again.