 Well, well, Prime Minister, congratulations to you, sir. President Betwatani and the Prime Minister. Nice to see you, sir. How are you? Well, come in. Hey, Mr. President. He's got the power in him. You know, we don't see him at the phone. Our conversation will be limited for a while, because we're going to be in a real way. He's got the power in him. He's got the power in him. He's got the power in him. Actually, the most important part of visiting talks is the phone call. He's got the power in him. Yeah, yes. What is the same picture with a thousand words? A picture with a thousand words? Yes. Is your third visit? Yes, sir. No, this is the fourth. Actually, it's the fourth. We're providing this coverage. Yes. Yes, something was wrong. I came here with 23, with 24, with 26. Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. It should be. We're going to miss, of course. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. Mr. President, Senator Baker said he'd be the one to turn out the lights here at the White House. Does that mean the lights are out on your administration? I think I'll visit the Senate. I'll just know that. I think there's a change that's occurred. Did you see the trade figures as one of Mr. President? It's one of the best trade reports in some time. Something like under $10 billion for the monthly report. Do you have a comment on that? Maybe a half-assignment because it shows that we have continued to bring down the trade deficit. It has been on a very continual decline. And it's been brought about this time by not only an increase in exports, but as a decrease in imports. Could we clarify your position, Mr. President, on the business of plant closing? Would you support a move in Congress toward a voluntary provision of plant closing that would not be mandatory? We already have that. And we have a number of plants that have relations with their unions that in their union labor contract have provisions for that. It is just that I believe that excessive controls of regulations by government we've seen comparison with some of our trading partners that have too much of that. And they've not been able to have an economic expansion. Will you seek more military aid for the Congress, Mr. President, or is that a lost cause? This is something that's under discussion. Are you going to miss Howard Baker? What? Are you going to miss Howard Baker? What kind of job has he done, Mr. President? He's done a fine. This is Lordy North's senate, but you came over here and sent out this point to us. You've got to go. This way, cameras please. This is Mr. Jacob. This way. He's quite a photographer. Come on. Come on. Come on. Minister Jaime, I'd like to begin this session by giving you a few of my impressions of the summit meetings with Gorbachev. It's a play from Moscow believing that U.S.-Soviet relations are in better shape now than at any time in the past decade, perhaps in the entire post-war period. I think it's clear that Gorbachev wants to reform the Soviet economy, but it'll take him a long time if he succeeds at all. He's also making political changes, though their extent is less clear. And he, of course, there's no question, he has some opposition within his own government to what he's trying to accomplish. So that I think that meanwhile, even in our hopeful optimism, I think we have to consider that the Soviet Union will remain a potentially dangerous adversary abroad in a controlled society at home until we have more evidence of what he intends and what his success is. I also think the Moscow summit added an important building block in establishing ways to solve our problems with the Soviet Union. We'll continue talking to the Soviets on regional issues, arms reduction, human rights, and bilateral exchanges here and into 1989 and hopefully beyond. One more general point. I was impressed by Moscow and impressed by the people I met. I met with students at their university, religious leaders and a group of refuseniks and dissidents and then with, they have a Writers Association with not only fellow writers but with artists and people from the theater and so forth and beyond that we had opportunities for some informal meetings just with people on the street and that was the biggest surprise of all. The absolute sincere friendship with which we were greeted by the Russian people. I wasn't quite prepared for that in view of the propaganda they've been subjected to for so many years but it was really it was a real warm enthusiasm on their part. I think we struck some important blows for human rights in our meetings and quoting Solzhenitsyn in Moscow was kind of a milestone throughout the my public remarks but we'll continue to press particularly on the human events. On arms reductions we made some solid progress on what we call the start treaty that's the 50% reduction and we tabled our positions on mobile missile verification and air launch cruise missiles and on the whole the Soviet response was positive. There are important issues remaining and we'll keep plugging away at them. In defense and space, sharper differences remain. The Soviets are still trying to cripple or get us to give up on our strategic defense initiative and not yet agreed to correct their treaty violations of the ABM treaty. So I think having said all that I should defer to you now. You might have something in your agenda you would like to bring up or any questions you might have. Thank you very much.