 recognition of the part played by black Americans in the War of Independence. More than 5,000 of them. We're going to be sending copies of the resolutions of your signatures to all the school classes in my district next year and to the other congressmen, so their districts next year. Well, I think it's great initial appreciation to today's black citizens who are descendants of the black citizens and the slaves at that time who fought for freedom, but for all our freedoms. I wrote a little more carefully than I would have expected. Thank you so much. Well, thank you for this pleasure. It's my turn. Let's go. Thank you so much. It's going to be a bit of a deal with us. Bring us the attention of our country. Thank you. I think about two or three waves of pressure coming in. Down here. I'm trying to get some questions out of this. Picture session. Was it in there? What are you saying? It was a whole lot of time with the tragedy. It was a major thing on it. She never even looked around. Thank you guys. Thank you. That's the appropriation. That's the question that we got. One fruit at a time, please. It's as good as in the state, Mr. President. It was up there in San Francisco. The edge. The edge. The edge. The edge. The edge. The edge. The edge. The edge. You have to be patient. I would say there is a high probability of having this sensational experience. I understand. Thank you, sir. It looks like the Salvador with her. No, you didn't. If you do as well in California, as we did in El Salvador in the turnouts, we just heard this morning that it looks as if the vote will run up to 1.4 million which will be over 75% as compared to the river. The turnout in 1982 was about 80% of the registered voters and with 95% of the returns in, they're estimating the number of people who actually voted who got through the guerrillas and who overcame some of the snaffos, probably about 1.4 million and that will be something higher than 75% of the registered voters. So we're talking about just a very small number that didn't. And I can't tell you how many didn't vote. They'll never know that because of this reason and that reason. But what I think we're seeing is probably as much or more enthusiasm to vote and to place in the community to less guerrilla effectiveness even though they tried very hard and perhaps less of an impact than the press gave you and others the impression on Sunday night and Monday of the confusion factor. That and you know the very next day when they came home our whole team of observers down there insisted on coming over and down in the cabin room there. And just unanimous in there, enthusiasm, some frankly admitting their thinking was changed by what they'd seen and came back and still the press is giving that other impression. A little other twist we get all the time. Now we're all used to it down there. I think the facts now are going to speak for the elections and not the impressions of the press. But our observers were tremendous in their enthusiasm. I think they're a very unified group. I think they had universally a very good report for you. But the foreign observers in the other countries felt the same way. But it was stirring when you got down there and you saw these long lines of people all there in the hot sun waiting to vote for them. There was a kind of national fiesta feeling but also a sense of genuine privilege. A lot of them didn't know for whom or for what they were going to vote. They all had sort of gut feeling. Because the fact is the fellows walked in from the guerrilla areas to vote. The guerrillas hadn't torn up their ID cards. People came in from all over. Even in the major cities at three o'clock in the afternoon I went down to the big stadium and there was tremendous crowd voting. And people were frustrated by that because the newer register system was difficult to understand and they didn't know where they were going to vote. At 3.15, like electricity through the crowd, the word came down that a decision had been made to let anybody vote anywhere. And lines formed and I went back at 5.30 in the afternoon and everybody who ran into the stadium, he was not in line and he voted. So that whole stadium full of people voted before the 6 o'clock deadline. Next time, as you know, we're going to probably have another election here in a month while we hope the system will be worked out better. But it was their system. We gave them the tools to do the job and it was their system. And they lived with the folks but they also lived with the success. And I understand we had two groups of photographers. So we had a small talk. You want to move over to the other side? One way or the other? I think maybe we might. I could mention here who we actually started in our meeting while we were coming in and we were all saddened by the death yesterday of Dr. May. I thought it was more house copy. It was very sad to hear that. It was sacrilegious and I don't intend it that way but every time they come in, there are these photos and everything I look across you at that side of the table and I recall the old one and I thought it was the words of the last sucker. And I said, if you want to get in the picture, get on this side. I'd be able to reaffirm our commitment to the historically black colleges and universities. We accomplished a lot I think in the six months since we last met. New economic recovery, the emphasis on private sector partnerships have created a much more positive environment for progress towards self-sufficiency and the enactment of the endowment legislation I think is further solidified in the economic base. You have before you the annual federal performance report that was called for by Executive Order 1233O and showed that federal support for your institutions in 1983 increased $61 million over the funding level of 81. It also describes a variety of private sector projects. Secretary Bell is sending a task force to Fisk University in Nashville to see you conduct a fact-finding mission. Fisk I think has long been considered a flagship among the historically black colleges and universities and we're committed to providing the university with the technical assistance that it needs. Now this is your meeting so before hearing the new letter I just offer my best wishes for the National Association of Equal Opportunity in Higher Education and having a successful conference while you're all here in Washington. I understand now that Dr. Brizelle Robinson, President of the State Augustines College and Board Chairman of the Association will be the principal speaker and lead off. I appreciate your call. I figured that I'd help you. My wife Nancy. This is my wife. Hi, nice to see you. Nice to see you. Hi. Good morning. Hi. Don't think I didn't use it down there with Central Florida. Mr. President, you told me when you talked before that how you made the change and they came at the meeting there in California and said you've been talking about changing. Here's where you signed. One of the doctors who treated me in the hospital in Florida was a young Republican at that meeting and he was telling me how he had seen you. Signed up and I said, well, I know all about it. It really was. I had made the decision that it was acceptable for the Republican to make speaking to fundraisers and I understood up in the middle of the audience in the middle of my speech, she asked me if I meant to. She says, I'm going to register. I will write down the balance. What about me? That's really interesting. Well, I don't know. That's true. I've got just unsolicited five or six hundred letters. This is a wonderful thing. Congratulations on having the 42 to stand up. And it's been a really gratifying thing. Six thousand dollars worth of unsolicited funds. It's been a very gratifying thing. Mr. President, the party that represented Ireland is just abandoned is now running ads attacking the moral leadership of your administration and Tip O'Neill was at it again today saying that you are the champions of the greedy. Do you think those charges are going to stick? I'd like to thank you. No, because there is no basis for them. It's again a practice built by acquisition. They never add that most of those people were accused and cleared.