 quite happy. He sent it assembled here before me in this way. Before the days over, if you would like to pass the budget, I meant to balance the budget. A few things like that will be deeply great. Well, it's a pleasure to welcome all here. And I want to read something about how this all comes about. And I congratulate all of you. Have you been selected? You represent all of the state, Columbia, and our overseas education. And if I could say one thing that I'd like to remind you that I hope you'll remember as the time goes on, and as you look closer to where you're going to take over from us, I hope I'm talking about, if I once in a while I forget that I haven't got a microphone in front of me. I hope you'll remember these adults that are with you here that have made this possible. The representative of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and trustees. I know something about how they've made all this possible, but also individual scholarships that have made it easier and possible for you to do this. And so when you get there, where it's your turn to take over, remember this and remember that that is really the heritage of this country, volunteerism. I sat in this office for dinner not too long ago and the wife of an ambassador from another country. That's my dinner partner on one side of me. And I was talking about something that was being done like this. Voluntary private initiative supported worthwhile causes and so forth. And she, bless her, said, yes, but you're unique. And I said, what do you mean? What do you mean? She said, yes, in your country, that happens and you do that. But she said, not in any other countries that I know of in the world. Everything there is supposed to be done with the government, instead of people privately seeing something that needs to be done in this worthwhile and then pitching into doing it. Last year, people like these trustees who have you here in America gave to private charities, education and arts, scientific research and all that sort of thing, 74 billion dollars that was voluntarily donated for good causes. So when it gets to be your turn, remember that because they're going to be a bunch of young people just like you, coming up waiting for someone to do things like that for you. And I know that you're worthy of it, but you wouldn't be here. So now I know I have to get to work. When I first came here, there was a newspaper out in the Midwest, a morning register that ran a kind of a thing where they asked children, younger children, to submit their ideas of what the president should do. And I read those letters that came into that paper. They were just wonderful. I think a little younger than you are. But they had a pretty good grasp on what some of the problems were, some good advice on what I should do this time. The one that I loved best of all was a nine-year-old girl who bound up her letter with this one. She said, now, get over to the Oval Office and go to work. I bless you and thank you for being here. Well, let me add one more thing here about living in this historical place. I refer to it jokingly sometimes as public housing. But there is something to it. There are ghosts here. You can't be conscious of all who've lived here before. The rooms are retained as they were then. The wonderful antique furniture and so forth, again, is a part of biologrism's contributing. Because in the early days, the first presidents in this country had to furnish this house, all 132 rooms themselves. And so one of the great sounds at the end of every president's term then was when he held an auction to sell off the furniture so he had no money to go home. All of this is saying there are wonderful little stories and anecdotes that you treasure. Teddy Roosevelt in the beginning, this, there were no office wages on either side. This was it. This was not only the home, but this is where the cabinet came and this is where the residential staff and all did their work. Until one time, Teddy Roosevelt and his wife and six children, one day Mrs. Roosevelt said to President Teddy, if I'm going to raise six kids in this house, you're going to get your people out of here. And so it has become a residence of no longer a part of the presidential or the administrative headquarters. But again, thank you all for being here and have a good time while you're here. As I say, you get a chance to talk to a senator or anything. Tell them what you as a senator feel about balancing the budget tax reform. So thank you all. Happy birthday to the whole family. How are you, sir? How are you, sir? Nice to see you. Don Regan over here, sir. It is very important for this friendship and cooperation to be working together to lead by low-beating with our Prime Minister. Yes, and I appreciate it before that. It is important. I'm really happy to come to you. I'm very happy. More than that, you know, the will in both the sides to achieve an understanding and trying to do it together. This is a quality change in the relationship that Mr. President did. We are happy. We have much in that area. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.