 Hey, how are you? How are you, darling? Good. Good to see you. Good morning. Hello, there. See you again. Good morning, Mr President. Well? Good to see you. Hi, welcome to the Sparks and Fathers Tournament. Great. How are you? Hello again. Hello, Mr President. Good. Hi, Mr President. Good morning, Mr President. Good morning, Mr President. Well, I was offered the tickets back. as a Defense Secretary filled with the promise. Say, I thought that earlier in that game, I thought when they showed from the rear that alley opening up to the end per quarter, I'd go through to the touchdown. I thought, hey, this is going to be different than you could expect. It didn't hold up. Mr. President, we want to thank you for making it. All right. I'm ready. Come on. Any time you're going to the parking lot, I'll have to go to the yard. All right. Thank you. This is the time and have fun. Have fun. All right. You're pretty good. See you next time. All right. Good job. Have a nice good game. Open the door. Five. Five. Good job. Five. Five. All right. You and your car, yes there is, can I ride that? Good, thank you. Do you have an orange? Really? Did you drive in? I didn't have an orange in my mind. I stayed down here in one of our film justice homes. She's got this thing. She's got this thing. It took me an hour. We had a great queue on the couple. It's good to make it up. Where? I think it was a little too long. You stayed with Steve? No, no, no. We have one missing and I understand he's caught with snow. What is it about Washington and snow? I don't know. It's real. Well, thank you all for coming down. I'm going to give you a little preview of the State of the Union address that I'll deliver later this evening. Before I do that, I thought I might just take a few minutes to review things as I see them and we all begin this historic 100th Congress. The State of the Union will touch on this and other matters tonight and I think it's important that everyone understand that my priorities this next session of the Congress and the fiscal year beginning in October will be held out in the budget documents that you received earlier this month. Additional budget documents will be sent to the Hill tomorrow. My budget meets the Grand Redmond-Hallings deficit reduction goal for 1988. It was submitted in accordance with the timetable specified in that same statute. I'm sensitive to the time constraints that the Congress has to work with it and that's why I asked Jim Miller to get the budget up there the first thing this year. I'm hopeful that the Congress will be equally mindful of the budget timetable as it applies to them. That is that the Congress completes action on a budget resolution conference report by April 15. It seems to me that there's to be any chance of avoiding that fiasco that we felt as last fall with spending bills for the entire government load into one gigantic continuing resolution that the Congress is going to have to come up with its budget in timely fashion. Now that in tonight's State of the Union address I hope to set the time for this historic under the Congress a tone of cooperation that will allow us to complete the unfinished task we began six years ago and a tone of determination to embark on new missions that will keep our nation prosperous and the world safe for freedom one into the 21st century. Much has been accomplished. Interest rates have been slashed. Employment is skyrocketed. Inflation has nearly disappeared. But above all, America is at peace. But much remains to be done. We must make certain that our workers and students receive the training and education necessary to compete into the next century. We must promote the development of science and technology so that our industry is second to none. We must remove unnecessary regulatory barriers that inhibit entrepreneurship and we must renew our commitment to reduce the budget debt. On the international front, much also remains to be done. We must continue our fight to make the world safe for freedom and this means supporting freedom fighters who battle against tyranny and that means checking communist aggression wherever it may occur but especially in our own hemisphere. This means ensuring adequate funding for our military and describing and negotiating reduction in nuclear weapons. The address will touch on all of these issues and more but I don't want to tell you everything down to the last detail for I'm afraid if I did that only you wouldn't show up you'd all get started. So then, let me open up the discussion with the floor by asking you to give me your views on the state of the Union since you've been back in your states and districts more recently than I have and you know first-hand what the people are thinking. So, Kent, I'm going to go over here. Well, all right, Miss Bell, well I've circulated around a lot of polls and I... You want to wait till they get settled? Good morning Bob. How are you? See, you're in good voice last night and you started spreading about a circle of people. Well, yeah, you always give it the best shot. Good morning. Oh, at a time. What's the title, Larry? What's the title? The place here. The city. Oh, thank you all very much for coming down. I understand the roads are getting a little better out there although it doesn't say much. But I hope that none of you get caught and get it here. This past Tuesday night prior to the meeting I personally delivered to you Mr. Speaker the President descended my legislative message to Congress and I had a chance to read it or summarize it with those legislative initiatives in my administration and we advanced it during this 100 times. The theme I want to emphasize, the permeate mind of communication that kind of misses our quest for excellence. You've all got copies now of that that I've just been talking about. And we enter our third century on asking all of us to strive for this goal. Certainly we're going to have to meet the competitive challenge of the world marketplace that we're going to maintain and expand our standard of living in the next century. But let me first ask Jim Baker to give you an overview of our program to enhance competitiveness and then focusing sharply on our training on the election. And then second I would like to ask Bill Brock to give an explanation of the work for training on assistance provision start over. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm going to be a little changed right beginning here. Thanks.