 I don't have any, uh... Yes, sir. Hi. No, no, no. Those who have, I'll pass the jelly balls. Yeah. Start that. Well, listen, I want to thank you all very much. That's why I'm coming down here. And of course, what I want to talk about before that, I want to thank so many of you. And I'm sure that I know in the past that security matters and things of that kind have been most supported and deeply grateful for that. And I appreciate now this chance until we try to convince you how serious we are to feel about this particular issue in Iraq. And I know that you're very opinionated and rude. Some of you have some, you know, some questions, concerns that you'd like to express. Marilyn, I saw you on C-SPAN. And I was very appreciative of your analysis of the repressive nature of the government and so forth, what was going on. And you did express a concern about if we held off and delayed the opportunity for negotiations before turning to aid to the countries. But you wondered if that wouldn't be the way to go. May I just touch on that particular thing, because, as I said in my speech, we've been trying all this time to talk to them. We get no place with the countries. You remember, you saw though we had a plan that we proposed, the church down there agreed with it. All of our friends in the other countries thought it was great. The idea that the countries had agreed, they would lay down their arms and return to come in and then as one time formalize the revolution, the Sandinistas, to negotiate how they could allow the people of Nicaragua to choose the form of government that they wanted, which was the goal of the revolution as they have announced it, the Organization of the American States. And again, the only hold out was the Sandinista regime. We feel, since we really shut off, except for the $27 million in humanitarian aid, when we shut off help to the countries, $84 million. There was a great decline that followed, but an increase in the Sandinistas' time. It was in that time of no aid from us that the Soviets and the Cubans stepped up the delivery of the helicopter gunships and so forth. We, before that, the countries were really pressing and we're having great success. Now, we have about 6,000 presently armed and able to fight the guerrilla actions, but there are up to 25,000, for instance, of available manpower that needs weapons, needs arms, and above all, they need defensive weapons in two areas. They need them for protection against those helicopter gunships and they need anti-tank weapons for the armor that has been provided to the Sandinistas. I think that the Sandinista government is riding a very thin rail. It's true they're totally repressive and it's true they've got that kind of totalitarian government of the support for them. I think every evidence we have is shrinking and the countries out in the countryside there are more and more support for the people. In addition to that, all of this has made the economy there a bastard case and therefore we think that diplomacy is only going to work if there is some pressure that forces them to choose diplomacy as the lesser of the two eagles, that the other one might be the outright overthrow, uprising of the people and overthrow in a civil war. So we feel that this is absolutely essential to say that we're talking about. Now in regard to your concern the other night, obviously if this is voted, you're not going to 24 hours suddenly having the flow of arms to these countries. There's going to be some delay and this is a time where we think, yes, step up the pressure for negotiations with them having the knowledge that the weapons are coming and the training in the use of those weapons. This is going to take some period of time but I think it would be most counterproductive to tie this to some specified length out here that was made public with the knowledge and then as has been suggested that maybe even another vote so that there would still be doubt as to whether they were going to have the weapons at the end of that period of time because I think any one of us if we were a commander of the Sandinistas we would say okay in this period of time this is the time for us to go in and knock them off before they get those weapons. And as I said there will be the time we've had Phil have been down there and I know there's a lot of talk about whether the people in Central America, Latin America support these things or whether they oppose to us there has been a poll taken down there and here are the figures on it. 92% of the Costa Ricans, 89% of the Honduras see Nicaragua as a military threat 88% of the Costa Ricans and 94% of the Honduras trust the United States to rescue them if they have military. Now Cuba is perceived as a Soviet agent by 89% in Costa Rica 92% in Honduras 83% in Guatemala 74% in El Salvador Nicaragua is perceived as a military threat Good work last night, that was good. If you don't know what shape you're getting at the focus you had on the house if you don't know whether we ought to go first or last unless you see it coming together then you might want to win on the Senate side if we could build one together. Well they're claiming on their side 2.0 Senator Richard Newman is holding on the Senate of Arizona Mr. President of Sister City in Nashville 752 cities represented with 1100 sister cities in 86 countries It's a great pleasure to meet you. Mr. George Ham from Pilar, Texas Frank Lam former mayor of Rochester Lou Ozar Bill Hanna, our treasurer Mark Lundberg who's the mayor of Rochester Billy Crowder, from Mobile, Alabama Frank Schultz from Pilar, Illinois Mr. President Mr. President they've raised over 30 million dollars in the private sector each year and bringing over exchanges of around 100,000 people a year Well I know that's been going on for 30 years and it's the most successful I think it is as a matter of fact there's a meeting with Secretary Gorbachev where there was the greatest warmth when we were talking about exchanges We're proud to be here and thank you for being our honorary chairman that means a lot to our programs Thank you for allowing us to work closely with Charlie Wood who's a great friend of our program He understands the importance of international exchange and we're doing some good work for America and I know that makes you proud Yes it does very much and a great believer in the minds of the class Excellent We have some special presentations for you This is a nice plaque with your name on it to help you make it see it You said that in a nice place Promise? Yes Thank you And here's a personal gift for you and your lovely wife National Museum of American History limited edition Thank you very much Thank you Mr. President We'll check your schedule I think our California is California is our place to live You live in a kind of state of homesickness I would like to understand if that's possible I'm a native of Montgomery County No Do you want to go past three shell? Oh no Okay Thank you You and Nancy went back and danced Just long enough we started dancing and then we went upstairs All the Canadians were delighted Very gracious I didn't sing but We had a great time We had a great visit to the congress this morning the house leadership answered questions and chatted with our friend and others I went very well I'm enjoying a great deal All right And I heard comments about we're all favorable about your NBC Does it ever happen that you have to go to lunch? I mean a luncheon engagement speaking engagement outside of the White House at lunch or are you trying to avoid that? Well sometimes we have not too many it would be a particular convention of this meeting here and I'm not going to speak to you about that but most of the delegations if they're big enough would you often just get full soup upstairs right here Do you try and schedule it at a given time every day? Yeah we'd break it at 12 We have a situation where our House of Commons starts at 2 so our break is sort of like from 1 to 2 as opposed to a little but it is pretty formalized