 And the only others we have on our side are the people. I've just gotten the most wonderful thing here. This is a scenario by a minister in Detroit, First Presbyterian Church. They had a program with a $35,000 grant, some of the program for kids in the neighborhood. And they took field trips and all this sort of thing and then a couple of meals a day and all that while they were doing it. And they began to hear about the things that we were doing and it was going to be cut back. And then this minister's written this very well. He said, the first meetings that they had and it was on the successive meetings and how this thing grew, in which the church just said, well, you know, we ought to find a way to do it, set it quick. And how the committees were formed and everything. And then they'd never contacted the mothers of the kids and never been able to reach them. And they just dealt with their kids. So they then invited the mothers to come in for a meeting. These mothers were not mothers of the church. I mean, in the church, they were just neighborhood, any connection and out of it has come, they enlisted the aid of the mothers. The mothers are now joining the church and coming into church regularly. And it's the most inspiring story I'm going to have. Kathy makes some copies of this of the several departments here and all. But it is, a coronary vine reported that the Detroit Presbyterian staff found his November 22nd experience in first church that in his opinion, first church is the most integrated congregation who knows how to in the country. He used the word, he was still trying to put together his feelings of the days after that service. How first church integrates retarded adults with college graduate seniors and is in the neighborhood. And I tell you what, it all started because they thought we were going to cut off 35. And I guess we did. The Detroit church. Why not? Why not? It would help. The business is bad, Shay. They need to love. Can we go ahead now? It's alright, you got me telling you. Okay. Well, as the president, the past several years have put a number of the really fine builders in the Southern California area in Irvine. And more recently, I've met with some leading builders in New York City at a construction conference there. And at all these places, the mood and the theme were the same. The mood was one of despair and the theme was that the housing industry is in its worst economic condition since World War II. And there are facts to support that mood and that theme because there have been seven economic recessions for the building industry since the end of World War II. And they're in their seventh right now. It is the most devastating. It's the longest one they've ever had. It's gone over three years. Actually, it's about 39 months right now. It's continuing. That's the important thing if I could interrupt. Yes. Because they're saying, what is the truth? It started in 1978. Oh, actually, I guess. It's over three years. It started about seven, eight, it's about three years. It's 39 months to be exact. And that's a long time. It's 12 months longer than any other previous recession. Now, there's an added problem to this particular recession and it's finance. If interest rates could drop tomorrow to a satisfactory level, there would be insufficient financial resources available for the industry to make a rapid recovery. And the reason for that is that in the past, as they came out of these recessions, they always had the SNLs and mutual savings banks available to supply the money to come out of. Now the SNLs and the savings banks are in deep trouble themselves. So it's very difficult for them to depend on that source of money for financing. So that's another problem they've got. There's always also a very severe unemployment in the industry today. In terms of numbers, there's about 925,000 salary construction workers. And about another 225,000 self-employed construction workers making a total of something less than 1.2 million construction workers in this country unemployed. The unemployment rate for construction workers is about 18 points, not about, it's exactly 18.7%, which is more than double the 8.9% of the rate for the nation's entire workforce. One out of every 10 people who's unemployed today is a construction worker. Now, the recession, this recession has caused many companies in the housing industry to either go out of business or to go into bankruptcy. And there's every indication that that will happen again and again in the future when something's done. Now, I want to make it very clear, I don't consider myself a spokesman for the housing industry, but I do feel as though I should be somewhere of a spokesman for housing. It's one of my primary objectives for the people of this country to have adequate decent and affordable housing. And for the United States to have a housing standard for its people that ranks among the best in the world. And in order to attain this goal, it is necessary to... Nice to see you. Well... President of the French Republic. Well, so it's a pleasure to see him. Listen, let us go over now, an official photo taken in front of everybody says, then we'll call you in for one of all three of us. And the folks here. I have to, that was a joke. Well, that's wonderful. Yes, I know you'll reach out. I hope to see you soon. See you, I'll see you. Nice to see you. See you also in California, this is also in California. Why didn't you go over? Well... Beautiful. I'm pretty sure you won't see it. Don't blame me, it's a beautiful state. Well, we shall go over and have a picture taken in front of our place and then you will join us and we'll have a picture of all three and that'll be the best take. Thank you. Thank you. Is this who? Florida. This is Friday 11th. Yes, well, now today in Texas. Thank you. Florida yesterday. I've just heard, I wish that we could keep secrets as well in Washington as the Chamber of Commerce has kept them in Florida. I just found out today from Bill Rogers that for three days there has been no swimming in Key Biscayne Bay. There are 300 sharks that moved into the bay. I don't know who comes to them, but that's what they do. 300 sharks. Really? President, my father was like, he said, the President was very challenging because he's an actress and I am an actress. He's an actress, my father. He wasn't. Well, all actors are. Thank you very much, President. Charles, so well done in my day. She's looking forward very much to meeting you in April. Oh, that's great. She told me that she hopes that I can extend the welcome of the Caribbean to you. Well, we hope that we can exchange our papers here now. All right. Thank you. Well, we hope that we're very enthused about it. We are very enthused with the initiative you've taken on the Caribbean basin and particularly the security of this area because we feel that this is going to spell a lot of prosperity and peace for the region. That's what we hope. And my government wishes me to thank you very much for your assistance, especially that you're immediately after the hurricane and you're so ready to send the armed forces and the continued support that you've given us with the aid and technical advice and things like that. And they wish me, they wish you, they wish the people of the United States through you. They're all the very best. And personally, I'd like to offer my congratulations for the success of your tour of your term of office. Well, thank you very much. Welcome to Washington. Thank you very much. Mr. President, the Ambassador of the State of Israel. Yes, Mr. Ambassador. Great honor and a great pleasure. Well, our pleasure. Honored to have you here. Mrs. Sarah, hello there. Nice to see you. You and I are both in front of the fireplace. I have a page that you'll come in and join us for another day. That's the letter from you. Yes, that's what we'll do right there. Mr. Ambassador, is there a privilege for me? I just, I suppose, presume you know that I had just sent off a letter to you. Yes, I know about that. The Prime Minister called me this morning. He's very concerned, as I think you're not. Yes, he had not yet received my letter. I'm sure that'll help some. Well, I think that all of this one was spawned in the newspapers. And the press reporting, and they really, and they created a fuss that was entirely unnecessary. I hope my letter will be short. Well, I'm sure this is going to be awful. But he was concerned about it for me. And the last is the letter that the Prime Minister asked me to give to Mr. President. All right, thank you very much. And this is the speech room. No, that's just a letter of reading and restating our relationship with Israel, which remains what it always was. And what I discussed with him, sitting in these two chairs when he was here. Well, I came back very impressed with that meeting. And I was at that time in the Agnes of Foreign Affairs and the Funds Committee, and he came to report us. And I came back very impressed. Well, I just, if we can survive these things that the press brings and so forth. Well, I'm going to work out a little bit harder than that. I feel like there's a lot of contributions to make here. I agree with that. Well, let me see you welcome. Oh, now we're not finished on the pictures yet. We haven't taken the most important picture. Bet you're not running for office anymore. We're going to make these pictures, do you? No, these are, I figure, as evidence you see that you command that it's as important for us to be here. I have evidence that it's ready to play the scene. No, thank you. Glad to have you.