 And I know that you've had a good meeting with the Prime Minister. Sorry, my schedule was censored, but we have a chance to say hello. Oh, all right. Is it, I understand the schedule correctly. It's going to be a four to one. This is it. This is it. Good. Sure. Prime Minister, we're just explaining he's had some rather remarkable success in the economy in the last few years. Owing basically to the same principles that you're trying to reestablish here in this country. Oh, I know. I know we have much in common that way. Well, what is it that we hear? President has another commitment right in this moment. But perhaps we could discuss these things and convey them to him for you. Yes. Good. All right. They met me. Thank you very much. It's always strange to me that on the down line, those who've chosen the opposite course, why they can't look at all of those of you who have done differently and how much better you are than they are. Great. Now, in other case, we have taken very meaningful steps towards correct the economy. We've been doing this for 500 years. And we have felt something like this. And as you know, we've lost everything. Yes. We are not asking for charity, but we are asking for the people. I'm sorry I can't participate in this. Our Congress has come back. And right now, with budget and law, I am up to here trying to persuade the Congress to do some things they don't want to do. But it's good to be able to see you and I appreciate having you. Thank you very much. You know, thank you very much. I'm going to stick with people. Oh, all right. Before we begin the meeting, we thought it might be helpful to go around Mr. President so these individuals could identify themselves too, since they are strong supporters. I'm sure you know many of them. And I know we're going to have a chance for an individual. Yes. Greetings and some picture-taking of the door. I'm Edward Duffy, Chairman of the National Bank of New York. Frank Porter, First Bank System of Minneapolis. Joe Morris, I'm going to be the second to support you, Kansas. John Sullivan, Kansas City. I brick deal with the President of the American Association of Retail. I'm going to be the first to hand him back to Boston. Jack, you have those manufacturers? I'm your friend, Martin, also a Bank of America. I'm your friend, Mr. Edward, from Columbia, Texas. Gerald Shedford, First National Bank in Salina, Kansas. Well, I'm grateful to all of you also for coming here. It's a short notice. When I was in California, I couldn't help but remember Danny Thomas, the famous comedian who, after he had made it big in Hollywood, was speaking one night and was expressing appreciation for what the community in California had done for him. He said, I've achieved such success out here. He said, when I came here, I had $65,000. And he said, I'm now proud to say I own two old 187s. Well, as you know withholding has come to the Senate soon. I want to, not only the opportunity to thank you for your support, but to plead for more. We spent a lot of months around this table figuring out the fashion of budget that was fair and balanced. And one thing I needed to get the budget cuts that we must have was a revenue component. And if I turn around now and give up the revenue side, the rest of the budget is jeopardized. We could lose the spending cuts we need, the tax cuts that most stimulate business, and we'd send a signal that I'll back down when we go in this time. And I'd like to think I don't have a reverse gear. That's why your support's important to us. You can help get across a message. We're defending a principle that those who owe the taxes must pay their taxes rather than asking those who are paying their taxes to pay more. It's not just a problem of reporting, it's a problem of collecting. And withholding is the most effective collecting method we have. Collect taxes just through reporting is workable. It would require as much as a 200% increase in the audience. And we want less, not more, high-arrest involvement in people's lives. The only other alternatives are higher deficits for new taxes. And I know you don't want either one of those any more than we do. I'm determined to resist the pressure in Congress to go back to big spending and to increase taxes to the people. The Congress, presently and particularly true in the House, is looking for ways to spend more, at the same time that they're bemoaning the deficits. I just can't step aside now, but these just go because there's political opposition. So I'd like to hear your view, and I hope that with the recovery beginning, we can continue to walk with positive actions that will stimulate growth and prosperity by keeping spending down and lowering interest rates even more. We were told over and over again, some gentlemen who've met with it on the other side of the fence on this issue that it wasn't their position that they were on the position of the people. I still, in spite of what they said, tend to believe that the bulk of the people truly don't understand what's been misled and somehow view this as a new tax. So we would appreciate anything that you could do in helping to bring the attention of the people and what we're trying to do with catch those neighbors of theirs that just aren't paying what they owe. I'm not supposed to be a spokesman. I don't know. I just walk into the wrong hall, so... They're not as big as the ones around here. I think that you've got the white hats in here as you make that guess. Thank you. I have with us all the former Secretary of the HHS, Mr. Schweiker, and many other distinguished personalities in this group. I don't think we have time to go around and introduce everyone, but I'd explain to them that we have 15 minutes for this meeting and you're very busy schedule. Well, I want to say seriously, thank you for your attendance and willingness to hear our position on the interest and the holding of the legislation. As you know, the issues coming up in the Senate as early as Monday, we spent months around this table figuring out how to fashion a budget that was fair and balanced, but in any budget cuts we felt we had to have a revenue component also. If I turn now and give up on the revenue side of the budget, the rest is jeopardized. We did lose spending cuts that we need and we could lose more of them. Attached cuts that stimulate business also could be lost and we did send a signal that, or we would send a signal that I would back down when the bill only gets tough and that's why your continued support is important to us. You can help us get across the message that we're defending the principle that those who owe taxes must pay their taxes, not those who are paying taxes already paid more. It's not just a problem of reporting, it's a problem of collecting and withholding is the most effective collection method we have. To collect taxes just through reporting isn't worth it. That would require about a 200% increase in audits and we want less, not more involvement in the IRS and people's lives. The only other alternatives are high deficits from new taxes and I don't think you want those any more than we could. I'm determined to resist pressure in Congress to go back to the old ways of spending and increasing taxes and increasing spending. The Congress is looking for ways to spend more and I just can't step aside now but the issues go with Congress' political opposition. I hope that with recovery this beginning we can continue to cooperate on positive actions that will stimulate growth and prosperity by keeping spending down, lowering interest rates even more and I think we'd like to hear your thoughts. Is there a sponsor? Why don't you speak first if you've never lost a word. Hi, President. I am pleased to sign this. Claiming May 1st as Law Day USA. Maybe it is served to make sure that We reaffirm our dedication to justice under law for all our people. I could have picked a happier day with the 15th of April. May 1st is we're making a better use of it than the Soviet Union was. Sir, I emphasize that difference to you. Yes, I think so. And a good way to do it. The Soviet Union has decided to slip the gentle words under the blotter to be known as the citations in the story that I never forgot. Several years later, the Soviet Union gave this annual golden name, but they don't give citations. They don't tell you what he got it for. I did a little work here as a Spaniard. A refugee from the Spanish Civil War. And then I found I had been in Cuba for several years. I found it before they had been in Mexico. In prison, he was a man carrying the pickaxe in the head of Leon Trotsky. And all those years later, they gave their highest award. The story that I had remembered from the war was a B-17 coming back from the war. It was a German ball-ship. It was a aircraft. The ball turret underneath it. It shot at the plane and it had taken a hit. It was jammed. It could not get the ball turret gun around. He was wounded. When they started to leave the plane, the kid in the ball turret realized it was being left to sit down in the floor of the plane. He took the boys in. Some never mind. Some will write it down. One society gives a medal for murder of a man that will give his life just to bring comfort to it. Before he has to die. And the other one gives it to me. Trapped in that story publicly a few times. Thank you very much for all of that. Thank you so much. Thank you Fred. Thank you so much. You're welcome. That will be your second turn soon. You look just super. You look stout as in. It looks like you are not a pain on the face. Cribble to sir. Dan Hausser is mine. Good to see you, Martin. Bill Hawker. Hello there. I'm Jerry Conn, President of the Association, and I'm probably the only guy from South York who did both Jim and Carter. I'm going to say that I have clubs in your home state of Orange County and Los Angeles County called Holiday Spots. We have a lot of people in your home state that are working on that business. And I'm a great supporter of yours all over the country. But I want to say one more thing. We feel our last hope in this country. I want you all to say that sincerely. We feel our last hope and I mean that sincerely. So a real pleasure to meet you, sir. Thank you. I can't follow that. I was going to ask you a question. I was saying congratulations to your lawyer. Yes. That's right. Congratulations. My name is Harold Schwartz, President Reagan. He was one of my favorite actors. I made a little present for you, quiet to your presence. It was done in your first accepted Republican thing. But I didn't want to send it to you because I was afraid of you being superstitious. So that's what I heard. So I saved it for three years. It's up to you. Can I take it out now? No. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I guess just holding that makes it so invisible. Exactly. That's what it's about. It's nice to meet you. David. Who is that? I don't know. I'm going down. President, my name is David Schwartz. I'm a member of the city of California. I want you to help keep up the good work. Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm very honored to have you. I'm very happy to have you. Frank Bond. I want you to lift my spirit. A cool picture. I appreciate it. Mr. President. I'm the chairman of the Association of Physical Fitness Centers. These are the board of directors of the association. And we're here to... There's a little guy from the side of the room. He's one of the outstanding Americans that emphasized critical fitness to all of the Americans and set an example for the world, and particularly the American public, and is following a regular fitness program on a daily basis. And we'd like to present this award. This is the Man of the Year Award. It was established in 1977 to recognize outstanding individuals like yourself. And if I can get my glasses out. There's no time for that. I'm trying to have you read it all over. I see chopping wood is better than working out. Man of the Year APFC to the President of the United States of America, Ronald Reagan, for his contribution to promoting physical fitness for all Americans presented by the Association of Physical Fitness Center in 1983. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Greatly honored and very proud of you. And thank you very much. Thank you so much. You know, you look so good. You could almost be one of the board of directors of association. I'm going to say I don't understand how some of you not only say but do. Oh, my God. There's another gym upstairs there. I've heard about that. Two sets of exercises for all these days. And then we stayed with them. Oh, that's great. And then we stayed with them. Let's have an opening.