 Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. There should be a peak hole in that. Well, there is and I've never used it. I always think that I'm always coming in here and if I was interrupting either one of these lovely ladies here, then I'll go back and come in later. But it's very nice to be here and to be able to say hello to all of you. It's good in particular to see these two women who are very important in this administration, Elizabeth Dole and Catherine Ortega. But being here with broadcasters reminds me of my own background in broadcasting. I was thinking on the way in here of how I first discovered something you already know about, the power of the sponsor. I first started out in the air at WOC, WHO, Davenport and Des Moines, Iowa. And this was back during the depression in the early 30s. And I remember one night I was on duty there as an announcing and evening show girl. Show came up late in the evening. It was a program of organ music that was piped in from a local mortuary. And I noticed down there in the schedule that in the middle of all of this music that I then made a big plug for this mortuary. I don't know who's anxious to go to one, but anyway, I was to make the plug with nobody told me about the business arrangement. And it just, I thought it was just a way of being polite and I thought somebody's just dead wrong. My dramatic instinct rebelled at the idea of mentioning a mortuary right after you'd heard drinking to the only with mine eyes. So I didn't do the plug and the sponsor was not amused. Management decided to replace me with a local teacher and even had me showing him the ropes. And then he didn't understand the realities of broadcasting either. He asked for a contract. So he left town and I stayed with the radio station. I'm not divulging any state secrets when I say the National Association of Broadcasters is a very important group. The members of your organization, I think in formless, entertain us, tell us what's happening in the world. In a democracy that's a great public service. And I know that all of you are very busy this election year, attempting to inform voters on what the issues are about and encouraging them to vote. And that's very important. We're in a democracy only an informed citizenry can make the right choices. 1984 will be an historic election year. The issues are big and clear cut. They were in 1982, but this year the facts of the election I think are a little different. That's because the facts of our national life are a little different. Four years ago, in my opinion, America was in a kind of decline going from strength to weakness both at home and abroad. Inflation was 12.4%. The interest rates were 21.5% and unemployment was rising. A foreign government was holding our diplomats hostage and America standing in the world was very low. Now nearly four years later, I like to think things have turned around a little so much that nobody even missed mentions the misery index anymore. America has come alive again with energy, progress and hope. Today inflation is less than 4%. Interest rates have fallen. Our industrial base is stronger and more competitive. More jobs are being created in the United States than in any other major industrialized country. Maybe that's why the people are more confident about the future than at any time in the last several years. Change hasn't come easy, but I feel that the programs we've put in place and the philosophies behind them have been somewhat vindicated in these last four years. Now that's my point of view. Now you may not agree, but it seems to me the challenge for you as your stations and networks cover the personalities and issues of this election year is to take into account the new realities America is immersed in, explain them as best you can and give us as far as possible a reading of these events. I think that it must be very hard to be a journalist and to try if you're really professional to remove your own views from the reporting of the news to keep your opinions separate from the facts and events that you're reporting. That's a great challenge and I'm always impressed by those who meet it. I had some experience in that when I was a sports announcer. They didn't have one announcer that belonged to the team hired by the team and broadcasting the games and therefore he could be partisan. They had at least a dozen of us broadcasting major league baseball the same games on the same day and so you had to be absolutely impartial and since you were following one team it became increasingly difficult to be impartial and so I know something of the strain when your own personal likes and dislikes get involved with what has to be said but I do want to compliment the NAB for its help in the campaign against drunk driving. Yesterday I was in New Jersey. I visited a high school there that has a drunk driving awareness program that is simply sensational and the people there really made it clear that they as citizens consider drunk driving to be a national menace and they're prepared to do a great deal to stop it and your part in that campaign is timely and needed and most appreciated. It was a wonderful thing in a high school gymnasium with the students present the townspeople and the parents and the teachers all present to see them all the way including the kids united on this campaign and the Governor Tom Kane was there and he has done a remarkable job I think that New Jersey may possibly be a leader in the nation at this moment in the actions that have been taken on that and on trying to stop the slaughter of teenagers in alcohol related accidents. It was a truly inspiring day but now and again I thank you for the part that broadcasting is playing in that particular program but now I'm going to quit talking because I would like to introduce a woman who has been leading the drunk driving effort for this administration. I should reword that a woman who's been leading the effort to impress upon us the hazards and dangers of drunk driving our secretary of transportation Elizabeth Doe. Yes indeed, good to see you today.