 Welcome to the White House and Merry Christmas to each and every one of you. I think back on all this started, but all I can think of right now is that I want to thank you, each one of you for your service and the Board of Advisors of the Private Sector Initiatives. I've always believed that American people would respond tenfold if only asked to get involved in their communities and lending and helping hand where it was needed. You've been an effective group in promoting this great tradition. I want to thank John Fallon for his leadership, dedication as chairman of the Board of Advisors of these past three years. John, I know you've had a few other things on your plate, but you gave this program your personal commitment and I thank you. And I also want to thank Eddie Fritz, Vice Chairman of the Board for his tireless service and assistance through the years. Eddie, I know you have also been a great support to Nancy with her drug prevention program and we both owe you a debt of gratitude for that. And now, I believe that I'm supposed to receive a report from you, John Fallon. Thank you very much, Mr. President. I think that my job really is to thank you. First of all, I would like to personally thank you for the honor and privilege of having an opportunity to chair this. And I think for so many other things that you've done during your presidency for this country, but particularly for two things that we're involved in, you certainly showed a wonderful spirit of, I think, public-private cooperation when you came to the exchange that night. And you and your people during the October 87 gave us such magnificent support and encouragement. And I can never thank you enough for that. I also want to thank you for this board. There just been a magnificent group of people. Each one of them has believed in the things that you believed in, which are the things that all Americans have believed in since the beginning of our great country. And you really have been our guiding light and our beacon. And it has been your philosophy all during public life about private sector initiatives. And I think we have taken that creed and what we're trying to do is to go out to get other people to be involved in it, to do it in a whole variety of ways. And I think that under your guidance and under your leadership, we have produced some results. We have the ball rolling because we want to keep it rolling. We look forward to working with the next administration. But I must tell you, frankly, sir, that we will solely mention that you have been our guardian angel. We have always felt that when moving out there in the field, you've been watching over us directly and through your wonderful staff under Fred Ryan and all these wonderful young people who are over there. And so I can't thank you enough. And I would like now to ask Rob Mossback just to give you a brief update on what we've been doing in recent times. Fred, I want to add my thanks as well. I've had the privilege of serving under your task force, your advisory council now on this board. And thank you again for the great leadership that you provided in this program. The report we're providing today is broken up into the five committees that have done most of the work. What I'd like to do is touch briefly on some of the high points of those committees' activities over the last three years. I'm going to go through them alphabetically. The communications, which Eddie Fritz chaired, is one that started out with the idea of using the tools of the communication business to expand the awareness of private second nations and the opportunity for people to be involved. And I think probably their top accomplishment has been the C-Flag program, which you participate in every year, which honors organizations and companies for the fine works they do, and by that recognition hopefully encourages others to do likewise. Their hope and their recommendation for the future is that we increase the number of opinion leaders from the media business that participate in any future boards or activities, and also to hopefully take the C-Flag ceremony and sort of spread it out and spin it off into a foundation which will perpetuate itself. A second committee is corporate community leadership. And Chairman, that's not with us today, George Moody, but the purpose of that group was to try and expand corporate community involvement in their communities in creative ways. We felt we could appeal to two very straightforward interests, one of them being enlightened self-interest and the other one being just to be competitive in the community. Their major accomplishment I think has been to strengthen the C-Flag ceremony and program by more creative marketing and expansion and to reach out to graduate business schools to begin to enlist young business leaders in the activity of trying to encourage business involvement in the future. We're at a very early stage of that, but their recommendation for the future would be to try and inject private sector initiatives and business involvement particularly into the curriculum of business schools around the country. So we don't grant people sort of later in life, but rather move in and grant them earlier in life and have that experience throughout their business careers. A third committee, one that I think you can be very proud of their activities is the Education Committee, and that's been chaired by Tom Evans. And Tom started out in his committee with the priority to increase awareness and to promote greater business involvement in the educational system. And this is perhaps in terms of numerical accomplishments, the most impressive increase in activity in the last five years. They've held five partnerships in education symposiums, one a year, going back to 1983. And I think the byproduct of their work is that in 1982 there were only some 42,000 partnerships in education. The latest count is there are over 140,000. So a significant increase. And obviously they hope for the future to continue the partnerships in education symposiums and continue national recognition of effective successful partnerships in this area. Fourth committee, public-private partnerships. That's the one I've had the privilege of chairing. Our charge was to highlight examples of successful creative community partnerships, something we started doing years ago, whether it's the New York City Partners Program or the Houston Committee for Private Sector Initiatives. We have tried to highlight those through a series of four regional conferences that have been White House sponsored conferences in four major cities around the country. They were held in Houston, Columbus, Ohio, San Diego, California, and the most recent one just a couple of weeks ago in Stanford, Connecticut. At these conferences we've had business leaders exchange thoughts and ideas not only about specific problems but also the structure that you can create involving the United Way and other players in the community to make maximum best use of the interest and enthusiasm people have for committing to help with the cause. The fifth committee but by no means the least important is the Volunteer Committee. And it wouldn't surprise you to know that's been chaired by George Romney who is synonymous with volunteerism in this country. George's charge and his committee has been to increase and promote volunteerism through greater recognition of great acts that people have done and by strengthening networks. And one of the things that perhaps has helped that the most in terms of the recognition is your present Volunteer Action Awards ceremony each year. That program started in 1982. You've given out now 130 of those awards and it was institutionalized in 1987 by Executive Order in 1988. The board of this board here as well as the boards of Action and Volunteer voted to create an annual perpetual award known as the Ronald Reagan Award for Volunteer Excellence. And it's given each year to the person who exhibits the special pioneering spirit of innovation that you've exhibited so beautifully throughout these eight years. Their hope for the future is to continue to raise the level of volunteerism and to raise volunteering up perhaps to the level of involvement that they've got financial giving and almost to put it on a similar plane. So we all have our work cut out for us but we're very, very proud of what we've accomplished under your leadership and thank you. Well, thank you. I just want you to know that at least we haven't mentioned this but what this has all meant to worldwide. And you probably are all aware of this figure but I was astounded not too long ago when I got the figure for cash-giving alone. Not services and material or anything but cash-giving alone. 1987 over $94 billion through the United States to volunteer giving. But I have to take a minute. I'm going to take a minute and tell you something here about this that happened in this house and why I'm so proud of what's been done now in spreading this worldwide. It was a dinner over in the White House and the wife of an ambassador to a European nation was seated beside me and this side and around the table, our table had come up a conversation about some private sector initiative, something that was being done and I heard a quiet voice to my left say, yes, but you're unique to the ambassador's wife. And I said, what do you mean? She said yes, you do this in your country privately but she said only here you are unique. She said all the rest of us, we turn to the government for that. Never forgotten that and then when as you say, as we all know, it's spread. Many of you participated in helping that spread to the world and now it's no longer a strange thing and every once in a while in meeting with heads of state from other countries that mention this change in their own countries. Well, I have something that has to be done here and it's a great pleasure to do it. This is presented to John J. Fallon Jr. Chairman, President's Board of Advisors and Private Sector Initiatives of Gratitude and Appreciation. I guess you know who's presenting it. We thank you again for your leadership and your guidance and we also thank you each and every one of us for the opportunity to serve. Well, I'm going to go over and stand in front of Teddy there and I hope that each one of you will combine and we can have pictures together if you need to answer my question. The Nobel Prize that Teddy won for settling the Russo-Japanese War that his family presented it thought it should be here in this room and I can't resist whenever I have to tell someone about it telling that he won it in good, solid Republican style. He was sitting on a yacht. Our best assets, Bill Cuff, is retiring. I see you have some business going with you. Yes, sir. Thank you. This is my wife. This is President. Thank you. My brother-in-law. My sister-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. Yes. You and I are going to step over here with the fireplace for a moment and then later you'll come to a room around here. This citation is to William F. Cuff. For exceptionally meritorious service to the White House military office as a Navy enlisted member from March 1961 to November 1973 and as a civilian from November 1973 to January 1989. During this period, Mr. Cuff has provided invaluable service and assistance in the management of Department of Defense assets under the auspices of the White House military office. The recognition of these accomplishments and on behalf of the Department of Defense is my pleasure to recognize William F. Cuff by presenting the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal assigned Frank C. Carter-G. Secretary of Defense to December 1988. So, Brian? Very much so. Well, it is also that here is the citation for you and I think the family ought to join us. I think you ladies ought to be in the middle of this. Okay, thank you. Or at least maybe one of you. Fix my own bill. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, thank you all of you. Thank you very much for all your service. If you don't drop this, it's breakable. Thank you very much. Oh, thank you very much. Thank you very much. This is your water. Thank you. Please do it again. Farewell. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you again, Mr. President. Bye.