 Do you know everybody here? I do. Bill and Bob Tierra, Judge Clark, Mitch Hector, Judge Clark, Irving Crystal, Bill Rusher. Thank you. We're going to be able to have us here today. We're grateful for your time. I'm grateful to all of you for coming and, of course, having a chance to live by a belief that you get in trouble when you're talking about each other and not when you're talking to each other and I think about when we talk to each other. Well, that's wonderful. I remember a dinner we had at the Union League Club, a somewhat similar dinner before your election, before the campaign, in which we had kind of the same group of writers and electionals here, and I remember Irving wasn't here on that occasion. And Irving had spent the first half of his life avoiding Republicans and now he's spending the second half making up for his drama. I promise, I promise I'm not going to interrupt your pleasure for more than about a minute and a half, if that, but I just want to thank you and welcome you here to the White House. You may be on your way to the National Aquarium, but Nancy and I thought that it then would be appropriate for you to start in what's often been referred to as the Goldfish Bowl. But the whole country is, especially the thousands of schoolchildren who visit the Aquarium every year will all of you a tremendous debt of gratitude because of your efforts, not only will the Aquarium remain open, it'll flourish, sprucing up has begun thanks to strict and creative management and I understand that you're already planning some long-term capital improvements. I'm so pleased that Midge Baldridge and Mary Jane Wick and the other members of the National Aquarium Society have made this cause their own. You're proving that private sector initiatives really can work. In the past decades, America seemed to drift off course because our leaders insisted that government was the answer to every question and could minister the solution to every problem. Our nation built by people with a strong sense of self-reliance, neighborliness and community pride was being robbed of its special American spirit. So in these last 20 months, we've tried to unleash that spirit again and I think it's working. From across the country, we've been getting reports from businessmen, from volunteers and community organizations that are all rising to the challenge. Your experience and these other examples make it clear that we don't have to turn to the federal government to fill every need. This kind of private sector cooperation can renew the quality of life across America and I'm going to stop now because we can talk with you more personally than this but let me close by saying how grateful and how proud I am of each one of you. Thank you all and God bless you. Thank you. This is the responsibility bill of 82. If I remember correctly in your letter, you told me that I couldn't get it all by myself in here exactly, right? Well, I thought it was important because first, a lot of people out here it was important to have a picture like that. It was tactical. Then of course, I believe that we needed some economic incentive within the economy. So we just tried to stretch out and try to do something about jobs and I did it for that reason and I'm glad it worked out well. I'm glad you know something about the OIC. The opportunities and utilization centers began as a self-help movement some 18 years ago in Philadelphia. It was during those days, as you, when we were very much involved in trying to better conditions for people to know from your history you were in the union movement and so on and so forth. And I was in the leadership of getting jobs for minorities with businesses that refused to employ them. When the jobs became open, I found that people need skills to do the jobs. I said integration without preparation is frustration. So we had to do something in preparation as well as getting the jobs. So I took an older man in jail house, no federal money, no government money, private money collections from churches. I got a loan on my house. Got a lot of volunteers. From that jail house started a training program that matched the jobs that were available with the skills that many training programs don't do. And also to concentrate on motivation and the attitude because a person has a skill and doesn't have an attitude he still cannot be a benefit on a job. So for the first time a program occurred that dealt with developing motivation and attitude, self-competence, self-appreciation, belief in the freedom. Belief in what we are all about in America but also training for a skill for a job that existed in the economy and then on the job. And as a result in this older man in jail house turning to a training center, the program began to spread. A fellow named Philip Phillips, who was chairman of General Electric at that time, who was a predecessor to Reg Jones, became chairman of the National Industrial Advisory Council to help me to get business leadership for this low IC all over the country. And when Philip died, George Champion, who was then chairman of Chase Manhattan by the time, became chairman of the Industrial Advisory Council and he's still chairman of the Industrial Advisory Council. And we have the chairman of 30 years before he hasn't fought except in the month. We still aren't thinking about next summer. With the private sector summer job provides an excellent opportunity. I was 14 when I got mine and I started out digging foundation for the construction outfit that was buying old houses and remodeling in the summer. Before the summer was over, I laid hardwood floor and shingled roof and painted. It all comes in very handy with the ranch now. But I went to New York last January and David Rockefeller was there, thunder was saying that it was their personal leadership which made the program so successful. You've all heard us talk, I know, about the private sector. We had a pretty successful 5,000 of the largest corporations and asked their CEOs to work with the National Alliance of Business. They're private industry councils to make the hire a teenager program a success. Many new programs were started, but much more can be done. We didn't invite you here today because you don't know what needs to be done. We invited you today to work with the National Alliance of Business and the White House to help encourage other business and private industry councils to come with you. You can be our ambassadors for private sector summer jobs so that we can do a better job next year. Before I have to go, I'd like to say a few words about the National Alliance of Business. This is Chairman John Filer. The Chairman will be succeeded by David Roderick, Chairman of the United States Steel. I welcome Dave Warnley to our business government partnership. I'm going to say good-bye and thank you very much and welcome to you. Thank you. I hope you want to regret the decision to move up that we want to make things too rough for you here. And closing, let me express our deep appreciation to you Chief Executives, Officers, Private Industry Council Executives to the National Alliance of Business and to John Filer for their untiring efforts to expand a helping hand to thousands of needy youth last summer. We're out and grateful. Thank you to all of you and for your dedication. We hope that your patriotism, far-sightedness will be emulated and your ranks will be joined by additional businessmen and women in 1983. And now I understand that there's little photography sessions through the numbers. I'm sure it's going to stop the wheels of progress here. But I'll get on by the door and we'll get started. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.