 I made it. Trafficking. Another speech at 9.45, they're going to get over there. How you do, sir? Pretty good. I'll post the picture. You spelled a copy back there and took all of it. How you doing? Let's see. Back to the wall. I shouldn't have lied on you. I thought you were too. Well, I got to know. I was just having some fun. I was intentional. Hard. Well, in June 5th time. You had a few other things. Pull out of the window. You should have liked that. 9.45, good morning, James. My talk's better. I'm ready. I'm on the way. I'm on the way. I'm on the way. I'm on the way. I'm on the way. Bye, James. Fine seats. We've... I could almost come up with a really corny line from a lot of B movies. I know you're all wondering why we asked you here. But... I was going to show bedtime for Bonzo. Instead we talked a little business here. We talk a little business here. This noon, I'm addressing the Organization of American States and going to state a new foreign policy. And it very definitely is going to require all of your cooperation and help. And let me just background if I could for a few minutes, and then I'm going to turn it over to some others for some more thorough briefing and your discussion of various points and the things that you will want to know specifically about the plan. I have long had a dream based on the fact that we don't ever seem to have brought, no matter what our efforts have been, all the American states, North and South America together in the kind of accord that we could have. And what a great power we are, as I told a few already, that more than $600 million in population, virtually everything in the line of resources that all of us need in the world. And yet, we have probably been more estranged from our own neighbors, kind of uneasy. It's a piece and a truce, but a mistrust. And maybe part of it do in the past that we were always the big colossus of the North. So early on, and even before I was here, I had in mind approaching our immediate North American neighbors, North and South, and not approaching them with a plan and saying, here, here's something we think is fine, but approaching them and saying, what are your ideas? How can we have a closer and a better relationship? How can we make our borders more of a meeting place than a separation? And so I did contact President Lopez Portillo. We had several meetings, then meetings with Pietrodo in Canada, and out of all of those has come in accord and has come, I think, a better relationship, recognized on both sides of each border than we've ever had before. And early in my administration, Prime Minister Siaga came here from Jamaica. He'd just been elected, and it was really one of the rare and few times that someone of a different ideology had actually been voted out of office and the people after experiencing that system of regimentation had turned back to the private sector, but his country economically was in a shambles. We set up a task force of private citizens, also augmented by aid from us. And the first thing you know, we found that we had help, again, from the other two neighbors, and even from overseas, Japan contributed direct contribution of aid, and slowly Jamaica is making progress now and coming back on a free economy basis. But how did that came this idea of a Caribbean basin plan? And the idea that our allies out there, this is of vital importance to us, the Caribbean and those a couple of dozen odd size or small nations whose standard of living in the economy has been such that they're fertile fields or subversion from outside for the kind of takeover that we've seen happen in Grenada. There are a couple of others that are directly threatened now and of course this is true in Central America as well. The idea of the Caribbean basin plan, and we involved Canada and Mexico and then Venezuela volunteered to join us to see if in a combination of aid, direct aid, but mainly the stimulation of their economy, technical help to go in and see what potentials they had that could provide their people with a better living, erase the social and economic inequities that made them subject to subversion. And Canada has now doubled its contribution to the Caribbean. Mexico and Venezuela are helping with a very concessionary low price on oil that they're furnishing to provide energy for those countries. And I will be presenting to you for this speech today a program in which we will call yes for some aid, but it will not be the primary source. We will also turn to the private sector for the same kind of technical aid, hope to stimulate their economy, tax incentives to encourage investment, free trade zone to encourage them, at the same time that we're going to recognize our own two groups out there, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and make sure that this does not become unfair competition to them so that they will be included. Also, in the things that we're trying to do. Well, this basically is the plan. I think there may be and will be some immediate cost to it and that's hard to say at these times of our own economic distress, but I think it's going to be far less cost than if we go along and someday recognize that the Caribbean is becoming more and more a red lake and that we have threats to our own borders and added cost of one of the things that I used as an example in first talking about this. There's a tremendous cost to our country. We are the focus and the destination of those who are driven by want and need from their own countries and take to the boats while they wind up here. And wouldn't we be far better off in regard to the very costly Haitian program that we have now both of intercept and then of trying to care for those people that come here if we set their economy up to the place that they don't have to leave to make a living. They can make a living staying in their own lands, which I think they would prefer. So this basically is the reason for our coming together today. I'm not going to go on at any greater length other than to just close by saying that, just to ask you to envision that map in the Western half of the hemisphere and envision it, those two great land masses and all those more than 600 million people and all of this Western hemisphere which has such a common heritage, freedom and independence in an accord in which yes, we all retain our own customs and culture, we are sovereignty as nations, but that we form together here in a determination to preserve what brought us all here in the first place. And I think we could see that it could be a beacon of hope for the entire world. So now I'm going to turn the meme over to National Security Advisor, Judge Clark and there are others here who will then brief and I know be able to take your questions on specifics of this plan. Bill. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, President gets back to schedule.