 Mr. President, the Ambassador of the United States. Well, how do you do? I think they would like us over in front of the fire place there for congratulations. And also, you're going to be pretty busy committing, I understand. You will also be the permanent ambassador of the United Nations. Well, please give my regards to you, President. Thank you. Ambassador Sierra Leone. Well, good afternoon, President. Good to see you. Good to know, Mr. President. I think they'd like us over in front of the fire place there for the photo. Thank you. Well, this is your back after a 16-year absence. Yes. Let me present my letters of credits and the letters of recall of my predecessor. Thank you. Thank you very much. Congratulations again, my best regards to you, to your President. Thank you very much. All right. President, the Ambassador of Luxembourg. Well, Mr. Ambassador, a little thank you. I'm deeply honored to present to you the letters by which he's been behind the screen. Let's move over here in front of the fire place. And there were, they like that better, the photo. And we'll do it here. All right. There we go. Thank you. Well, you're very pleased with the relationship between the appreciative event, such as a recent visit to Moscow, the officials, and their presentation of the case where United Defense in Europe had owned. You know that for us, common defense can only be worked out through this level. And the credible defense of Europe is unthinkable if it cannot be done through the attendee appliance to which we always start since it's in such a magic way now. Yes. We feel that way too. And again, welcome. Pleased to have you here. Thank you very much, Mr. President and deeply honored. Mr. President, the Ambassador of Kaptar. Yes, Mr. Ambassador, welcome. I think you would like us, rather than you're in front of the fire place. Where are you going? I'd like the picture here better. I don't know. So, since you're a good friend of mine, I'd like to share some things on this. I need a picture right this time. Well, I'm here. I think it's helpful that one of these days we can bring one in and run a rack war that's going on. Pleased to have you here. Mr. President, the Ambassador of Spain. Well, Mr. Ambassador, we want to ask you to be here with me. Well, we're pleased to have you. Looking forward to the King's son's visit here. Yes. Thank you very much. I think that I will be visiting you with him. And the King of Spain, with whom I have been very recently, sends to you his best wishes and the desire for happiness. He's returned my regards to him. He's planning to come to visit California, Texas, and New Mexico as before. I would appreciate it very much to meet with you at your home country in California if you have the time. I appreciate very much the excuse to go to California. I shall lean on everyone to make sure that we can hear that. Yes, well, Mr. President, this is a present that I want to pass on to you. It's the first Spanish constitution which has been enforced also in California, the Florida and most of the territories of the West Pacific. It's wonderful. It's a fax, a fax in my constitution, has 1812, has at the end, at the end, this nature. Thank you for all the people. Oh, thank you very much. Pleased to have you. Our ranch in California was once a Spanish land grant, was it? Yes. There are 75 people from the New World who participate in the drafting of this constitution. And it's an honor for me to... Well, I'm very pleased to have that. Thank you very much. Yes, I was going to say for a minute there, I forgot to leave, and I'll look to see, make sure that we have exchanged our documents. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Well, pleased to have you here. Good day, and we can work out the problems about our bases. I'm sure we will. I'm sure we will. We have a good relationship. And I hope to work very closely with your organization and do the right thing in our relations as much as possible, and to ground them on a solid base, and last in mind as much as possible. Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you very much. President, the Ambassador Barbados. Well, Mr. Ambassador, welcome, pleased to have you here. And Lady Douglas. Hello. Please, Ed, you and I will go in front of the fireplace, exchange our papers, and then you will come in to our visit there in 1982. Yes, it's the country. Yes, indeed. You remember very well that position. We still have pictures of you at the beach. We have many happy memories and also a very more recent happy memory, and that is our cooperation in freeing the people of Grenada. Yes, yes, indeed. Come and join us. We can't give you as nice a climate as Barbados. You're trying to be excellent. Yes, yes, this is nice. Well, welcome, and I hope you find it very pleasant. The Ambassador of the Comoros. Yes, Mr. Ambassador, welcome, pleased to have you here. This over in front of the fireplace for the photo. The relationship that we have with your country there, pleased to have been able to be of some help. Thank you very much. Please, to be able to put it in. Mr. Ambassador, Brunei Darusila. Well, Mr. Ambassador, welcome, pleased to have you here, exchange our papers. Very pleased with the relationship, particularly since our Secretary of State visited your country a very good time ago. The Ambassador of South Africa. Mr. Ambassador, pleased to see you. Right on. Well, you and I were over in front of the fireplace to exchange our papers for the photo. Mr. Ambassador, Mrs. Collins. No, pleased to see you. And then we take a picture. We're going to ask you to come and have a picture. It's down to you. Thank you. We're very hopeful that your election over the things that they've used to press. Well, I have expressed that I'm so sorry that I can't bring you more positive if I have to welcome. I'm very hopeful that it will come. Do I have this over to you now? Yes. This is a letter of presence, a letter of call, and my notice of address to you. All right. And I've got a little card for you, but that is just for you. And this is like a person that I've come out to do that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Now, let's have your lady come in. Thanks, Mr. Ambassador. Excuse me. Thank you. Well, we're pleased to have you both here. Thank you. We can see of help. There's a few minutes of silence for a small talk. She didn't mention that. I have two waves. I think we're going to have a small talk. We're almost there. Maybe my last smile's on this topic. Yes. Sometimes I'm starting on the fusion. It turns out I'm like a baby. Why? I don't care about that. President, have you heard anything about his testimony today? Net 62. His testimony today? No. Be sure that you're denying that there was any solicitation that you know of, by the way, out of countries or individuals. Now, as I say, I can't get him to take questions on that. We're here on a matter of the death season. It's all important. I have made answers to those particular questions over and over again, and I still stick with them. Sir, do you think that Mr. Mee should stay on the job while an independent counsel investigates him? I've issued a statement on that matter with regard to my trust and confidence in him. Lights, please. Right, pull this right, please. And then speech on ethics and morality. I like anything you do. I'm just going to sit down now. He asked my story. Appreciate it. Let's go, please. Thank you. You're the best, though. We see you. We see you. Don't talk about threats. Is that the same as I dare you to follow me around? Same, same principle. Well, listen, I thank you for coming down this afternoon to discuss the death ceiling, which is always a difficult issue, but something we have to face up to. I understand you'll be facing up to it in committee right after our meeting here. That's just inconsequential, the main purpose of the meeting, which is to give our champion golfers some golf balls. Through this death ceiling business many times over these last six years. But this year, it is different. Actually different, because at midnight May 15th, the temporary death limit, as you know, will expire. But unlike previous years, however, there aren't any administrative actions that are available to prolong the availability of cash. Without congressional action, therefore, the United States government will run out of cash by May 28th, according to the Estates of the Treasury Department, and we'll then have to default on its death if we haven't raised the ceiling. We've never had default in the history of the United States and to do so now I think would result, as we all know, in unthinkable consequences, severe disruption, domestic and international money markets, as well as increasing interest rates here at home. Now, I understand the political dilemma faced by Republicans on this issue. For a half a century, the running of a deficit in this country has not been a Republican task, and we've been against it, and sometimes we have always shown our opposition by not wanting to raise that debt ceiling, but I believe the consequences of default present a far greater risk than voting for death limit legislation. So we really need your help on this and urge you to support a clean debt ceiling increasing committee and help us get it passed on the floor. Now I'd like to have John Duncan and Bob Michael lead off the discussion with your perspectives. I want to do it days ahead. Thank you, Mr. President, for inviting us down. As I understand it... Well, thank you all for coming. Certainly why they've discussed so much. I'll get started. This week, Congress will take up necessary legislation to raise the public debt limit, and this is something that both Republicans and Democrats in Congress will address. We also need to discuss this morning the budget process and how that can be improved. But first, I want to speak again to my growing concern with the course of legislation in Congress that could have a direct bearing on the arms reduction talks. The House already has attached to the Defense Authorization Bill several unacceptable provisions. The Senate bill is equally troublesome on strategic defense issues. As I said on Saturday, some in Congress would pull legs out from under our negotiators with amendments to this legislation, such as those dealing with our strategic defense program and nuclear testing. I simply can't go along with those who would hand the Soviets free of charge what they can't win at the bargaining table. This is no way to run America's foreign policy on road. Be compelled to veto any legislation that endangers our arms reduction efforts or underlines our national defense. Many of you have been outspoken in your opposition to such proposals, and I want to thank you for your steadfast support in working to give me a free hand on negotiations with the Soviet Union. And I also want to thank Bob Dole and John Warren for sending me a letter with 34 signatures in support of striking an amendment that unduly restricts our SDI program. That's the end of that, and shortly we'll get underway with our discussion. Mr. President, did you personally ask third countries to contribute money to the conference? Sam, I've made an opening statement, and I have said that I'm not going to answer any questions on those things until this is over. If I were going to answer any questions, I'd say no. I'm sorry, since you didn't answer that question, I'm really sorry. What did you think? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. What did you think, sir? What did you think, sir, when you were told that a tour had been written in officials? A tour, of course. You said it. In the question, in case you believe the president... I can certainly listen to the president. He did answer the question. Sir, what do you think about the tour of the White House? You are right. We don't have to worry about that. We mean to just know about it. We were obviously out of the city. Come on. Would you have let him do it if you'd been here? I didn't come in, he left the tour. Time is up. We're going to wait for the final. I'm sorry, sir. I can't believe I didn't answer the question. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You're welcome. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, now, I think it's time for us to get down to business, and I'd like to call on George first, and then Frank, those who will speak to these developments that I just mentioned as well as the impact of budget reductions on our foreign assistance and defense program. So, George, I know that's a subject you're going to be hiring. Well, thank you, Mr. President.