 Well, thank you all for coming in. A few tonight, as you know, I spoke to the nation in the State of the Union address on our plans and hopes for the future. A document I'm about to sign here is, in a sense, a blueprint of those plans. Taken together this message in the fiscal 87 budget that I submitted yesterday constitute a detailed declaration of our legislative and administrative agenda, an agenda for the future. I believe this document and the plans it contains reflect the basic and unchanging intentions of our administration to ensure the growth of an expanding economy, a seat to it that every American who wants a job can get a job, and to keep in the hands of our citizens as much of their own earnings as we can. It repeats our intention to cut the growth of federal spending and thereby reduce the federal deficit. We'll continue to work with the Congress to produce tax reform that is really reformed, and we'll also continue to pursue reform of our welfare system. In the area of foreign relations, we've made our goals clear, continued harmony with our allies, renewed progress toward a more stable peace with our adversaries, and increased respect for human rights everywhere. We've also made it clear, and I'm eager to stress today, that our desire to cut the budget will not be allowed to collide with our need for a strong defense. Graham Rudman Hollings will be used as a shovel to dig us out of the results of deficit spending, but we will not allow it to be used as a cannon pointed in our real and legitimate defense needs. We've also made it clear that our commitment to help freedom fighters throughout the world continues under data. We know what's happening in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Angola, and Nicaragua, and we support the efforts of those who continue with little help from the world to fight a lonely struggle against the enemies of freedom and human rights. Our commitments, our desires remain essentially unchanged in 1981. We expect our economic progress to continue. We expect a similar progress in a number of areas from the search for a security shield to protect us from nuclear missiles. We're encouraging real efforts at increasing economic freedom in the less advanced countries of the world. So now I will sign this document. I've got that. I have a pen that writes more than one word. And I'm also happy to sign today the Economic Report of the President. It details the facts of the robust economy that will continue to grow. And before you go, incidentally, I've heard a reference to my age this morning. I've heard a lot of them recently. I did turn 75 today. But remember, that's only 24 Celsius. The President, Tip O'Neill, says your new budget is a disgrace and he wants you to explain to the country why your top priority is to get to Tokyo in two hours. That isn't a top priority. Another evidence that I've given that we are continuing to with the progress that we've made in space and moving forward in the fields of that kind and technology. And I don't see anything disgraceful about a budget that is spending almost a trillion dollars and yet at the same time is starting to move under the law, say, adopted to balance the budget. He says that he would be willing to meet with you to work out a compromise, but he says he doesn't think we'd do any good if you don't want to compromise. I'm always happy to meet with Tip and I'm looking forward to keeping in communication with the members of the Congress of the House and the Senate. We've submitted the budget. It is there. The next step is theirs to see whether they want or don't want. But as I say, we've worked long months on this and we believe it's a budget that will do what the law is asking us to do finally. And I think it will be who some, who for a quarter of a century or more have been admittedly running deficits with no effort or intention at all to ever eliminate deficit spending. The Democrats say it's dead on arrival, sir. Well, they may have prejudged there and will give it artificial respiration. Thank you. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Thank you. How does it feel to be 75 years of age? Well, Sam, the funny thing is it seems only like 39 for me. Well, you look 39. I'll say that. You're my favorite fellow. What do you want for a birthday? You made my day. What would you like for a birthday, President? I'd kind of like some of these things that we're doing to be accomplished on them. Further advances to peace. I don't have any other new things. What about just personal thoughts when you realize that you've been three quarters of a century, Mr. President, more than a third of the nation's destiny? Well, I don't know. Looking back on it, I'm a little amazed at our generation. And I have no apologies for them because I can well remember my own mind that our generation has seen us move from the horse and buggy to a plane that we think can get to Tokyo in two hours in a single lifetime. What is Mrs. Reagan giving you for your birthday this year now? The only thing I know is a party. Now, what we've heard, as I say, we sit down and talk about things that maybe we both mutually want for our birthdays. It's actually best come along anymore. So we haven't figured anything out yet. We're like a pickup truck. We've already talked about Tiff, I mean, that's nice. About Tiff O'Neill. Yeah. It's like he's going to be a great present, his approval of everything he's done. No coaching. Sir, does Gorbachev send you a message? They read some messages, but they didn't mention one in Gorbachev. Yes, I think there has been one. I don't know. I can't tell you. That package they gave me this morning, that gift with a hundred letters from heads that stayed throughout the world and very obviously I haven't had time to just give a hundred letters yet. Any thoughts on the Philippine election, which begins within hours? Just only the Philippines and the United States that had an historic friendship for many years, and we wanted to continue and when they had made their decision, which is theirs to make as to future government, why we will seek to go along with their decision and to maintain our relationship. Mr. President, you may have thought that you certainly made a lot of, you were very successful, I've always imagined, you were so successful on television. I wonder how you feel about Mrs. Aquino not having the kind of access to Filipino television that you had to American television. You have won your election in 1980 without being able to get on television as frequently as you were. We'd like to see the world have as we do, but I don't think it's right for me to criticize their method of conducting the election. Are you concerned their elections have already become tainted, Mr. President? Again, I'm not going to comment on their internal affairs. I don't think it would be becoming another state or another country to do so. Well, how will you judge afterward whether those elections were free and fair? That's up to the people of the Philippines to decide. Do you want to maintain our bases there under a new agreement, would we not, sir? Yes, as I say, when they've made their decision as to their government, the people of the Philippines, we would hope to have continuing friendship and relationship that we've had for some years. Because Mrs. Aquino has suggested that she won't promise in advance to renegotiate those base contracts. We have to deal with that then if she was in a position to have something to say about it. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you. Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We're still in it. The long hours. We really need to send the people out because although we've done so much because a member of the team is back with us today, we're ready for the elections in the hospital. This is unfortunate. If you set the goals of your departments and the agents don't be afraid to cry over the extra say that it can't be done after the very seven months of economic growth in the province for the next 10 years or so. We can slowly do that. I have one more argument on the choice. Basically, it's a strategy that tells you to carry citizens out of the house and see them all in the same house and then start to realize they're doing the same thing. Do you have your own vision when you're getting G.R.H.T.R.S. and all of you done a good job? Those on Capitol Hill say we offer regional and federal training and in the next few weeks I will all of you will welcome back to my network to support our project proposal.