 have some of the best schools and best students in America are helping America prepare for the 21st century. The best high schools is Rockbridge High School, Puzzle Palaces on the Potomac. Thank you all. Thank you all very much for coming out for these warm welcome. God bless you all. Ready to do some role or read some descriptions for us, and we're going to try the government that is. And when you identify it, please tell me why you feel that branch is being represented. George, what branch do I work for? Group members. Two members come from the state of Missouri. I command armed forces, conduct foreign affairs, and recommend mods to Congress. I live in the White House. 135 people who work are built. Nine of my fellow members come from the state of Missouri. Who am I? Heather Watson. I am college secretary, and I was appointed by the president and approved by the state. OK, thank you very much. Who can summarize one of the branches of government for me? The judicial branch is the branch of government that oversees the rulings and enforces. Thank you. Who would like to summarize another branch of government? Robyn and I, the executive, which and it has a variety of newspaper articles for you today, boys and girls. And what I would like to do with your partner in just a minute is to take a look at those newspaper articles and see which branch of government you feel is represented, and your government down at the bottom, and be ready to support your opinion in just a minute after you've had a chance to look at those. Your partner today, Secretary Bennett, is up front, and would like to see your partner today. OK, you can work with your partners. Why do you want to read this? I don't know if you guys failed us. Now, why did you feel that the executive branch was illustrated in that article? Because it was talking about how the president was talking about President Reagan. So then you concluded it was the executive branch. Thank you, Michelle. Who else would like to share it with me? Jason? It was legislative. David, that your article perhaps represented more than one branch of government. Jeff? OK, so in your article, you found that two branches of government were represented. What does that tell us about the branches of government Do they have to work by themselves, or do they have to work very good? That shows us that the branches of government are just not independent of each other, that they have to work with each other. To help us summarize this, I'd like to ask some of you to tell me which branch of government you would like to work for. You could choose which one would you like to work for, and what would you do, and why? Malacca would be the president. Why would you like to be the president? You'd want to live in the White House. Who else would like to share? Heather Watson? I'd like to work in the judicial branch of Dirk Boyle to share his writing on patriotism, which he completed yesterday with Dirk. He always has an American flag flying around his house. When I see his medals, the felt new, far-fetched for his country, I think my grandpa is a patriot, because he loves his country and is very loyal to it. He cares about his country. Mr. President, I know your time is up, but I understand you have some comments that you'd like to share with the class tonight. Thank you. If you'd like to take that note. Well, I'm enjoying this. I wish I could go on longer. I hope that you all realize that you are part of a really exceptional school system. That's why we're here. The school is here in Columbia. Achieved in some quality. My secretary and I and the others are all here. But also, in this civics class, what you're doing, you know, it brings to mind about people like myself, like the secretary and the people you were talking about there in the Congress. We don't really make the country great. You, Mr. Cosmer, and you and your parents and the people of this country, determine the quality of the country, because all of us work for you. We're the employees of the people of this country. And the people of America are good, and they are, and they're patriotic. Things will go right. Many years ago, in fact, more than 100 years ago, when this brand-new Congress had suddenly achieved such a stature that was so great, becoming powerful. A French writer came to this country. His name was Petochia. He came because Europe was amazed. They wanted to find out, how did we do it? And he came and went all over America, meet the people in the looks and the scene, and went back and wrote a book about it. And he wrote one line in that book that was very wonderful and clean. He said, America is great, because America is good. And if America ever stops being good, America is not being great. And with all of this, and the checks and balances, which you've been speaking about here today, the legislative, the executive branch, the judicial branch of the law, and make sure you obey the law, all points up to the fact that when we had our revolution 200 years ago, there have been revolutions all over the world, before and since. Most of those revolutions just changed one set of rules for another set of rules. Our revolution was much deeper than that. We created something that had never before been done in the history of man. We created a government that was run by the people. And that's the difference between our constitution and all those others. I've read an awful lot of constitutions. I've read the Soviet constitution. It talks about right of assembly and freedom of speech and things of that kind. But what's the big difference then between their constitution and ours? Well, all those other constitutions say we, the government, will allow you the peace of the view of all the others. Our constitution says we, the people, will allow the government to do the following things. And the government can't do anything that is not prescribed there in the constitution. That makes us so totally different. Anyone else in the world agrees with me? You're going to be growing up again in a new center. And you're going to be running. You don't have to hold public office. You can do the people that deteriorated into something else. And as I said the other night, I'm telling you, I'm not going to make that mistake again. Well, I know that I've lost too much here. Thank you. We appreciate your coming today. Let's thank the President. The important thing is, because Thomas Jefferson, I don't know who he was back in our history, Thomas Jefferson said he'd have all the facts know the truth. The people will allow him to do it. Okay, and then we've been talking about that. So we're going to try to earn a pocket here. Okay, all right. Boys and girls, if you look at your computer screen, we've got some terms here. Your expenses are the sum of the cost of the relay and the cost of the sign. Your profits are the difference between the income from sales and your expenses. Okay, so you have to be very careful if you don't charge too much, but on the price you charge, on the number of advertising signs you use, you must get half of your assets because you can't spend more money than you already have or you're going to debt. Let's keep a record on your sheet. Okay, everyone, get with your partner on the side. How many glasses do you want to make? Do you want them? I'm going to sell you a piece of paper. I'm going to sell you a piece of paper. She is a sugar girl. I'm going to sell you a piece of paper. I'm going to sell you a piece of paper. I'm going to sell you a piece of paper. I'm going to sell you a piece of paper. I'm going to sell you a piece of paper to sell you a piece of paper, but also I also want to pay dearly for the great many viewers and spaceships all of our Clayanter. You never do or see many things you can't even imagine from this day. But this very problem also touched on In our country, there is one of the great things about our economy that is the ability for anyone who gets an I.P. and how that kind of business must be a business for themselves and do it for you. And we call that, in our country, we call that independent, maybe even small, business. Because it is not the great corporation that makes the automobile and the caravan and that sort of thing. And that small, independent business in our country accounts for most of the new jobs that give people employment and indeed is responsible for most of the jobs in the country that people must have to make their living. So you are learning something that is not just schoolwork that you can walk out and forget. You are learning some pretty special things between the end of the rest of your life. I just wanted you to know that you are way ahead of where you are. And thanks for letting us in and out. Did you make a profit on your lemonade sale, Mr. President? 370. Did you make a profit on the lemonade? He went for victim business and he made more. But we, we made a profit here. We have to look it up in the books. Yes, we made a profit of $2.10. It started out with assets of $2. We have now got $4.00 in the downing. Did you hear the part, Mr. President, about not being able to spend more than you take in, because then you wind up with a deficit? I didn't think there was any sense in getting into government. You know about deficits. What? You know about deficits. Oh, I do. Anything you could tell the students about deficits spending more than you've got? What they're all teasing me about is the fact that our government is spending more than it takes in. And in here, the debt gets greater. And I would like to say back to them because they're trying to attack me because we're having deficits now. We've been having deficits in our country for the last 56 years, spending more than we've been taking in until we now owe over $2 trillion. And what we're trying to do right now in Washington, people like to celebrate in themselves, is persuade the Congress to get back to where we're not spending more than we take in. Because if you did that with your foreign standard, you'd be out of business for the first day. Okay. Well, we think you're wonderful. Thank you for coming. Thank you. You're wonderful too. Thank you. Bye, boys and girls. Bye. Bye. Bye. You say no to drugs. Can you say no to drugs? No. That's right. And you've all got stickers on today that says most of the United States and the Secretary of Education, William Bennett. Well, good morning, boys and girls. I was done on the evening news and saw a couple of you crying and you were disappointed and that really touched me. And I said I was going to come back. Well, I came back, ladies and gentlemen and boys, and I privileged to introduce to you my boss, President of the United States. Well, thank you, Bill. And thank all of you very much for a wonderful welcome. You know, I put some things down in a card here, so I wouldn't forget. And then he took care of it and asked you and you answered all the questions. So I don't know whether this card is worth anything or not. But I'm grateful for your principal, James Wells, inviting us here to be here today. And I have a special thanks for Mrs. Hosmer and Mrs. Layton in the classes that I have just visited here. And also, I have with us Miss Joy Underdown. And she's kind of special to us because out in California before she came here, she was the teacher of our son, Ron. And we thought she was a very wonderful teacher. And so did he. And so I was glad to make contact again after a certain number of years that have gone by since he was there. But I wasn't surprised to find her teaching in such a great school. And because I know that you and that's great, the way you feel about it, but you know something else, a lot more of us hadn't even been here before know that this is a great school. And it has been so rated because of the progress that you've made and the quality of the education that you're getting here and the level of all of you as students that this is one of the truly fine schools in all of the United States of America. And all of you, it takes to make it that way. Your faculty, your teachers, your administrators, you students, your parents, it's taken all of you. And you're a very fine governor here to make this the great school that it is. So you are busy now because in the 21st century, you will be in charge. You'll be taking over. And what you're learning right here are the things that you need to know when you are running the country in that new century. So again, I just want to thank all of you for letting us come here and be with you for a while this morning. And I know that we've got someone waiting for us now at another great school, one of your high schools here. And we have to get on to that high school. You wouldn't want us to keep them waiting, would you? Well, there was a little divided opinion there. And I'm flattered by that, but the ones that said no are the ones that will have to decide and we'll have to get going. But again, thank you all. God bless you all.