 The announcement to make, and that is that I'll have something to say about the campaign tonight. The endorsement of the vice president for the presidential nomination. Well, we have a full legislative agenda upon us, as you all know, between now and Memorial Day. Of course, I'm going to take a trip to Moscow, and before I go, we'll have a leadership meeting that's devoted to the summit. At today's session, I thought we should touch on a number of ending issues, although clear time will not allow us to cover everything. So initially, let me try to clarify where we stand at the moment, as I see it on the INF Treaty. As you may know, on Monday, the Senate Intelligence Committee received testimony about on-site verification of the treaty. The committee raised several questions and concerns about proposed verification procedures. The committee was a result of Bob Dole and Bob Byrd and others consulted with Howard Baker and Colin Powell, and a joint decision was made to postpone Senate floor action on the treaty until we get a clarification on the Soviets on the verification issues. George Shultz and Colin are in Geneva today and tomorrow working on this, and we hope that Colin will bring good news with him when he returns Friday morning. If he does, Bob Byrd has indicated that the treaty will be on the Senate floor late Friday or more likely on Monday. And Bob, I'd welcome any comments or predictions you would wish to make at this point. Well, I think Senate Byrd certainly wants to move ahead with the INF Treaty. I think we can resolve these issues. We will start on them. Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. They switched me. I was going right back here. Sit down. I'm sorry. As anyone pointed out to you, you will notice that gold medal up there. The gold prize won by Teddy Roosevelt. Oh. Ending me. I'm also a Japanese warrior. I've often pointed out, please let's all sit down. I've often pointed out the very select audience is that he did it in a good Republican fashion. He was sitting on a yacht. Well, now, I think I have to shut the ground. It was here because it's a working lunch. We need an hour and so forth. So we can all talk with our mouths open. Yeah. All right. He's going to begin a serving lunch. I think I'll ask you first and then we'll just go around the table. I'm really looking forward to hearing about you and hearing what you have to say for me about my, and what I need to know about my coming visit, all the help that you can be, and I'm most grateful to you for coming. I'm here to listen and not the other way around. So I know it is easy to tell me everything I should know in three or four minutes. Time, I have to wait for some questions and discussion. Thank you, Mr. President, for being here. I'd like to share a moving experience I had just last week at the seminar here on religious rights in the Soviet Union that was held here. And I had an opportunity to meet with several former Soviet citizens, including Joseph Beggin, as a symbol in all of our solidarity with Soviet political prisoners. There was a time when many of us in the United States wore bracelets and scribed their names. And my own bracelet happened to be Joseph Beggin's at his name on it. Thank God there was no need to wear it anymore. So I gave it to him when we met here. Well, the look on his face was unforgettable. I guess maybe he didn't know that such a thing had been going on. It's the same look that I saw on Nathan Sharansky's face when I first met him and on Vladimir Slapak's face, too. It was a courageous, determined, yet joyous soul that I saw in their eyes and a look shared only by those who suffered under totalitarianism and could know the full meaning of freedom. And we who have known freedom all our lives and are enriched by their experience when we see their faces, we know we must continue the fight for freedom, for all who are captives of injustice. One of the first orders of this administration's foreign policy has been that the United States is not and cannot be an island of liberty for our own sake as well as others. We work for everyone's fundamental freedoms and the whole issue of human rights and of Soviet Jewry is always at the top of the agenda with the Soviets and we'll be again with Mr. Gorbachev in Moscow. While we applaud the increase in immigration over the past year, the level still doesn't come close to the high rate of the late 1970s under Mr. Brezhnev. And what kind of new thinking is that we will ask of Mr. Gorbachev. But I don't think you'll like to hear these questions, but it won't be able to disregard them. The Soviets want Western know-how and increased non-strategic trade and they can't get them from the United States until they satisfy the requirements laid down with the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. General Secretary Gorbachev is beginning to understand this and point would be reinforced in Moscow. I, in a one-on-one, the only thing that's disturbing is always one-on-one through an interpreter. Knowing their system, I never know whether the interpreter is really an interpreter from the KGB. So it's kind of tough sometimes to get into some subjects, just one-on-one with the General Secretary. But I did get in on one that had to do with many discussions about immigration and so forth. I got in one with him. There might be less of a demand for immigration if people in the Soviet Union were allowed to practice their religion without interference by the government. As I say, we were a little restrictive because of that interpreter. So I've got to catch him when it's our interpreter, when it's present. But I'd like to hear your thoughts on the issue here, and what you would like to see us discuss at the summit. So, Mr. President, we're grateful for this opportunity. I'd like to point out, and will or something, here I'd like to point out that Mr. Claude Kelley is here from France, and last attendance, you know, and I'll introduce him in a moment. Seymour Reich, Representative.