 You heard, yes. I just said half my staff is sick, but I came back feeling great. I think I'd like to go. Good. Good. There you go. Okay, how are you? Good. Thank you, sir. Chairman, would you take this chair right here? The desk. They love you over there. It's all over. Korea and China are very high. That's nice to hear. Oh, yes. All very positive. They still support you. How long did you go? What did you do with China? Well, China was interesting. I met with the labor minister. They were going through quite an exercise, as you know, at economic reform. Yes. And a large part of it is labor reform, including a number of things. Labor mobility, such as you can hire and fire. You can advertise for a worker and maybe apply. The labor minister mentioned something you always mentioned. He said, I'd hope that someday that the size of our want ads will grow the way America's has. The other thing, I don't want to take too much time on this. But it was interesting. I just told Ken in China they have a mandated six month maternity leave for women to have children with pet. And sometimes it gets as long as a year. Well, as you know, we're fighting this parental leave bill on the Hill, which is quite onerous. And they want to get out of it in China because they find it's a disincentive to employers hiring women. Because when they interview a woman, they immediately see, well, I'll have to give six months with pet and maybe a year with pet. And if I have to rely on that kind of a worker, why do that? So I thought that was interesting. The other thing that they're trying to do is adjust to the fact that they're going to have unemployment. They don't call it unemployment. This is a good one for you. Youth who have just gotten out of school are called waiting for employment. That's the category. Waiting for employment. But they're going to have unemployment because of labor mobility. So they're going to put in an insurance program, and we might be helping them with it. We signed a letter of understanding on statistics is what I went for. I'll give you more, but I don't want to take away from this, but it was fascinating. That was just beginning to start. I went to the same one last point. I went to the same factory. You went to Foxborough. Saw your picture on the wall. You're in the brochures. It was sort of spooky because here you are in the middle of nowhere. And you're looking at this factory and you have a Chinese manager inside. How are you? Nice to see you. Good to see you. Thank you for letting me come by today. Well, pleased to have you. Come on in. How are you? Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Hello, B. Hello, Paul. How are you? Fine. I'm scheduled to let me come by and talk about a matter that is of a great concern I know to you and a great interest to me. The question is, how do we more effectively respond to problems with drugs? I'm very anxious to hear it because we've, our national board is, and then the executive and legislative commission to which the Democrats have not appointed anyone as yet. I've asked why do we go ahead without them. I'm going to hear about your plan. Thank you, sir. I appreciate that. Excuse me if I could interrupt. I'm going to bring the video crew in now just to take a minute and put each here. All right. This is the video crew. Okay. I wonder if we'll have to small talk or... Well, shall we just wait for a moment then and begin? Yes. All right. So will you please give me my marching orders and go follow those, Mr. President? Well, I see this on television often when you're meeting distinguished guests. I didn't know that I would be in this chair. Sorry. You're saying all the right things. I appreciate that. He's talking to his people. They usually bring nice gifts. Oh. The gift here is an idea. The gift is an idea. The last one in here was a little gift about it. It's a kind of a chipped piece of pottery. Get for your chief. He's not noble. Thank you. Hello. I think I better go sit down. Thank you. One week. You just sat there fascinated, watching. The cameras were clicking away. Then I found out after they left, he was counting the Japanese cameras. Well, they're good cameras. We'll be easier to count them. Perfect cameras. I think most of you know yesterday I vetoed the defense authorization bill. The stakes are high. Do we continue with the defense policy and the foreign policy that brought us the first real reductions in nuclear arms, a lesson in Soviet expansionism, including a pullback from Afghanistan and a rising tide of democratic reform around the world? Or do we step back to the days of weakness, accommodation, and faltering prestige? This bill would have tied my hands in arms negotiations. Given the Soviet Union unilateral concessions that they couldn't win at the negotiating table. And this is folly and undermines the cause of peace and freedom. Second, the allocation of funds in the bill was unacceptable. It called for a nearly 20 percent reduction in the SDI funding. It also would have crippled development of our space-based interceptor, a crucial component of the SDI program. The American people, I think one America, defended from nuclear missiles and we have no defense now. This bill abandons that vision of what could be or what we can have and what our people deserve. And I think these actions cannot be abided. The foreign policy successes that we've achieved, especially during the past few years, have been achieved because we did not give in to similar initiatives. At one time, for example, the nuclear freeze was launched on us by congressional critics. The truth is that we followed that advice and not deployed our Pershings in Europe. We wouldn't have had the INF Treaty. We didn't give in in the past. We don't intend to give in now. We've been patient. We've been firm. And we intend to remain so. When this issue was put before the American people, I'm certain that not only of their support but of their anger that such irresponsible steps could be contemplated. Steps that jeopardize the growth of peace and freedom around the world. And all that we've achieved thus far. So let me end by thanking all of you for your support and I hope you'll all do everything you can to get the facts to the American people. And that's enough from me. Not to tell her. Mr. President, half a cent. Thank you. I want to introduce the AIDS team. This is Bob Cormacher and Mr. President. Hello there. How are you? I'm Lorraine Fishback. Hi, how are you? Mary Beth Bogan. How are you? Steve Grossman, the left of the table. Nice to meet you. How are you? I'm Steve King. That's over here. That's it? I'll see if our freedom nature is with us. Yes, it is. You wouldn't expect that out there by the road you wouldn't expect to see snow this time of year, wouldn't you? It's not cocaine, is it? This morning I've been bringing everybody in to see us because all along the sidewalk here and I've got to be on both sides. It was just like it is in the middle of the snow. You're waiting for the snow to leave. I guess it's some chemical that put you in. Well, I thank all of you for providing here for action. Forward. There's only one thing I had to get some answers and clearance from the Justice Department which I haven't given at the review whether we might be attempting something that we couldn't do legally. Well, thank you very much. Well, thank all of you. Thank you. Appreciate the opportunity. I have a joke just came to me. It's one of the kind I like so much that are told in Russia. This joke has Gorbachev disguising himself and leaving Moscow and going to a little tiny village down about 100 miles away. He introduced himself to the mayor of the village and said, tell me. He said, do your people here have television sets? How many? Oh, he said every hut in the village has a television set. Well, they do, yes. And he said, and most of them have VCRs. And he said, that's remarkable. And he said, what about refrigerators? Do they have refrigerators? He said, almost every house has a refrigerator. Some have, too. And then Gorbachev says, wait a minute. You're pulling my leg. You know who I am. And the mayor says, of course I know who you are. You're a CIA agent. Who else would come to a decrepit little town like this that doesn't even have electricity and ask about our television? Very nice. Very well. Good to see you. Thank you. Stand over here. I'll try to introduce all these people and say who they come in. Margaret Moore, Mr. President. Hello there. Anne Marosi. Hello there. Nancy Holmquist. Linda Norberg. Joanne Dubetz. Hello there. Jeff Hall. Mr. President, how are you? Judy Boggs. Hello there. Tony Blankley. Hello there. Dee Martin. Hi. Morgan Doughton. Well, we're good. That's what we're good. Bob Kirschner. Hello there. Bob Hill. How are you? Peter Germanis. How are you? Richard Bevere. It's an honor. I'm Mike Driggs. Sir, can I get you over on this end here, please? If I could, you can move to your right just a bit. Quick, just get him behind you if I'm here. You're fine. Have you really got the top spot? I'm going to explain that in a minute. Can you move a little to your right, please? Okay, fine. Great. Okay, we're ready. This isn't serious. Thank you very much. Thank you. I said I'd explain. Back when I was first in Hollywood, you know, sometimes you had some kind of an affair and they went through pictures of the stars and everything around. Frederick March was a very great star at that time. Everybody kind of shuffled toward the middle. Frederick March was always right over there. Only one day, you know, being new in the business, I said, why are you a great star? I said, nobody reads the entire caption, but they all start reading from left. I thought that was the first active lesson. Well, listen, thank you all for what you've done. It's a great job. Most great plan for what you're doing. It's an honor to serve, Mr. President. It's an honor to serve you. Well, I'm very grateful.