 On behalf of the Board, welcome to all of your cameras. We're here in what I feel to be a very noble cause. That's, of course, the Presidential Library, and also the vehicle by which we will continue to have public discussion and seminar in the public fair section. We've been working at this for the last several months, and it's been a real pleasure for me, I must say, reuniting with a lot of people that have been friends of mine for a long while, meeting many new ones, and recognizing that in a few short months we're going to be successful, and we're going to raise probably as much money as has ever been previously raised in connection with any Presidential Library. I have associated very closely with Mary Jane Wick in this venture. Believe me, I've never known of venture in which Mary Jane has participated. There's been nothing less than a spring winter, so that's been a real pleasure for me. And, of course, the cause couldn't be better. We're going through a historic period, and we all know that, although some of us who live in this town, the collapse topic situation we had before today's crisis is history tomorrow, sometimes I wonder if we're fully appreciating the being each of the Reagan administration. And I think the best safeguard of that, of course, is going to be through the library and through the public fair section so that this historic period can be truly evaluated. I think, in all probability, even objective historians will say that this is a tremendously, tremendously innovative, creative and productive period in American history. So I'm happy now to introduce to the man who's fully accountable for all this, our friend, Bob Laird. Quite awesome. Before saying anything else, I wanted to know how lucky I feel. It's not often these days that I get to have a munch with so many good friends. And I'm especially lucky today, because Nancy's having a munch in England. Whenever the subject of presidential libraries comes up, it puts me in mind to promise Jefferson, you may know that Jefferson, on his own, amassed one of the great private libraries in the United States, and libraryed it into thousands of letters and personal records. And today that collection provides historians with valuable material and labeled with a way of getting in touch with the American past. Some of my favorite readings is the correspondence that Jefferson carried on with John Adams in their later years after they had been astringed and then thumbed each other by way of correspondence. And I think you will agree that the point here is important that good historical library like the Jefferson Collection brings the past alive, enabling succeeding generations to see with their own eyes the issues and personalities of another time. It represents a national resource, a body of knowledge that can be tapped for unending instruction and even delight. A source of lessons that can be used to adapt the joys and achievements of the past to the present while avoiding past mistakes. This is just the kind of library that Nancy and I so firmly behold to see take shape at Stanford. A library that would tell about the detailed issues of our day and all the bitlessly people who acted them out. The issues have been great ones as Paul Sarkondi said. Great attorney in the second half of our century to actually form rebuilding of our defenses. The appointment of federal benches of judges determined not to make law but to interpret it to deprive or derive their opinions from the Constitution itself. The reassertion of America's world role in behalf of human freedom. With so much history being made, we better take care to put the documents in good order. Sometimes it takes a little doing. Not long after leaving Sacramento, we discovered some of the gubernatorial records have been stored in old courier boxes. Beyond the documents, Nancy and I are eager to see a library that conveys the drama and the feel of these years. I went to Tokyo, President Mitterrand, and I found ourselves discussing the way farming had shaped the fundamental values of our work-trip family of both our nations. Now, this is Patrick Topney of the Williamsburg Inomic Centers, a summit a couple of years ago. We decided when it was our turn to host that summit to have an old Williamsburg, the historic old city of Britain beginning to hear in our country. And as usual, the first meeting of the summit is always a dinner, the first night. And the Senate has sustained, the head of the European community, eight of the people who are on the table. And I think it's all due to Margaret Thatcher that we're all on a first-name basis. You'd be surprised what it does for meetings of that kind when you're not speaking to someone, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. President or something. And it was Margaret. Of course, it was a helmet. But anyway, I was all set for it because that dinner at Williamsburg was going to be held in the dining room of what had been the British Colors' residence when they moved these shores. And I had it all planned that after everyone was seated, I was going to open a well-chosen remark. I was going to say, you know, Margaret, if one of your predecessors had been a little more clever, and that's as far as I got in what I planned to say because at that point she interrupted and she said, yes, I know, I've been hosting this company. LAUGHTER Something else about tirelessly messy at work and the campaign to save our young people from drugs. And I think from here now, we've got to move on to a real nationwide consolidated program because no matter how hard we try, you're never going to be able to take the drugs away from the customer completely. You can't take the customer away from the drugs and that's not what it must be. But all of this is the kind of library that we hope to see, a resource for scholars and everyday Americans alike living gift to the nation. And let me say something. I'm always a little self-conscious. Particularly in the presence of people like yourselves who are doing so much to help with this, there always seem to be a little self-conscious about my name as if this is being done with it as a personal history of me. Let me explain something. Maybe some people have become president and have shown their attitude. I don't believe you become president. The presidency is an institution in and of itself and people like myself are given temporary custody over that institution and that's what this history is really about, is the continuing history not of an individual but of that institution, the presidency and what happened during the years. Well, we know that you share our hopes and we want you to know that all your efforts in the part of this library well, they mean more to Westland than we can say and it's just to I don't know how to thank you all and the funny thing is I never was very good at what so many of you were doing even when I was making speeches for politicians and everything, I wasn't very good at asking anybody for money because I liked the taxes. You have been doing all of this I just kind of bless you in your personal life now I know that if you don't mind so that we can at least have a personal word to each other and a greeting, I'm going to stand in front of that fireplace in there with a picture of Lincoln and I hope that you won't combine we can say hello to each other formally. Thank you.