 How do you do great pleasure to be here with you well pleased to have you and Frank Skinner president nice to be back here well good to see you Mickey McGuire see you well you're nice to let us come visit with you appreciate the invitation back to the White House and especially this week I know this is the time of family loss and we particularly appreciate you let me tell you I hope you'll pass see you to Mrs. Reagan out of sympathy well I will be joining her tomorrow in Phoenix the last time I was here was about a year ago as the president and I was here to present to you telephone which commemorated the 75th anniversary of the telephone pioneers and you were kind enough to give us a videotape to use at our General Assembly out in Minneapolis that General Assembly focused on the 75th anniversary and your videotape message was an absolute highlight of that meeting well pleased to hear that it was a highlight not just for the 1,400 people pioneers who were in that assembly but for more than 200,000 pioneers that have seen that tape all over the United States and Canada at local meetings and again it's been a big hit we're doing that you'll recall perhaps also that in that tape you and Mrs. Reagan issued a challenge to the pioneers to join the fight yes again struggle that you've been and we have indeed and I think you'd be proud of the way in which pioneers all across this continent have joined in that fight I wish there were time to tell you in great detail about what's been done but let me just mention two or three examples for example in the state of Oregon and the state of Washington pioneers there had joined with Debbie Armstrong who was a 1984 Olympic ski champion in taking the message just say no to the school children throughout those states another example in another part of the nation would be an attempt to take the message to the general public in the states of Florida and Arizona up in Vermont and New Hampshire the thrust has been toward educating entire families on the dangers of drugs and I think especially significant is the fact that our pioneers in Canada have joined in that fight also that's great and every single chapter in Canada has joined in a fundraising effort to refurbish drug rehabilitation centers so that they too are part of that response and so Mr. President I think it says pretty clearly that your message planted a seed that's still growing and it's going to continue to grow for some time and I think it's a great example of how people all across this nation have responded to your private sector initiative and I can promise you the telephone pioneers are going to keep on with that effort not just in the drug abuse area but in other things as well when I was here before I told you that pioneers had raised four point two million dollars in the Statue of Liberty rehabilitation and that's just another example I wrote a letter sometime back telling you that we would like for you to be an honorary member of the Association since that time my term of office has expired I'm not eligible for reelection you know how that works I'm turning it over I have turned over the reins to my success and Tom Thompson and Tom is not only now president of the telephone pioneers of America but he is also president of AT&T technology systems and I know that Tom joins me in saying that the telephone pioneers are going to continue to fight the fight against drugs and to continue to be an important part of all the things that they've been known for in the way of meeting human need in the local communities and I think Tom would echo that some more importantly than echoing it I can tell you that in the year ending 86 we had 37 active programs that were drug related the year just ending that's up to 108 that's almost a three four increase but your take made a more important statement our pioneers had 20 million hours of volunteer service to the community last year and your statement on voluntarism is at the foundation and that earned you the right to be an honorary member well on an association-wide basis there's only been 10 in 76 years of history the first was Alexander Graham Bell in 1912 and we have Watson in there we have Mabel Hubbard Bell the last one was in 1925 there's never been a United States president that is an honorary pioneer so you're breaking some new ground well I'm very proud and we have an official commemoration of that which is a statement that says that president Ronald W. Reagan is a honorary pioneer and more powerful than this is the fact that as a pioneer you get you earn the right to do two things one is to wear a pin that is the symbolic pin of officership if you notice both Frank and myself have one well yes I well thank you very much and even more powerful within the pioneer circles is the rights to wear a windbreaker with a pioneer triangle on it and your name that says that you're really a pioneer of America and we have one for you with your name on it and then one in the box for Mrs. Reagan as well with her name on it my goodness thank you very much thank you very proud to have these and to have to be a member well you're number 11 on the association wide membership and maybe it won't be another 50 years before we have another honorary member Mr. President you're number one in our hearts well thank you very much thank you our pleasure to have you I have just some little souvenirs here you see standing oh thank you so much we really appreciate that that's very thoughtful by me we used to do it and I'm greatly honored thank you thank you thank you for the time and your support we're deeply grateful Mr. President thank you for all that you're doing thanks for all you mean we're stopping here all right thank you Robert Crancer see you I also have a jacket for you that was made up for our team. Thank you very much. Team USA. You've got to recognize that that's kind of a switch for a more force category. Well, that's great. I thank you very much. This country has 50 nations. You've won it seven years. As a matter of fact, we all started in 81, didn't we? You'll still be performing after I'm done. I have some things here for you there. Wow. Key rings. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Well, I'm pleased to have you all in here today. And I thank you very much for that. Very much a pleasure. Thank you. It's a privilege to be here. What? It's a privilege to be here. Well, I'm very proud to have you here. We're the trophy belongs now. We intend on keeping it for a while. Where will it be the next time? France. France. France. You have to do a lot of traveling there. Well, thank you all for coming. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Especially that Gorbachev is going to screw me out of the Thanksgiving trip. Mr. President, this is Newton Mayo. Hello there. And this is his son, Dr. John Mayo. How do you do? See you. You work a lot. Well, you're great. Step up guys there. This is the auditorium. Well, let's give them a picture with them. What if you... Yeah. Yeah. And then it sweeps in a little bit better. That's great. Sir, did you look right here? Thank you. I assure you this hangs in my study upstairs. We just brought it down here for this picture. Oh, I love it. And the... That's no strings. That's the horse that Nancy... But now she can only ride him occasionally. He's getting the rule of the hill. This is the one I ride. Well, there's the house. Now you work... I work through the house though. There through a magnifying glass. The pictures are so small. We couldn't... So we're sort of... They've been out in all of... This just came out well. Tell me. They couldn't tell me. Did they... They gave you photographs? Yeah. But did they give you photographs? As I thought, I understood it. Separately of the horses and then one just into the view. And then you had to... Well, one of the photographs had both of them in it, didn't it? No. That's right. There were two separate ones. We had three photographs. One was of the background. And then we had this horse by himself and this one by itself. And I had another one in the back. But it though... But I had more time, right? I think we could have done a little bit of job, but it worked out all right. I don't know if there were any more pictures. All these fences didn't even get out of telephone for a while. And me and two other fellas out there, we did it. We built that fence. Well, it's hand digging the post holes. And on the job, you have... This is my pier. I've never owned anything in it before. He's ever owned a map. Yeah. But this is... I don't call it that. It appears on the map as part of all of them. You see that part of the hill behind this is one of his... The Romney station for the airlines. But I just love this and it keeps me home sick. I was there to see Dennis Ayers yesterday and checking on Kimmich. I understand that you were tired of him altogether. That's what I understand that he is. Yes, he is. He's a heartbreak to me. Yeah, I know. I'm the one that worked on him originally. Oh. I'm the one that... The veterinarian that they brought him to. I also, when you were at Middlebury before the election, I did... When Margie Love was taking care of your horse, I'm the one that took care of the horse. Well... Looked after him a little bit. And just a couple of souvenirs of your visit here. We thought a couple of Western buckles. All right. We appreciate you taking the time to see us. Well, listen. I appreciate this. This stands there. There's Hanks right in front of my desk. I can study there so that every day I can look up and get home sick. Make sure I'm sick. Yes. Thank you. I hope you like it. I really do. Give our best. I sure will. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. The Lord was very kind in whatever she was. Thank you, sir. Take it easy. She no longer knew us. All right. Just quietly went to sleep. That's the way it goes. Thank you very much. All right. Thank you.