 Not having said that and done it, I know you impressed for a long time too, I'm going to think of you. I have a few remarks I've laid out here on the subject that what it has to do with some of the thinking that went into our tax reform proposal. We created that proposal to promote fairness and growth and simplicity and to put the family first. The present tax system is unfair and we want to change it. I'm sure you've all read recently because there's been a lot of press attention given this that almost 30,000 persons who earned a quarter of a million dollars or more last year paid virtually no taxes. And I'm sure that some of those probably represented legitimate losses of one kind or another. We're legitimate but I'm also sure that a great many of them represented taking advantage of good goals in our present confusing tax system. But we want to change that and make sure that everyone pays fair share and no one pays more is a fair share. Our plan provides for lower rates and increase in the personal exemption and better security for homemakers and we're cutting the number of tax brackets from 14 down to 3. This new three bracket system will have tax rates of 15, 25 and 35%. A majority of Americans would pay lower taxes under our plan. For example, taxpayers in the $20,000 to $50,000 income range would receive a 7.2% overall reduction. That is of course, say we're averaging. And I'm quite conscious of the fact that a man drowned once trying to wade across a river. His average depth was only 3 feet. Taxpayers making under $20,000 would receive an 18.3% reduction and those making under $10,000 would get a 35.5% average reduction. And while our proposal is designed to promote fairness and equity, it will also encourage growth in the economy. I don't need to tell you the relationship between a dynamic and growing economy and the vitality of our nation's families. It's not saying too much to say that as the family goes, so goes the nation. And yet in spite of that, the public policy of our nation has, particularly in the tax policies, worked against the interests of the family for decades now. One of the clearest examples of this is the loss in the value of the personal and dependency exemption. In 1948, the amount of that exemption was $600 and there it remained for more than 30 years before we raised the exemption to $1,000 in 1981. And indexed it for inflation so that today it's $1,080. A centerpiece in our tax exemption, or tax proposal as they say, will be raising that exemption to $2,000 and again indexing it to inflation. We're also putting equal treatment for the homelessness into the tax code. Our plan would allow homemakers to provide for security in their later years by allowing a full deduction, which is not allowed now, of up to $2,000 for an individual retirement account, the thing we call the IRAs. And a couple with one spouse in the labor market and one in the home would be eligible for a total deduction of $4,000. Now, I appreciate the work that you've done to strengthen the family, to defend the right to life, to stop pornography, to preserve parental rights and education. I appreciate your past expressions of support for our tax reform proposals. Next month when Congress comes back, we'll face a strong and mobilized troop of special interests. But I'm confident we can keep to our timetable of enacting a tax reform bill by the years end. I need your help and I'm a bit embarrassed about asking you to give it to me. And I have faith that you'll come through because you always have. And again, I apologize for taking advantage of you here. The foxholes have already been dug all around the capital of the special interest groups. So I figured that we can all try to mobilize the troops is all right. Thank you again. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. President. And we want to assure you that first of all, we are so pleased that you have reaffirmed your faith in the private sector, and particularly for eternal benefit societies and volunteerism in this tax package. We really are pleased with the family aspects out and the points you made in your presentation, doubling up on the tax exemption, providing for the household. And this builds family life and you can count on our support, full support in that regard. Thank you very much. And I'm also pleased to tell you that we're so pleased that the strong position you've taken consistently, but again recently to reaffirm the position that was enunciated at the family meeting in Mexico City a year ago, and even further, the encouragement you're giving the Justice Department on trying to overthrow Robyn Borsig's way. Yes. I still say the answer to that whole problem is very simple in the Constitution. Already, it covers those people. If we can simply get a recognition of what I think is borne out by all the medical science and evidence that we now have. The unborn child is a living human being and therefore entitled to the protection of the Constitution. You spelled that out so well, I've got to read it again. A few years ago, and that still is a tremendous statement, which should have helped more and more people in this country. I received a card that Bethesda, after my operation, came from within the building. And with the greatest proof in the world, the nurses had sent it up and made this hand-made card and everything. And then had the names of all this group of little babies that were in that department, in the hospital right then, with their footprints. With that time, and by each name, they had the length of time of the pregnancy. These were all premature babies. And down to the ages that anyone says are still, one people on the other side say are not living beings. And here they were with their little tiny living footprints on that card. It was quite a dramatic message. Mr. President, we also want you to know that we support you in your efforts in Central America. Oh, bless you, thank you very much. We've been invited to many of the workshops where your staff is always so cooperative. But so we're informed and we're convinced that you're on the right track. We want you, we'll give you the support that you need in that regard. I appreciate you very much. Mr. President, you should know that Martha Columbus was forthcoming with your special gift to the new Bishop of Bonny, Bravo in Nicaragua. And it's very helpful and supportive. We owe you to get a gratitude for that. You might be interested to know that I made a telephone call to a Bishop out in Iowa, but back in Nicaragua. And who had appeared in the press as cited. He had been leading a group of refugees toward the Honduran border. And the story in the press was that they had been attacked by the Contras. And I called him. And he said he couldn't understand it. He said, yes, he had been leading this group of refugees, but they were attacked by the Salvadoran regular army. Not by any set and rescued by the Contras. There's a great deal of disinformation. Well, I know that you have a meeting to get to. President, I want to say this one word. I personally, there's so many others like me. I admire your attitude, your true Christian, human attitude, and a lot of the problems of today. Many times in my own group, this is a group that we represent. The same thought comes. That you have a true Christian attitude, true human attitude. And so many of these problems that are affecting humanity today. And I want to thank you. Congratulations for that. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I had come to realize that what Abraham Lincoln once said about this job is absolutely true. That he had come to realize he could not carry out the responsibilities of the junk for one day if he could not fall to his knees and ask help from one who is wiser than all others. Bishop is our Supreme Chaplain. He's 90 years young and he's still leading us to greater heights over time. We both realize one thing, our respective ages, and that is getting old is 15 years from where you are now. Thank you. I feel just fine. I'm having trouble convincing my wife. No, not at all. Thank you for seeing me. It's a great pleasure.