 Yes. Good to see you again. Good to see you. Good to see you again. Minister, how are you? Good morning, Mr President. Good morning, Mr President. Well, come in. Good morning, Mr President. Can we do it? Let's do it without a circle. Thank you. Chair over there. Thank you. Good morning, Mr President. Good morning, Mr President. Good morning, Mr President. You're going to have to ban me from the White House, Mr President. This is my third visit here. You are welcome for many times. You've been here for a visit, Mr President. Yes. Your visit has brought that many happy memories to me. Thank you. My visit down there. I hope we can come back. Thank you. I remember my friend who started to make a speech ahead of me. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thursday and Friday at this past week where I had substantial meetings with the presidents of Honduras and outside of there, our good friends and also the foreign ministers and they both reiterated very strongly their support and gratitude for and enthusiasm for your initiative and for the peace plan that they could not be more warmly and sincerely enthusiastic and back at that peace plan than they are including, of course, the support for the $15 million. President Monáe Costa Rica has just let you know he's coming out and he's going to be up on here talking. They personally affirm their support in just the strongest terms. Capturing him is quite a cool Mr. President along with the President of Argentina is those people who have been skeptical about her policies who when they support it carries so much weight on them. We would like to achieve particularly in regards to Nicaragua we ought to use a formula that we would be prepared to live with also in the case of Afghanistan because I think it's very important not to set a standard for ourselves in Nicaragua which the Soviets would then turn and use against us in Afghanistan and therefore something which stresses self-determination internally with external neutrality and respect for the interests of all neighbors including the major power nearby is the right formula because that implies that if even the Marxist Leninists were to win a free election in Nicaragua we would accept it provided they respect the interests of all of their neighbors that are neutral because that formula can then be used in the case of Afghanistan to me that if a non-communist regime comes to power in Afghanistan provided it is neutral provided it is firmly neutralized the Soviet should be prepared to live with it I think we run a risk that we set too high a standard to use that against us in Afghanistan of course we also have to make sure that any election while they are still in power must not be like that last one once we open to some kind of international supervision I think here the supervision of the elections in El Salvador is a good example and here also the Contadora guarantee gives us the basis of saying to the Soviets that it works something out like that for Afghanistan for example an arrangement whereby even after the Soviet troops have left there is in Afghanistan in place a peacekeeping force from Islamic countries which the Soviets do not view as unfriendly I have in mind for example Algeria Syria God forbid even Libya the point being they are Islamic the Soviets would have gone and yet to the Soviets it would be a source of reassurance just as Colombia, Mexico, Canada and so forth are reassurance to us regarding Iran I think you all recognize our visitors here this morning I've I've been pleased to confer with these distinguished Americans and they agree with me that if any area of the world is of vital interest to the United States it is neighboring countries in Central America former Secretary of State Kissinger also has asked me to express his continuing support for our Central American policy our April 4th proposal asking for both sides to lay down their arms and enter a church mediated dialogue for peace offers new hope to the region it could open the path to conciliation our plan has been endorsed by the Nicaraguan neighbors President Duarte, Swazo and Monet have all sent letters of strong support other Latin American nations view it as a positive step El Salvador's President Duarte called it the right step at the right time and urged members of Congress to support it I'm asking Congress to give this peace initiative and democracy a chance I'm asking Congress to work with me and the refugees the threat of hostile forces on our borders and the loss of faith in America's commitments around the world that could definitely result if we do not act quickly and responsibly I'm asking Congress to join me in the bipartisan spirit so essential to our security in providing this small amount 14 million dollars for the more than 15,000 Nicaraguans who are struggling for democracy for so little yet such an important symbol of our resolve a signal to all of Central America and yes to those everywhere in the world who depend on us our overall policy in the region has been working but continued success depends on Congress' proper release of aid for the Nicaraguan Democratic resistance democracy and peace deserve a chance the freedom loving people of Nicaragua deserve a chance to accomplish this and protect our country we must stand together these distinguished Americans know in a very personal way how crucial bipartisan unity is to a successful American foreign policy in the statement Mr. President, how does it both look now? I have this photo opportunity I'm not going to take any questions except to say that one I haven't had a comment I think just returned Are you confident? I'm always cautiously optimistic Thank you I love you Thank you Thank you Ladies and gentlemen the President of the United States truly and honored to have you here at the Greatest Show on Good You have your and now I'm starting on the show what they're doing on you right now I'm not going to hold the show up so I think that's what the wish was for alright The service comes to town Monroe and Bailey's greatest show honored was celebrating its 14th child of the theater and a man from Monroe, Wisconsin turned the regular brothers classic and common conscious company into a genuine traveling service today we're saluting the 100th anniversary of their first year on the road student companies protect themselves with great storms of the flying family and at the price of we're taking for us today by the one and only smallest in the world who might be miss you wonderful people have been doing for us here for the last hour campaign with all of the lost children the problems that we're having in this country they're going across the country documentation and helping their families safe and secure national partnership for child safety and now I'd like to ask all of you boys and I've jotted down a few things here in a card that we'd like to ask you to do to tell you what to do how you learn and know your full address and your home phone number for you listen carefully to all the special safety tips that your parents think you can see that on these wonderful people here we're willing to give them their talent too much time away from all the beauty and the glamorous here but just to add my thanks to all of you here in the show to all of you for being here thank you, God bless you all I think all of us must be on guard at certain levels of bureaucracy thank you Mr. President we have all discussed this before and I think we have a pretty good idea of the overall plan and the compromises that were reached we have said that this is going to probably be the legislative battle of all time because they're trying to change 20 or 25 years of history hundreds of programs and so it seemed to us that we need two things one is a marketing kit to tell us what we're doing and then second a legislative strategy to get this through we're going to be meeting the Bob Gold and Domenici this afternoon and other members of the Senate leadership to get a clearer fix on the legislative strategy in terms of where the soft spots are, where the work needs to be done and as soon as we get a firm reading on that we'll be back to various departments and agencies here asking you to see certain people that we've identified to sell them further on some of the individual components of this plan I think we all recognize that this is a very fragile thing 52 billion the first year nearly 300 billion over three years