 Listen, I know how busy you all are trying to wrap up the business that comes in, but I thought it was very important to get together so you could hear firsthand so to speak what happened and how things unfolded nicely. Notice that in the media there seems to be some differences in regard to how they saw things there. In the beginning, we were making extraordinary progress there. We moved toward agreement on it dramatically. We reduced numbers of both intermediate range and strategic forces. And then, despite our previous agreements on nuclear testing and things of that kind, the general secretary decided to hold progress in every other area hostage to his demand that we abandon the development for SDI and relegate research just to the laboratory. Among other things, they backtracked on INF. They had offered an agreement that would have had 0-0 in Europe on the intermediate range weapons. So the discussions were very extensive, and they lasted nearly 10 hours instead of the six hours that had been scheduled. And it was a deadlock because the general secretary was still insisting that we remove for a 10-year period our right to develop and test and deploy strategic defensive systems. And to try and break this deadlock, we put on the table a comprehensive and, I believe, historic offer to the general secretary, offering them a 10-year delay in deployment, along with a 10-year program to complete elimination from the face of the earth of all nuclear ballistic missiles and explosive devices of any kind, including bombs and everything else. And they rejected all on the issue of SDI. And it just became a non-negotiable demand for them. I had already told them that our proposal included making SDI once developed available to them so that with the world's free of nuclear weapons, we could still be protected against the idea of anyone cheating or the idea of someone coming along. Now that we all know how to make them in greater years and starting to build them, and I reminded them after World War I, the elimination of poison gas, but fortunately, we all kept our gas masks and sure enough, some of the people who come along, including them, now that are ready to use this. But we thought that SDI was an insurance policy that they would keep the commitments that they seemingly were willing to make with us. So we came down to the final battle on this one point, and there came a moment when George and I stood up and the meeting was over. We refused to go with what they seemed to want. But regardless, I think there's much to be encouraged about now. We looked back at some of the things that before they came to that deadline, they had seemingly agreed on. And I'm encouraged that we have now advanced into areas that have never before been put on the table. And I think that we shouldn't consider this as the end of the book, but we'll keep on reading here and just see where we go with. Let me ask George to expand on the events of the weekend there. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you. I thought she was going to sit down. Let me see if you let me in the last 24 hours. I know that past the House, there are a few things there that caused some concern. But I was way to the Senate, I want to hear from you. I don't know. I even called you once. I was calling you during the Olympics. And you were right there. You've been with me since the beginning. I don't know why I had to come here and go over the top with some of the not this guy, this Marvellous man and William French Smith, been so helpful. But I have a quick story for you. I'll say it since it will be recorded for five years. I'm just going to say it a little bit. So let me have it on the floor. Pete Domenici and I are working on the Budget Act business with him. We have a vote on that. Pete says that we're ever going to do the waiver of the Budget Act. This is a legitimate place to do it because by not doing something and allowing 1,800,000 people across the borders in legally, that's going to cost us hell of a chunk down the line, more than what we have come to agree to. And you were so kind. I will proceed with you, William R. Gray, and I will support and defend the Constitution in the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the Senate, that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the law on which I'm about to enter. So help me God. So help me God. The Edmund Elizabeth, ladies and gentlemen, said that human knowledge, especially technical knowledge, has expanded more in the past 50 years than in the previous 5,000. Well, indeed, it was little more than a century ago that an inventor came here to the White House to show President Russell B. Hayes a device called the Telephone. That's an amazing invention, President Hayes remarked. But who would ever want to use one? I told him at the time I thought he might use it. And in this era of telecommunications and space travel and medical breakthroughs and the microchip, it's essential for a president and his administration to receive sound counsel on the scientific aspects of national policy. In 1976, the Office of Science and Technology Policy was established to provide this conference. And it's with great pleasure that we've gathered today declaring in Dr. William John Gray as the Office's fourth director. Bill will inherit an office that has played a central role in this administration from the beginning, especially in the matter of the first importance to our nation and to the world, the strategic defense initiative you may have heard of. That word in the middle of defense is the significant one, because it would attack missiles, not people. SDI would threaten no one, not a single nation, not a single human life. As I said earlier this week, America and the West need SDI for long-run insurance. Bill is uniquely set suited to continue the work of the Office of Science and Technology on SDI and the many other matters with which it is concerned. I could list his credentials from Project Officer at Kirtland Air Force Base at the Deputy Directorship of NASA, but the list is too long. I could describe his personal qualities, determination, an extraordinarily fine mind, the enterprise he showed in helping to found a successful high-tech company. But again, time would prevent me from gaining focus. So let me say simply this. Bill has made it his life's work to keep our country strong, free, and the technological leader of the world. And let me simply ask Bill welcome aboard. Ladies and gentlemen, it was a privilege to serve you, sir, as the Chairman of your General Advisory Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament. When I did that during your first term, it was also an honor to serve you as the Deputy Administrator of NASA. But it's a great privilege and honor, indeed, to serve you as your science advisor and as the Director of your Office of Science and Technology Policy. In fact, as a teenager, I used to take apart radios, take the pieces, and turn them into transmitters. And I found that I could eventually talk all around the world. I couldn't always understand what people were saying on the other side of the world, but at least I could talk to them. And that was something I felt very good about. There was a challenge to that, in fact, that I think represents the challenge that the US people, citizens feel in the high-tech areas today, something that we have in our bones and is natural for us, and something that we'll certainly continue to pursue and to, in fact, increase as time goes on. Through the strength of your leadership, you have certainly blazed new trails for this country in the high-tech areas. The space station, which will be America's first permanent address on orbit, and the aerospace plane that you've started, which will someday get us to the other side of the earth in less than an hour, and basic research, which you've been so strong in supporting all through your term, which, in fact, once again, took the majority of the Nobel Prizes to US researchers just this year, and, in fact, some of them today. And finally, in national security, where your initiative in guiding us into a world where shields and not swords dominate our protection and our future is a vision that many of us in the science and technologies find a shining role that we're going to pursue for a long time to come, that's great bigger. You're an inspiration to our young people, and you have certainly challenged us all. I look forward to working as a part of your team during the rest of this administration to lay the foundations for the decades to come. True pleasure, Mr. President. Thank you very much. That would be humbling when you said that because I couldn't take the part of Torrey Wangen. I'm glad you got it. Thank you. Thank you.