 I present to you my most profound respect, great honor and privilege for me to have the opportunity to pay a very respectful and fervent homage to your excellency who has done so much and continue to do so much for the sake of my homeland and my people. So generous. Captain Ralph DeVario, Mr. National President. How are you? My pleasure. I pleasure to be here, Mr. President. Well, please see a new one. Thank you for coming. Mr. President. Mr. President. Can I see you? U.S. Army? Yes, sir. Thank you, sir. Lieutenant Commander Bill Smith. How are you, sir? Fine. Thank you. Major Chip Halsworth. Hello. How are you? Good to see you, Mr. President. Well, good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. God bless. Good to see you again, sir. It's always a pleasure and thank you for giving us an opportunity. Well, listen, we're still fighting the battles with you and for you together. I know you are. I was just going to say I thank you for all that you have done, the support for the things that are important. Amen. Amen. Let me go there. Sneak in there. If we could get in a little bit tighter, please. Perfect. There. Beautiful day. Have a nice day, Mr. President. Ordered it. Chief, do you want to say good-bye? Pete Toto paid off. We were in there together. I do appreciate it. President, first, on behalf of the Reserve Officers Association, we want to thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you again, Chief. Thank you. I love the Reserve Officers Association. We want to thank you for your support you gave the Reserve Forces and the military during your tour of duty. And we're very grateful to express that appreciation to you. In addition, I have something from an old soldier, an old Reserve Army colonel who wrote the RO8 March, which are a member of our Association after World War II, and he presented it to President Truman, who signed it. Here in the White House. Right here in the White House. to give you a copy of that thing for yourself, the sheet, when you take it out, the sheet music is in the back. We're going to leave a copy with you. We're going to ask that you would sign it, and we would like to hang that copy with your signature in our archives at ROA, because it's a little copy that we're going to do. The music for the sheet music is inside, Mr. President. Do you want to ask what you want? No, no, we have another one. This is for you. This is yours. This is yours. We want another copy. Isn't there? You sure it's in there? Oh, yeah. They have the copy. They have the copy. Oh. Well, I thank you very much. You're welcome, sir. Last time, member, I'm not expecting that. Sir, we've got an issue. I never miss the opportunity. Back in 83, we fought for two decades to get that assistant-sucked death for reserve affairs. You signed the bill in the Congress in there, wisdom, one of the rare occasions. Fast the law, and you signed it. There's some reorganization going on now over in the Pentagon that in our judgment diminishes the authority of that office. And with the increase in the reserve capability, I wanted to bring up your attention. And I wouldn't leave without leaving the letter and everybody shaking their heads. But I want you to get it, because we're in here to fight to keep this nation strong. And we think, again, with reserve forces now being one half or a little more, we need to have that exposure at a high level. So we want some help. We want some support. But we're in there hanging in there with you. Good luck to you, Mr. Chairman. You wouldn't be offended. I would have to tell. When I was called to have to do you in World War II, and I have a vision problem, and I was tagged in limited service by the Cavalry or anything with that tag on there. But again, they examined me at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Two doctors, and they took my glasses off. And I couldn't even read the top line. One of them said to me, if we sent you overseas, you'd shoot a general. The other one said, can't you miss it? That goodness for that. Did they find that out at old Fort Des Moines? Where was it? No, that was after I got to Fort Mason. No, as a matter of fact, there was a little cheating when I moved to Fort Mason. And they found out where I was without my glasses. They told me that there was a provision. You know, no one in those days ever thought there's going to be another war. They told me that if you couldn't get to an Army post for an examination, why you could just have a civilian doctor examine you, which I did. He was also a companion in our reservoirs. So I got the commission already. Mr. President, one thing we're looking at also in ROA is the US merchant marine. You've been awfully good to the armed forces. And the US merchant marine carries them there. We're looking at that as a very critical aspect of national defense. Well, we have some provisions that have been helpful. I know too, and I don't think there's going to be any change in those. Anything we can do to help you, sir? Anything we can do to help you? Well, not right now. The thing we're dealing with is the drug bill up on the hill right now, trying to get it before they get out of town. But I'll let you know. Well, we fought hard on the 48-hour issue because with Rebecca, of course, and again, thanks to you, we had good results again. Because we want to thank you for the spirit that you put across this country in the last eight years. We've gone on from people asking us how much longer you have to go to those meetings to, gee, I wish I could go to those reserve meetings and be a part of it. And that's a spirit that nobody's been able to do. And I don't know how many years. And now, these last eight years, we've got that spirit across that country that just keeps going. We can't think of a number of that. We've gone to a big waiting list in the Air Force Reserve now. We have people lining up, lining up to come in. You didn't see that a few years ago. Now there's just that spirit. This is Mr. Yagash Gandhi, who is the president. He's the founder of the Memorial Foundation. And I want to tell you one thing. In 1983, when I first came to the United States to receive the Oscars, I wrote a letter to you. And in 1984, when you resisted the General Assembly in the UN, and you quoted Mahatma Gandhi, I was so moved, you know? Well, thank you. And I would like to take this opportunity and give you the Gandhi button. And I would like to wear this button. Thank you. You mean for this occasion here? I think it would be perfect for this occasion. Thank you very much. Those are the people that have come out. I'm glad you are. I'm off that way, yes. President Manojani, I'm the chairman of the Gandhi Foundation. Well, it's nice to see you there. Thank you so much, very much. Santana, vice president. Good afternoon, president. I'm Chandasagradha from the U.S. State of California. Well, thank you. Do you know my name is Laurel Burrach. Nice to meet you. I'm Alderdona. I'm Tito Samai. You did it? Very nice to meet you. I'm Sasakai. Thank you. Yes. Oh, yes. President, hello, Mr. Shibway. Oh, he's doing so well. Nice to meet you. I used to do it. Thanks. President, Joel had to come around. How are you? Just fine. President John Porter. It's the last time I'm going to get a chance to say this. Jim Wichita. Jim Wichita. You guys want to come down while we get everybody over here? It's on the other side. There, good. I think I'm just going to have to kind of over here. How's this? I can't move back. Okay, Mark, we've got to leave. That's right. That's right. This time, I would like to request to Mr. Giani to say a few words about Mahatma Gandhi, what he said was. And then, first and foremost, we will leave this. Ronald Wilson Rating, 14th President of the United States of America. This Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Award is presented for his tireless efforts on behalf of the world at peace and free from the threat of nuclear annihilation. The signing of the IMF treaty stands as a landmark in charting a new cause for a safer, saner, and more hopeful future for all of humanity. The Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Award honors the memory of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of nonviolence by honoring President Ronald Reagan, who has and is making a difference in the world by fostering world peace, nonviolence, and human dignity. I, Ronald B. Mujani, as Chairman of the Gandhi Foundation, am proud and deeply honored to present you with the Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Award. And this award, Mr. Ryoichi Sasakawa was the recipient of the Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Award last year. So Mr. Mujani requesting Mr. Sasakawa today to present this award for 1988. Mr. Sasakawa sitting very next to me talks with intelligence for being once again to verify the world for its beauty in pleasure and honour to be able to congratulate you today on this siege in Mucanthi World Peace Award. But I'm very proud of the hope I can be deserving of this. I had to push down because I had to make a note, too, and so many of them didn't want to miss any of it. I hope the foundation deserves commendation for all of its efforts in recognizing and honoring an individual who promoted human rights and dignity for all people who continues to be an inspiration to Asian Indian Americans. The reason I had to make the notes here was because I wanted to mention the past recipients of this award. Mother Teresa, 1984. Jimmy Carter in 1985. President DeCano in 1986. The Japanese ship building, known to you. President Sasakawa in 1987. I understand that General Secretary Gorbachev will be receiving this next month for what he has done. Well, again, I repeat, I'm just deeply grateful to you. I'm highly honored, and I hope I can be deserving of it. Thank you. And again, I would like to thank you very much that you have signed the legislation into law, designating October 2, 1988 as a national moment today for Mahatma Gandhi in this country. And I thank you, and also I thank for the Senators and all the congressmen who has helped us, particularly Senators Wynia and Congresswoman Insula, who have taken the leadership for this legislation, and you made a history in this country.