 I just need the place for a few minutes. Yeah. It's a pleasure. Hello. Thank you. Mr. President? You're welcome. You're welcome. Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. I hate you a lot. Sorry. Well, Jim? This is a red-letter day. We need a snap to sit in one wheel. Swoop here. Oh, there. Thank you. I thought you were swiping. Yeah, I'm sorry. I hate you. Well. Here today we have members of the Privization Commission and Jim Miller and Joe White will indeed to discuss one of the most successful privatization efforts undertaken constantly for the privatization plan for the economic health rights. We are getting started a few minutes later and we will be back in a few minutes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Thanks, Kim. But we're going to be back here in another minute. Thank you. effort we've ever undertaken by this administration or any other to overhaul the federal credit system. The federal government is America's largest financial intermediary. Right now we're responsible for over a trillion dollars in federally assisted loans and we should not be. In many instances, the private sector can manage this vast loan portfolio better than we can. The government should not improve in credit markets unnecessarily. Private lenders should meet the needs whenever possible. Where government must make loans, the portfolio should be sold to and managed by the private sector, even when government ends up holding the loans. Private debt collection agencies can help us in removing this tremendous backlog of delinquencies that we have. Now federal loan subsidies and a value of loan guarantees should be included in the budget. There's no such thing as a free loan. President, President, you have proposed legislation to achieve these needed reforms to do all of these things, but Congress has not yet acted. Well, I'm very concerned that there seems to be a very subtle campaign going on from the other side now to attempt to tell everybody that the game is over and they want to hear from you. That's their psychology, right now. Yeah, but how near are they to be in that? Well, I think a lot strong, but I don't think they're near at all. I think we're going to win this thing. It's going to take a lot of work. Mr. President, all the Republicans that come out, I have doubts about what they can see now. I was hoping one time it might get in and it still might get in. We have contributed every charge to the end of our lives. We had in a number of 410 gentlemen that, the last day of, they were pulled last day, we had six law school demons and four other specialists on the antitrust that raised those questions. And of course, we had the Chief Justice and we had the attorney of the call of that, Mr. President, and I think we were really amazing. That's impressive. I don't think we'll get deep in seeing the fart and the wind storm. You never know where he is at all. But I think it's winnable and it's going to be winnable when we get to the floor and watch Danforth weigh in and some other thoughtful people and get to the issue of sterilization of fellow humans that are black. I said it was important that I not take your speech. But it isn't really much of a speech here. First of all, I want to thank all of you for coming and thanks for all you've done to support my nomination for Robert Bork. I know that many of you know Bob personally, so you know firsthand about his qualification and his brilliant legal mind. As you've seen in the hearings, witness after witness from Chief Justice Warren Berger to Lloyd Cutler continue to attest to his experience, his character and sheer intellectual capacity. But there are little interests that continue an unprecedented attack on Bob Bork for one reason and one reason alone. They want a liberal judge who will make the law, not a judge to interpret the law. And they want a judge who will commit in advance to support their special interests, not a judge who will only commit to uphold the Constitution. I don't want either of those. Neither does Bob Bork and I don't think you do either. As I'm sure Howard has told you, it's not good for business and it's not good for America. Robert Bork should be confirmed. That's why I invited each of you here today to ask for your continued help, additional help to make that a reality. And I hope you do all you can to let your senators know how important this vote really is for you. I'm afraid that there are some of them there who are listening to some of the Rutgers voices and I signed it but don't really know what they're talking about. But now I'll stop there before somebody interrupts me and ask if you have any questions and if you have. I've got the right people here to give you information you need. Mr. President, Mr. Mercer. My annual poll once a year. Well, come in. I'm going to take a chair. I'm going to get a document here. Here's a general swell. What's wrong with that? I think part of my problem is cold is sinus. Bright sinus. You're right and you can just breathe in and not breathe out so you don't catch it. There are a lot of my people back in Vermont before I just stopped breathing. I used to be a chronic sinus sufferer. Were you? Yeah, but you know what? Then one day I found out I had allergies. It was allergies. And I've been taking sinus shots or I mean the allergy shots ever since is far better. I would regularly have a sinus infection. Not once a year. That's all, thank you. Is it the same time of year though? It's happened this time last year. But usually it counts in the spring. When I change my underwear. Well, Bob, I appreciate your coming down and I wanted to talk to you about the Bork situation. I figured that you would understand that. I just, I feel that this is... I'm going to be back to my staff resident. Why don't you take a chair here? Where is the shower you're looking at? I don't have a sore throat so I'll stay away from you. All right, well I usually have a rash most of the time. I don't know if it's a ragged weed or what it is. Well, I'm allergic patients. Are you an addict? I get shots every three weeks I do too. I have for about 20 years now. You do it every week with me. You do it every year. I'm going to have to step it up. And I happen to have served in now the two allergy capitals of the world. Sacramento, California and now Washington DC. I just learned the other day that Washington has a greater variety of trees than any city in the United States. That's what my allergy doctor told me. One of the worst places. And this is the worst time of the year right now. So listen now. I have a feeling now that we can probably clear up our allergies. Okay. It's the right decision list. All right. Hello, my friend. How are you today? Good to see you. Good to see you. Come here and thank me. Have me over. That's it. Where are you going? We'll share you. You want me, huh? Yeah, thank you. All right. Well here I am again. About the whole time you have me up here when you need me. Well, I sure need you. You and I have had a good experience with appointing judges. We have. We have. And I just, I really have said and sworn back when I turned down from now. Politics will play no part in the selection of the judge. I made no effort to find out whether he was a Democrat or a Republican. And I appointed him on the basis of his record as a judge. And I just think that there has, this has gotten down to a kind of contest that is out of keeping with a confirmation hearing. I would agree with that. I think it's gone. Nice to see you. Nice to see you. Come here and take that chair over there on that. Which one? Which one with the hot seat? This one's still warm from me sitting there. Well you're just filled with curiosities to why I wanted to see you. I had three guesses and they were all the same. Well, yes. I know that this has become quite a contest up there. And I think with some overtones that don't belong in a confirmation hearing. And I just wanted to get in the pitch for this man that I have chosen. And I chose him not on the basis of any political philosophy, but on the basis of a record that some 400 decisions he's made and none of them ever reversed and many of them upheld by the Supreme Court. I don't think any river overturned by the Supreme Court. And I think it's going to be a tragedy of what has become a kind of partisan or contesting issues that he remarked for life. And I don't think he deserves that.