 How are you doing? These are for us? Yeah. Well, thank you very much. You're on the hot side of town. You're on the hot side. Which is really good. I understand you're on your way to Europe. Yeah, I'm going to Germany. When you get there? Next week. Why don't you just say a good word for us. I'll be right behind you. I'm going to let us in. Well, okay. You know, always a good word for you. You do that. This is my television. Oh, yeah. Oh, and I'm not going to be in those places. Huh? I'm not going to be in those places. I'm going to Bonn. Yeah, Bonn, Germany, the capital there for the summit meeting. Yeah. You've got quite a tour there. Well, you know what? All the way to May 23rd. I always wanted to be a good ambassador to you. You know, I went there last year. And I did the same thing to him. What a great man you was. I took this country, took it out to Douglas, and to a positive finding. You know. And I just went up Jamaica. I was down there with the SIA. Oh, yeah. You know, for the seminar we had down there. Yeah. It was very successful. Well, let's say thank you very much for these. And I want to thank you for taking time to see me. They can see you. Chuck Jones. Oh, sorry. So, I saw you last in Dallas. Well, bye, guys. Bill Taito. Pleasure to meet you. We can see you. So, what's the matter? I'll be up there waiting for your other boys. They'll be waiting for you. All right. Do you need this back here? No. We'll know where you are. Thank you. Let me get my clothes up. Okay, sure. Thank you so much. Okay. I want to take one behind the desk. But let me give you this. Can I shoot it? Like I did before. Okay. I know this too. Thank you, sir. Okay. Thank you. Oh, that's God bless you now. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Oh, that's God bless you now. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I used to play football against them. They're from England, sir. I got it from the National iuberty. Nice to see my boys.iba. That's what he's using. To, Conaway. Conaway. How are you? How are you, sir? How are you, sir? How are you? I hope you don't get affected. Mr. President, on behalf of the over half a million National Guardsmen, I'd like to thank you for what you've done for the Guard and also for our country. We also want to thank you for putting respect back as a unit one, and I want to defer an offer to the immediate best President to explain us a certain range. Mr. President, in 1972 in San Francisco, he kindly assisted us in presenting this award to a great American, Mr. Bob Hope. On that occasion, he made the comment to the opportunity to say that this would be one of them. We are privileged today to resolve that difference. On behalf of the National Guard Association of the United States, representing some 56,000 officers all over America, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Virginia Islands, and Guam, in deep appreciation for your support of a strong military, it is our pleasure to present you this award, which is unique. And we certainly hope that you will enjoy having it, and we sincerely appreciate all you doing to keep America strong. Mr. President, listen, thank you very much. I think that's a very remarkable display of 13 colonies and the uniforms for each. Now, this would be the wrong place for me to tell the whole story. I wouldn't have about to end, stood up in front of his troops as a general and said, I lost my toy soldiers and I cried, and my mother said to me, don't worry, someday you'll find them, and he said, and now I have. Mr. President, this is the plaque that I've run with. Appreciate you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I think we'll go down there and play with the audience. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Good to see you. Bye, sir. Hey, the desk, he's already done a ton of business stage, and he did it by looking at the floor and up, engaging his shop that went and shopped on the game. Isn't that anything else to do, ma'am? Very special. Right, right, right, right, right, right. Right, right, right, right, right, right. Right, right, right, right, right, right. Right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Right, right. But I know that you have to communicate formally to Nancy that this is kind of special. It's your first visit here, but it's also your birthday, your sixth birthday. Happy birthday. It's your birthday of the jar with this seal on it. And in the jar at Delegates. I understand you have a common interest also in swimming, yes, because I understand that as a sport. That was mine. I was a lifeguard for seven summers when I went through school. The character you can give. I wrote a TGFL about the American attention that you began. Thank you very much. This is an old book about America. It's more general. Well, thank you. I understand they want a picture of us sitting down over here. Come in. Take the chair over there. Thank you very much. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate it. I appreciate it very much. I think we've gone down the brown. Getting in touch with you. You're looking for. You're looking for us. I'm looking for you. I'm looking for you. I'm looking for you. This is Carville. Hello there. This is Mr. Hickey. I can't stand there. I guess I start. Mr. President, it's a great honor. I know for Matt and his family to have you here. We have some other very special people here also. The people who really made all this possible. Mr. and Mrs. Carville and of course Pat. And I was going to say with the four children, her fire team. Then I arrived and I realized it was a potato. Now you all know Matt well. In fact, I would be presumptuous to try to tell you about Matt Caulfield. Let me tell you a little bit about the Marine Corps and Matt Caulfield. I think you all know that right across the river we have a very famous statue. A statue that by putting together a little marble and brick and mortar and bronze, we captured a very important moment in the history of our country. A moment that proved that brave men working against overwhelming odds can accomplish any mission provided they had the right spirit and dedication. Now what you probably haven't noticed is that the last man in the queue, private first class Ira Hayes, an American Indian, his hands are not touching the pole. They're reaching. And that's the greatness of the country that we live in and the greatness of the Corps that Matt and I serve. Because the country that the President leads, and when people ask us why we go to Lebanon and why we go to Granada, it's because if this country is to be a great country it must always reach beyond its grasp. And that's what private first class Ira Hayes is doing at our statue. And that's what a young officer named Matt Coffield has done since 1958. He has always reached beyond his grasp. All people ask me, they ask Matt, what is it that makes a Marine different? And that's a hard thing to describe. How does one describe love of family, love of country, love of wife? But it's that same kind of love. And I think that we also have realized that even in a day of high technology and of fancy equipment, that the true heritage of our Corps belongs to people. They make the organization not equipment. Because equipment, machinery, doesn't have a heart, doesn't have a soul. And really doesn't care whether it's going to the moon or to Timbuktu. If it quits, it quits. But Marines like Matt Coffield have big hearts and they have very big souls. And they do care whether they're going to the halls of Montezuma or the shores of Triple E because they'll never quit. I can tell you all about Matt Coffield, a soldier, statesman, all about his academic credentials and their many, all about the great staff jobs that he's had, which is epitomized right here by working for the President of the United States, our Commander-in-Chief. But Matt Coffield's greatest hours were spent as a Commander of Marines, as a Company Commander twice, a Marine Detachment Commander, and also as a Battalion Commander. And while today we are honoring a very special individual who will be soon wearing the stars of a Brigadier General in the United States Marine Corps, that when that last volley is fired, Matt, and that last bugle is blown, Matt Coffield's legacy will not be the stars that he wears on his shoulders. Matt Coffield, the leader, the follower, Matt's legacy to his country will be the thousands of young people that he has touched with his genuine, warm, compassionate leadership. And there are literally, in our country today, thousands of young Americans who are far better, far better for our country, whether they're in uniform today or out of, for having served under Matthew P. Coffield. Would you please read the order, sir? Attention to orders, Department of the Navy, headquarters, United States Marine Corps, Washington, D.C. April 18th, 1985. From commandant of the Marine Corps to Colonel Matthew P. Coffield, United States Marine Corps, subject authority to assume the title and wear the uniform of a Brigadier General, U.S. Marine Corps. By the authority vested in the commandant of the Marine Corps, you are hereby authorized to assume the title and wear the uniform of a Brigadier General, U.S. Marine Corps, effective this state. Signed P.X. Kelly, General, U.S. Marine Corps. I'll ask Matthew to raise his right hand and I will dismiss the other members. You, Brigadier General, Matthew P. Coffield. Hi, Matthew, Brigadier General, Matthew P. Coffield. Solemnly swear that you will support and defend the Constitution. Solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution. Of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That I take this obligation freely. That I take this obligation freely. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. Without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. And that I will well and faithfully discharge a duty to the office upon which I am about to enter I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office to which I'm about to enter, so I hope you've got it. One more presentation given directly to the committee. She has shared in this moment, and that's an internal family problem on how you get it from her. You know, I don't mean to get anyone in trouble here. And yet I can't help but tell in this marine atmosphere a little something that happened the other day when General Kelly and the rest of the chiefs of staff were in giving me a briefing on each branch of the service in the cabinet room. And sitting in the cabinet table and it came in Kelly's turn and he was up there and he was telling about the great improvements in amphibious landings and so forth and landing barges and all of that. And I'm surrounded by marines here. It's an awful place for an ex-course cavalry officer. But my chief of staff, Don Regan, the secretary of state, George Schultz, the secretary of the treasury, Jim Baker, my national security advisor, Bud McFarland, all ex-marines. And now you won't hold this against him, but while you were giving that exposition there on all of the improvements in this, Bud slipped me a note. True marine fashion, I read it. And it said, we really don't need all that. Marines can walk on water. I did just want to say something. I rehearsed it for two weeks, Mr. President. It was very warm here. I'm going to make it very, very brief. But just to express my appreciation to my father, a person who never had the opportunity to go to high school, who is the most well-read and best educated person I've ever met. My mother, who I just could never find words to express. Both of them taught me what integrity meant long before I discovered it. It was the hallmark of a marine officer. My wife, Pat, who I've been in love with since we were 17 years old, who during the dark days of my career was the one that really encouraged me to stay with it. And in all the separations and the bad days, four children, Tricia, who just graduated from the University of California, Berkeley. She just returned from two years with the Peace Corps in Ecuador. Sue Ann, the senior of the University of California, Berkeley. Matt, the graduate of the University of California, Davis. And Danny, who just won a Navy ROTC scholarship to the University of Southern California. So the call fields happen to be from New York, but as you can see, we're nowhere to go. The other person I'd like to say something is Ed Hickey, who I've only known for two years, but Ed, in terms of loyalty to you and to the presidency and doing things right, has no peer, even in the Marine Corps where we pride ourselves on a revere motto of Semper for Dallas. Ed's hidden strength and secret is something that you probably don't even know, is that his mother's maiden name is Caulfield. Lastly, sir, I would like to say something to you and it's very difficult and I know it's hot and I'll make it very fast and it's difficult because there's deep meaning. A long time ago as a captain, I asked once a very imminent military historian, who are the greatest military leaders in our history? And he replied, Robert E. Lee and Matthew B. Richway. He said, because they were such extraordinary leaders that somehow they touched the soul of their army. I really believe that's what's been going on in the rebirth of our armed forces in the past four years. You are a commander in chief, probably the only commander in chief in history, that has touched the essence of what we're all about. And what it amounts to, Mr. President, is armies are what soldiers believe. You believe in us and that's why we believe in you. I hope a historian someday captures this and it's important to the future of the security of the United States. I do know that no words were ever expressed what it means to my generation, to those who fought in Vietnam and who came home and who kept the faith when seeing that the nation was losing it. I'll never forget that what burned in my memory was that day in the rotunda of the capital standing behind you as a member of your staff when the unknown from Vietnam was brought home. And it was so fitting that the president, the commander in chief who believed in him was the one that welcomed him home. That same historian told me in those days that I could be a general officer someday and I didn't believe him, but he told me the way you did it and the secret was you watch great leaders and you try to emulate them. And I've watched you as closely as I could and from that day of you standing with us in the rain at the Camp Lejeune and at other things. It seems a shame that all of your achievements, you weren't also a Marine. And Mr. President, I can't pay a high compliment. What you've done for my family today and for me, we appreciate it very, very much. Thank you, sir. My kid says, well, you keep that job. It's sure better than being a private. Congratulations again. Thank you, Mr. President. I'm pleased to be a part of this.