 I have a hunch I speak for everyone down here who have been listening longer than we have just having come down here to express our thanks to these young people who have come here and are singing so beautifully and filling this house with the Christmas spirit with your carols. Thank you and God bless all of you and Merry Christmas. I just say a few words if I could to now our personnel who are gathered here and with their families and it's not only to wish you all a Merry Christmas but to give you a heartfelt thank you for all that you do day in and day out and we are indebted to you and just look forward to continuing here for these next couple of years with all of you but I don't know there aren't any words to express our appreciation for all that you do and all that you mean to us and to the country so incidentally has anyone instructed you on looking carefully at the decorations to see that the whole theme is Mother Goose and all every Mother Goose rhyme is illustrated well I think you ought to know that all of those figures in all of those Mother Goose rhyme displays were made right here in the White House but some of the people in the White House staff so again thank you all and God bless you and I think we have to go up and look out this window here for a minute to to see the people that can't see us here. Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan, from all of our students, from the state of Ohio, to you and your family, a Merry Christmas and a Happy Lunar New Year. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Merry Christmas. To benefit the Children's Hospital. During this Christmas season we are all like the shepherds abiding in homes and offices watching over our families and businesses and our thoughts turned to that day in Bethlehem 1986 years ago and the tiny infant wrapped in swaddling clothes. At Christmas it's as if we see a light in the dark night of the sky showing us the way. It's a time when hope is born anew every year and a heavenly joy reigns for a season here on earth. It's a time for giving presents to family and friends and most of all it's a time for worship and remembering that single all-important truth but before all else God is love. It's perfectly fitting that we now honor the Children's Hospital and his good works of love, caring, and sacrifice. At Christmas time we celebrate childhood and in so doing celebrate what is best in all of us. The love that is a reflection of the divine love that shines on us all. In the words of Zacharias, the tender mercy of our God with which the sunrise from on a high shall visit us to shine upon those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace. So all of you here and all of you watching at home have a joyful and a very very merry Christmas.