 Please, thank you. Kill the lights. Thank you. Everybody out, please. The carriage? The carriage. I want such a unique trip, but it's telling me something that I've found another trip. I've been to Providence Point. Most of them, since I've been a secretary, took advantage of that opportunity to press our case. Eddie Officer Hopkins. All in. Technical Sergeant Harris. Mayor. Dan Sargent-Brite. Chair in your right. Ambassador. Coast guard. I think they're a little nervous. Well, it's a meeting that you may have to keep. It's quite an honor. Thank you. Thank you. Well, it's on my boat. I know I'm not supposed to call this ship a boat. Boats have oars. Thank you very much. I'm sorry that we have to do it by written answers to you, but we'll get them to you as soon as we can. I told this morning to get a haircut before he sat down. I appreciate it, too. I don't know whether the questions will lead to this or not, but I hope that there will be an opportunity for me to answer some of the questions. Mr. President, if we could get one question. The group has elected the Army to ask it. If you could answer one question, the forum will complete the proceedings. Mr. President, we understand that you've served in the Army during World War II. But we're wondering if you see any fundamental difference between the military of the day versus the military of World War II. Because there was World War II under wartime. The situation and the tragedies were again and all, and they have seen a great difference now. And for the last few years, when there was just a five-day vote around in those days, something that always stuck with me and that has guided my thinking about the military today, is that then as now, there were those in Washington who didn't think it was necessary to do anything for the military. And then they were having their way more than they are today. But we had held just a few months prior to Pearl Harbor, the Louisiana maneuvers. The greatest war games, the biggest war games we've ever had. Many of the soldiers were carrying wooden guns, and they were using cardboard tanks to send the armored board there. And after the war, when some of our top officers were able to meet with some of theirs and talk about the war that they were fighting against each other, one of the questions was why Pearl Harbor? And the last Japanese answer was just what I've said about Louisiana. They said, why not Pearl Harbor? We didn't think you'd fight. But it was my first. I was a reserve officer. In those days, and after World War I and the years following, I don't think anyone ever thought there was going to be another war. We fought World War I, the End of All Wars, and I was always crazy about horses. And I found myself a sports announcer in Des Moines, Iowa, where I was also located at Fort Des Moines, which in the war became the Wacken Warriors, but then it was the home of the 14th Cavalry. I enlisted as a candidate for a commission. And by doing so, part of our training involved riding the cavalry horses at Fort Des Moines. And I got the commissioners called to act at duty. I was tagged limited service because I wear corny offenses and I'm pretty very near sighted without them. And the cavalry had no provision for limited service. They tagged me limited service when they examined me. So I wound up at Fort Mason as a liaison officer, loading convoys for it. We were shipping everything we could, even just basic training to Australia because we believed that with the enemy planned call, they would have to pin down their flank before they could move east against us. So we were filling up Australia with American troops to complete their training there. And then the Air Force was the Army Air Corps. They created something comparable to the Signal Corps because General Arnold was looking to have a conservative Air Force. And the next thing I knew had been in that business, the picture business, I found myself shipped back down south at California to help organize and commission directness of Indian life. Technicians still work in the British industry. We trained all the combat camera crews and set up a training plan on the death of the Air Force. I wasn't very heroic, but I never cried by the death. Thank you, Mr. President. Gentlemen, you've come this way. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Mr. President? Yes, sir. Nice to see you. My wife, Lady. Hello, Mr. President. My son, Al. So it's from? I was in college and Al is just starting his work in New York. Sonya and Rabia will join us. That's when they can. You and I will work together to take the fire base and then you all come in with a private dinner. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. Oh, that's very nice. Well, we appreciate the tie bar. This is Christmas early. Oh, we just don't want you to forget us here. It's very nice of you to receive us, and I know how busy you are. We've been sworn in by Secretary Schultz and we'll be off on Wednesday and be in Jeddah on Friday. And looking forward to serving you, Mr. President, as we did for the last few years in Tunisia. And I must say, I want to repeat again how much we progress. It really makes you feel as if you're working with the President. We are. It's college. I went to our college. In Airman? Yeah. That's right. How long did this graduation from Amherst College? From Amherst. Isn't Amherst the one that was on television? Yeah, he's had a wedding. He's a good lady. Well, you never follow everything, don't you? He's a good person. He loved my college. He wanted to go with you, Steve. He wanted to briefly yell. Has anyone backed Weston? No, he was the one that got that yen that he thought he wanted to be about anything. Oh, that's right. And he's left that, and he's got a very successful career. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. President, thank you very much. You know, this President, after Carol, broke all those records and homerun, and games played and everything else, and he had all that stuff on his mind, and all the parks were stand-up, stand-up ovations. He decided he was going to have some rings made up for some of his best friends. And he not only had a ring made up for you, but something else for Nancy. Wow, Mr. President. I appreciate it very much, and I appreciate a lot of things he did for supporting me, but also especially for bringing you here. I just designed a ring at the end of my career. I had 23 stones in it for 23 years. 23 years. A long time. I designed it up. I made 20 of them up. You know this? Her birthday is July 6th, and her mother has told her all her life that it would have been July 4th, except her mother didn't want to miss the double-header. I swore that was true. Well, I thank you very much. Mr. President, Carol has got a new job now, and he's going to be a sportcaster in the Channel 7 of Boston. He'd like to ask you a couple of questions for his first interview. Well, that's TV. Well, all right, fine. It's like an old thing in the schedule. I don't know that there is such a thing as a typical day here. It doesn't get too early in the morning. Nine o'clock. And there are some things that are typical. Usually starts out with staff meeting, first of all, on anything that may, and then the National Security Council meeting. They come in, and we sit around over here, and what is the latest development of the latest hotspot in the room go forth. And then the day takes off where it can range from meetings with the congressional leadership, one or both parties. It can be special meetings, like these few days the governors are having their conference in town, so this morning I was over in the East and we didn't take their questions, things going on. And it can go for a series of meetings and interrupt the, I'm happy to say, every once in a while with some time there at the desk to try and keep ahead of the paperwork. And then usually at the end of the day, and I go upstairs with quite a packet of homework in my evening reading, is it's various memos and reports and so forth. How do you handle all the stress on this job? Well, I'll tell you, I have to say that I haven't found that the problem that someone has talked about and that people have said, but I think possibly that was because of my previous experience as eight years as governor in California. And while that isn't as large and up to the point of this job and doesn't have foreign policy, at the same time that was when I first knew some real stress in those opening months because I inherited an economic problem there and a deficit of the constitution provision hanging over us that deficit could not go beyond the next six months. It had to be solved. And I remember some days when we were there sitting at the desk when it seemed as if every other half hour someone was in front of the desk with another problem and I would have an almost irresistible desire to turn and look and see if there wasn't somebody back there I could turn to for it. But I think out of that I learned that there is only one thing and that is you take, I get all the counsel and so forth that I can all the advice I can and then debate on issues with our cabinet and the cabinet room, I left that out and what is the routine and the things that happen just make up your mind that you will have to make the decision based on what you honestly believe is the best thing for the people and if you do that you may make mistakes but let that be your only consideration instead of saying well how is this going to affect elections or what is this going to do politically I have been structured in California and I learned to construct here at the cabinet. The one thing I never wanted to do in any discussion is what are the political ramifications I only want to hear is it good or bad for the people. It's a fantastic shape you work on a lot Yes I finish every day before I go into that I want to work upstairs I go to the gym upstairs and some equipment in there we have two sets of exercises for different sets of muscles for all in the days I look forward to that at the end of the day Thank you Mr. President I'm going to interview him He's got a couple more questions I'll try to make the answer short Okay How did you develop your interest in sports when you were in Yamastown? I thought that was the greatest thing in the world we lived near the high school athletic field when I was a kid I'd be there every afternoon watching football practice in the spring track and I ended up playing football for four years in high school and college and around the quarter mile in a relay team I drove up swimming and spent seven summers lifeguarding and finally in college I had to drop track and turn to swimming because you can't do both different sets of muscles and I didn't have that experience Did you have any heroes in Yamastown? Oh yes, whoever the current top athletes including George Gipp of Notre Dame How did you start to become interested in sports announcements which was your first job I guess baseball announcements Yes Radio was very new It's hard for anyone today to realize the impact that radio made on this nation You forgot that it was very young for several years but suddenly this thing that came right into your home you could now sit there and hear someone tell you all about a football game that's going on or baseball and baseball games but even drama plays that were done and you didn't have to see them as you see them on television your imagination did it for you as you heard over radio that play well I realized by the time I got out of college in the depths of the Great Depression that it was hard to say in the small town of Illinois at the time that I thought I wanted to do something in the world of entertainment and finally tying that love of sports in with this I thought that's what I would like to do and I just started knocking on radio station doors hitchhiking around the Midwest and one day after I saw a lot of turn downs I didn't ask to be a sports announcer I just I said I'll take any job to get in radio and then I'll take my chance of working up from there and finally in one station a fellow put me in front of a microphone after asking me what I knew about football and I told him I'd played it eight years he said you think you can tell about a game and make me see it and I said I think so and one of them like he says I'm going in another room and I'm going to be listening when the red light goes on you start broadcasting an imaginary football game and he said I'll be hearing it and for 15 minutes it wasn't completely imaginary I decided I would do the last quarter of a game that I played in the previous football we won in the last 20 seconds so there was a good finish to it and he came back in and said the question said be here Saturday you're broadcasting the Iowa Minnesota game and I'll give you $5 in bus fare one final question Mr President it's the ninth inning of the World Series the seventh game you're on the mound pitching your team's ahead by one or another the bases are loaded and the hitters tip on the hill how would you pitch it? right for his head I'll be able to get out of the way I'll have to tell you one time seriously one time I was on the mound in the seventh game of the World Series with the bases loaded no one out and hit by one run it was the seventh inning but that was in Hollywood and I was playing Grover Cleveland Alexander in that famous World Series in 1926 went after having won two games in the series he was supposed to be over the hill and two over for baseball and a sick man was brought out to take over and Rogers Warnsby the manager said to him what do you think and Grover looked at all three bases with Yankees on all three bases and he said it doesn't seem to be any room for him on base and he struck him out thank you Mr President I can't really say I don't know I don't know that I did like it it was great to be on yeah it's really they get to see it it's a whole different it's a whole different it's a whole different it's a whole different it's a whole different and I understand that you don't know what shot he's gonna put on Thank you Mr. President, I appreciate your time. What is the Triple Count on baseball? Badding average, most home runs, most bad things. I never had heard of that until you were coming in here today. As I say I know what it is, torturizing. I'd rather own the horse. I'd rather have a major league baseball than I've ever heard. Thank you again, sir. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you Mr. President. Appreciate it. Thank you. You're welcome.