 I just want to say hello to you. Hello there. Nice to see you. Hi, how are you? Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Thank you. Nice to see you. Hello there. Hi, nice to see you. Hello there. Nice to see you. Mr. President. And then you open your side. Well, sir. Mr. President, you look wonderful. Well, I feel good. Yes, oh, now, look what we brought you. Very nice to see you. Yes, very nice to see you. Well... It's the American Love Association. And we know how particular it is. And we're so happy because you're going to have more power by opening our Long Association Month of No-Number-We-Go-With-The-Officers throughout this country. And I mean, I've been moving. Well, listen, I know you have. And I think it's just great. And I think what all of you are doing, the association is doing is wonderful. And just to at least have something else for you. You got something else for me? Oh, yes, I don't have to have it. Thank you very much. Excuse me. This was seen, that's what you put on your present. Yes. This is for Mrs. Reagan because Mrs. Nancy Reagan bless her heart. She is our honorary chairman for the Anti-Marijuana Association. And that lady of yours has done some job. And she is some lady. Well, she thinks that of you and I'll be very pleased to deliver it. She sent her very best regards. Yes, she did. No, this is pearl present. That's my own present. One for you. One for her. And while I was at the Lone Association, we thought of something. And that one scarf what I thought made you might get a little chilly. So we put together eight. Oh my goodness, who put the pin in here? Oh my goodness. Let me see, I'll get it now. Can you see better than I can? Can you see better than I can? Let's see that. It won't take much time. But they pin. You know how the people that help you, they over help? Yes. Look what we put together. Eight scarves. And these eight scarves and we have made you in fact, pearls from this umbrella. For heaven's sake. For heaven's sake. And that's when our American Law Association... Yeah, let me pick up that belt. Can't put that on without a belt. It's very heavy. It can be done. Well, thank you very much. Well now, I'm almost empty handed. I just want to token of my appreciation to the Lone Association and start the contributions off. I feel I'm almost empty handed in the face of all of this. I feel I'm almost empty handed in the face of all of this. No, you're not you're not empty handed and by the grace of God you're not empty handed. I for one know it because I've known you a long time. Yes, you have. And you are the same man that always tries. I have it turns out you try. Could you have a picture? Mr. President, I want you all to join us. Yes. Mr. President, I would like to stand close to the Senate, face Senate, face Senator Long. Mr. President, I would like to stand right in the Senate, please. Mr. President, I would like to stand right in the Senate, please. And then, please. Thank you, Mr. President. Gentlemen, the President of the United States. Thank you very much. Let me first say how glad we are to see all of you here, but I imagine several others have said that already. I know what busy schedules you have. I'll bet you one of you here wins the medal for being coming from the farthest distance. California? Are you a dentist? But we certainly appreciate your taking these two days to come to Washington and to be briefed on the desperate situation of world hunger. All of us share a deep interest in resolving this tragic crisis that, one so staggering, it eclipses all others. We're giving it our highest priority and we'll continue to do so. Our administration has already provided an unprecedented level of emergency food aid. A tremendous amount of food has been delivered to Ethiopia and other suffering countries and much more is on the way. Just an hour ago we announced two more steps. The release of 300,000 metric tons of wheat from the U.S. Wheat Reserve and the granting of an additional 50 million dollars in food aid to be made available immediately to those African countries in greatest need. But solving this crisis is beyond the efforts of the United States government and the American people alone. Ending world hunger will require a combined of the public and private sectors in productive countries like our own. It will also require fundamental changes in those countries suffering from famine. A new path leading away from government regimentation and toward greater freedom and incentives for individual citizens to produce more. I called at the beginning of my administration for a new partnership between our private and public sectors and I have to say the result has been just amazing and confirmed what I've always believed that the people of America if you just tell them what's needed and point them at it it gets done. Well this is an emergency situation where we must put such a partnership to work immediately. I know some companies have already been deeply involved and I'm told they received awards last year for their work but I've come to make a direct appeal to all of you. We need your help. We need your time, your expertise and yes your capital investment. We need all this in helping to alleviate the short-term crisis and we need it even more in addressing the long-term problem as this is indeed a long-term dilemma. There are many areas where you can help to bring about needed change building the required infrastructure in the affected countries such as improved transportation from port to interior bringing sorely needed management skills to these developing economies enhancing their food production and food processing sectors and by your successful business practices helping to encourage the necessary long-term economic reforms in the end after all it will take a freer economy in those countries to meet these grave human problems. We face a tremendous challenge and I thank you for coming and for giving us your pledge to help all you can. When Americans stand together and work together that's when miracles begin to happen. So let's roll up our sleeves and get the job done. I know that some of the things our own people who've been there in Africa and Ethiopia maybe you've been informed that even regarding the great amounts of food that we've mentioned here these literally can only be delivered to those people who have rallied and made their way to certain dispersal centers but because of the lack of infrastructure lack of transportation and roads out there in the out country there are many millions of people for whom nothing is being done there's just no way to even find and locate them. But I recall an America that when there was an earthquake that destroyed Tokyo an America when it was Belgian relief and when it was a government that just simply said to the people here is this problem and all of those things seem to be taken over and we're done with the private sector. Well we're a little better in the governmental level now than we were then and we can do as suggested but also I think the real effort and government doesn't have resources to mention is when we suddenly call on all our fellow citizens to rally around and alleviate this suffering and this terrible tragedy that's going on and then I know that there are other things we've already in some countries had success in getting our agricultural experts and our farmers to go and help them find out how they can have something of the kind of food production that we have in our own country. Well all I can say is thank you all very much for being here for considering this and God bless you all. And if those losing those hours of sleep give you too much trouble come to my place just come to the camera and take a picture of me. We have one more person who actually works and I wish well not he's not here sir he'll miss something but sometimes there wasn't any debt time I wish well not he's not here sir he'll miss something we just wanted to show you these are the products that you're familiar with that we do of course we hope you enjoy the Friday Follies we've never pulled punches on that I have to tell you I've got to check up on someone in the distribution because I haven't been getting this one we're going to talk to your secretary I don't see this you haven't been getting the cartons no I like cartoons I start the day reading the comics alright we get about 100 newspapers every day in here we file about 45 or so of them we thought this might look like the familiar headline to you and this is sort of that was the nice one we'd like to see again in the top three and how how rude am I going to be sir if I ask you to sign that for us I understand you will certainly without recourse that's great thank you secretary I have one more thing to show you this way if we can that's a little bit of the operation we transfer that to this which is known as a grid and the White House News Summary is done especially for us and then through upstairs and through the White House operators and Walker we transfer directly to where you are and it goes to you in a matter of a matter of minutes which is quite a step up first Mr. President you know they were doing virtually hourly updates while we were on the campaign trail the little sheets we had handed that had the headlines out and that was coming through this and right into the Walker spot by the speech site you remember that it was a little puzzle how it finished the speech someplace and all of a sudden I can almost still hear him clapping and they hand me what the press is saying about the speech that primarily is it we do some other things but not very important that's a great honor for all of us to serve here I'm Des Moines Isle I worked with Des Moines Register one time when you came in there and back the first time I was there was W.H.O. and the Des Moines Register had its own radio station that's right and thanks again sir thank you very much see you see Kemp's got his uh his uh mijn uh uh uh uh uh uh me you know me man know me man All of this is a lot of 275 pounds, and they're smaller than I was supposed to be for that position. You see, I'd like to believe that there's a place in football for some smaller guys. Well, listen. You play right guard or left guard? You play right guard or left guard? Right guard. Right guard. I'm sure you know who sat around this table for so many long hours when I say, I mean, the cabinet and all the people that are in this room going at what you're going to now see. This is the recommendation that you now made as a guest to the cabinet. And today now it's in the cabinet process for them. They want to come back and suggest some changes like giving up more money. Why, please don't listen to them as we told you. We want to give them the council review also. Let me just point out, we're dedicated to this two-track policy. One of which is the deficit growth in the economy, an increase in revenues, not by way of an increase in rates, but by a growing amount, which we've had already, and we've seen that change our projections and reduce the projections of deficit because of it. And the other is that the deficit itself is a result. It's the result of too much spending. So we're trying to attack that view. If I could just throw some statistics at you and gather in myself about this thing of the part of spending plays in this and contributing to the deficit and that the increased spending over the years has been counterproductive, not only economically, but counterproductive with regard to what it was supposed to do. For 1950, I'm up into the 60s, the rate, there was a decrease in the percentage of people living below the poverty line. And then in the late 60s, Johnson's war on poverty, the great society, was passed and replaced, and actually it started reversing the decline in the percentage of people living below poverty. That began increasing, and under the previous administration that was increasing at a rate of about 9%, we have cut that almost in half since 1981, that rate has increased, but still increasing. Now, from 1965 to 1980, the budget increased to about four and a half times what it was in those 15 years. But the deficit increased 38 times what it had been in 1965. So again, I say that we say the bill is spending. And I think that this is an emergency time and it's a moment in history, and if not us, who, and if not now, when? Corral is to get it back. So this, and we also are pledged to do the simplification program of taxing, but we don't want to get into there with our opponents. We don't want to get into a trade-off type of thing with them and their tax increase ideas. So both of these are top priority. We want to go with this first, the budget matter first. And we've taken one of your suggestions with the idea of encompassing it in a framework of various reasons that you will hear when Dave gives you the report. He, but I'll save some other things for the discussion that we'll have and then have after Dave is finished. I was going to be asked, the first part of the meeting, having been through all of this, but I overcome my, or overcame my dissertation hearing grown men cry. Nice to see you. I know we're a little late getting across the street. We've been whittlin' at the budget in here, and it was like playing overtime. Well, listen, I'm pleased to do it, and I'm forwarded. We have just a little souvenir for you this year. Thank you very much. Yeah, George Bush. Is Father Monon with you? Yes, he is. Well, I'm kind of excited to say this. Well, shall we all go across the street? We're supposed to go. Our daughter went to BC, Dartmouth. I want to see Father Monon. It's a great thought. How are you? This, I'll give this to your mommy and daddy. This is a jelly piece. We will bring this to the family. Nice to see you. Nancy? This is cool, right? Thank you. President, I'm sure you're the Marchandana. Well, now I'm going to sit down and sign this proclamation, which makes January the month of birth of that prevention. And I think we have a wonderful of what is happening here. How much we owe the March of Dimes for all that they've accomplished and made things like this. There. And I also hear that you hate me. I understand they want us to come over in front of the fireplace for a picture now. You got a surprise? Wow. And everybody else is here. Not me, yes. I have a feeling that if I say ranch, I'm going to have some problems here. We'll work that out. Whichever place, maybe we're going to have to get it a sheep. I thought she was just showing us her dog. I was surprised, and Preston. Yes, you were there. Christian, what's the name of your dog? What do you think the name should be? Christian, you know something? We once had the most wonderful dog, I think, and she was just named Lady. And maybe what we ought to start with is maybe we should name this one Lady Two. Is it a female? Yes. I'm sorry, I've run out of time to name something else. Thank you, Mr. Warren. Christian, thank you very much. Love around you. Success to the driver's always. Thank you. I'm sorry to get to see you again. I can see you. It's all your Sunday night. I know. Kathy, keep a copy of the magazine. Down in the air. It's fairly able, we found the Douglas. Congratulations. Thank you. Say important words to Ditas. Pleasure. Thank you very much. Thank you. Joe McKinnell, would you like to say a few words? I see you. Jim Gull, Marlon de Ruex. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, sir. Marlon de Ruex. Mr. President. Bill Baker. привance to see you. Virginia Morris. Ken Gotcha. You just got a notice to meet you. We'll say no hemen. Well, I want to thank all of you very much for all that what you're doing with the program. You are the first of all in our education. I hope we'll be finding the lines of science and mathematics and all of that by this program. And I heard also of something called Astronet. Maybe I could give you a message if you were to put on an event. Do have that. It's been a long time since we sat over there and just got to this. Yes. Now we're, now we're launched. We're on our way. We're looking good. We've got six hours of school to go. If you're thinking about me, I'm here to brag. Thank you very much. Do you want a group photo? If you want it, can you? Sure. Is it too wide? Thank you very much. Thank you. Good morning, Mr. President. Good morning. How are you? Good morning. Thank you very much for your congratulatory letter. I'm not going to listen to who say thank you, but I am very grateful. I am glad to be able to say in person congratulations. Thank you. How are you? Very nice to see you. We have a good friend in back out. Yes. How are you? I'm sure. Hi. How are you? Welcome. Thank you. I want to say it properly. At least here. Well, why don't you come in? You sit over there. Hi. Good eyes on you. Nice to see you. Thank you. Jack? Yes. Yes. Presenting Bishop of the Episcopalian Church. You told me to be on my very good behavior. I see. So you can tell the bishop no matter what we say, that I behave well. Yes, I think I'll give you good. Very good. Yes. He's a lovely man. He is. If anyone warned Bishop Tutu, they may start yelling questions, which I think you'll have a chance to answer later. But this is supposed to be focused, but the press, they like to call out questions. So you may have to say it. Yes, I was told. Until afterwards. That's well done. Bishop has called your policy in South Africa evil, immoral, and totally un-Christian. What do you, what do you even say to him to change his mind? That's the answer. Will we be able to talk to you later, sir? Much later. Do you think you can change his mind? We believe when people talk to each other about each other. We believe that Iran is collaborating with those hijackers. I'll be taking it. The boys are going to get you. Yeah. I'm afraid you may be right, yeah. That's the one. That's the, that's the, that's the scant.