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Mr. President, Congressman John Charman.

Good morning, Mr. President.

How do you see it?

Yes, I know.

Yes, I see.

Thank you.

It would be very nice if you could give this honor.

Well, let me step over here so you can see.

Come on, step over here so we can take a picture before the flag.

Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman, do this man.

Just the two of us here.

All right.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, that's a great offer.

This is a standard rate.

It's brilliant.

Don't get excited.

Is that all right?

I don't know

You're always welcome.

Just saying, Mr. Webb, he's been in his office many times, and his service as former president, he's always welcome.

Thank you.

There are some people you know in government that we don't think are Democrats or Republicans, and he's one of them.

That's right.

We should talk about Oklahoma.

That's right.

I'll get the center here to the picture.

Let me see.

Why don't we put you next to me?

I think that's better.

I'll take it.

I want a little of your secret as long as I can rub it on me.

Oh, John, you should be in this one.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Well, I want to say that I know President Eisenhower many years ago tried to give some support for the great work you've done, and I'm glad to follow suit to this.

We often, when we sit here in government and are talking about

John and I who did this last night, whether we hold a budget of $268 billion or so, you don't think much of what people do in their voluntary capacities.

And here you've got a group of people that are helping hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands in a voluntary way.

And that's really the heart of the American system.

The government can do a lot, but even with that $200

I was thinking that $268 billion, that's only one-fifth of what this country produces.

So for every dollar that government produces, if it produces our spends, we have to realize that people in their individual capacity produce five times as much.

And particularly in this field, where it'd be so easy to say, well, that's the government, and it's impersonal.

It doesn't have it.

But if you bring that impersonal quality to it, you inspire young people, and they'll go on to

shall we say, to the frontiers of science and any other fields.

So I just wanted to express my congratulations.

I wish you good luck for 100 more years.

I'm impressed with Mr. Kaler's speed for all of us.

Sure.

Sure, indeed.

Mr. Kaler is always welcome to speak.

I do recognize for any amount of time you want.

Thank you.

Well, we deeply appreciate it, Mr. President, the honor of doing the Frontier to Science on this occasion.

It's a sort of a climax to the publicity we've had for the past 18 years.

And we feel that we've helped a great deal in the stimulation of scientific study and the number of students that have gone into scientific pursuits.

We feel that it's been a great thing.

We deeply appreciate what you've done today in recognizing this.

Well, I want to say, incidentally, that one of the reasons I like to give you support is that I had a fairly good record in school that science was one of my poorest subjects.

I remember my daughters years ago, they were attending preparatory school.

They came in and wanted me to help them with the man, and it's the new man.

And I said, look, I couldn't even understand the old man.

I want to give you something that's of a matter of these people that contributed their time and get nothing back from it.

These are the presidential convicts, and they're colored.

the seal of the President, which is on the flag over there.

I gave you the first one, and this is my old one.

Thank you for having us.

And so since ladies can't wear coverings, here's the seal and the floor.

And up there, there it is for you.

So if you... And incidentally, just to show you that it's totally...

The crab apple blossoms are in the rose garden here, and it's the most beautiful time of the year, actually, with the tulips.

I just took some jack-o'-lanterns out of the shop.

It's sunshine today.

Yes, it is cold.

Oh, there it is.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I just, I haven't been down to the basin, but I knew where my helicopter was.

It's so cold.

Remember when I spoke to the editor-in-chief many years ago in Oklahoma City?

We haven't changed a bit.

Well, goodbye.

Goodbye.

Thank you very much.

Bye.

That's right.

We took over all of it.

That's what I do.

Thank you.

Can we hand it over?

Yes, sir.

You did a great job.

Thank you.

Good to see you.

You know, we put up the satellite that showed you to a billion people when you were in the...

I can go.

We did that against the opposition of everybody else in the country.

Because the military notice said we don't need them.

Is that good enough?

Yeah, they wanted to use the property, the U2s and all that.

No, they don't use the private access.

Oh, yeah.

We've been mad at you.

I see.

You're over my head already.

All right.

I'm glad you did.

I, this morning, listened to your schedule.

I mean, I'm glad you did.

This is a job for our...

Either R or D or I.