Remarks During the President's 77th Birthday Celebration
The President. And I used to think I
wanted an Oscar. [Laughter] Oh, believe it or not, I am speechless. [Laughter]
Oh, I knew that she got away with making the deal with the Soviets for the arms
thing and so forth -- [laughter] -- but I never believed that she could accomplish
anything like this. [Laughter] Incidentally, when was it that you were doing
all that stuff with the Russians that I read about? [Laughter]
Well,
all of you here -- and to think that I kept trying to get Howard [Baker] to
drop the packages and let me bring them over here. I didn't know why he was
going to all that trouble. [Laughter] But, yes, it was a surprise, but I don't
know of a happier surprise -- all of you here, so many of you so dear to both
of us. And I couldn't have imagined this in my wildest times. A matter of fact,
I had it figured that we'd be just about getting into the helicopter now to go
to Camp David, and I'm glad we're not.
But
I don't know how to thank you, and Marvin -- a song of my very own. [Laughter]
Mr.
Hamlisch. That's yours.
The President. I've got to take
singing lessons. [Laughter] But thank you all very much for all that you've
done.
Mr.
Hamlisch. We're all going to now sing one song that I
didn't write, but I think it's the appropriate song.
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