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Good evening, I'm Morgan White.

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Welcome to Pau Hana Years,
and this is President's Day, 1982,

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and we have, in our studio,
a very special guest.

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It's my pleasure now to say,
ladies and gentlemen,

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the President of the United States.

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Thank you, Morgan.

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It's a real pleasure
to be able to be here.

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Well, Mr. President,
we don't often get the chance to interview

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a President of the United States,
and especially one

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who was 250 years old today.

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We must make comment that you have
maintained your age very well

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over the years.

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In repose, you don't wear yourself out.

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[laughter]

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In retrospect now as we talk with you,
Mr. President,

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of course this is George Washington,
the father of our nation, just in case

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someone didn't get the identity there.

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We have gone through 40 presidents
since you were president, Mr. Washington.

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How would you compare your challenges
of your day to those

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of Mr. Ronald Reagan today?

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Are there differences
or are their similarities that you'd like

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-to tell us about?
-Are your other questions going

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to be as difficult?

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[laughs]

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Well, as you know,
we had just finished a long

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and very tiring struggle
to become free people

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and we needed to structure
a very workable government.

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And that was our big job
when I first took over as president,

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and things went fairly smoothly.

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I think we had a very good group
that went through all this with me.

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As comparing
to Mr. Reagan's administration, well,

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after I became president,
Kentucky and Vermont joined,

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two of the colonies came in as states
making a total of 15.

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We decided it was time for a census,
so we took a census of the United States

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as it stood then,
3.9 million some odd people.

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You compare that to what Mr. Reagan has,
227 million people, and the many things

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that we've gone through...