Bill Clinton: “Legislative Council February 3, 1999 Thank you, and good morning. Thank you, Mr. Perkins--or, good afternoon. Don't tell…”

“Legislative Council February 3, 1999 Thank you, and good morning. Thank you, Mr. Perkins--or, good afternoon. Don't tell anybody. [Laughter] Don't tell anybody I didn't know what time it was. [Laughter] Thank you, Mr. Perkins, for your memory of that; I did say that, about counting. Mr. McManus, Tess Canja, Margaret Dixon, John Rother, and Horace Deets, thank you especially for representing the AARP so well in dealing with the White House over the last 6 years. I was glad to be invited to come over here today. You know, it's rare that a President gets to speak to an organization of which he's a member. [Laughter] And as I said repeatedly a couple years ago, I had mixed feelings about that, when you called my attention to the fact that I was aging. [Laughter] But I don't have mixed feelings about the record the AARP has established for 40 years, calling attention to the challenges of aging to all Americans. Those challenges, today, are more profound than ever as we look forward to the baby boom becoming a senior boom, the number of seniors doubling by 2030. We owe it to 21st century America, to the children and the grandchildren of the baby boom, as well as to all the seniors, to meet those challenges and to meet them together.…”