Bill Clinton

I never won, but I always loved it. I competed every year, but I never won. Representative Volkmer. All right, they're ready to go.

Yes, we've got a ferry about 30 miles from Little Rock, in Arkansas, called Toad Suck Ferry. And every year we had a Toad Suck Day, and we all raced our frogs. Representative Volkmer. Very good.

That's good. Well, tell Shirley and your grandchildren hello. I know it's good to have them there for the Fourth of July. Representative Volkmer. Yes, it is. The grandchildren jumped frogs this morning, and they're going to be in a parade…

I remember the mayor well, yes. [Representative Volkmer said that Henry Sweets, curator of the Mark Twain Home and Museum, was also participating in the event and mentioned that his own wife, Shirley, and their grandchildren were there as…

You'll have to visualize my candle, folks, but I've got one here. [Representative Volkmer described the ceremony and said that Mayor Richard Schwartz of Hannibal was a participant.]

Are you ready? I've got a candle here. Ms. Mueller. Okay, I'm going to hand you back to Congressman Volkmer. Representative Volkmer. All right, Mr. President.

Good for you. Well, I'm glad to be a part of it. And I'm really glad that Congressman Volkmer gave me a chance to call in tonight. Ms. Mueller. Well, we sure appreciate his assistance on this project as well.

I love that program. And I tell you, you've done a wonderful job there. Ms. Mueller. Well, thank you. I wish I could take all the credit, but I can't. It's truly a community effort. We have a great crew behind us, a great Main Street…

Hello, Karol. Congratulations on all the work you've done. You're the director of the Main Street Program, aren't you? Ms. Mueller. I am----

I've got it. [Representative Volkmer introduced Karol Mueller, director of the Main Street Program.] Karol Mueller. Hello.

Are you going to light the candle, is that what you're going to do? Everybody going to light a candle? Representative Volkmer. Well, we're ready. I'd like to--for you to, if you have----

I'm really glad to be here. My family and I are up in Camp David, and we're having a wonderful time and looking forward to celebrating our Nation's birthday and watching our soccer team play. But I'm really glad I got to do this. I love…

Well, I'm a great admirer of Mark Twain, and I read him as a boy and read him as an adult. So I'm very happy to be part of it. And I know that President Roosevelt in 1935 and President Kennedy in 1963 also played a role in this memorial…

It's great to hear your voice. Representative Volkmer. It's great to be here. Can everybody hear me? Can you hear the President? Okay, Mr. President, we've got a nice crowd here, and we're getting ready to light this lighthouse in memory…

I basically think that diversified ethnic press is a good thing for America. We have so many different people--if you look, Los Angeles County has members of 150 different racial and ethnic groups alone.

Oh, I see. You mean like the minority requirements under the Federal Communications Commission to have African-Americans own television stations or radio stations.

I don't know. I just don't want to make a statement about something I never heard of before I read this letter. I knew nothing about this issue before I read this letter. So you'll have to give me some time to look into it, and I will give…

This is the first time anyone has brought this to my attention. I will look into it, and I will give you a response. I will get back in touch with you. But this is the first time I have been asked personally about this, so I will have to…

Well, obviously Brazil will be heavily favored. But I think we have a chance to win. I mean, after all it's our Independence Day and we--it's the first time we've ever been in the second round, and our people have played very well. In two…

I don't know, I haven't thought of it in exactly those terms. I think that that's where Russia is right now. Right now, it's a major power and a friendly one. And I think that what we want to do is to try to work through our differences…

I do. Mr. Lis. And don't you think that your vision is against what we often hear from Russian politicians about so-called--doubts, influence-- about the Russian opposition to expansion of NATO to Central Europe?

Well, I have to be for the United States, until we're eliminated. Besides that, we're an underdog. And I like that, since I've always been kind of an underdog, I like it when the underdogs do well. I'm proud of us. Mr. Walther. Thank you…

Oh, yes, I expect I will. We've been watching every game we could on television. And of course, I went with Chancellor Kohl and the President of Bolivia to the opening game between Germany and Bolivia in Chicago the other day. And I got a…

And my daughter did, yes. Probably for about 10 years now, our children have been beginning to really play in large numbers. And I think that will have an impact as those children grow up, more and more soccer at the university level, more…

Yes. Mr. Walther. And on the Fourth of July there will be the game U.S.A. versus Brazil. What does it mean for you, personally, to have this game on the Fourth of July?