George H.W. Bush: “July 30, 1992 Thank you very much for that wonderfully warm Odetics welcome. Joel, let me tell you why Odetics was…”

“July 30, 1992 Thank you very much for that wonderfully warm Odetics welcome. Joel, let me tell you why Odetics was selected: its innovation, achievement, and attitude. May I thank your fellow founders, Mr. Gudmundson, Mr. Muensch, Daly, Schulz, and Jim Welch for the hospitality, and all of you most of all for this hospitality. On board every American space shuttle is Odetics. You're everywhere I'm told, in the security camera, in the convenience store, and the corner ATM machine. I've always wondered where all this stuff came from. I think you've done for robotics what the guy at that Olympics ceremony has done for the under fire archery, if you remember that fellow. [Laughter] As Joel pointed out to me early on, the credit goes to the people behind the technology, the Odetics associates, the workers here who have done such a great job. Barbara was especially thrilled when she heard I was coming out here. She said, ``If everything you tell me about Odetics is true, then maybe you can find someone out there who can teach you how to set the time on our VCR.'' We need help. I don't know how you all handle it; we just leave ours flashing--[laughter]--12:00, 12:00. That way you're right two times every 24 hours. [Laughter] I think you all have played a significant part in what I believe is the central triumph of our time, the free world's great victory in the cold war. But as you know, that triumph means changes in the very industry that helped us carry the day.…”