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Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States. E president of the United States. Fmr. Pres. Obama please have a seat. [applause] fmr. Pres. Obama my fellow americans. [cheers] fmr. Pres. Obama mahalo. [laughter] fmr. Pres. Obama it is wonderful to be here at the white house correspondents dinner. What a week. Heard, the state of hawaii released my official longform birth certificate. Hopefully this puts all doubts to rest. But just in case there are any lingering questions, tonight, im prepared to go a step further. Time, i for the first am releasing my official birth video. [laughter] now, ill warna , no one has seen this footage in 50 years. Not even me. But, lets take a look. [video clip] circleing intro of life. ] [applause] fmr. Pres. Obama oh, well. Back to square one. Clear to the fox news table, that was a joke. [applause] fmr. Pres. Obama that was not my real birth video. That was a childrens cartoon. [laughter] fmr. Pres. Obama called disney if you dont believe me.
Tonight, we will mark the tradition by showing speeches from past years, including those from president hill clinton, george w. Bush and barack obama. But first, remarks by president ronald reagan, delivering his last speech to the dinner in 1988. [applause] you. Pres. Reagan thank thank you. [applause] fmr. Pres. Reagan thank you. Thank you very much. Please. Thank you all. I am delighted to be here. My, what a crowd. It looks like the index of larrys book. [laughter] [applause] its good toagan see norm and your incoming senator kerry oleary. In his book, larry said that jerry filled his coat pockets with pastries. Earlier tonight, just to be safe, i told him, keep your hands off my dinner roll. Said repairing me for a press conference was like reinventing the wheel. Its not true, i was around when the wheel was invented, and it was easy. [laughter] [applause] fmr. Pres. Reagan even howard baker is writing a book about me. Five, thed three by measure of a president. [laughter] mike sa
Im the president of the historical association. It is my privilege to welcome you to Decatur House as well as the White House Historical association. Tonights program is exciting and we are honored to partner with our good friends at the Richard Nixon foundation. I would like to welcome dr. Jim esther, inhis wife, the front row. [applause] hewitt the president of the Nixon Foundation who you will hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests, many former officials from the nixon and other friends,ations, staff, and we are honored to have you here. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the united states. Under her leadership, the white as collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection. That is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but it is important to us here at the White House Historical association as a core part of our mission.
I would like to welcome dr. Jim cavanaugh, his wife esther in the front row [applause] and hugh hewitt, the president of the next and foundation, who you the Richard Nixon foundation. We have many distinguished guests from the nixon and other administrations and we are honored to have you here tonight. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the united states. Under her leadership the white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection, which is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program, but its very important to us here at the white house of our mission which was inspired as most of you or all of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservation, preservation, restoration of those beautiful staterooms in the white house, for the acquisition of items for the Permanent Collec