00:00And I began my remarks today by noting that the reverence for our creator, I mean, we have reverence for our creator,
00:13and it's inscribed into our Declaration of Independence, a copy of which I have very proudly hanging in the Oval Office,
00:20an original copy, very old, beautiful copy.
00:23Next year we will celebrate 250 years since that declaration was signed.
00:29As part of the grand, well, this is really a commemoration like I think we're going to do,
00:36we're going to try and do a commemoration like nobody's ever seen before,
00:40but we've invited America's great faith communities to pray for our nation and for our people and for peace in the world,
00:47and it's going to be an amazing, it's going to be an amazing time.
00:50We're going to have an amazing time.
00:51We have the Olympics, we have the World Cup, and we have 250, okay, the supercentennial.
00:59As our men would say.
01:02But, and we're going to, it's going to be, it's going to be amazing.
01:06It's going to be maybe bigger than the both of those events.
01:09You know, when I was president, I got, I got the World Cup, and I got the Olympics.
01:14I got, I got them to choose us, Los Angeles.
01:17And I was very proud of it.
01:18The only problem was I wasn't going to be president because I would have served out normally my time.
01:23And then you had some very bad people who rigged an election.
01:27And look what happened.
01:28I end up getting the Olympics, the World Cup.
01:32It's amazing the way God works, isn't it?
01:36It's amazing.
01:37Isn't it amazing the way God works?
01:39It's true.
01:41I got the Olympics, you know, because I'm a little bit of a selfish person, I guess.
01:45I said, you know, I got the Olympics, and Obama would not call.
01:49I'll never forget, the head of the Olympic Committee called.
01:51And the mayor of Los Angeles called me, and he said, sir, the president will not talk to them.
01:57You know why?
01:58Because he traveled to Geneva or wherever to make the presentation, and he came in fourth.
02:04Now, a president shouldn't do that.
02:06A president should say, I will do that.
02:08I will make that journey, which has never been made before.
02:11But if I make that journey, you have to pick me.
02:14He didn't do that.
02:15That's why we had a country that was going to hell, because he didn't do a lot of things like that.
02:19So he ended up sitting there, and they announced that we're fourth.
02:22We were, like, almost last.
02:24And so he didn't like the Olympic Committee too much.
02:27And so he refused to talk to them.
02:28So I get a call from the mayor of Los Angeles, who said, please, sir, would you call?
02:33We're ready to get it.
02:34And I spoke to a gentleman, and I believe it was Geneva, whatever, wherever they are.
02:40And I couldn't get him off the phone.
02:42He was so dying for love, he finally got something.
02:46Anyway, and he agreed that the Olympics would come to the United States, and I was so proud of it.
02:51And then I realized, even then, I said, I'm not going to be the president.
02:54And then the World Cup, we got the World Cup.
02:57I did that one too with Johnny, and got the World Cup.
03:01And I said, I can't believe it.
03:03Can you hold it a little sooner, sir?
03:05It's all given out at all these different places.
03:07So I wasn't going to get that either.
03:09And now I got them both.
03:10And I can't say that I created 250.
03:13That one is, that one we have.
03:16I'd like to say I created 250 years.
03:19I can't say that, but we are going to create a great party and a great celebration.
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