Remarks at the American Cancer Society's cattlebarons children's party in Houston, Texas

Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Feb 14, 1994

Q. |Inaudible~

The President. My favorite movie of all time, ever? My favorite movie of all time is "High Noon." My second favorite movie of all time is a movie called "Casablanca." And the best movie I've seen this year is "Schindler's List"; that's what I think, in my opinion, closely followed by "Shadowlands."

Q. |Inaudible~

The President. Do I exercise? Yes, I go jogging five or six times a week, normally. And I have some weights I work out on, and I play golf as often as I can. The Secret Service jogs with me every day. And most of them are in better shape than I am and can run me to death. But sometimes I find one who is not in as good a shape as I am, and I enjoy that very much. |Laughter~ Q. |Inaudible~

The President. Yes, I want all of you who haven't shaken my hand before I leave, you come up here and shake hands with me. You certainly can.

Okay, one more question. What is it? Is this for me? What am I going to do with all these rings? You all are killing me with rings here.

The Presidency

Q. How did you feel when you knew you became President?

The President. I was so happy, because I had worked very hard and because there were so many things I wanted to do. And I was really grateful, too. I just felt so grateful that people had given me that chance.

Q. What did you feel like when you weren't President, before?

The President. When I wasn't President? I was happy, too. I was happy then, too. President's Health

Q. How is your health?

The President. My health is good, I think. I just went to the doctor, and I had tests for 6 hours. And they said that my blood pressure was good, my heart was strong. I lost 15 pounds since last year, so I'm doing pretty good. I've got 15 more to go.

I'm going to go look at the quilt. But look, I shook hands with some of you coming up, so if you shook hands with me, back up and let all the kids who didn't get to shake hands come up, and I'll shake hands with all the kids who didn't.

Thank you very much.

NOTE: The President spoke at 6:51 p.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel. In his remarks, he referred to Mayor Bob Lanier of Houston. A tape was not available for verification of the content of these remarks.