and, in fact, it was louis crampton, a congressman from i crampton, a congressman from g saginaw, michigan, who first proposed the legislation that would dedicate that house as a memorial to robert e. lee, such was the respect given to him even by many of his enemies. as we come in to here, this was the morning room, one of the old of the rooms in the house and also the most significant. it was built in 1804 and it was in 1811 that robert e. lee and his family first visited arlington. he was 4. and mary, his future wife, was just 2 1/2. we like to think that this might have been the room that they first met as children, as young children. there is a story that they were childhood sweethearts growing up, that as teenagers, they became romantic. but he suffered a number of tragedies in his early life. his father died when he was young, mother died when he graduated from west point. he didn't inherit wealth or property. he had to in many ways take life very seriously from a young age and devote himself to a career in the army. and so he went to west point, graduated second in his class. but f

with that let me take questions and i will start with roberta crampton.ers. >> i want to ask you about tomorrow, the next leg of your trip. tomorrow you will be meeting for the first time with a leader whose war on drugs has led to the death of about 2400 in just the last two months since he took office. today he said in a very colorful way that you better not bring this up and i am wondering are you committed to raising this with the president and are you concerned that meeting him will legitimize his approach on this issue? president obama: i just came out of a long day of meetings so i just heard about some of this. i have seen some of the colorful statements in the past. so, clearly he is a colorful guy. what i have instructed my team to do is to talk to their philippine counterparts and find , in fact, is a time where we can have constructive, productive conversations. obviously, the filipino people are some of our closest friends and allies and the philippines is a treaty ally of ours. i always want to make sure that if i am having a meeting it is a