distinct honor of actually awarding our 2011 national leadership recognition award to president william jefferson clinton, who obviously is not here today, but who did send a video. this is the video -- award for president clinton. if we could roll the video from the president. >> thank you for the honor of the national aids memorial grove's 2011 leadership recognition award. today we commemorate the 30th anniversary of the first diagnosed case of aids. and the 20 anniversary of the founding of the grove. it is hard to believe three decades has passed since the very first cases of aids were reported to the cdc. in san francisco, when few others were taking notice, a small group of dedicated individuals responded to aids before anyone else. from the severed, the san francisco model of care and treatment of aids was born. 10 years later, another group of individuals created a place where people together to express their collective grief for a living memorial. today we know this place simply as the growth of for 20 years now, and every third saturday, volunteers have come to the growth to pay tribute to vol

balanced its budget and generated a surplus was in the closing years of the presidency of william jefferson clinton, a democrat. when president clinton left office, the national debt accumulated over the history of the united states of america was $5 trillion. clinton left office, handed the keys to president george w. bush and said incidentally, next year, welcome to washington, another surplus. $120 billion surplus, the economy has created 23 million jobs in my eight years, and i wish you the best. he left, turned the keys over to president george w. bush, and gave him control for eight years. eight years later, another snapshot. the national debt was no longer $5 trillion, it was $11 trillion. more than doubled under president george w. bush. we had lost jobs, dramatically lost jobs in america, unlike president clinton, and when george w. bush handed the keys over to president barack obama and said welcome to washington, incidentally next year's budget deficit is $1.2 trillion. quite different story, isn't it? you wouldn't know that from the speech just given. the suggestion is that democrats ju

balanced its budget and generated a surplus was in the closing years of the presidency of william jefferson clinton, a democrat. when president clinton left office, the national debt accumulated over t history of the united states of america was $5 trillion. clinton left office, handed the keys to president george w. bush and said incidentally, next year, welcome to washington, another surplus. $120 billion surplus, the economy has created 23 million jobs in my eight years, and i wish you the best. he left, turned the keys over to president george w. bush, and gave him control for eight years. eight years later, another snapshot. the national debt was no longer $5 trillion, it was $11 trillion. more than doubled under president george w. bush. we had lost jobs, dramatically lost jobs in america, unlike president clinton, and when george w. bush handed the keys over to president barack obama and said welcome to washington, incidentally next year's budt deficit is $1.2 trillion. quite different story, isn't it? you wouldn't know that from the speech just given. the suggestion is that democrats just d