胡副主席，非常感谢您的欢迎致辞。非常感谢您在这里接待我和我的夫人劳拉。

Vice President Hu, thank you very muchfor your kind and generous remarks. Thank you for welcoming me and my wife,Laura, here.

I see she's keeping pretty goodcompany with the secretary of state, Colin Powell.

It's good to see you, Mr. Secretary.

And I see my national securityadviser, Ms. Condoleezza Rice, who at one time was the provost of StanfordUniversity, so she's comfortable on university campuses such as this. Thank youfor being here, Condi.

I'm so grateful for the hospitalityand honored for the reception at one of China's and the world's great universities.This university was founded, interestingly enough, with the support of mycountry, to further ties between our two nations. I know how important thisplace is to your vice president. He not only received his degree here but, moreimportantly, he met his gracious wife here.

I want to thank the students forgiving me the chance to meet with you, the chance to talk a little bit about mycountry, and answer some of your questions.

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