"We have a lot of legends in the room tonight, and that's why we're here, to celebrate you. Because you've gave, given, uh, tremendous amounts of money to see a ballroom built for the first time at the White House. The White House, uh, for 150 years plus, they've wanted to have a ballroom and it never happened because they never had a real estate person.
For me, I like it. For me, it's like -- I love it in between China, Russia, and everything else that we deal with. Uh, it's gonna be a great ballroom, gonna be a great ballroom. As an example, this has really been the ballroom for many years and it holds 100 people, of which we have 125 today, I'll tell you.
But, uh, you know, we have 128 and I've never seen it with 128. And by the way, you're gonna have a little good entertainment from the military band right after this. You'll see some really talented musicians. They're gonna do a few songs and you're gonna love them. They're very talented people. But, uh, so for years they've wanted to have it. And when they had the head of China, the head of any country, we have many, many of the countries came, and, uh, they'd always put the tent out on the lawn.
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