Mr. Bush also told a luncheon audience of Italian-American community leaders today that it is not where you are born that matters, but what is in your heart.

But in New York yesterday, he told a luncheon audience at the Wings Club, a 46-year-old organization of aviation leaders, that his present plans were to remain.

"I never wrote a check," she told a luncheon audience of several hundred businesswomen the other day.

To this friendly luncheon audience - representative of supporters whose enthusiasm is central to Mrs. Clinton's political hopes - the first lady offered an appealing menu of proposals.

"We are old friends and allies," the ambassador, Jean-David Levitte, told a luncheon audience at the Capital City Club, calling the friendship between the two countries "a real treasure."

Mr. Jennings began a trip earlier this month in Missouri, where he addressed a luncheon audience of 1,000 at a rodeo-and-livestock show in Kansas City.

"Attracting foreign investment is seen by us as a major factor for integrating Russia in the world economy," Mr. Putin told a luncheon audience of nearly 2,000 people.

Mr. Trump, who flew in from New York this morning on his sleek black French-made military helicopter, appeared to captivate many in the luncheon audience of 500.

Still, he told the luncheon audience of 250 people that despite his abrupt departure from his Scout troop in Yonkers, the lessons he learned stood him in good stead.

"This economy is moving," Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady told a luncheon audience at the National Press Club.