 This wonderful Ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States Accompanied by congressman Jean Taylor and Mel Hancock President you and I could thank you very much. Thank you, John and And I thank you for that great music to the Kikapu chief's high school band the bowl of our liberators high school band and The Southwest Baptist University Bearcats band and let me say a special hello to Wayne Newton Tom Fowler To a great congressman Jean Taylor And a great future congressman and author of Missouri's tax-limiting Hancock amendment Mel Hancock One of America's best governors John Ashcroft and let me say here that as we've worked to restore Respect for values and basics in our nation's schools No governor has done more to blaze the trail than John Ashcroft And one other thing as our administration set America on the path of what is now the longest peacetime expansion on record and As we negotiated the first real reduction in US and Soviet nuclear missiles in world history No one has been a better ally in the Senate and Kit Bond or Jack Danforth And I can't go any farther without a hello to some fellows that I have a personal link to at Southwest Missouri State My brother takes when I first joined they told me it was a fraternity for life, and I can see they're right and Let me also say hello to another group. I take a kind of personal interest in the college Republicans, you know, I watched a certain debate a couple of weeks ago. I Don't often feel sorry for liberals, but I came close I couldn't help thinking the problem with those fellows on the other side is not camera angles or lighting It's not whether their candidate is likable or not No, it's the very thing. They've spent this campaign trying desperately to hide When our liberal friends refuse even to whisper the L word And insist that this election is not about ideology. It's about competence They're just acknowledging that where they want to take America America doesn't want to go But you know the American people always have a way of figuring out the facts Our liberal friends have spent the last three months trying to dress up their agenda in our clothes But somehow nothing fits When they say opportunity they mean subsidies when they say reducing the deficit they mean raising taxes And when they say strong defense they mean cut defense spending No wonder their favorite machine is the snowblower. They talk about it being time for a change Well, where have they been these last eight years? We are the change We began it. We began it eight years ago and the choice this year is to go back to the stagnant status quo of the past Or to go forward with the change When George Bush and I took office America was in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression high taxes and runaway regulations that driven our economy to its knees with a one two three combination of inflation economic stagnation and unemployment Well, we turned that around Since our expansion began we've created over 18 million new jobs That is more new jobs than Europe and Japan combined And they've got about 50 percent more people to work than we have Today we're in the longest peacetime economic expansion ever recorded We're exporting more than ever before in our history and a greater proportion of Americans and a greater number of Americans are at Work today than ever before in the history of the United States of America Let me I was so surprised to find out a certain figure that I think you would be too When I said that about this proportion of Americans Do you know that what the statisticians call the potential employment pool is? Everyone male and female from 16 years of age on up all the way In other words the total population of the United States except those below age 16 Well today 62.7 percent of that total population Have jobs Between 1977 and 1981. I don't know why pick those years The real income of the typical American family dropped seven percent since then it's soared more than 10 percent Now think of what reducing mortgage rates by over a third means to young families seeking to purchase a new home Think of what reducing inflation to a third of what it was means to families seeking to protect their life savings and Think of what our tax reduction program has meant to families most of whom now pay a top rate of only 15 percent Yes, what you heard in a recent debate. I've heard echoed in my talks with the leaders of many other nations Today they tell me the United States of America is the envy of the world We've come a long way in the last eight years But my friends everything that you and I and George Bush have worked for these last eight years everything Could be lost faster than you can say gun control The liberals talk about reaching for the center But from the economy to national defense they've taken positions only a McGovern could love we've We've achieved arms reduction agreements with the Soviets and a new warmth in relations not through weakness But through our policy of peace through strength, you know You'd think our liberal friends would have learned from that but not long ago former defense secretary James Schlesinger Wrote that their ticket this year seems to be in his words viscerally anti-military They'd cut the B1 bomber. They'd cut the MX missile Our strategic defense against ballistic missiles And if they had their way and what they proposed already we would have to get rid of two carrier battle groups in the Navy You know in fact what they plan for the Navy is so bad That by the time they get through Michael may have to row the boat ashore our liberal friends have promised that come January the Reagan era is over and Their era will just be beginning Well Let me let me ask you something and could you give me an answer loud enough so they can hear it all the way to Boston Come January do you want Washington run by those whose only pledge of allegiance is to more government and more spending and Who have never let the taxpayers dollars out on furlough? Do you want our foreign policy in the hands of those who criticized our rescue mission in Grenada and our strike on Libya and Who always always blame America first? I guess what I'm asking is do you want the liberals in control in Washington? You just made my day yes Yes We've accomplished much these last eight years, but we could have accomplished even more Including I believe balancing the budget if both houses of Congress had been friendly ours is a system of three equal branches of government two branches the president and Congress are chosen by Election the third the courts is chosen by the other two When you vote for a candidate for the House or Senate You're voting for the direction of the country and the world as much as when you're voting for president So if we're gonna keep the liberals out of the White House Shouldn't we ask since we must ride two horses Congress and the president across every stream Shouldn't they both be going the same direction? We don't want a president who would raise taxes why elect a Congress that would We don't want a big spending president. Why should we want a big spending Congress? We don't want a president who would cut our defenses why vote for a Congress that wants to do that You know I once belonged to the party of Harry Truman I'll let you in on a little secret. I still do I Know it's often said that the once proud party of Harry Truman is dead and gone That the left has taken over his leadership and now defines it especially its liberal leadership in Congress an old label on a new and very different package, but you know something The party of Harry Truman couldn't be killed Harry Truman's party believed in working Americans and in keeping America's defense is strong and yes in one nation Under God and today The party that believes in that is stronger than ever. It's called the Republican Party you see You see the secret is when we left the Democratic Party Or when the left I should say took over the Democratic Party Then we took over the Republican Party So yes today here and Harry Truman's party is the Republican Party and it's time to give that party a bigger Stick in the Congress and cut the Liberals down to size So let me ask you one or two more questions and again I hope you'll shout your answer so they can be heard all the way to Washington Do you want a Congress that will work with George Bush and not against him? Do you want a new Congress where the Liberals are no longer running the show? Will you turn out and get your friends to turn out on election day and send Mel Hancock to the House of Representatives? Will you Will you go vote and get your friends to go vote and keep George Bush's friend and my friend Jack Danforth in the United States? Senate will you keep a friend of ours in the governor's chair John Ashcroft and Will you give him help he can rely on and make R.B. Grisham part of that great statewide team? You know You know what they say is is true this year, Missouri is a must So you just you just made my day again. I mentioned voting a few moments ago Earlier this year. I had the privilege of doing something. I never thought an American president would be able to do There at the Oscars summit I stood On a podium in the universe the state you in Moscow state university and spoke to those students there About the glories of personal and individual freedom Think of those students only if they're very lucky And rise high in the communist party Will any of them have influence on the course of history? That each american has by just walking into the voting booth The race is still up for grabs So in closing I just asked you to take history in your hands You and I worked much too hard to cut your taxes To let our opponents come into office and raise them all over again So on november 8th Go into that polling booth and do some negative campaigning of your own The right kind of negative campaigning Say no to new taxes and say yes to the republican ticket And if you don't mind one last personal request Win one for the gepper Thank you Thank you and god bless you all Because we love you and because we love what you've done for america We want to give you something special from the Ozarks. We have some of the very best bass fishing In the world around here And we know that what you have done for america george bush will continue for america And the state of missoura and southwest missoura and the land of the lakes Is hooked on bush because we love him and we love you and we want to present this to you 20 minutes and he comes back