 Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I just told some people in Portland, you've talked me into that four, and if the Capitol were on the West Coast, I'd go for 40. But thank you, John, very much for that introduction, and I'm thrilled to be here in Seattle, home of the Huskies. I'm glad to be here with Congressman Ron Chandler and your fine Republican candidates. Bill Ruckel's house is here as you have just, he's been introduced to you, but he didn't really need any introduction out here. And Governor John Spellman, who's brought this state through difficult times and will keep it going strong. I have to tell you, John was most helpful with regard to that timber, Bill. He's worked with us on the creation of jobs, and he knows very well, and you'll know what Washington State's role is in creating a strong national defense. I know that one Western governor knows a good governor when he sees one, and John is another one, and I think he should be there for four more years. I know that the space needle is a symbol of your city, and it stands for a city of pride and progress, a city and a country that is upward bound, and that space needle also symbolizes the great contest that's now going on in this crucial election, because it stands for the future, and my opponent seems to have a grudge against the future. Abraham Lincoln said, we must disenthrall ourselves with the past, and then we will save our country. And four years ago, that's what we did. We made a great turn. We got out from under the thrall of a government which we had hoped would make our lives better, but which wound up living our lives for us. The power of the federal government had over the decades created great chaos, economic chaos, social chaos, international chaos. Our leaders were adrift, rudderless, and without a campus. Have you ever noticed in these big buildings there's an echo? Our leaders in the past have been adrift, rudderless, and without a campus. Four years ago, we began to navigate by certain fixed principles. Our North Star was freedom. Our constellation was common sense. We knew that economic freedom meant paying less of the American family's earnings to the government, and so we cut personal income taxes by 25%. We knew that inflation, the quiet thief, was stealing our savings, and we had the highest interest rates since the Civil War, and they were making it impossible for people to own a home or start an endeavor of an enterprise of any kind. We knew that our national military defense had been weakened, and we decided to rebuild and be strong again. Thank you very much. We knew this strength would enhance our prospects for peace in the world. It was a second American revolution, and it's only just begun, but our efforts have brought about a great renewal. America is back, a giant in re-emerging on the scene. Our country is powerful in its renewed spirits, powerful in its economy, powerful in the world economy, and powerful in its ability to defend itself and secure the peace. But now, four years after our efforts began, small voices in the night are sounding the call to go back, to go backward to the days of confusion and drift, the days of torpor, timidity, and taxes. My opponent this year is known to you, but perhaps we can gain greater insight into his leadership abilities and his philosophy if we take a look at his record. To begin with, his grasp of economics is well demonstrated by his economic predictions. Just before we took office, my opponent said our economic program is obviously murderously inflationary. And that was just before we lowered inflation from about 12% to around four. And just after our tax cuts, he said the most he could see was an anemic recovery. And that was right before our economy created more than 6 million new jobs in 21 months. And just before, nearly a record, nearly 900,000 businesses were incorporated in less than a year and a half. My opponent said that our policies would deliver a misery index, the likes of which we hadn't seen in a long time. When out there he was partially right. You get the misery index when you add up the rate of unemployment and the rate of inflation. Now they invented that back in the 1976 campaign. And they said that Jerry Ford had no right to seek reelection because his misery index was 12.6. Now you know they didn't mention the misery index in the 1980 election. It had gone up to more than 20. And they aren't talking about it much in this campaign because it's down around 11. My opponent said that decontrol of oil prices would cost American consumers more than $36 billion a year. Well, one of the first things we did was decontrol oil prices and the price of gasoline went down 8 cents a gallon and the prices are still headed down. Now you know it's occurred to me that maybe all we have to do to get the economy in absolutely perfect shape is to get my opponent to predict absolute disaster. He says he cares about the middle class. But he boasts and I quote, he says I have consistently supported legislation time after time which increases taxes on my own constituents. Doesn't that make you want to be one of his constituents? Now he's no doubt proud of the fact that as a United States senator he voted 16 times to increase taxes. But this year he's outdone himself. He's already promised of course to raise your taxes but if he's to keep all the promises he's made to this group and that he will have to raise taxes by the equivalent of $1,890 for every household in the United States. Now that's more than $150 a month. It's like having a second mortgage. And after the Mondale mortgage there'd be a lot of foreclosures. His economic plan, his economic plan has two basic parts. Raise your taxes and raise them again. But I got news for him. The American people don't want his tax increases and the American people aren't going to get his tax increases. I have to give my opponent this though. He's given me an idea for Halloween. If I can just figure out how to get a costume like his economic program I'll wear it and scare the devil out of the neighbors. He sees in America in which every day is tax day, April 15th. We see in America in which every day is Independence Day the 4th of July. What we want is to lower everybody's income tax rates so your families will be stronger, our economy will be stronger, and America will be stronger. But I'm not finished here. I'm proud to say that during these last four years on another subject, not one square inch of territory has been lost to communist aggression. And the United States is more secure than we were four years ago. Yet there's so much more to say about my opponent. His grasp of foreign affairs is demonstrated by the following. Sometime back he said the old days of a Soviet strategy of suppression by force are over. And that was just before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia. And after they invaded Afghanistan it just baffles me why the Soviets these last few years have behaved as they have. But then there's so much that baffles him. One year ago, a year ago we liberated Grenada from communist thugs who had taken that country over and approved. You know that my opponent called what we did a violation of international law that erodes our moral authority to criticize the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But I will say this though. The administration that he was a part of did meet out strong punishment not to the Soviet Union, to the American farmer. The American farmers, they paid. Unfortunately, he supported the grain embargo and he spoke out often. He even questioned the patriotism of a senator from his own party when that senator called that embargo just what it was, unworkable and unfair. But now he seems to have changed his tune. He says he privately opposed the embargo. Very privately. As a matter of fact, in the last several months, he's claimed that he opposed a number of the administration policies when he was vice president. But as Jody Powell, who also was in that administration said, and I quote, I guess I was out of the room every time it happened. And after the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, he praised it, democratic progress are stirring where they have long been stifled. But we know that the Sandinistas immediately began to persecute the genuine believers in democracy and to export terror. They went on to slaughter the mosquito Indians, abuse and deport church leaders, slander the pope, practice anti-Semitism and move to kill free speech. So why isn't my opponent speaking out about that fresh wind now? More recently, he failed to repudiate the reverend Jesse Jackson when he went to Havana, stood with Fidel Castro and cried Long Live Cuba, Long Live Castro, Long Live Che Guevara. You know, I could say, I could say of his economic program, that he will either have to break his promises or break the bank. But I won't say it, because Senator John Glenn, a Democrat, has already said it. I could call, I could call his economic program a collection of old and tired ideas held together by paralyzing commitments to special interest groups. But I won't, because Senator Gary Hart, a Democrat, has already said that. I could predict that he will create deficits more than double what they are now. But I won't, because Senator Fritz Hollings, a Democrat, has already said that. And now if on political issues, my opponent dares to be wrong, on domestic policy issues, he has the courage to be cautious. A line item veto to help control wild government spending. I had that when I was Governor of California. I don't know whether you're one of the 42 other states. You have it, your governor has it. 42 other states have it here in the Union. But my opponent says that's not part of the liberal agenda. He has long approached also enterprise zones to help the most economically troubled neighborhoods in the country. They use tax incentives to go in to stimulate industry and business there to provide jobs for people. But then a few weeks ago, he was a deathbed confession. He said, he's for them. Well, if he's for them, then why doesn't he ask Tip O'Neill to get the enterprise zone bill get out of the committee where it's buried in the House of Representatives. This month, an American woman walked in space. Catherine Sullivan made history. And then she returned to that space shuttle in which some of the great scientific and medical advances of the future will be made and are being made now. Cures for diabetes and heart disease may be possible up there. Advances in technology and communications. I know what the space shuttle, as I know, all of you do. But my opponent as a senator led personally the fight in the Senate to try and kill the entire shuttle program. He called it a horrible waste. The truth is, if my opponent's campaign were a television show, it would be, let's make a deal. You get to trade your prosperity for the surprise hidden behind a curtain. If his campaign were a Broadway show, it would be promises, promises. And if his administration had been a novel, if you read it, you'd have to read it from back to front for a happy ending. I've probably been going on too long here, but now, you didn't mean with the four years that you wanted me to stay up your talking for four years. As the turn we made in 1980 was right. And we were right to take command of the ship to stop its aimless drift and to get moving again. And we were right when we stopped sending out SOS and started saying USA. Let me say here that the 1984 election isn't just a partisan contest. I was a Democrat once in fact for the greater part of my life. And I always respected that party. But in these days, his leaders weren't the blame America first crowd. His leaders were men like Harry Truman. Men who understood the challenges of the times. They didn't reserve all of their indignation for America. They knew the difference between freedom and tyranny. And they stood up for one and damned the other. To all the good Democrats who respect that tradition and I hope there are many present here. I say you're not alone. You're not without a home. We're putting out our hands and we're asking you to come join us and walk down this new path of hope and opportunity with us. But here in this state, in this state we can't discuss those who have led the Democratic party without talking about Washington's great son the late Senator Henry Scoop Jackson. When we talk about Scoop Jackson he reminded that above all politics is about principles and Senator Jackson had among the strongest principles of anyone I've known. The first of those principles was that politics stop at the water's edge. Time and again he provided the key leadership essential to preserving our nation's interest. Not all of Scoop's colleagues took the same course. Indeed my opponent almost always was the opposite when it came to maintaining the strength of the United States. In 1970 as measured by the National Security Index of the American Security Council Senator Jackson had a rating of 80 on key issues while Mr. Mondale had a zero. In 1972 Scoop again scored 80 Mr. Mondale again zero. In 1974 and again in 1976 Henry Jackson scored 90 while Mr. Mondale scored zero and then managed to get an 11. Now whether it's the old math or the new math the bottom line is the same. On nearly every occasion the Senator Henry Jackson cast a vote for America's defense. You would not only find Walter Mondale voting against him, but on 37 of 38 times you found him voting with George McGovern. So if you like George McGovern's defense policies you'll love my opponents. And today we're not surprised to find that he would cancel the B-1 and the MX programs without requiring one single corresponding action by the Soviets. By the way, wiping out the B-1 would also wipe out about 5,000 jobs in Washington State in 1986 and 87. You know in all the years that I negotiated union contracts and I did. I was President of my union several times. I never heard of giving up your strongest negotiating leverage without getting something in return. Moreover Mr. Mr. Mondale has never to my knowledge created his or criticized I should say his running mate's support for a congressional proposal to slash our defense budget by more than $200 billion over the next three years completely eliminating several new and essential systems and substantially reducing US conventional presence abroad. The very centerpiece the very centerpiece of Mr. Mondale's policies has been his warm embrace of the so called nuclear freeze. But he doesn't tell the American people that Brzezinski Mr. Carter's and Mr. Mondale's own national security advisor has called this a nuclear hoax that is not achievable and not verifiable. Is it any wonder that my opponent's Democratic colleague, Senator Fritz Hollings has said Walter Mondale thinks the Soviet Union would never violate an arms agreement I think he's naive and it can't come as any surprise that Senator John Glenn who had been an astronaut and in the military himself believes his opponent's would or my opponent's policies would leave this country emasculated. My friends Scoop Jackson left a legacy to America that rests on a timeless principle. The principle has nurtured our beloved nation for two centuries. Peace and freedom flow from the same well and that is the well of strength and preparedness. We will never be confused with our resolve. It's our resolve that will preserve the peace and keep our freedoms forever. And you have a sign in your state that exemplifies this. It's a sign which stands over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base here in Washington and it reads peace is our profession. And that says it all. And now I'm so happy when I see an auditorium like this real rally with so many young people. I started out to say something the other night in the debate and ran out of time. I'm going to finish it here to the young people of America of our country. Let me say nothing. Nothing has touched our hearts more than your wonderful support. You are what this election is all about. It is your future. It's your future that we care so much about. Your generation is something special. You are truly something new on the scene. Your idealism and your love of country are unsurpassed. I consider it our highest duty to make certain that you have an America that is every bit as full of opportunity and hope and confidence and dreams as we had when we were your age. My generation and a few generations between mine and yours we grew up in an America where we took it for granted. That yes you could dream and there was nothing to keep you from making your dreams come true except you and your own ability and your hard work. And that's what our obligation is to you, those of us of those other generations to make sure we hand you that kind of an America. An America free and in a world that is at peace. All of us. All of us. All of us together are part of a great revolution and it's only begun and we'll never stop. Never. This country must never give up its very special mission in the world. There are new worlds on the horizon and we're not going to stop until we all get there together. America's best days are yet to come and I know and I know it drives my opponents up the wall but you ain't seen nothing yet. Thank you very much. Thank you and God bless you all. Have your attention please. You think I'm not excited? I'm from a small steel town in Ohio and I've never even met the mayor of that town. President Regan we know that you played football in Illinois. We know that you did the color for Iowa. We know that you did the Jipper for Notre Dame. The Husky team wants to make you an official Husky. Thank you.