 Don't let up keep it up incident of the United States Thank you very much and Good Duke. Thank you very much for that kind introduction. I think some thanks should go also to the Coronado High School Band into the Torrey Pines High School Band and also I Understand that some people that played a helping hand in bringing this all together happened to be my fraternity brothers from San Diego Fellow teeth Thank you I was told back there at Eureka College when I became a member of talk app epsilon that it was a That it was a fraternity for life Well, now let me say hello to Earl Cantos To congressman Duncan Hunter and Bill Lowry and to a great future congressman. We'll all be proud of Bob Rob Butterfield and to one of America's greatest governors George Duke Magin and to the one of the Finest senators, I know Pete Wilson Before I start I have a message from my roommate to every young person here She told me to say please for your parents for your friends for your country But most of all for yourselves Just say no to drugs and alcohol. You know some time ago. I told Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher That if her people had come over this ocean out here Instead of the Atlantic the capital of the United States would be in California But more and more over the last eight years I've come to realize what a good thing it was for the settling of our continent that the pioneers had to go East to west rather than the other way around After all if they'd started out here in our beautiful state with all we have They'd never wanted to leave Instead of westward hoe their motto would have been what mine has become. There's no place like home Now please forgive me if from time to time over the next few minutes There seems to be a lump in my throat and I catch in my voice This is a special moment for me in a special place and yes with special people I Closed both of my campaigns for the presidency right here in San Diego You see there was a reason for that You see when the parades have ended the shouting is over the speeches are done in the final Bella sounded a Fighter wants to return to his corner and be with family and friends while he waits for the verdict of the judges and Whenever I finish in San Diego, I feel I'm with family and I know I'm with friends I love San Diego a lot of people have been mighty surprised how far you and I have gone together in our crusade over the years I Remember a story that made the rounds the first time I ran for office Someone told my old boss Jack Warner that I'd announced for governor Jack thought about it for just a second and then he said no Jimmy Stewart for governor Ronald Reagan for best friend But this year my name is not on the ballot and it won't appear in a ballot ever again unless of course you Unless you count the vote that someone up there cast When your time is done and the moment has arrived for his verdict Which when all is said and done is the only election that really counts But But if my name isn't on your ballot tomorrow something more important is a principle a legacy No, this is not the end of an era. It's a time to refresh and strengthen the new beginning. We started eight years ago at stake At stake are the very things you and I've been working for and fighting for ever since we first joined together almost a quarter of a century ago and Set out to restore our state and then our nation They add up to the difference between candidates who promise that come January the Reagan era is over and those who say Read my lips. No new taxes. Yes. It's the difference between the liberals and the men and women on the Republican ticket candidates like this district's next congressman Rob Butterfield Senator Pete Wilson and the next president of the United States of America George Bush And that's why I'm here today to ask you to turn out to vote tomorrow for our entire federal state and local Republican ticket so that our principles survive our Legacy endures and our truth goes marching on I've dedicated myself this autumn to making sure that all we've begun these past eight years Continues in the house of representatives in the Senate in the White House and in the state legislatures which Will redraw congressional district lines after the 1990 census and through that act Profoundly shaped the course of the entire nation in the next decade Yes on every level the election this year is about what the vice president called the other day the big issues freedom peace opportunity respect of government for family and community the safety of law-abiding citizens and Whether we remain true to our national mission of standing with those who like our founding fathers would battle against tyranny and for liberty It's about the values that have made America the greatest Freest nation on earth as Lincoln said the last best hope of humanity and we're determined to keep it that way I've I've seen some press reports these last few weeks noting how I've been campaigning so hard for Republican candidates and they say few other presidents have done what I've done Well, of course few other presidents have had the opportunity to be succeeded by a man as good as George Bush Or a stump for candidates as good as Pete Wilson and Rob Butterfield But I'll Let you in on a little secret. I'm not doing this just for George Bush or Pete Wilson or our Republican candidates on all levels around the nation I'm doing it for the country of course but For someone else as well actually for two other people He was the best storyteller I've ever heard and the strongest man of principle. I've ever known He believed in honesty and hard work. He was filled with a love of justice and a hatred of bigotry once He was out on the road. He was a shoe salesman traveling around northern Illinois in the winter this was in the depths of the depression and In a mist of a blizzard he went into a small town hotel the town he was going through and As he signed his name and the clerk saw the name Which was a very Irish name. Oh He said you're going to love it here and then he told him why because that hotel would not allow people of a certain faith To stay there This man picked up his suitcase and said then I don't stay here He spent the night in his car in the snow Caught near pneumonia in a short time later had the first heart attack of the several that led to his death We called him Jack Just as he was strong his wife Nellie was filled with goodness and love in the darkest days of their Depression when they themselves could barely scrape by No one ever came to their door in need of a meal who Nellie said away empty-handed I'm proud of many things. I've done in my life including more than a few in the last eight years But nothing has ever given me as much satisfaction as when After several years in California, I could bring my mother and father out here and give them a home the first They had ever owned So you see I'm campaigning this year also for them a son The son of Jack and Nellie Reagan never walked away from a battle on principle This year's election is that kind of fight and by darn we're gonna win it Think of all those who depend on us and the principles we republicans stand for young people just getting out of school looking for their first job and able to find it because our create our recovery has Created an average of a quarter of a million new jobs each month for the last 71 Young couples looking for their first home who can afford it because we brought mortgage rates down by a third since we took office Mothers and fathers trying to keep within the family budget Cutting inflation by two-thirds and bringing the top personal income tax rate that most families pay down to 15% has made their lives a lot better But these aren't the only people who depend on our success Tomorrow on the plains of Afghanistan and in jungles around the world Freedom fighters will huddle close to their radios Hoping to catch word that the administration in America will remain their friend In cells across the globe Political prisoners will await anxiously for assurance that America has chosen strength over weakness Because for many of them our strength is all that keeps their hope alive just on the plane coming out here I read a letter. I had just received It was a couple thanking me for the fact that they are now in the United States After having spent more than seven years in the prisons and psychiatric wards of the Soviet Union Well But all these people may depend on us and so help me God. We won't let them down And there's some other some other very special people. We won't let down either There's no change during our administration of which I'm prouder Then that our young men and women once more take pride in wearing the uniform of the United States Thanks to their valor in the last eight years Not one square inch of land anywhere in the world has been lost to Communism and in fact We've rescued one tiny nation Grenada from Communism This year we're facing a liberal campaign of unusual deception First our opponents wanted to conceal their ideology It took us three months to drag the L word out of them And now they're trying to hide what side they're on They say that they're on your side But you tell me yes or no and shout it loud and clear when their candidate for president US senator and Congress Refused to rule out raising your taxes and have already made their marks as world-class big spenders in state or federal government Are they on your side? When their candidates for president and US senator as well as for Congress and other posts have a history of Nominating or supporting judges who oppose the death penalty and all in all are strictly for the birds If you know what I mean Are they on your side? I like this audience Like this audience I said but one last question When their candidates consistently support cutting back on the very weapons including our strategic defense initiative SDI that Have forced the Soviets to seek to negotiate serious arms reductions with us And when they seem to believe that a strong defense is what gets talked about in right-guard commercials And that a strong Navy is the color of a suit When they do all this Are they on your side? Our liberal friends just never seem to learn you can't be for big government big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy in the race for the White House only one guy is for the little guy and that guy is George Bush and in the Senate race that guy is Pete Wilson In this district in the House of Representatives, it's Rob Butterfield and in the state legislature It's Byron Weir Steve Baldwin Carol Bentley and our other great Republican candidate Yes from top to bottom the election this year is a referendum on liberalism Do we want a risk going back to the old failed liberal policies of the past or do we Or do we build on the successes of the present to expand the chance of peace and prosperity in the future? Consider for a moment the people you will be sending to Washington tomorrow Congress and the president are equal branches of government When you vote for the senator for your local congressional seat You're voting for the direction of the country and the world as much as when you vote for president and Since we have to ride two horses Congress and the president across every stream Shouldn't they both be going in the same direction? Everyone in our ticket led by George Bush Pete Wilson and Rob Butterfield is going the same way Come to think of it. That's my way, too Take our great senator, and I hope our next great senator as well Pete Wilson Pete Wilson George Bush, and I've been a team the three musketeers one for all and all for the taxpayers and against the special interest In Washington Pete's been named watchdog of the Treasury Five times he's been named that he's guarding it against liberals like his opponent He'll work with the new president not try to cut him off at the knees every chance he gets Nancy and I cast our absentee ballots last week And I know I shouldn't tell you this but we voted and I hope you will too for a great team Pete Wilson and the entire Republican team Last week a major national newspaper Ran a story about one of our own liberal California congressman in it. He spelled out to the reporter how he tells Constituencies for a strong defense While voting for less defense and how he opposed the death penalty amendment to the drug bill But says he's for the death penalty when he's back home And then he got down to business Quoting now he once had understood that a president bush would get no quarter from him Any budget proposal will have to include higher taxes. He says Whether a president likes it or not Otherwise we're going to go after him Well, if you asked me it's time we went after them and Some of the people to do it are Bill Lowry Ron Packard Duncan Hunter and Rob Butterfield We must not forget what we're up against but we all must never forget what we're for a Poet once wrote I have fallen in love with American names and Americans love no name better than the name of freedom Well in this campaign and so many others I've heard America singing and its song is freedom You can hear it in the shipyards near here as men and women go to work You can hear it in this you can hear it in offices factories schools and stores all over our land You can hear it when a young man or woman dreams of striking out alone and becoming part of the great boom in Entrepreneurship that has created virtually all of the new jobs in America in recent years 84.4 or 80.4 million new jobs In these several years You can hear it in the prayers from every church synagogue temple and mosque in our land Yes, one nation under God Indivisible all in the name of glorious You know some years ago two friends of mine were talking with a Cuban refugee who would escape from Castro in the midst of the tale of horrible experiences one friend turned to the other and said we don't know how lucky we are and The Cuban stopped and said how lucky you are. I Had some place to escape to Well, let's keep it that way How sacred is our trust we to whom God has given the custody of the name and the song of freedom? America represents something universal in the human spirit. I Received a letter not long ago from a man who said You can go to Japan to live but you cannot become Japanese You can go to France you live and not become a Frenchman You go to live in Germany or Turkey and you won't become a German or a Turk But then he added Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American John Adams once said that the way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands And that's what America is We the people holding liberty in our hands This year. I did something. I thought no American president would ever have an opportunity to do There in the Lennon Hills at Moscow State University No teak chapter there. I Addressed Soviet students Spoke to them and my speech was about the wonder and glory of human and individual freedom Now think of those students Only if they're very lucky Rise high in the Communist Party Will any one of them ever have the influence that each American has just by walking into the voting booth So let me ask you one or two more questions and I'm asking for a commitment show you shout. Yes Be sure you mean it tomorrow. Will you show up at the polls and vote? Will you get your friends and neighbors also to vote for the state legislature? Will you vote for Byron Weir Steve Baldwin Carol Bentley in the entire Republican team? Will you vote to reelect congressman Bill Lowry Ron Packard and Duncan Hunter and to elect Bob Rob Butterfield? And will you vote for Pete Wilson in the United States Senate? And will you make George Bush the next president of the same thing The same thing I'm asking you I've asked our country this year eight years ago America said it's time for a change Well, we've heard some talk like that in this campaign Well, we are the change Won't you stand by the change we started it eight years ago? Stand by the Republican ticket and I don't mind if you stand by me Oh So now we come to the end of this last campaign and I just hope that Nellie and Jack are looking down on us right now and nodding their heads and saying their kid didn't proud it I Hope that someday your children and grandchildren will tell of the time that a Certain president came to town at the end of a long journey and asked their parents and grandparents To join him in setting America on the course to the new millennium and that a century of peace prosperity Opportunity and hope had followed So if I could ask you just one last time Tomorrow when mountains greet the dawn Would you go out there and win one for the gipper? Can people owe you a tremendous debt of gratitude for your leadership and vision? For rebuilding our economy for getting government off the backs of the people and the businesses of this great nation and For restoring pride in America here at home and around the world Mr.. President you have given America back to the American people and the best way to thank you Is to give America back to you as Symbolized by the flag that has been flying over this Your last campaign rally as president of the United States At this time I would like to ask all of you To join in in singing God bless America Thank you all very much