 Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States, my campaign chairman is an American history Ronald Reagan. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much And thank you Tom And thank you for that great music to the Main Street pop band Eastern High School Band Cherry Hill East High School Band and Cherry Hill West High School Band And let me say a special thank you to Bob Franks and hello to a man. I hope you will send to Congress Frank Cristado Now before I start I have a message from my roommate to every young person here Please for your parents your friends for your country and most of all for yourselves Just say no to drugs and alcohol I'm here to ask everyone in New Jersey who supports the change We've been bringing to America these last eight years to vote from top to bottom for the entire Republican ticket Including our Republican candidates for the House of Representatives and in this district the man who has put the federal government Into the battle to end the ocean dumping. You miss me In the end in the ocean dumping of sludge and medical waste off New Jersey shore Jim Saxon and to ask you to vote for one of the best men I've ever known to run for the United States Senate or any other office Pete Dawkins and For the next president of the United States George Bush You know, I'm dedicating myself this autumn To making sure that all we've begun these past eight years all the changes All the new hopes for all Americans and for all the people in the world All this continues On every level in local races as well as in the House of Representatives in the Senate and in the White House The election this year is about what the vice president called the other day the big issues peace prosperity the respect of government for family and community The safety of law-abiding citizens and the values that have made America the greatest and freest nation on earth As Lincoln said the last best hope of all humanity and we're determined to keep it that way Yes, the choice is just as clear as the choice in 1980 in 1984 It's between on one hand liberal tax and spend economic stagnation international weakness and always always blame America first and On the other hand what we believe limited government a strong defense firmness with the Soviets and always always I Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America Now, you know our liberal friends talk about it being time for a change But where they've been for the last eight years. We are the change We began at eight years ago And the choice this year is to go forward with the change or to go back to the stagnant status quo out of the past And let me pause here and say that there is no change of which I'm prouder Then that our young men and women once more take pride in wearing the uniform of the United States of America And you know thanks to their valor In the last eight years not one square inch of land Has been lost to communism and in fact in one tiny nation Grenada. We pushed communism back When we took a mirror when we took office America was in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression We turned that around Think of what reducing mortgage rates as we have by 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 Think of what our tax reduction program has meant to families most of whom now pay a top rate of 15% And think of what this means to you and think about the great news we received today October unemployment down to 5.2 percent the lowest since June and The lowest in more than 14 years and think of what that means to all Americans Yes, what you heard in a recent debate. I've heard echoed in my talks with the leaders of many other nations Today the United States of America is the envy of the world I could just interject something here about that unemployment rate. There will always be an unemployment rate Not because of hard times and people that can't find a job There will always be a percentage of our people Who are by their own choice between jobs have changed to another place to live And young people coming into the job market And so 5.2 well On sundays. I've gotten a hobby lately of Reading the help wanted ads in the paper I don't really read the ads. I count the number of pages And when in washington in the washington daily paper on sunday you pick it up and See 70 full pages of those tiny help wanted ads employers looking for people to come to work You know that we've done something about employment We've come a long way in the last eight years But my friends my message to you today Is that everything that we've worked for these last eight years everything Could be lost faster than you can say taxachusetts Our opponents say they're in the tradition of fdr harry truman and john kennedy But from the economy to national defense they've taken positions that only a mcgovern could love Not long ago former defense and energy secretary james slesinger Who served in administrations of both parties? Wrote that their ticket this year seems to be in his words secretary slesinger's words viscerally anti military They would cut the b1 bomber the mx missile our strategic defense against ballistic missiles And two carrier battle groups eliminated from our navy In fact what they plan for the navy is so bad By the time they get through Michael may have to row the boat ashore If if frank doesn't sink at first Well hearing all this maybe it won't surprise you that this year We have a liberal candidate whose appointees to his state Supreme court have been described in the words of legal authorities who study their records as and i'll quote Fervent proponents of the liberal social agenda committed to imposing it through judicial decree They've opposed the death penalty and mandatory sentences for drug dealers My friends you can't be trough on drugs unless you're tough on crime They believe that requiring teachers to lead classes in the pledge of allegiance Is unconstitutional And have voted to strike down a ban on child pornography Well i've appointed very different justices to the u.s supreme court And so will george bush And our kind of justices are the kind that pete dawkins won't fight He'll help confirm them now. You've heard the liberals say they're on your side They're on your side the way the ice was on the side of the whale For example pete dawkins opponent refuses to rule out higher taxes He calls higher taxes A quote last resort Unquote which in Which in translation from politician language to the english language means He's going to do everything he can not to read the next president's lips On the other hand if they need it And many of them will pete dawkins will give lip reading courses to the entire congress Quote last resort unquote on one side read my lips No new taxes on the other tell me now who's on your side pete dawkins liberal opponent or pete dawkins I like this audience Let's um Let's try another Let's let's take george bush's opponent Between 1986 and 1987 While america as a whole was creating more new jobs than the rest of the industrial World put together Under the governor his state ranked an admissible 30th among our states in the annual rate of total job growth And with yesterday's papers reporting a state bank account Overdrawn by as much as 190 million dollars for a month The massachusetts mess is getting sloppier and sloppier by the day I wish i'd said that now let me ask you Biggest job growth in the industrial world or one of the slower rates in the nation And a mess like that And you tell me who's on your side that liberal governor or george bush I think i'll take you home with me Now Our liberal friends have promised that come january the reagan era is over And their era will be just beginning From top to bottom the election this year is a referendum on liberalism Ours is a system of three equal branches of government Two branches congress and the president are chosen by election And the third branch the courts is chosen by those other two When you vote for a candidate for the senate or the house you're voting for the direction of the country and the world As much as when you vote for president And since we must ride two horses congress and the president across every stream Shouldn't they both be going the same way? Everyone on our ticket led by george bush peat dockens and jim saxon is going the same way And come to think of it. That's my way too You know, let me pause here and say a word about a man i admire immensely The man i hope will be your next senator and the campaign against him His opponent is a far out liberal Who opposes graham rudman the line item veto the balanced budget amendment? And in fact every move we've made to cut spending unless it's defense spending He talks tough on crime, but he opposes the death penalty All this is bad enough, but there's something more We've seen a new lack of civility creeping into the way the opposition in congress operates I have to deal with it every day and I believe that when all is said and done it's bad for america You won't normally see most of what i'm talking about, but here in this senate race peat dockens opponent has brought that style of political fighting back home peat dockens is one of the finest men i've ever known he's courageous Brilliant and deeply dedicated to his country He'll work with the new president not try to cut him off at the knees every chance he gets So i'd ask you Isn't it time for the voters of this great state to vote for a great team peat dockens and george Yes in the congress as well as the white house It all comes down to exactly the same thing And that's the kind of future we want for america the values we believe in The way we were brought up and a few simple words like freedom and family and peace and hope I believe that the next eight years can be a time of economic growth And unprecedented hope for america and the world I believe we can see democracy come to every nation of latin america I believe we can continue the progress we've made with the soviets I believe we can move the world toward making nuclear terror a thing of the past with our strategic defense initiative sdi Hi I believe this is our future if we put our nation in the right hands And who has those hands? Jim sackston peat dockens and george bush are those This election campaign is not over The only poll that means a thing is the one on election day And that's why it's so important For you to vote Not long ago. I did something. I thought no american president would ever have an opportunity to do There in the moscow hills at moscow state university I addressed soviet students And told them about the wonder and glory of human freedom individual freedom Now think of those students Only if they're very lucky and rise high in the communist party Will any one of them have the influence on the course of history 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 So if you shout yes, be sure to mean it This coming tuesday, will you show up at the polls to vote? Will you get your friends and neighbors also to show up at the polls to vote? Will you vote for jim sackston for congress? Will you vote for peat dockens for senate? And will you vote for george bush? You just made my day again But you and I still have work to do as yogi bearer said it ain't over till it's over And this election is a package deal We need to win in both congress and the white house for it to count the way it should count I hope that someday your grandchildren will tell of the time That a certain president came into town and asked their grandparents to join him In setting america on the course of the new millennium And that a century of peace prosperity opportunity and hope followed So if I could ask you just one last time on election day Will you go out there and win one for the gibber? I shouldn't do this, but i'm going to I just did it at the last stop and it gets to be a habit with me. I have a new hobby I'm collecting stories that I can actually prove Are made up by the people at the soviet union and told among themselves And it reveals they got a great sense of humor And they also have a kind of cynical attitude to their system Well on this recent summit in moscow I was told one as we were leaving that they were telling among themselves They had it that Gorbachev and I were in his limousine and my secret surface Chief was in with us and his top security agent with him and we were sightseeing And we came to a waterfall and we all got out to look And Gorbachev said to my secret service man, go ahead jump go over the falls And he said I got a wife and three kids Well, he turned to his own man then and said you jump go over the falls and he did But my man went down the rocks around the falls to see if he could be of help or anything And found him down there ringing out his clothes And he said why did you do that? He said when he told you to jump and go over the falls Why did you do that? He said I got a wife and three kids Thank you all and god bless you all