 Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Good evening to all you friendly, enthusiastic Republicans. Say, isn't this great? Since I couldn't personally get to each district, the Republican National Committee came up with this means of beaming me out to gatherings all over the country. So I'm being bounced off a satellite and then down to your individual gathering. We've come a long way since my days in radio at WHO in Des Moines. But I'll admit, I'm a little worried the way I'm beaming all over the place I'm afraid someone might mistake me for Jerry Brown, California's Mr. Medfly. But no matter what the electronic election techniques, politics still depends on people. People of the grassroots, like all of you out there tonight, you make the difference in every election and you're going to make the difference in this one as well. I'm upbeat about November 2nd because our candidates are good, like the ones we're supporting tonight. And in spite of what you sometimes hear on the news, I believe the issues are on our side. For example, the economy. Rather than running away from the economic issue, I think the real economic record is in our favor if we can just get the truth out. We Republicans are doing a good job cleaning up a mess that built up for decades. And I'm genuinely convinced the American people understand that and will show it on election day. The economic issue that the opposition is trying to bully us with is like the bully himself. Once you stand up to him, he slinks away. Five economic problems, as I said last night, were beating this country over the head when we came to Washington 20 months ago. Runaway spending, double-digit inflation, two years of it back to back for the first time in 60 years. The worst interest rates in 100 years, the highest peacetime tax burden in our history as a nation, and high unemployment. Well, we've made dramatic gains on four of those five problems. The good news Republicans can run on is an inflation rate that reached a peak of 18% in January of 1980, but that has now been cut to 5.1% for the first eight months of this year. The prime interest rate reached 21.5% before we came to office and has now been knocked down to 12%, and we're not by any means finished with it yet. More good news Republicans can run on is the cut in growth of government spending by nearly two-thirds, 17% a year, down to 6%, and we will have cut tax rates 25% by next July. And last month, auto sales went up by 8.5%. If you want more good news, look at what the stock and bond markets are doing as confidence returns to Wall Street and Main Street investors from coast to coast. Yes, there are still tough problems, especially that tragic unemployment rate. Sadly, unemployment is always just about the last to feel a recovery, but we're going to beat unemployment just as we're beating the rest of our economic problems. And when we get it licked this time, it's going to stay licked because the recovery will be a real one, not an artificial quick fix trumped up by Washington's big spenders. Incidentally, I heard that diatribe that followed my broadcast last night. The dictionary says a demagogue is one who arouses people's emotions for his own benefit or purpose. Well, the demagogue from Michigan held me personally responsible for causing 10.1% of our workforce to be unemployed. But 7.4% of them were unemployed when we got here. By my figures, we're only responsible for 2.7%. But we're trying to help all 10.1% get jobs, which is more than our opponents can say. And we can do it. With the new Republicans, we'll elect this fall. And that's what we're all gathering for tonight. So before I turn this over to questions, I just want to say thank you for working for these fine Republican candidates. They are the kind of conscientious and principled public leaders America needs. And I look forward to working with them in the next Congress. Now as we go to your questions, I'd like to introduce my political director, Ed Rollins, who is going to help me out this evening. Well, thank you, Mr. President. As we go coast to coast, we begin by going to South Bend, Indiana, the home of Notre Dame football, where more than 1,500 folks have gathered to honor our good friend, Jack Heiler. As most of you know, Jack defeated John Brodemus, the Democratic whip two years ago, and Jack is going to ask us our first question this evening. Jack? Hello? Ask the question. Indiana, I want to compliment you on a very fine speech last evening. The question I have, Mr. President, is what are the prospects for real peace in the Middle East? Well, Jack, I think the prospects are good. I'm optimistic about the Middle East and what's going on there. As you know, we've had our good man, Ambassador Habib over there, negotiating again, the man who brought about the ceasefire. And he is assisted by another one. His companion, Ambassador Draper. But what we're trying to do is first help the newly elected president over there with our multinational force, establish stability in Lebanon. They've been, for several years, divided up into factions, each faction with its own militia. But I think progress is being made there. We've heard statements recently that both Israel and Syria have expressed their willingness to leave. I think we'd like to do it simultaneously. And so I think progress is being made. And then we've been in contact with the Arab nations, as well as with our friends and allies in Israel. And it will take negotiations under the Camp David pattern to bring about a just solution for the Palestinian refugees. And at the same time have the other Arab states do what Egypt did first, and that is recognize the right of Israel to exist as a nation and have peace treaties with them. And I think that we have a very good chance of succeeding. Mr. President, we'll move on now into our second fundraiser in Denver, Colorado, where many of your friends and supporters, including Holly and Joe Kors and Congressman Guy Vanderjack and Senator Bill Armstrong are there to honor three outstanding candidates, one of whom is an incumbent, Ken Kramer, our good friend and supporter, former Apollo astronaut, Jack Swigert, who's running in the district out there and John Beekner, who's challenging Tim Worth in a tough race in the second, the new second district out there. Our question asker tonight is a RNC Eagle, good supporter of yours, Mr. Cortland Dietler, who's president of Spruce Oil Company, and he'll now ask you a question. Well, Cortland. Mr. President, what is the best method to assure a mutually verifiable reduction in the weapons of war that will bring more security to the world? Cortland, I believe that we're on the way if that's possible at all, that we're going to do it now with the policy that we've been following. As you know, we have negotiating teams, negotiating with three of them in Geneva, Switzerland, one in Vienna, and we're negotiating for a reduction of conventional arms and weapons. But in Switzerland, we're also negotiating two teams, negotiating a reduction, a legitimate reduction in the strategic nuclear weapons. And the other one is negotiating and we have proposed down to zero the intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe. Now, the Soviets have 945 warheads aimed at targets in Europe in their medium-range missiles, and we have no deterrent whatsoever, but have promised our allies at their request that we're going to provide the Pershing-2 missiles as a deterrent force aimed at Russian targets. We have proposed that if they will eliminate their SS-20 weapons, we will refrain from installing those Pershing-2 missiles of ours in Europe. Now, the reason that I am optimistic is because in years past we have tried to negotiate arms limitation treaties with the Soviet Union at the same time that is in the previous few years we were unilaterally disarming. We were cancelling the B-1 bomber. We were reducing our forces in strength and so forth. We have embarked on a course of a legitimate build-up to ensure our own national security, and this is what has brought the Soviet to the bargaining table ready to negotiate. Whether we'll get all we ask, of course, we probably won't, but I think we have a good chance of getting legitimate reduction because now that we are reinstituting our armed forces, the Soviet Union knows they don't want that. I think it was all explained in a cartoon recently. It was Brezhnev talking to a Russian general, and he was saying, I like the arms race better when we were the only ones in it. Now, we'll be ready to reduce instead of build-up when they agree with us that they will reduce down to equal terms with us. Mr. President, we move next to Michigan, the home of that demagogued that you mentioned earlier in your speech. The good citizens there are going to retire. Tonight they're there honoring Congressman Jim Dunn and our outstanding candidate, Dick Milliman. As you know, Congressman Jim Dunn is in a rematch with Bob Carr, who he defeated and retired and will keep retired, and Dick Milliman is one of our outstanding candidates who's challenging Howard Wolpe there. Dick is going to ask the question, Mr. President. Good evening, Mr. President. This is Dick Milliman, the candidate for Congress in Michigan's third district. I'm speaking for myself and Congressman Jim Dunn of Michigan's sixth district. Sir, both Congressmen Dunn and I agree that we can't cure our country's past economic problems as quickly as we all would like. But in Michigan, we are very hard hit by unemployment. Our question then is, what would you suggest we tell people in our districts who constantly ask us what can be done now to help our unemployment situation in Michigan? Dick, I know this may not sound like a satisfactory answer to a candidate who's got to go out and repeat it to the people, and yet it is the honest answer. To say what can we do now, we're doing it. I would just remind them that when I was campaigning there in 1980, before there was an economic recovery program such as we have put in place in Washington last year, there was in Flint, Michigan, when I campaigned there, they told me unemployment was 20 percent. They told me it was 18 percent in Detroit. And there were other places, the same kind of record. In other words, in the industrial states like Michigan, the unemployment had already started because that's when the interest rates were 21.5 and people weren't buying automobiles on installment plans and they weren't building houses or buying them because they couldn't afford the mortgages at that kind of interest rate. And that's when inflation was 12.4 percent. Now, as I said last night, inflation caused the high interest rates and between the two of them, they have caused the slowdown that has created that unemployment. Since that time, as I gave those figures earlier, in how far we have come down on interest rates and inflation, the next to follow must be unemployment. But in all the recessions in the past, when they've had the quick fixes, unemployment never came down under recovery as far as it had been before the recession and there had been seven recessions before this one since World War II. I wish that I could say there was something that we could do instantly. What they did in the past, those other seven recessions, was of course artificial stimulants, pump up the money supply and then up went the inflation and up went the interest rates. And yes, there would be because of make work programs, government-funded programs that many millions of dollars that were temporary, that didn't lead to any set job and this would seemingly give an end to the recession. But as I say, it never went back down where it should, the unemployment, and the next recession was only about two years away. Now, we're trying to make it permanent and I know that it will take some time for the unemployment to feel the effect of the reduced inflation and the reduced interest rates. But I believe it is the only way to ensure permanency and I think if we remind the voters out there and remind those people who are unemployed and no one can feel worse about that than a person like myself who is in the job market in the Great Depression of the 30s. But remind them that the unemployment started long before our economic recovery program and nothing was being done about it that was permanent or lasting. And now these other figures are coming down and I think unemployment is going to also. In the meantime, we have and our funding, extensions of unemployment in the hard hit states for those who have run out their time period for unemployment insurance. We have just recently passed a job training bill in which we're going to be training a million people a year for legitimate jobs, the kind of jobs that are available in your various communities. Mr. President, we move next to Mansfield, Ohio, which is the home of our good friend, Congressman Mike Oxley. Mike has the best of all worlds. Because of his tremendous support for you and the outstanding individual, he has no opponent November 2nd. So we're sure of having one good vote for us next year. Asking the question in Mansfield is Dr. Bob Jones, who is a doctor of internal medicine. He was married and has four children. Good supporter of yours. Good evening, Mr. President. Good evening. My question this evening is this. What are your predictions for the election of November 1982? Well, doctor, my prognosis is optimistic. I think that we've got good candidates out there. We have got good funds. And we have kept with a tradition that's been true for over a quarter of a century in the Republican Party. And that is that even though the Democrats continue to call us the party of the fat cats and the rich, the Republican Party, as it has for a quarter of a century, has raised the most of its money from small contributors and far more from small contributors than our opponents have raised. And between these two things, the kind of candidates we have and people like yourself out there who've turned out at these affairs to be of help, I know the tradition also has it that in the first off-year election after the party gets the White House, there is a great loss in the Congress. Well, I don't think there's going to be as great a loss as is traditional. I think we're going to do better than the tradition would have it. And we're going to get some of those fine new candidates and we're going to get our incumbents back. Mr. President, I can only second those remarks and we're moving to Telehoma, Tennessee, to the home of the Telehoma High School Auditorium where many of our friends and supporters dare to honor Sissy Baker, who is a good friend of a good friend of yours, a daughter of a good friend of yours, as you know, Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. With Sissy's election on November 2nd, she'll be the youngest member of Congress and will be the first daughter father team that ever has served in the United States Congress. I think it's time we set that new mark. I agree. Asking the question tonight from Tennessee is Mr. Jess Held, who's president of Worth Sports, who's a longtime Republican, a good supporter of Senator Baker yourself and been very helpful with Sissy. Good evening, Mr. President. Good evening. I'm speaking from Telehoma, Tennessee with the Sissy Baker campaign. She would like you to say hello to her father. She doesn't get to see much of him anymore. My question is, these elections seem to be drawing a lot of attention this year. Can you give us some specifics on why this 1982 election is so vital? Oh, I certainly can. There are any number of reasons and statistics as to why this is vital. First, before I answer, Sissy, I'll say hello to your father and we're looking forward to when you and he will both be in the same city together. Now, why is it so vital? We have a Republican Senate, a majority. And when you get a majority, even by one vote, you name the chairman of the committees and you have the majority of the committees. But the other house, the house of representatives, the majority is of the opposition party. And the leadership of that party, to give you an example, the amendment, the proposed amendment for, I believe it was for, the constitutional amendment of balancing the budget has been buried in committee over on that side of the house, in the house side for, well, just about a year. It was in the committee and has been buried all this time and then it took 218 names in the house. Some Democrat I will say joined us to by petition get it out of the committee on the floor after it had been passed by more than a two-thirds majority in the Senate. Then when it was voted on, a majority of the house voted for that amendment. But it wasn't a two-thirds majority, so it's failed and we have to start over again. What I'm getting at is that for almost solidly back over through the Eisenhower years, we have had both houses of the legislature, the Congress, dominated by the Democratic party, even when we had Republican presidents. The only Republican president who had a Democratic or a Republican Congress was one two-year period, Dwight Eisenhower. And in that two-year period, inflation was zero practically, unemployment was down at two-and-a-half percent, and all of the figures were that way. Now, when I stopped to think of our own economic recovery program and the compromises that we had to make to get it through the house, we had called for a 30 percent tax cut to be retroactive to January 1st, 1981. We only got 5 percent, and it started in July 1st, not retroactive to January. And then 10 percent the next October, and we're getting 10 percent, I maybe have these dates wrong. No, I think it was the 5 percent October and the 10 percent in July, and the next 10 percent will be in this next July. But what I'm getting at is that we have a Republican executive branch now. We have a Republican Senate. We haven't really been given a fair chance at showing what we can do with that division there in the Congress. Isn't it fair to assume that after really almost 40 years of total domination by a Democratic Congress, even when there was a Republican president, they are the ones, the Congress is the, they are the ones who pass the programs, they are the ones who decide on the spending bills and so forth, and they are the ones who have built up a trillion-dollar debt that we're paying $110 billion a year interest on. So I think that all of the facts point to if we have our policies supported in the Congress by a Republican majority, if we have Republican majorities in the committees so that the things that are proposed and are passed in committee come out to the floor so that the representatives and the senators can vote on them, that's what we have to have. Mr. President, we move now to Indiana, which is the home of our good friends, Senators Dick Luger and Dan Quayle, and tonight there's a group in Jeffersonville, Indiana, along the Ohio River who are honoring our outstanding candidate there, Floyd Coates. Floyd, who was a very strong supporter of work for you in the last election, is running against incumbent Lee Hamilton. Asking the question is another good strong supporter of yours, George Hughes, who's president of EH Hughes & Company, who's also a strong supporter of the two senators there. George? There are many economic indicators are showing improvement. Can you provide any specifics for additional reduction in government spending and taxation? And what do you foresee as a role of the 98th Congress? The role of the 98th Congress, George, is to continue giving us support for our economic recovery program, which means making the additional reductions in spending. Now in these two years, 81 and 82, we have made about, well no, I'm often my fingers again, 82 in the coming budget resolution that's been passed for 83, will amount to about $50 billion reduction in the increases that have been scheduled. We've never reached a point in which we could actually cut a budget back to smaller than it was before, and that would be a dream come true. But as you know, when you submit a budget, you have to make proposals on out for about three to five years ahead. And so when we came here and inherited in the 1981 fiscal year, the budget already passed, we also inherited the projected budgets for 82 and 83. We have reduced those projections by $50 billion. Now, the Congress has promised us with the Combination Tax and Spending program that was passed this summer, they promised us $3 in cuts, spending cuts for every dollar of increased revenue in that tax program over the next three years. That's about $380 billion of spending cuts. And we must hold them to that promise that over the next three years, we're going to reduce the scheduled increases in government spending by those $380 billion. Get those deficits down and come to the day when we will have a balanced budget. Now, I don't foresee any tax increases as far as we're concerned that we would introduce. I must remind you, however, the biggest tax increase that was ever passed in our history was passed in 1977 and it was a payroll increase in Social Security. And there are two more installments of that yet to come in 1985 and I believe in 1990. And those are scheduled and are in the law that was passed in 1977 under the previous administration. But we believe that our course now should be to continue the reductions in spending that we've started. Mr. President, we now move on to Wichita, Kansas where we're a group there honoring Gerald K. Wood, our outstanding candidate who's running against incumbent Dan Glickman in the fourth congressional district in Kansas. An old friend of yours, a Republican Eagle, Willard Garvey, who's chairman of the board of Garvey Industries and founder of Homeowners Trust which is a group dedicated to fighting political spending and wasting government is going to ask you the question. Willard. Inflation and unemployment. Congress is double spending in six years and now costs each family over $8,000 per year plus $10,000 per family for national debt, family for unfunded for $80,000 enough for eight million new $10,000 job. What we need are more Republicans like Gerald K. Wood in Washington to help us against the leadership of the House which has never agreed with our program of cutting which is still dedicated to the big spending by the federal government and the belief that the federal government and government programs are the answer to all our problems and they can't see that over these past decades government is not the answer to the problems government is the problem and so this election is all important from that standpoint. I have to be honest and say that we have had the support of some Democrats that I think they represent the feeling of the rank and file Democrats millions of them who are out of step with this party leadership and who have collaborated with us in getting the cuts that we've gotten so far and getting the tax cuts that we've gotten so far. As the economy improves and as we begin to improve on the unemployment situation you are going to see that we're going to do better at reducing those deficits also because every added one percentage point of unemployment adds about $25 billion to the deficit that is in lost revenue the individual not working and in the benefits that must be paid out. So again the economic recovery program is the best answer that we can have. I wish it were possible all at once to simply make a slash in the spending as I said in my opening remarks we reduced the increase from year to year in spending from 17 percent down to 6 percent but to go beyond that you can't do it all at once because you would be pulling the rug out from under people without any warning or any provision for them people who through no fault of their own have become dependent on some of the government programs and I have pledged that while we're going to bring down the spending we are going to preserve that safety net for those people who must depend on the rest of us for their livelihood. Mr. President we move now out to the northwest to Bellingham, Washington where a group is out there honoring our outstanding candidate state representative Joan Houchen who is running against incumbent Doug Swift Bellingham, Washington is a logging and fishing area and our questioner tonight is a 30 year old linesman for a local power company Mr. Sam Brown not the other Sam Brown that we all knew so much about this is Sam Brown is president of the county young republicans. Sam? Mr. President we've all heard about your new federalism program when do you expect this program to take place and what benefits can we in Bellingham, Washington expect once these programs are turned back to state and local government. Sam some of the program the federalism program those things that we could do administratively simply by executive order some of those things have been done such as putting grants together that were once known as categorical grants that meant that here was a specific program that the federal government helped in funding but then the federal government insisted that the money had to be spent exactly the way the federal government regulations called for it in its spending and many times these were wasteful they didn't recognize the fact that the priorities were different from city to city county to county or state to state we have lumped many of those in what are called block grants in which we've said here this program that program the other program here is a block of money federal aid to you and you can set the priorities in spending that money now what we need from the congress we need legislation on is the part of the program that will allow us to transfer programs the part of the program is now being run by the federal government that we believe could be better run at local and state level democracy for administration that money will be freed up and it will mean that the programs will actually cost less for both we expect to suggest that program if not what I don't think that it would be wise for us to put it up in the special session that will come in November but immediately after the first of the year with the 98th congress we are going to present this program we've been working on it in company with governors with mayors with city councilmen with state legislators county officials ironing out the wrinkles in it and we'll be ready in January to present it Mr. President we're going to move back across the country we're going to go to Manchester, New Hampshire where Bob Smith who is our outstanding candidate who's challenging incumbent Norm DeMores is being honored there by a group of citizens our guest questioner is Lois Bullew who was our town chairman in 1980 your town chairman in the new market New Hampshire well Lois hello hello Mr. President I understand there are about a dozen congressmen who are actually co-sponsors of the balanced budget constitutional amendment but who deceived the public and voted against it anyway I'm sorry to say my congressman Norm DeMores was one of those slip poppers what can we do about this group of congressmen and do you think there's a chance of passing a balanced budget amendment next year we're going to be back asking for that balanced budget next year over 40 states have that state of California when I was governor it has that it works and it's the only way we're really going to get control of spending is to have that the people in the polls that show that 80% of them want it and what we have to do you say about those congressmen like your opponent who flip flopped on things of that kind forgive me but may I say to all of you out there I don't think that we pay enough attention to what goes on in Washington while it's going on and therefore candidates can say one thing and then do another and vote another way and very often get away with it just simply because the people aren't aware don't let them get away with it keep track of how they're voting and when they vote right go out of your way to drop my note and let them know they voted right when they vote wrong do what you should do in New Hampshire in this district right now for Lois Belieu for Congress Mr. President let's go back home to Sacramento California where they're honoring Roger Canfield who is our candidate there against incumbent Vic Fazio Roger was worked for the Senate out there in the state government and was the architect of a very good reapportionment plan unfortunately there weren't enough votes in the legislature and Phil Burton got his plan through but hopefully the district that Roger's running in is not so badly drawn that he can't win in November Roger will ask you the question himself Mr. President Roger Yes President this is Roger Canfield suburban Sacramento and we're concerned out here with what government can do about crime considering that's the purpose of government to protect our life and property I'm not against the guy out here he's against the death penalty and voted for reduced penalties for rape they're going to think this is a frame-up I just went over to the justice department this morning and made a speech in an auditorium to an assembled audience there many of them having to do with law enforcement and announced an 8-point crime program now I recognize that the federal government can only do so much in that because most of our criminal statutes are state statutes and therefore it is local law enforcement and local and state government that has to do with that but our 8-point crime program is aimed at organized crime we have had a tremendous success with a brand new kind of task force in south Florida where about 80 percent of the drugs that were coming in from the other countries were coming in through south Florida and our task force lined up local and state government and our federal forces even up to and including military giving us tracking of boats and planes that were bringing in drugs and we literally have stopped at coal there now of course the drug runners are seeking out other entry points in the country so part of our program this morning called for 12 such task forces nationwide to go after this as well as the program against organized crime I won't go into all the 8-points time doesn't permit you are going to see the federal government doing more in this whole field of crime including the fact that we are making a training institution here that has been for federal officers and FBI and Secret Service and so forth this is going to now be made available to local law enforcement officers so that we can have better cooperation and I think we're going to make a difference Mr. President I know how difficult it is for both of us to leave Sacramento but we'll have to go to Longview, Texas next and there we're going to visit with Pete Cullum and Pete who worked for our former great friend John Tower Pete is running against Ralph Hall and maybe you remember but Pete's daughter Alexandria was co-chairman of Totsford Reagan in 1980 with your grandson Cameron Alexandria is three years old and she's there tonight well Alexandria hello and hello Bart asking the question tonight is Bob Cargill who's involved in the oil industry there which is very very important as we all know in Texas Bob this is Bob Cargill this is Bart Owens from Greg County, Texas the question particularly for the independent producers is do you still plan to eliminate the Department of Energy yes we do we are proceeding on that course it isn't easy I know that it sounds that the average person is if well why can't you just say it's out of business and it's out of business you have to remember that when a department like that a cabinet department was formed it didn't start from scratch there were a number of programs already in place in other agencies of the government that are essential programs that the federal government should be maintaining and they were lumped together in this new department so part of the engineering is the redistribution of these programs back to the other agencies where they were and of course part of it again is hostility on the part of our opponents in the house against eliminating this department but we think that that it's the right thing to do we think that we've made some good progress there in things like the decontrol I remember our opponents said that gasoline was going to cost two dollars a gallon if we did it well today we're about 91 percent self-sufficient in this and it isn't costing two dollars a gallon it's costing less than it did under controls and all so we're going to keep on going until we get that department eliminated Mr. President that concludes our quick visit around the country with many of these outstanding candidates and incumbents and they're tremendous supporters I know have been supporters of yours over the years and we look forward to having them all back here to work with in January 1982 Well Ed we'll keep at it there and thank you very much for helping in closing I just want to say how essential all of you are to our cause it's an old truth but every vote does count and the results of this election will hinge perhaps more than anything else but it is still one of the most important in politics technology like we're enjoying tonight can't replace the hard work of getting out the vote as I've said I believe we're going to do well we've got fine candidates a wide base of contributors an efficient party organization and we've got good issues issues the people of this nation truly care about it's up to you Republicans at the grassroots to make sure that the voters understand how important the choice is this year the choice between going back to old policies that didn't work or going ahead in the new direction we've set we're on a new road now a road that's leading America to better times unless we have the courage to stay on course and defeat our economic problems now we'll never have lasting recovery and our problems will grow worse than before well I intend to stay the course and we're going to succeed but we need your support so please promise me that you will mobilize and get out the vote for a great Republican victory on November 2nd as I said last night it isn't an easy job this challenge to rebuild America and renew the American dream but we can do it throughout our history we Americans are proven again and again that no challenge is too big for a free united people together we can do it again and we can start making those dreams come true by electing Republican states to office we couldn't have done what we have without our majority in the senate think what we can do with more Republicans in the house thank you again and God bless you Ladies and gentlemen this concludes the live portion of our broadcast the film which follows chronicles the president's first year in office and is narrated by Charlton Heston the title of the film is the legacy of greatness