 Very proudly for the state of Nebraska. It is my distinct pleasure to say to you Ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States Thank you, Kay, and thank you all You know If I'd gotten receptions like this in my former career, I never would have left Hollywood But it's great to be here in the Cornhusker State and greetings to your fine GOP state party chairman John Gale And of course to your outstanding candidate for governor K.R. And Bill Nichols for lieutenant governor Before I say anything else flying in here today Seeing that good earth and that good Nebraska land. I Was reminded of a story. I find that his time goes on a lot of things remind me of stories, but anyway Case it's new to you This was an old fellow that had a patch of land and it includes some Creek bottom land that was all scrub brush and rocks and finally he set out and he started clearing and hauling the rocks away And clearing the brush and everything and then he started Fertilizing and cultivating and planting until he had a real garden spot there And he was pretty proud of it one morning after the church service on a Sunday morning He asked the preacher if he wouldn't stop by and see what he'd accomplished and what he'd done well the preacher came out and He looked at this And he said oh, he said I've just never seen anything like it He said the Lord has certainly blessed this land look at those those melons. I've never seen anything so big And then he and then he said that corn I've never seen corn taller than that we went on about this and everything and everything was The Lord has been good to this place and bless the Lord and what he has done and finally The old boy was getting a little more fidgety and finally he said Reverend I wish you could have seen it when the Lord was doing it by himself But there's a there's a moral to that Because just as the Creek bottom land required the farmers hard work to make it flourish So this vast and beautiful land that God has given us Requires our diligence to keep it great And I'd like you to consider with me for a moment How much better things are for America because you and I and millions of others Chose to believe the simple truth and Rejected the notion that somehow our country's best days were behind her You remember 1980 the worst economic mess since the Great Depression Foreign governments that routinely insulted our proud country under citizens and Leadership in Washington that blamed the American people instead of itself for all our problems Remember we were told it was a malaise and we just had to get used to doing with less Well, the people knew different somebody once put it 98% of the adults in this country are decent hard-working honest Americans and then Then to rub it in the quotation goes on to say it's the other lousy 2% to get all the publicity, but then we elected them We set to work to change all that We went to the American people and told them the economy's gone sour taxes are too high We're over-regulated and there's one simple reason for it The federal government is too big and it spends too much of your money And we told the American people that there was one way to end the years of tax and tax and spend and spend and That was to elect fewer liberals and a whole lot more Republicans Well the people heard us They heard us and we started moving One example tax brackets. They were too high and the liberals in Washington wanted them to go higher We not only stood fast against the liberals demand. We actually cut taxes in Acting and across the board personal income tax cut of nearly 25% Then we indexed taxes to the rate of inflation Thereby ending the hidden tax of bracket creep You'll remember with that runaway inflation and you'd get a cost of living pay raise didn't make you any better off Just tried to keep pace with the rising cost of living But because the tax was based on the number of dollars you got not their worth You were worse off not better off because the income tax went up Well, even then the old habits of tax and tax and spend and spend died hard the critics didn't like our program of low taxes and limited government and sneeringly called it Reaganomics And they found a battle cry for their campaign in 84 Shouting at the American people. We're going to raise your taxes The American people didn't bother to shout back Here in Nebraska and around the country. They just went into the polling booths and pulled the Republican lever And ladies and ladies and gentlemen, I think we Republicans had a right to the support We got our policies brought down inflation taxes and interest rates They created 7.2 million new jobs by 1984 and they've created 3.9 million more jobs since Now, you know, I knew of course that our program was working because they stopped calling it Reaganomics It's but it's it's true that in the midst of this expansion some sectors of our economy are having their troubles Sectors like farming and when we're talking about problems down in the farm. I Believe we're talking about more than statistics like crop yields and land prices We're talking about a way of life Sustained and nurtured By the soil the oldest way of life that Americans know and with this in mind our Administration has provided more support for America's farmers and did the administrations of the last five presidents combined spending an amount this year alone totalling some 26 billion dollars our Economic program has resulted in lower farm production costs and we're working hard to expand the overseas market for American farm products and A native Nebraska our special trade representative Ambassador Clayton yider is playing a central role in this effort Yes times are still hard for many Nebraska farmers, but they've begun to get better World markets are expanding in just the next three years the number of people on earth Will grow more than enough to populate another America. I was beginning to think there was an echo in here But as I know you agree the main reason for hope The reason the family farm will not only endure but prevail is that American farmers can out innovate out Produce and outcompete any farmers on earth. I I didn't come here today to talk about Washington But I do have a good reason for bringing up these issues of low taxes and economic growth You see k or believes in the same things you and I do that the way to move Nebraska ahead Isn't by inflating the government budget at the expense of the family budget But by keeping taxes equitable and low and fostering sound and lasting economic growth That sounds good to me. How about you of course the liberal Democratic leaders opposing cave are Promising the people of this great state that honest this time they aren't going to increase spending and taxes Well permit me to offer some advice from a fellow who deals with the Liberals every day in Washington When it comes to tax and tax and spend and spend Some of them mean well, but the Liberals are just like Oscar Wilde. They can resist everything but temptation Or to make a play on something the late Will Rogers once said these Liberals never met a tax They didn't hike then Then there's the crucial matter of experience as state treasurer Kaye gained the skills She'll need to lead Nebraska on to a new era of prosperity and growth She'll be able to provide a school system that strives for excellence at every level As I said, she'll promote new jobs and economic growth while keeping taxes low And she'll work to provide Nebraska farmers with expanded and more reliable markets and Although Kaye and Bill are running a governor and lieutenant governor Their campaign has importance that extends beyond Nebraska itself to all parts of the nation For by electing them the people of this state will be sending a message to the rest of the nation and Especially to the liberal leadership of the Democratic Party The message stop the taxing stop the spending and make government live within its means that's That's a message the Liberals need to hear And let me just say something else in here while I'm talking this will you notice that I've called the liberal leadership I know that across this country. There are millions of good patriotic Democrats Who are way out of step with the liberal leadership of their party? They remind me of something that happened to me when I was the drum major of the YMCA boys band in Dixon we were We were leading we were leading the decoration day parade and the man in the white horse that Parade Marshall who was leading all of us Gallop back down the parade line at one point to see if everything was all right and I'm up there with my baton and pretty soon the music begins to sound faint and I turned around and looked he had arrived back up in front just in time to turn the band to the right And there I was walking down the street all by myself and that's the way with the liberal leadership of the Democratic Party Their party turned to the right years ago and they're still going left But there's another reason why the candidacy of Kay and Bill is so important It stands for the virtually unlimited opportunity that our nation has come to offer to men and women alike We still have a long way to go But today American women are finding opportunities that their forebears never dreamed of Today over two-thirds of the women between ages 25 and 44 are employed Half our college students are women and growing numbers of women are doctors lawyers police and military officers today Today women fill almost three-quarters of all new jobs in managerial professional and technical field And the number of women-owned businesses is growing nearly three times faster than the number of businesses owned by men As long as I got this microphone, I'll out sound them what I've been saying about women is a particular importance to the Republican Party You say today we Republicans are demonstrating that to the nation that the GOP is the true party of opportunity the party to all Americans women and men Black and white who believe that individual enterprise not big government is the true source of prosperity and freedom for example for example, I happen to be Irish on my father's side and so That makes me that makes me an ethnic American. It's interfered with a few jokes. I used to tell And when as a young man, I spent my summer's life guarding It wasn't in some posh country club, but on the banks of a river in a small town in northern Illinois Believe me There are plenty in the other party who find the fact that this Republican was born to ordinary working people They find that kind of hard to take I've always wondered why it is that Democrats call supporters of the Republican Party fat cats But their own contributors are called public-spirited philanthropists or Considered that earlier today. I was in Detroit campaigning for Bill Lucas a gubernatorial candidate who's a former FBI agent and one of the most impressive men. I've ever met Bill Lucas is a Republican and Bill Lucas is black Nothing could more powerfully demonstrate that in 1986. It's not the Democrats But the GOP that's become the party of progress and opportunity This brings me back to the gains women today are making and in particular to women in politics The truth is it's the GOP not the Democrats that has the most women in the house of representatives Outstanding members of Congress like Nebraska's own Virginia Smith There are two women in the United States Senate Nancy Kassabarm of Kansas and Paula Hawkins of Florida and both are Republicans you know Now that I think of it it was a certain Republican president who nominated Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman in history on the United States Supreme Court and today our party has not one or two But five women running for governor of for governorships including the next governor of the great state of Nebraska K or K? There's an experience of mine regarding women in politics that I think you and everyone here might enjoy hearing I You know before she became prime minister of England Margaret Thatcher had become for the first time the head of the conservative party in England And it's usually expected that the head of that party if that party wins in the next election will become prime minister Well, I was in England at a time when I was governor of California and an American businessman Arranged a meeting between the two of us. He thought we might have a lot to talk about and we did And I was greatly impressed and then that night At a cocktail reception an Englishman a Lord somebody or other if he were in Hollywood We would have cast him as Colonel blimp He came up to me and he said my dear fellow. He said, what did you think of our Miss Thatcher? And I said well I was greatly impressed and I think she would make a magnificent prime minister and he said oh my dear fellow a woman prime minister And I said well you had a queen named Victoria once that did rather well, and he said jove. I'd forgotten all about that Well well, I Have the feeling that K. Orr is one woman in government. No one's going to forget Hey ladies and gentlemen permit me to close today by telling you Something of what I've seen during this campaign of 1986 as I mentioned a moment ago earlier today. We were in Detroit Last week. We were in Alabama, Louisiana and before that in your neighboring state of Colorado and Everywhere I've gone. I've seen something that touched me and something that gives heart to all of us who can still remember the self doubt The weakness at home and abroad that marked so much of the 60s and 70s. I see it here today in Omaha Call it confidence self assurance what you will It's a renewed understanding That for all our faults Ours is a country of goodness and greatness That despite our mistakes in the world we've stood for human freedom with greater consistency and courage than any other nation in history That if only we have faith If only we look not to government, but to ourselves We can build upon this economic expansion To create a new and lasting era of prosperity Come to think of it What I've seen has a name It's love of country This new confidence and energy. There's new self assurance This is what kore stands for and wants to build upon here in Nebraska So I ask you to cast a vote for your state and for yourselves But more than that I ask you to cast a vote for the future of Nebraska A vote for your children and your children's children And I am so pleased to see so many young people here because they're what's at stake in this election My friends, let's elect kore A governor for all the Nebraskans And bill nickel a lieutenant governor Send that ticket to the capital of this great state Now Now it's it's time to go back to washington Congress is still in session and somebody has to keep an eye on them Kay and bill Ladies and gentlemen, I'll always remember this day And I'll always remember the good people of of Omaha You know, it's wonderful to get outside the district of columbia Where the real people still are I was only I was only six feet and three quarters of an inch when I walked in here But I think I'm going to leave here about six feet four God bless you. Thank you Mr. President, if there's one thing the Nebraskans take pride in Now, let's the it's the greatest football team in the history of college football The nebraska kore lester yeah here Here to present you with a special gift is chris lofgren Who carries the spirit with him as a former member of the nebraska yellow squad? chris skeletons Let's give President reagan and kore a big red wave. All right a big red wave. We'll start over here On three everybody get down. Gotta get down now. Gotta get down On three one mr. President. Would you please step forward? It's my pleasure today We have here great representation of the spirit and enthusiasm of nebraska a winning tradition We have a special gift for you To keep you warm and as a reminder of your visit to the great state of nebraska Here to present you with this gift is a friend of all nebraskans within the boundaries and without Kirby husker