 George and Dan and Barr and Marilyn is wonderful to have you here. And if anyone wants to know how Nancy and I feel about this moment, just read our smiles. Actually, though I have some figures here that I thought you and the rest of the country might be interested in, according to my calculations, it's only 1188 days to the Iowa caucus. Now, I think the country has heard quite enough political speechmaking from all of us in the past few months. So I just want to make one or two simple but heartfelt points. First, I want you to know, Mr. President-elect and Mr. Vice President-elect, how proud I am of both of you, of the extraordinary perseverance and character and grit that you've shown in this difficult year. And I think, too, your worthy opponents would agree what a challenge to human endurance the presidential campaign has become. So I want to congratulate both of you, as well as Governor Dutkakis and Senator Benson, in taking on the great challenge and your sense of public duty in seeing it through to the end. Each of you is better for it, and so is the country. Now, in this hard-fought campaign, George and Dan, I also want to compliment you for going to the people on the issues and asking for a mandate on critical matters like the taxing and spending power, the nature of judicial appointments, the strength of our defenses, and the firmness of our foreign policy. I think that mandate has been unmistakably delivered, and I know in carrying it out you will be true to your promises and faithful to the people's wishes. But George Bush and Dan Quayle, I feel our achievements are secure, our change now a permanent feature of American government. But I also believe your mandate will make it possible not just to continue, but to build upon the achievements of the past eight years. This is not the end of an era, but a time to refresh and strengthen our new beginning. In fact, to those who sometimes flatter me with talk of a Reagan Revolution, today my hope is this, you ain't seen nothing yet. Finally, let me say that despite the long months of campaigning, the seemingly endless controversy and the sheer human exhaustion of it all, choosing our leaders is after all a decision critical to our own future, to the future of this much-loved nation and to the cause of human freedom. And that's why today Americans of every political persuasion and background can come together as one. Even as we accept the verdict of the majority and pledge to protect always the rights of the minority, we put behind us the divisions and controversies of the immediate past and begin anew. So it's a day for congratulations, yes, but it's also a day for remembering that whatever may temporarily divide us is far outweighed by that which unites us. America has much to be proud of today, pledges of a new president and a new vice president, and pledges of support from the loyal opposition, Republican, Democrat, independent. Today we're one nation, one people, and our national treasure, our national mission, the cause of human freedom continues to prosper and light the world. Thank you. God bless you. Thank you, Mr. President. And all I will say just in the shadow of the office that you have ennobled, we are very, very grateful to you. I don't believe there's a case in modern presidential politics where a president has worked so hard to help someone else achieve this office. And I will always be grateful. I can hardly believe it, but it's sinking in now the enormity of what has taken place, peaceful election, eventually a peaceful transfer of power. And I just think for all the Bush family, and I expect I speak for Marilyn Dan on this one, we are grateful to you and to Nancy for going that extra mile. And I can, I really believe that the results would have been entirely different if we hadn't had this loyal, steadfast campaign support. And I know they would if I hadn't learned from a giant the good things about the United States of America. Thank you, sir. Well, Mr. President, as one who came to the Senate in 1980, thank you for all that you have done for America. And now, Mr. President-Elect, yesterday the American people overwhelmingly placed their trust and their confidence in your leadership. And I'm delighted to be a part of that team, ready to go to work and to continue to change America and make it even greater. Thank you both very, very much. Now you'll find out it's time for us to go to work. I think he's been finding every job that he's had here in the administration and I think he's been finding a job for the next few years. NATO alliance is sure enough. A Bush-Borbachoff summit, since Mr. Bush seems so anxious to meet with the secretaries.