 Assemblyman Pat Nolan ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States and Mrs. Reagan thank you very much thank you thank you very much thank you thank you all very much thank you well thank you all very much thank you governor Duke Majin Senator Wilson distinguished members of the House of Representatives former Senator George Murphy Rosie Greer and Frank Sinatra my good friends and my fellow Californians I can't tell you how great it feels to be back in Southern California and among longtime friends you know I and you know I intend to I intend to come back here and live about four years from now my special regards to Bobby Fiedler it's been a long time since she was organizing bus stop here in the Valley and she's doing a terrific job in the Congress on election day do me a favor send Bobby back to Washington and that goes that goes for Congressman Carlos Moorhead Dan Lundgren Dave Dreyer and a candidate up here named I hope to be Congressman Dornan and while you're at it spread the word also and get out the vote for Richard Gomez and Claude Parish and if you don't mind if you don't mind try to win our California races for the Gipper but I am especially proud to be here with the students of Pierce College Pierce Pierce is not only a fine college but I understand you've got a football team with a 7-0 record this year well I I hope our opportunity team does as well tomorrow as the Brahmins have been doing this season I've come to the people of the San Fernando Valley to ask for support many times before and I'd like to ask you for this last time to be with us tomorrow well thank you thank you very much thank you I want you to know that just a little while ago up in Sacramento I told them that if the Capitol were in California I'd try for 40 but Abraham Lincoln said that we must disenthrall ourselves with the past and then we will save our country and four years ago that's what we did we made a great turn we we got out from under the thrall of a government which we'd hope would make our lives better but which wound up trying to live our lives for us four years ago we began to navigate by certain fixed principles our North Star was freedom and common sense our constellations we knew that economic freedom meant paying less of the American family's earnings to the government so we cut personal income taxes 25% across the board now there've been some people around in this campaign that have been suggesting that maybe we did something for some special group our tax cut was across the board even Stephen for everyone no special group we knew that inflation the quiet thief and record interest rates were stealing our future we knew that our national military defense had been weakened so we decided to rebuild and be strong again to be prepared for peace it was a second American revolution and it's only just begun but America America is back a giant on the scene powerful in its renewed spirit powerful in its growing economy and secure in the peace and you know something what I just said is not debatable yet four years after our efforts began small voices in the night are sounding the call to go back back to the days of drift the days of torpor timidity and taxes you know my opponent's understanding of economics is well demonstrated by his predictions just before we took office he said that of our economic program that it was obviously murderously inflationary and that was just before we lowered inflation from more than 12 down to around 4% and just after our tax cuts he said the most that he could see was an anemic recovery and that was just before the United States economy created more than 6 million new jobs in 21 months my opponent my opponent said decontrol of oil prices would cost American consumers more than 36 billion dollars a year well one of the first things we did was decontrol oil prices and the price of gasoline went down 8 cents a gallon I have it all figured out that all we have to do to get an absolutely perfect economy is persuade him to predict an absolute disaster he says he says he cares about the middle class but but he boasts he boasts and I quote I have consistently supported legislation time after time which increases taxes on my own constituents doesn't that make you just want to be one of his constituents he's no doubt proud of the fact that as a United States senator he voted 16 times to raise your taxes but this year he's outdone himself he's already promised of course to raise your taxes but if he's to keep all the promises that he's made to this group and that in this campaign he will have to raise taxes by the equivalent of $1,890 for every household in the United States you're right you're right that's okay all right you know you know that figure that figure that I just used pro rates out to better than a hundred and fifty dollars a month that's like having a second mortgage a Mondale mortgage his economic plan has two parts to the first is raise your taxes and the second is raise them again but I've got news for him the American people don't want his tax increases and they're not going to get his tax increases you talk me into it you know you know if my opponents campaign were a television show it would be let's make a deal you give up your prosperity to get his surprise that's hidden behind the curtain now if his if his campaign were a Broadway show it would be promises promises and if his administration were a novel you would have to read it from the back to the front in order to get a happy ending he he sees in America in which every day is tax day April 15 we see in America in which every day is independence day the 4th of July we want to lower your taxes we want to lower them for everyone in this country lower the tax rates so your families can be stronger our economy will be stronger and America will be stronger I'm proud to say that during these last four years on another subject not one square inch of territory in the world was taken over by communist aggression and that USA the United States of America is more secure than it was four years ago but my my opponent sees a different world after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan he said he said it just baffles me why the Soviets these last few years have behaved as they have but then but then there's so much that baffles him one year ago we liberated Grenada from communist who had taken over that country now my opponent my opponent called what we did a violation of international law that erodes our moral authority to criticize the Soviets well well there is nothing immoral about rescuing American students whose lives are in danger but let me let me now if I can put something about this contest in perspective the 1984 election isn't just a partisan contest I was a Democrat once from good share of my life but in those days in those days its leaders weren't in the blame America first crowd I hope that there are and I'm sure there must be many Democrats in this audience as there have been so many appearances across the campus but wait a minute wait a minute I mean good patriotic Democrats who have found as I did they can no longer follow the leadership of their party these these these Democrats would be here because they remember when the party's leaders were men like Harry Truman later men like Senator scoop Jackson John F Kennedy men who understood the challenges of the times they knew the difference between freedom and tyranny and they stood for one and damned the other but to those Democrats to those Democrats that I hope are here because I know there are so many all over the country and who believed in that tradition of the Democratic Party I say you are not alone we're asking you to come and walk with us down the path of hope and opportunity and in the finest of bipartisan traditions together we will make this country prosperous secure and free now now last month an American woman walked in space Catherine Sullivan made history and then she returned to the space shuttle in which some of the great scientific and medical advances of the future will be made cures for diabetes and heart disease may be possible up there advances in technology and communication I have seen some evidence of the medical advances I've just mentioned in the experiments that have already been conducted but my opponent led the fight personally against having a shuttle program at all he called it a horrible waste well we support the space shuttle and we're committed we've committed America to meet a great challenge to build a permanently manned space station and to do it within a decade now what America needs is high tech not high taxes okay you got me all right all right I've probably been going on too long here all right but you don't mean stay here for more years but you know the point is that we were right when we made that great turn in 1980 right to take command of the ship stop its aimless drift and get moving again and we were right when we stopped sending out SOS and started saying USA thank you you know the United States of America was never meant to be a second best nation like like our Olympic athletes this nation should set its sights on the stars and go for the gold now if we if if we could bring inflation down from 12.4% to 4 then we can bring it down further from 4 to 0.0 and we're going to do that if if lowering your tax rates led to the best expansion in 30 years then we can lower them again and keep this country growing right into the 21st century if we could create 6 million jobs in 21 months then we can make it possible for every American young and old black or white to find a job if they want to find a job and if local governments in our country can establish as they have enterprise zones to create economic growth to use tax incentives to go into distressed areas and bring business and industry in there to provide jobs for the people that are without jobs now well we have such a bill at the national level to do that and that bill has been buried for more than two years in a committee in the House of Representatives under the direction of Tip O'Neill now that's why that's why you send back to Washington those Congress people that I mentioned and send back the candidates that I have mentioned so that we can get that bill out of committee on to the floor and start helping the people that need our help you know I'll buy that right you know I've always believed and I believe more than ever if we give American workers the tools they need in new industries and old they can out compete out produce and outsell anybody anywhere in the world at any time our drive to restore excellence in education reversed a 20-year decline in scholastic aptitude test scores we're going to keep raising those scores and restore American academic excellence second to none our crackdown on crime produce the sharpest drop in the history of the crime index and we're going to keep cracking down until your families and your friends can walk the streets without being afraid we have reversed the decline in our military defenses and restored respect throughout the world for America and we're going to keep this nation strong to protect freedom and peace for us for our children and for our children's children and if we if we make sure that America remains strong and prepared for peace then we can begin to reduce nuclear weapons and one day banish them entirely from the face of the earth my opponent my opponent talks of a nuclear freeze stopping the building of nuclear weapons while we are at a disadvantage well let me tell you I'm for a nuclear freeze when we and the Soviet Union reduce the numbers of weapons down to an equal verifiable level and then we'll have a nuclear freeze and as we strengthen our economy strengthen our security and strengthen the values that bind us America will become a nation ever greater in its standard of living in art and culture and learning and greater in the love and worship of the God who made us and who has blessed us as no people have ever been blessed and I'm going to say it here it is to the young people of our country that I want to direct myself right now you know you are what this election is all about you and your future I have seen you all over this land on campuses like this in schools and in rallies like this and I want to tell you your generation really sparkles your idealism your love of country are unsurpassed now my generation and then there were a few generations between mine and yours well we of those several generations we grew up in an America where we just took it for granted that you could dream and make your dreams come true fly as high and far as your own ability and effort would take you and then for a brief period we went into an era when voices were telling us that we were in a limit an era of limits and that never again would things be as good as they were and that everyone should lower their sights and their ambitions well I want to tell you my generation and those several others I mentioned we have a sacred trust and we're going to keep that trust and it is that when the time comes to turn this nation over to you young people we're going to turn over an America that is free in a world that is at peace and it will be an America in which you can dream and make your dreams come true all of us together all of us are part of a great revolution that's only just begun America will never give up and go back never you know I've always believed this land of ours was placed here between the two oceans to be found by a special kind of people from every corner of the earth who would come here and come here because of that special love of freedom that they had and our unique mission is to carry freedoms torch to a tired disillusioned world we've always been a light of hope where everything is possible and throughout my life I have seen America do the impossible we survived when I was a young man a great worldwide depression that toppled governments in many parts of the world but not here we came back from Pearl Harbor to win the greatest military victory in all the history of war in a single lifetime my own in that lifetime we have gone from the horse and buggy to landing astronauts on the moon we as a people have fought harder paid a higher price for victory and freedom and done more to advance the freedom and the dignity of man than any people who ever lived on this earth America's future well let me just say ours is the land of the free because it is the home of the brave America's future will always be great because our nation will always be strong our nation will be strong because our people will be free and our people will be free because we will be united one people under God with liberty and justice for all I'm deeply honored I'm deeply honored that you've allowed me to serve you for these past four years but much remains to be done we must continue to build upon the new beginning that we started four years ago so I ask you for your support and your vote I have come here to ask for that but I also I want to say I'm terrified by the polls please don't read them anymore don't get complacent tomorrow don't think your vote isn't needed go and vote and take others with you to do that and if and if you're voting for me if you're voting for me don't send me there alone send these other people that I've mentioned back there with me so we can get the job done America's best days are yet to come and now it may drive my opponent up the wall but I just want to say one last thing you ain't seen nothing yet thank you and god bless you thank you