 Thank you. Thank you all very much My goodness What a welcome including my fraternity brothers here a good afternoon, and I thank you all very much. I Can't tell you how honored I am that so many of you have come out here to say hello and Let me say you have already made me feel so much at home as Henry the 8th said to each of his six wives. I won't keep you long No, I'll tell you they've got a full day for me out there at the University at Purdue and I don't want to fall behind scheduled You see after I leave the University. I'm heading home for California And Nancy told me not to be late for dinner but Well, anyway, I would like to say just a few words to you on the way in today Being a midwesterner myself. I saw those typical midwestern farms Then your neighborhoods and your churches and schools and your city county building with its dome and I Have to tell you back there in those puzzle palaces on the Potomac You can sometimes lose touch with the basic values that we're working so hard to try and defend But coming here to Greater Lafayette has been what has kind of reminded me of a town over in Illinois It's a town where I grew up Dicks in Illinois and where there's a little bit of my heart still there I Can see with the young people and the children that are here that this is kind of a family day, too You know It was the hopes for our children that brought our forefathers to this land And it's continued to be the thing that we strive for is to make this a better place And a place of freedom and hope for these next and oncoming generations So today our families give us strength still I have to share a little story with you Just the other day a man sent me a letter and he had a little episode in it. He thought I would be interested in It seems that on a Sunday morning with the Sunday paper He preferred to read the paper and his son bill Little bill came at him and wanted with a glove and a ball and wanted him to come out in the yard and play ball And he wanted to read the paper and he noticed that on the front of the paper was a map of the world Connection with some story and he hastily cut the map of the world out cut it into pieces And then said to billy here you take this and put the map of the world together And when you get back why then we'll go out and play ball. He figured he'd have plenty of time to read the paper Billy was back in seven minutes And he said how did you do that so fast? Well, he said on the other side of the map There was a picture of a family and I found that if you put the family together then the world took care of itself well, I Know that I have to move on and then get out there to the University the things that are prepared there, but again I just thank you from the bottom of my heart if nothing else good happens on this trip I'll go home about three inches taller because of this welcome out here today. Thank you very much. God bless you