 States and the next governor of the state of Ohio my fellow candidates 30 years ago the Democratic Congress began systematically Consistently usurping responsibility and opportunity. He has promised to return programs privilege and very high honor to introduce to you the president of the United States Thank you all very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much You know, if you don't mind I just have to mention first I thank you all for this to all of the distinguished Office holders and candidates for office who are here in the platform with me. I Have to mention those young people Who are here today? You know, I can remember a time When I'd go to a Republican fundraiser and come home and tell Nancy that It looked like the only young people there couldn't join anything else And not anymore all over the country and I said in 1980 in the campaign that was what that campaign was about It's what this election is about The America that we're going to turn over to those young people You know, mind if I call him bud. Do you when? Know him too well here congressman Brown, but I when He was talking here about returning authority and autonomy to the states to the local communities and so forth I wonder how many of us realize That one of the most unique things about America that I believe is more responsible for our freedom than anything else Is the fact that in this country? We were established to be a federation of sovereign states We were not set up to have 50 Administrative districts of the federal government and that's what we've been in danger of losing I was just over speaking to the veterans group explaining to them How good it was to be out of Washington and back into the heartland of America and you know general Sherman once said If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary. Thank you Now I wouldn't go as far as to say that But I will admit there have been a few days there when I've sort of figured that it fit his description of war When general Sherman said war is and you know the rest Actually though with people like bud Brown in the Congress my job was a whole lot easier than general Sherman could have imagined So I think you can understand why I have some mixed feelings about letting him go But brown not Sherman But I'm willing to make the sacrifice You can have bud Brown as your governor as long as you promise me solid Republican congressional delegations from Ohio You mean I've left your district Thomas? Not yet, huh? all right but Believe me. We'll need the help the other day in the state dining room. I pointed out the sea change that has occurred in American politics how every one these days seems concerned about too many deficits and too much taxation and spending We've made real progress, but it's a fragile progress Because of those left in Congress who still believe in the tax and tax and spend and spend policies that got us into this present situation That's why I challenged tip O'Neill one day I asked he and the liberal leadership of the other party to promise the American people They wouldn't try to repeal the reforms that we've passed in the last two years Those in regulations in spending and the tax program the tax cuts And you know They've never answered the question yet They just finessed that went on to something else The question you should ask of those who solicit your vote is where they stand On the issues of taxing and spending Will they promise not to try and repeal the income tax cuts that we Won for the American people and the historic reform and income tax indexing Many people don't quite understand at first what that indexing provision means It might be the biggest part of all the tax cuts Unless we win the battle on on inflation And then it won't matter that much But for years The federal government has been making a profit on inflation Because in our graduated income tax People who got a cost of living raise didn't improve them one bit Just met them kept even with inflation But it moved them into a higher tax bracket And that's why for years real personal income in america has been going down And for the last several months it's been going up Now will they support further reductions in government spending More authority and autonomy as we've mentioned for states and local governments In ohio this year you can make a real difference in government Because there are two classic confrontations between the past and the future Between candidates who reject the policies of tax and tax spend and spend As these candidates here do And the candidates who endorse them Between candidates who stand for growth and opportunity And candidates who want more government and more spending Right now paul pipher is waging a strong challenge Against one of the senate's most blatant big spenders The incumbent represents a political point of view that is out of step with the people of ohio Mistaking the incumbent senator's voting record for the views of the people of ohio is like mistaking woody haze for woody allen It's time you had a senator who represented the common sense conservative voters of ohio And not the liberal big spenders in washington I need paul pipher in the senate as well as john casick in the house of representatives And I can give you a single good reason why He should be congressman casick Because i just learned that his opponent is on record already As wanting to Cancel the b1 bomber This is a part of the whole movement that has seen some demonstrators out on the streets wherever we go today It doesn't mean that they're for peace and we're for war It means that they've been manipulated by some people who know what they're doing exactly. They're sincere. I think millions of them Very sincere and honest in their desire for peace as we all are But today we have three delegations in europe Negotiating with three soviet delegations one with regard to the medium-range nuclear missiles in europe One with regard to the strategic nuclear missiles that threaten us particularly in the world And one that is trying to reduce the armaments the conventional arms and weapons And why are we so intent on this military or this defense build-up which had been allowed to Our defenses to deteriorate so It's because they need back of them on their side of the table They need the fellows on the other side of the table to have the knowledge That unless they join us in reducing those terrible weapons and the threat of war They're going to have to face a united states that will do whatever is necessary to ensure our safety and the peace of the world They need a deterrent And mr. K6 opponent Didn't add when he came out against the b1 bomber that it would cost 7 000 jobs here in the state of Ohio But i think that's a consideration also you know bud Is a bright and a hard worker It's a man of tested judgment and experience and character The country needs him and you in Ohio can help the country out But i want to say that also that he's been an invaluable ally In the fight against big government in washington as a matter of fact He started in committee in 78 and 79 Working within the committee in which he served To bring about the kind of economic reform That we now Have started to install beginning last year in 1981 that time up against A total democratic majority in both houses and a democratic administration They couldn't get it past But now the people have spoken And it's in effect He's won the respect as i say of virtually everyone who's dealt with him there In this campaign he and his running mate jim betts have won agenda Bringing jobs and economic opportunity back to Ohio and i know that from my own conversations with them They'll make a great They'll make a great governor and a great lieutenant governor, and i thank you for supporting them And i know Something i know they'll go all the way And i know the importance because of that federalism that he spoke about that trying to get more authority back here How much How much we need someone? This end ready to receive The resources and the programs that should properly be administered Here at the state level when he spoke of regulations I used to use a city in your state as an example of what regulations were doing long before i ever Got the job And that was a hospital that was built in part with federal funds And because it was built in part with federal funds the federal government reserved the right to regulate So one day in came An inspector from osha and said that the plastic bags That were put or that they must put plastic bags in the waste baskets So that employees would not be endangered in handling the waste or contaminated in handling the waste So they put them in and no sooner had them in than another washington inspector arrived He was from he w as it was called them not hhs And he was protesting that they had to take the bags out Because if someone threw a cigarette in there the fumes from the burning plastics would be injurious to the patients And to this day, I don't know whether we've got it straightened out yet or not But all the hospital knew is to have somebody at the door to see which one was coming put the bags in Take them out I'm grateful to be here with these wonderful candidates and with all of you all across the country Wherever I've gone, I've seen we have presented this country this time around the finest candidates I think any party has ever fielded in this country. They deserve the people's support And I know all of you will do your darnest in the crucial days between now and november and now I'm going to quit talking because I'd rather have a dialogue and I always feel Don't often get enough chances for a visit. I often feel that some You must have some time or other said if I had a chance I'd ask him Well ask me And we'll have a little dialogue You mean no one has a question. I've got another speech in the other Talking What's that do I see it improving with the new governor in Ohio? Yes And I see it I see it improving and if I realize this is taking a great chance. We are in a deep recession I believe that the course that we're on which is aimed at reducing inflation And which as he said we have it down as a matter of fact for the first eight months of this year It has averaged 5.1 percent And the last month it was down at a rate that if that continues it'll be down to around 3 percent Now that inflation rate which was double digit 12.4 when we started Is what has kept the interest rates high? Lenders have to get back the lost value of their money while it is out on loan in addition to a return And it is the high interest rates and what they did to the automobile industry And what they did to the housing industry that has caused the great increase in unemployment And that in turn has caused the great deficits. I had to laugh the other day when jim right the majority leader in the house On on television and said well after they had voted down the balanced budget amendment and don't ever let them forget That they voted against A constitutional amendment to keep the federal government balanced This is the 40 states have it This is a necessity if we're going to get control of spending, but he had the hoots, but uh go on Television and say well i'm a fine one to ask for such an amendment when i'm presiding over the biggest deficit in history Yes But wow how those deficits come about i didn't invent them Every time you add one Percentage point to inflation you add 25 billion dollars To the deficit in lost revenue and outgoing benefits to the unemployed And so it's going up two or three percent since we've been there No a couple of percent since we've been there. Well, that's another 50 billion dollars added to the deficit The way to cure that the way to cure unemployment Is to get the interest rates down and you can't do that until you finish getting inflation down And we're going to keep on working at that but I'm sure they will because uh i'm going to keep squawking Yes, bud says it's going to be introduced again next year So probably in the spring we'll be battling on that. Yes, just president. We have time for one more question I'm told by your keepers your secret service, man So, uh, well, there's a gentleman that I'd already recognize. We might try a lady if we've got a lady We do we have a lady with question What what advice for the young people going out in the world today Some person some person down here in front said vote republican, but of course Let me just take a second here and then then I will get because I hadn't recognized someone over here Let me just take a second if I could There are so many things and and it's so easy for someone my age to Start pontificating to young people when they open themselves up with a question like that But of course you get all the training that you can And then I think make up your mind if it's regard to a career Where you think that you would be happiest and be able to contribute the most and receive the most Personal reward. I mean in fulfillment in that job And then I'll give you the best advice that I was ever given When a man back in the depression days in 1932 and I was a college graduate then And back at my old college job of life guarding for the summer Knowing I'd have to face the fall and get out into the world And in 1932 there weren't any jobs Anyplace and there was a man who had fared well in the depression And was able to tell me that if I could tell him what I wanted to do What line of work if he had any connections there he would He would speak for me and see if I couldn't get an opportunity in there Well, that was the first time believe it or not in this modern age And that was the first time I had ever really been pinned down To having to say what I wanted to do and there was a rather young industry at the time called radio and I kind of made my way through college on the football field and Finally I went to him and I said I think I'd like some form of The entertainment business and I think radio and I'd like to be a sports announcer Well, he said I don't have any connections there. I can't help you But he said maybe that's best because I'll give you this advice He said even in this depression there are people who know they've got to take young people in And bring them up in their business and their industry to have people coming along So he said you start knocking on doors of radio stations He said just tell him you want a job any job To get in to that industry that you believe in the industry believe you can Can make it in that industry and you'll take any job there is and then take your chances on getting up to where you want to be from there And you know It worked I know I knocked on a lot of radio station doors And finally one day I knocked on one And happened to mention for the first time sports announcing this being a future ambition And in this elderly gentleman one of the nicest men I've ever met Oh bothered by arthritis said to me, what do you know about football? And I said played it for eight years He said could you tell me about a game if I were listening and make me see it? And I said I think so And he took me in a studio put me in front of a microphone said when that red light goes on up there You start broadcasting an imaginary football game. I'll be in another room listening And I did and the only thing I really remember about that broadcast was I naturally picked a game from the previous season that I'd played in And I was the running guard who had to come out and lead the interference on a certain off tackle play and with two minutes to go Trailing by one point We went 65 yards off tackle for the touchdown And I missed the key man in the secondary that I was supposed to block and I've never known how we made the touchdown With me missing the block, but on the rebroadcast First instant replay I threw a block like you've never seen What's that I have said that that's something that the people Tell you whether you should or not now I appreciate your reaction just now If it was the same in 84, well, I'll certainly take that into consideration Thank you very much They have a song for you mr president Stay the course I'm going to heed that advice. We're staying the course