 Thank you very much. Well, I thank you. It's so wonderful to be in Pennsylvania It's especially nice to be in Delaware County and here in media. I know that you're aware that one of my most important aides in the White House Faith Whittlesey was a council county council member here and Worked in this courthouse But we're keeping her working in the White House And it's good It's good to have your fine governor and my good friend Dick Thornberg here with us. He's a great governor and Another good friend of mine is here Pennsylvania's Drew Lewis But I want all of you to know how much we appreciate your great representatives in Washington led by Senators John Hines and Arlen Specter the Republican members of Pennsylvania's delegation to the House and the Senate are In my view among the very best in the country Hey today, I've come bearing a special request The voters of Delaware County have a fine young Republican candidate and If you agree with me that we've made progress, but our future can be even better Then please vert vote for Kurt Weldon on election day. We'll keep America if you do what I just asked on the new path of hope and opportunity and To those in the neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia vote for Flora Becker for Congress And you know just in case there might be some people across the state line or that are listening across the state line In a neighboring neighboring state same name as the county Delaware There's a candidate. We need in the United States Senate. He's John Burrus And there's another candidate. We need in the house from Delaware, and that's Elise Dupont You know, I hope to win a second term But I'll tell you quite frankly But I just I just want to tell you something I'll tell you quite frankly that if a gypsy looked into a crystal ball and Said you can win this election with a lot of votes or win by just a few votes But get a sympathetic Congress. I would choose the latter the sympathetic Congress Because if we're to solidify the gains this country has made and Continue to move onward with new opportunities for our future We'll need a Congress that will help us do the job So please help spread the word and get out the vote and if you can Well win those races for the Gipper but now I Want to talk a little bit about the great renewal that's been taking place throughout our country these past few years It's a renewal that was grounded in the wise advice of a wise old president Abe Lincoln said we must Dissenthrall ourselves with the past and then we will save our country Now four years ago. That's what we did. We made a great turn We got out from under the thrall of a government which we had hoped would make our lives better But which wound up living our lives for us The power of the federal government had over the decades created great chaos economic social and international Our leaders were adrift rudderless without a compass Four years ago. We began to navigate by certain fixed principles Our North Star was freedom common sense our constellations We knew that economic freedom meant paying less of the American family's income and earnings to the government and so we cut our personal income tax rates by 25 percent and Contrary to what my opponent says that was across the board from top to bottom and not just for one section of the public We knew that inflation Inflation the quiet thief was stealing and stealing our savings and the highest interest rates since the civil war We're making it impossible for people to own a home or start an enterprise We knew that our national military defense had been weakened So we decided to rebuild and be strong again and this This we knew would enhance the prospects for peace in the world It was a second American revolution and it's only just begun But America is back a giant powerful in its renewed spirit It's growing economy powerful in its ability to defend itself and secure the peace and Powerful in its ability to build a better future and you know something 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 Now my opponent this year is known to you But perhaps we can gain greater insight into the world. He would take us back to if we take a look at his record His understanding of economics is well demonstrated by his predictions Just before we took office. He said that our economic program is Obviously murderously inflationary that was just before we lowered inflation from more than 12 percent down to around four and Just after our tax cuts he said the most he could see was an anemic recovery Now that was right before the United States economy created more than six million new jobs in 21 months and incorporated 900,000 new businesses in the last 18 months My opponent said that our policies would deliver a misery deliver a misery index the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time and There was some truth in that You get the misery index, you know by adding the rate of unemployment to the rate of inflation and They invented that for the 1976 campaign And they said that Jerry Ford had no right to seek re-election with a misery index of 12.6 Now they didn't mention the misery index in the 1980 election Possibly because it was over 20 and they aren't And they aren't They aren't talking too much about it in this campaign because it's down around 11 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 You know, I got it figured out all we have to do to get the economy in absolutely perfect shape Is to get my opponent to predict absolute disaster? He says he cares about the middle class But he boasts 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 increase the taxes on the American people But this year he's undone outdone himself. Well, he maybe is undone himself, too He's already promised of course to raise your taxes But if he is to keep all the promises that he made to this group and that He will have to raise taxes by the equivalent of $1,890 for every household in the United States That's more than a hundred and fifty dollars dollars a month You know, it's like having a second mortgage a Mondale mortgage but his economic plan Has two basic parts one raise your taxes Two raise them again I've got news for him The American people don't want his tax increases and he isn't going to get his tax increase. Okay I'm game if you are you know I'm now beginning to see more clearly why last week my opponent said to the voters Let's forget about the past But it's not the past that worries us. It's the future and I'm even more concerned because now last week my opponent used another Familiar phrase from the past Trust me. He said Well, the last time we trusted his administration. They took five Count them five economic plans and nearly tripled inflation Or by contrast We trusted the people you and With just one economic program. We've cut inflation by two-thirds You know if my If my opponent's campaign were a television show it would be let's make a deal You get to trade your prosperity for the surprise he has behind the curtain Now if his campaign was a Broadway show, it would be called promises promises and if his administration Were a novel a book you'd have to read it from the back end to the front in order to get a happy ending he sees He sees in America in which every day is tax day April 15 And we see in America in which every day is Independence Day the 4th of July We want We want to lower your taxes and everybody's tax rates So that your families will 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 has been lost to communist aggression The United the United States is more secure than we were four years ago And yet My opponent my opponent sees a different world Sometime back he said the old days of a Soviet strategy of suppression by force are over That was just before the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia And after they invaded Afghanistan he said It just baffles me why the Soviets these last few years have behaved as they have But then there's so much that baffles him one year ago We liberated Grenada from communist thugs who had taken over that country my My opponent called what we did a violation of international law that erodes our moral authority to criticize the Soviets Well, there is nothing immoral about rescuing American students whose lives are in danger But by the time my opponent decided that action was justified those students were long since safe at home After the Sandinista revolution in Down there in Nicaragua, he praised it by saying winds of democratic progress are stirring where they have long been stifled But we know that the Sandinistas Immediately began to persecute the genuine believers in democracy and to export terror They went on to slaughter the mosquito indians by the thousands Abuse and deport church leaders slander the pope and move to kill free speech and practiced anti-Semitism Don't you think it's time for my opponent to stand up speak out and condemn the Sandinista crimes More recently he failed to repudiate the Reverend Jesse Jackson when he went to Cuba Stood with Fidel Castro and then said long live President Fidel Castro and Che Guevara But let me try to put this in perspective the 1984 election isn't just a partisan contest I was a Democrat once for a very long time for great share of my life but in those days Democratic leaders weren't the blame America first crowd His leaders were men like Harry Truman men who understood the challenges of their times They didn't reserve all their indignation for America They knew the difference between tyranny and freedom and they stood up for one and damned the other To all the good Democrats and I hope there are many presidents who respect that tradition. I say you are not alone We're asking you those of you who have found out this I found out for myself That I could no longer follow the leadership that had taken over that party We're asking you come walk with us down the new path of hope and opportunity and in a truly bipartisan way We will preserve and set the salvage if the salvation of this country now Catherine Sullivan made history an American woman walked in space and She returned to a 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 But again my opponent in the Senate Personally led the fight against the entire shuttle program and called it a horrible waste Well, we support the space shuttle and we've committed America to meet a great challenge To build a permanently manned space station and to do it within a decade I've probably been going on too long here and I Well, this isn't what you've been about four more years Now point is we were right when we made our great turn in 1980 We were 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 The United States of America was never meant to be a second-best nation Like our Olympic athletes this nation should set its sights on the stars and go for the gold If America if America could bring down inflation from twelve point four to four percent Then we can bring inflation down from four to zero point zero percent If lowering your tax rates led to the best expansion in 30 years And I think it was the key in that expansion Then we can lower them again and keep America growing into the 21st century If we could create six million new jobs in 21 months Then we can make it possible for every American young and old black or white who wants a job to find one if our States and municipalities can establish enterprise zones to create economic growth Then we can elect people to Congress who will free our enterprise zones bill From where it is buried in committee by Tip O'Neill and has been for two years So that we can provide hope and opportunity for the most distressed areas of America if If we can lead a revolution in technology and push back the frontiers of space Then we can provide our workers in industries old and new all that they need Because I believe with all my heart that if we give American workers the proper tools They can outproduce out-compete and outsell anybody anywhere in this world If our grassroots drive to restore excellence in education Could reverse a 20-year decline in scholastic aptitude test scores what you did Then we can keep raising those scores and restore American academic excellence second to none if If our crackdown on crime could produce the sharpest drop ever in the crime index as it did last year Then we can keep cracking down until our families and friends can walk our streets again without being afraid and if if we could reverse the decline in our military Defenses and restore respect respect for America and we have Then we can make sure this nation remains strong enough to protect freedom and peace for us for our children and for our children's children and 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 from the earth entirely Every once in a while in a crowd like this. I see some Signs I assume are unfriendly that refer to nuclear weapons and so forth. Well, let me tell you something I have said to a number of legislatures to parliaments in Countries around the world in Asia and in Europe. I've spoken to them and in every time I addressed them I have said a Nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought And if we can strengthen our economy strengthen our security and strengthen the values that bind us Then America will become a nation even greater in art and learning and greater in the love and worship of the God Who made us and who has blessed us as no other people in this earth have ever been blessed But right now I want to tell you something. I've seen all across the country and I see it here again today To the young people of our country Let me say that you are what this election is all about It's about you You and your future, you know, I Got cut off ran out of time in the debate a week ago Sunday So I'm gonna say here what I was good to say there And that is to the young people here today. Your generation is something special Your idealism your love of country are unsurpassed It is our highest duty to make certain that you have an America every bit as full of opportunity and hope and confidence and dreams As we had when we were your age Let me Let me let me just speak of Others here my generation and then there are a few other Generations between mine and yours new young people Well, we in those generations We grew up in an America where we took it for granted That this was the place where you could dream and if you had the will and the desire and the energy You could make your dreams come true. You could you could rise as high and Far as you your own strength would take you and this is the responsibility of all those several generations I mentioned other than yours the younger generation We have a sacred responsibility that when the time comes for us to turn the reins over to you We hand you an America that is free in a world that is at peace All of us together are a part of a great revolution and it's only just begun America must never give up its special mission in the world never There are new worlds on the horizon and we're not going to stop until we all get there together America's best days are yet to come I mentioned all those other candidates those members of Congress that are seeking re-election in this election year and urged you to see that they return to Washington and send them some more company and Make Tip O'Neill unhappy But also I've been trying very hard not to read the polls and don't you read them President Dewey told me we must never become overconfident so Get out the vote Make sure your neighbors get there to vote Don't anyone say well, I'm not needed. I'm not necessary stay home I know of elections that were lost by less than one half a vote per precinct in this country So turn out and vote, but then I want to just ask you something else You have honored me beyond anything I ever dreamed in my life Honored me by allowing me to serve you for these last four years. I ask your support I ask for your votes and your help In addition to my thanks for your wonderfully warm welcome and your support Let me just say and I know this will drive them up the wall You ain't seen nothing yet Let's give president Reagan a real Delaware County. Thank you. Let's see those signs go put them up put them up