 Mr. President, Walter Mondale says that you should look into these charges against Donovan and if there's anything to them he should resign. What's wrong with that? Well, let me take, first of all, let me make a statement. Please. You answered a question yesterday, and there was no time and it was not the place to answer that. I thought that probably during the day there would come an opportunity to answer. There didn't. So let me just make a statement your question had to do with secondary shocks. Who was responsible for Lebanon? Who was responsible for Lebanon? Secretary Schulz had acknowledged of responsibility himself on the air on Sunday. That was typical of George, and I appreciate it very much. But the answer to the question is, I am responsible. As I said that I was on the previous tragedy, I was responsible and no one else for our policy and our people being there. But shouldn't the President make that decision? On that same subject, the old saying, you know, you fool me once, my fault, fool me twice. Sorry, but the U.S. is three times now. These terrorist activities have been going on worldwide. They've taken place against our allies. They've taken place against Arab states, the Greeks, the British, the French, ourselves. And obviously there is an international effort going to try and find a way to apprehend to prevent these things from happening. But how do you, without knowledge beforehand of what a target is going to be or why someone who with no regard to who they kill is going to kill themselves and have to do this? We're doing everything we can to finally try to get an international movement that can give us better protection. You were pretty tough on Mr. Carter in 1980 when the Iranian hostage situation happened and now this has happened to us three times. No, Bill, they're a government with whom we had relations. A government allowed this to happen. There was no war or anything else with regard to the hostages. And all I criticized the previous administration about was for our abandonment of the Shah and our allowing what happened to happen. I think it is a blot on our record. You say you're responsible, sir, but are you to blame for lack of security? We are doing our utmost to provide security. But it wasn't enough. Of all of these places. No, it wasn't. And it wasn't because the threat had been while we were in a much less protected place and we moved ahead of schedule into this place where the defenses were only about 75% complete. Mr. President, you say that you take responsibility, but shouldn't the people who actually made the decisions be held accountable? No, I'm not going to deliver somebody's head up on a platter, which seems to be the request of so many with things like this happening. So there'll be no blame finding here, sir? No, we've had an investigation. There was no evidence of any carelessness or anyone not performing their duty. Case closed as far as you're concerned, sir? Can we ask that about Donald Trump? Well, the case on terrorism will never be solved. Walter Mondale says that you should immediately have someone investigate these charges and if there's anything to them, Donovan should step down completely and resign. What's wrong with that? Well, he has already had a complete investigation on a great many charges, this through a grand jury, and he does not know, nor do any of us know, what is in the indictment or what he's being charged with. But I'm going to then take the great many questions on this. I'm going to say one thing about this. There's a tradition in the law of our land that's as old as this country, that you are innocent until you're proven guilty. And Secretary Donovan took the step voluntarily of absenting himself and taking a leave of absence without pay, while this issue was revolved and resolved, and I accept that. How can you, sir, have this look having a cabinet officer under indictment? There's hardly any precedent for that. I don't think there are many precedents for all the attacks and assaults that have been made on so many people by administration, with allegations and charges that were without any foundation in fact, and which were later revealed as having no foundation in fact, that people were cleared. There's a kind of a linch atmosphere in that. Now I can't say that about what has taken place here, and I can't comment. It's before the courts, it is now a matter of law, and so I won't comment further on that. Except to say that he, remind all of you, he is innocent and best proven guilty. Do you think it might be politics? He says it's politics. Do you believe this is political as part of the politics of the court? I'm not going to comment on that. That would be violating what I just said. It's before the courts, it's before the law. Well, Secretary Donovan commented on it. He seems to believe there's some kind of political vendetta here. He is the man who's charged, and I'm not going to comment. Why do you say that you get in the limousine? I mean, the Democrats can say this is part of the sleaze factor. Will this hurt you politically, the Donovan case? The only sleaze factor that I've seen in all of the things that have been going on in these four years, if there is one, is on the other side, with their baseless charges and accusations that have all been proven false. Mr. President, how long will Raymond Donovan remain your flavor secretary? How can you say you still have confidence in his integrity when you don't know what's in the indictment, sir? I'm going to wait and see what the courts decide. How long will he remain your flavor secretary, sir? I have not had a chance to talk with you. Why not? You know where I've been and what I've been doing. No telephone, President. You get some clear disaster area here. With the gratitude of all of us, we are elated to have you in our midst. You certainly dignified this institution of higher learning. Mr. President, as you look around, you are indeed blessed among women. All these lovely ladies here are nursing students of ours. We also have a nursing instructor. We're very proud of the work they're doing. Essentially, Mr. President, through the cooperative funding of the Health and Human Service Department, this project holds. Texas Outpost College, in partnership with business, industry, and commerce, as well as private foundations, will enable eight colleges to develop a network of health training programs along the United States border with Mexico. This project will train individuals in the health careers, which currently are undersupplied in which, when filled, will provide needed health services to areas which traditionally have been underserved. It thus directly fulfills the objective of reducing unemployment, and given the close relationship between income and health, indirectly affects the health status level in the area. The program is targeted to those allied health professions in which there is both need and effective demand. Here at our institution, these are the medical lab technology, the respiratory therapy technology, the x-ray technology, and nursing skills. Mr. President, thank you for giving us the opportunity to help ourselves via the medium of education. You have provided us with the opportunity to attain work which provides dignity to all people. Mr. President, I'd like to introduce to you the Dean of the Vocational Technical Department here at our institution, Mr. Pat Hobbs, who's going to give us, will provide you with the dynamics of our program. Mr. Hobbs. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a distinct pleasure for me to brief you today on our newly awarded Health and Human Services Grant for Allied Health Education, which your Southwest Border Initiative Task Force helped us to attain. I feel obligated to congratulate you at this point on your professional staff. Your advanced teams, your staff, your service personnel have all been most courteous and professional, and above all helpful in assisting us in making this a pleasant visit for you. Your visit to the Valley points up to your interest in not only seeing firsthand where the largest portion of the federal funds for this grant are to be spent and for what, but also your expressed interest in better health care for the border region, more employment, and better living conditions for this needy area of the country. These students with whom you are sitting are part of a large number of recipients of this new proposal. These vocational nursing students are in the concentrated one-year training programs and have high hopes of becoming health providers for the Valley in the near future. Our plans are to duplicate what you see here and what you will see later in the laboratory setting, move that home, 20, 66 miles up the Valley, and duplicate so we expand greatly our service area. Consistent with your philosophy, Mr. President, this project is an example of private and public partnership. Your administration is providing $1.5 million, enabling the project to begin. Project Hope is providing its expertise and is currently raising private sector funds to match this federal contribution. The colleges are contributing their educational and administrative expertise and are augmenting their health budgets so that the objectives are reduced on employment and better health care are realized. This cooperative grant uses the expertise of all these agencies to attack poverty through manpower development in distressed areas. Distressed areas here in Texas, in Arizona, in California, where unemployment ranges from 15 to 60 percent, where there are other economic hardships and health problems. And to top it all off, our neighboring country has just experienced a pestle evaluation which directly impacts our economy. It is the thrust of this proposal to develop a network of health training programs in order to submit a shift between a population's health and its record technician to specialize in health training, the health jobs which each community identifies as critical in their area. In addition to the job opportunities afforded by the training aspects of this grant, there are some other positive results expected. Number one, increased level of health services and increase in health implementation of this proposal isn't being the overall proposal attribute. I'll say, and I think almost any reasonable person would agree, that this proposal attacks them, preserve and enhance self-reliance and private sector initiative in our border area. They and their community health agencies determined to be most needed at this time in their respective areas. TSC, naturally we're first, will be expanding three health programs in the Upper Valley region, concentrating the instructional segments in McAllen hospitals and the clinical instruction that goes along with the health program spread all over the Valley region. This map demonstrates the scope of the proposal and its potential effect on 24 Valley cities. Proposal will make our existing programs in medical, ad tech, radiology and respiratory therapy available in the Upper Valley and prevent our economically disadvantaged students that want these programs and haven't traveled as much as 120 miles per day to take care of our programs or take advantage of our programs down here in Brownfield. So it's a gigantic step as far as expanding our service area to cover the whole valley. Also at TSC, something that these LBN students will particularly enjoy once we get it in place is a computer assistant learning center where all LLL students in a variety of programs will be able to use microcomputers to self-teach themselves health lessons that they either miss because they're absent or they've been instructed in them but they didn't quite get the full content. And keep in mind that their programs are tough. We admire anybody who gets in them and stays in them for the duration because they are highly concentrated and highly technical. So these computers are expected to help them quite a bit and help us a lot in the giant step forward. Our portion of the grant alone will provide for as many as 37 new trainees per year with more than 160 students per year using that computerized learning lab. We are particularly happy that this proposal will allow us to carry on much-needed research and testing on how to attract more students to allied health programs, make sure that a larger number of them stay in the program once we enroll them and the best ways to get them placed on the job once they complete the program. This is the purpose of our recruitment and placement component of the grant. With us next to South Lewis College, an American University in Edinburgh will begin new programs in physical therapy, substance abuse counselors and specialized R&D nurses. The LBNs with whom you're sitting now will have a chance to expand their education by specializing later on in a particular nursing specialty if they so desire. T-S-D-I up the valley in Harlingen has planned to expand its medical records program into a full-blown degree in medical records technician. And they also will begin training students in how to repair and maintain the sophisticated biomedical electronic equipment which it takes to run a modern hospital today. Laredo Junior College, way up the border, will install new programs in physical therapy, paramedics and continuing education for current health care professionals. They've had their first program offering already in that field time management for health professionals which attracted 130 participants just last month. They will also be working on a recruitment retention and placement component and we will share the results of their research. All in all, we expect to use 14 or more valley health facilities in our combined effort for better health standards for our area. Now, if you will, Mr. President, please accompany Dr. DeStado and myself down the hall to get a first-hand look at what we do here in health education and maybe talk to some of our students about their training. They're anxiously awaiting their visit. Thank you very much. Here we have the reverse side. This is so much better. What we did there is we tested for the president of the group and here we're looking for the presence of the antibodies and the cells will pop because you might be on the people that are type O will clump both of these because they will have an antibody clump over here for type O and they have to agree. I have to find out now what happens after that. We're gonna draw your blood the same way though. We're gonna make sure that the patient is a little bit warm. This is part of the south of DeStado River. Now that they're talking to each other, this is part of the muscle. How many people are there? Anyone here from San Juanito? Very good, very good. Let's give them a big hand, please. Of education, Dr. Manuel, who gave us a commencement day address, and we are very happy for this type of condition. I want to thank each and every one of you again to visit one of the most spirited campuses I've seen. I was taking it back. It's the kind of question you don't often hear a little said that I just felt if they remembered that I gave the government back to the people. I've had some special problems but that's out of the American Renaissance. Things are better in many cities in our country, but it's not enough and we've got to do better. There are so many things left to do, so much of the future. We must continue to keep forcing personal tax rates down. That's right, brother. And believe me, there are students who really need that help and their student loans haven't been cut. To increase the $3,000 the grant is for the truly needed. Those who can do it on their own shouldn't be taking the money we need. And how far is it from you? And I will say I've never regretted it for one minute. We're back in the Great Depression, so had to do it all. But I was washing dishes in the girls' dormitory. And the people in the towns of the valley will make a comeback. Happening in Brownsville that has happened in much of the rest of the nation. Let me say in closing that even though we can face in God and respect for the family, society at large, we're nothing without the family. And we've tried to reflect that knowledge in all that we've done in the past few years. Just one more thing. I know that many never want to be a bully for a graduate, but it's important to show the people of the world that we stand for something and we're proud of it. Once again, they have it at ease. The men and women who protect this country never do. We're saluting them again. And around half of the seat, one of those young men and women in uniform, you know how proud they make us. I think you feel just great after you did it, and I know they feel great. Born in the new citizens of the United States. I always wondered, I thought that this is still and will be hearing them always, one nation under God with love. Thank you very much for inviting me. A horse to go with that saddle, but we figured you couldn't get it on the plane. So they put these boots, these boots have two characteristics. Number one, they're high boots, and you're going to need them for the next five weeks. I suggest that I have a ranch where you, you know, I just walk around and look at the scenery or something. And they've made the mistake of saying that in front of Nancy one day. From morning till dusk. Any afternoon and do what I do. I like working on the ranch. How huge is it? Thank you very much. In Texas, and I have continued to wave proudly. I promise that if you so honored me, I would do my very best to help all of you to make America strong again. I have more to do, but I think we're headed in the right direction. And I think this election offers the clearest choice in fifth. Is any scheme for raising this campaign? Well, I think he's a little confused. Let me, let me know you don't want greater taxes. Raising taxes will not stimulate investment. Raising taxes will not give business the incentive to innovate and to make their companies more competitive. America doesn't need higher taxes. America doesn't need my opponent to rescue us. Warned us that cutting tax rates would lead to super inflation. Well, now that our economy is strong and growing, they're a little stuck so they tell us now it won't last. Well, I think it's about time we quit listening to politicians and so-called economic experts who keep selling America short. Proud and free. Now, I think there are those still around who certainly maybe agree with Ben Franklin's suggestion for our national burden. That would be a safer America because no one would have anything to fear from us. Well, no one has anything to fear from us if they mind their own business. We're educated. They're more dead as long as I'm president. We're not going to quibble about supplying the weapons and the equipment that they need to do the job they're doing. I think the government would like us to believe by restoring America's military strength, which the previous administration of political leadership would protect our national interests. And it means not shirking our responsibility to protect our children's future, even when it might be easier to ignore a potential threat. So I'm proud to say that we've prevented a major catastrophe. What's this lady doing? And it was so wonderful that all of those young men, all of us came back, all the combat forces came back, tampered by obstacles thrown on our path by some rebels in the Democratic Party. And please don't, I said some. It's important that we elect right-thinking men and women to the Congress. And that's why it's all so vital for you to see the young people here in the crowd So on election day, voting polls. God bless you all, and I know I've got to get back on that airplane out there, but this has been wonderful. I'd love you to come out here and I thank you all very much. If tomorrow all the things were gone for my life and I had to start again with just my children and my wife I'd thank my hate because the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take and I won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and I gladly stand her still today because there ain't no doubt I love this land lakes in Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee across the plains of... Here's the gentleman. Take your piece and pursue it. You'll never give up. The foundation stone of how this choose life. You'll protect this nation. You'll protect the president. I am startling today and starting once and for all those politicians who gave us economic decline and national malice. Productive citizens with red tape we must bend to unleash the most productive power the world has ever known. The genius and energy of the American people is what we made of this particular march and we'll truly have a bipartisan victory that will set this country to go.