 Yeah, I don't have a picture. 16 phones with five messages. No, I'm not. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Huh. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, as you know, we just came from Milwaukee and being that close, I just couldn't fly by Minnesota, particularly when I know our opponent spending so much time in California. We're here to let the people of this great state know how much we care and that George Bush and I would be honored to have their vote on Tuesday. In the very beginning, we've been running a national campaign, taking our cause all over America. Everyone knows that we've never written off any state, nor taken any state for granted. And even more important, we'll never take the voters for granted. When people enter the voting booth, that's the most private and protected moment of them all. I don't want this election to end without every American and I sincerely mean all of them knowing that we would like their support to continue the work that we're doing. Now I've seen some of these poll results just as you have. The last time I looked up at Mount Rushmore, I didn't see President Dewey's face there. So today, once again, we want to urge our supporters to get out to the polls, to take their neighbors to do all that's possible to see that our message gets to the people. And when they get to the polls, we would appreciate their support for the reelection of Minnesota's strong and effective Senator, Rudy Boschowitz. I need Rudy back in Washington again, as well as the two fine congressional candidates, Pat Truman and Keith Spicer. And Keith is here with us today. We need help to get tax rates down even lower, not up. We need help to keep America strong and always prepared for peace. We need help to keep control over the growth of government so that we get back to the first principles in America. Here, the people are in charge. We need your help to get our initiatives passed into law, a balanced budget amendment, a line item veto, enterprise zones and tuition tax credits. We need the help of every citizen to keep alive the fire of hope in America, to make opportunity our national watchword so that we'll go into the next decade and the next century, a strong, prosperous and united nation which will give the next generation the fullest of freedom in a world of peace. End of statement. I don't think of it as running up the score. The Gipper would never quit before the final whistle. I just have to tell you that I have seen some of these reports and rumors about what is being considered. I have seen no report as yet directly from those who are working on the idea of tax reform. I know that the instructions to them are we want a simplification. We want no increase in rates in the individual. It's impossible to broaden the tax base to get some of that $100 billion that isn't presently being paid by people who owe it. I'm going to wait until I have the package in front of me and what the recommendations are. But, again, as I say, one of the instructions is this is not to become a guise for increasing taxes on the individuals more than- You're still holding up. I have no idea that anything of that kind would be recommended to me. I think that would have to be proven to me that there was some excuse for doing such a thing. I don't believe that there is. I don't see why the government should be giving people money and then go through the expensive process of taking some of it away from them again. No, not the people presently paying taxes having their taxes increased. If there would be any increase in government's revenues, it would be in the broadening of the base to where we would then be getting some of the money that, as I say, is presently not being paid to the government. It's been estimated by many people that the amount is probably in the neighborhood of $100 billion of tax that is being avoided in the United States. Now, those people who are honestly paying their taxes should not be penalized for that. And if there is a way that we can get some of that money that's not being paid, we're going to try to do it. I've said many times, Bill, that there is no intention in our part whatsoever of troops going into Latin America any place or any military help of that kind, nor has it been asked by anyone in Latin America. As a matter of fact, I think they would be very much opposed to it. They've expressed that feeling to us. But on the other hand, should a president ever be in the position of perhaps encouraging more aggression down there by making such a statement? I'm just going to tell you that we have no plans whatsoever or any desire to put forces into Latin America. This would be in the manner of helping them as we have been helping in the past. And we've proposed a plan or had a plan proposed that we've adopted, and that is the plan from the bipartisan Kissinger-Hell shared commission that calls for over a five-year program of economic and social aid for about three-fourths of the amount and about one-fourth to help them with their security by providing arms, training, and so forth. And we think that plan is what we want to follow. Yes, because the Sandinista government is still supporting the guerrillas that are fighting against the duly elected government of El Salvador. Well, I'm glad you asked that because no one's ever bothered to ask. I was sitting in a room, granted, I should have been aware that there are no secrets. I was sitting in a small room, ready to do my radio broadcast with a few of my own people around me. And actually, I meant it as a kind of a satirical blast against those who were trying to paint me as a warmonger. So having to do a soundcheck, I simply said that for the soundman's benefit. I didn't know until later that a line had been opened because one of you here complained, one of the TV networks or radio networks had complained that their line to the location was giving them some trouble. I have to say that whatever my sin was in making a joke of that kind, even though it was intended in private for only a few people, I don't think that was any greater sin than the media then broadcasting it worldwide in such a way that it could create an incident. It wasn't, whether it was right or wrong to make it, it was made in the privacy of a room and a few people close to me that I believe it would not go any further and it was just in the spur of the moment I had to say something and you get tired sometimes of counting to 10 as a voice check and so forth. But all right, I shouldn't have said it, but I will further emphasize the media also shares in a responsibility for our national security and I don't think they should have spread it. They weren't intended to hear it. Who was here? Helen? And they think that because they do not know nor have they been told nor have we been able to get the message to them of how much has been done and I will charge right now that no administration previous to ours has done as much, has filed as many criminal charges for violation of the civil rights law, has done as much with regard to the helping of the historic black colleges and universities. So I could go on with more things that we've done as a matter of fact in our present employment training act. That is aimed, enterprise zones would be aimed very predominantly in a number of areas in the country at those people. The small business support, the fact that we have directed government contractors to use minority-owned firms and that goes in the military too, in the subcontractors and defense and we've vastly increased anything that has ever been done in these stimulation and development of minority-owned businesses. Well, in the areas where we've been and in the cities that we've campaigned in, there's no block to anyone being present, but doesn't it indicate that just what I've said we're well aware that the overwhelming majority have been misled as to what our administration represents in regard to their interests. But we also know that all of those who do know of what we've done are highly supportive of us and are doing a lot to help try to get the message to the rest of the minority groups. But I will match our record against, as I've said, that of any other administration. But listen, I think that what's just been suggested to me here is right. You people have at me other times, where is a chance for, no, for the local press? What? Good. What is my reaction to the? Well, I'm quite sure that, you know, this isn't going to be a scoreless game on the other side. And of course, the supporters are coming out and I would expect them to do that. And I'm not paying any attention to the polls. That's why I'm still campaigning right down to the wire as hard as I can. Well, let me just say something else that no one's paid any attention to. If you add up the total time that I have done with regard to the press corps standing under the airplane wing out there, meetings of that kind, that total time, since Labor Day, would amount to about six regular 30-minute press conferences. So the fact that we haven't called it a formal press conference and done it in the East Room of the White House, I think that that sort of belies the fact that I'm in a cocoon and that I am not available to the media. I was just going to cut this off and I should have before that last question. Now I understand that he was referring to some hecklers in the crowd and all I know is that the vice president has been doing a yeoman job throughout the country in his campaigning and I'm deeply indebted to him and I believe him when he says that he was referring to hecklers in the crowd. And sometimes you do get a little impatient with some of them. Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, Mr. President, and you haven't been to Montenegro, Minnesota before, and you're president of the cynicism? Isn't cynicism? I just, I just wasn't going to forego the chance here. I haven't intervened much in the logistics. I have left it to those people who are planning campaigns as to where we go and we can't go every place, but as I say, we weren't going to miss this opportunity when we were this close. But now I've got to get going because there's a lot of people down in St. Louis waiting. What? What? What's this? Why don't you go to Northlose, Minnesota? Oh, I didn't want to offend him. We're going to hear about Black and the Arab, Emilio and I have Black, Hispanic like me that have been chosen to show the support in your political policy in Latin America and then people say that you have no support of the Black. What about the Black naturalized America from Cuba, from Santo Domingo, from all Latin America? Who are people who like and value others and new values, you know? And so for you, are they counted or not? They sure count with me. I'm glad that you made the statement here and I hope that everyone recognized what you've just said. Thank you. God bless you. All right. Thank you. It's a little bit mixed emotions. There's a certain amount of nostalgia with it, but it's sort of like you felt coming up to your last football game of the season and knowing you weren't going to play football anymore. I think that it would mean a great deal to the farmers because I'm well aware of what their problems have been and the problems they're suffering right now. Those problems were the result of 21.5% interest rates of double digit inflation for two years in a row and of a very ill-advised grain embargo. And I don't think enough has been done in the past with regard to trade in other commodities. We have been working throughout the world now to stimulate markets. We cancel the grain embargo, as you know, and certainly inflation has come down in interest rates and both must come down farther. But all of this is aimed at helping. We're trying to develop world markets for our farm products and the fact that we sold 23 million bushels or metric tons, I should say not bushels, metric tons to the Soviet Union alone last year and have extended this to make another 10 million available right now for them. We've been dealing with Southeast Asia and with our trading partners, Japan. I estimate that the sale of American beef to Japan will probably double over the next four years as a result of things we've worked out with them already. I think that the farmers should take a look at where they were under the previous administration and how little was done for them and how much was done to them and decide that maybe we're embarked on a different course. What? The only thing that I could ever see of the use of a grain embargo would be if this country were imposing a total boycott of everything in which everybody in the country would participate. But to pick the farmers out as they did for the people who were then going to participate in a boycott that was decidedly unfair and it was shooting ourselves in the foot.