 Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, and Mrs. Ray. As you know, I'll be speaking at dinner in just a couple of hours, so I'll keep these if you want to agree. It's a funny thing, but when gravity is called for, I often find myself thinking one of my favorite presidents. One who's a portrait I had hung in the cabin room when we got here, Calvin Coolidge. Just before Coolidge left the White House, his Vermont neighbors decided to honor him with a beautiful hand named Ray. The order of the representative, Ray, dwelled at the elaborate length on the qualities of hickory, hickory wood from which the rake had been made. Like the president, he said, hickory is sturdy, strong, resilient, unbroken. When he finally finished handing the rake to Coolidge, the audience settled back for the president's speech of acknowledgment. Coolidge joined the rake over, looked at it carefully, and said one word, ash. I wanted to say a special word of thanks to you who have made a special contribution to this evening and to the cause that all of us believe in. Dinner chairman, David Murdoch, you've done a magnificent job. Watch this, congressional committee chairman, Guy Esther Jack, I know you do a magnificent job too of extending that money. Proceeds from this splendid evening will go to a cause that could hardly and are more important to the future of our nation. Giving George Bush a Congress he can work with. I greet you all. But please know that I mean it from my heart when I say, for all you've done to make these eight years possible, Nancy and I, thank you. I see some new faces, too. That's good news for our party, for our principles, because the time has come for us to look to the future. The coming election will decide whether these eight years were only some sort of aberration, or whether they were the beginning of a new era of strength and prosperity. I have a feeling you share my views, but let me just ask you, isn't it worth our every effort to make sure that George Bush can finish the job that we began? So before I really get going, there will be a dinner tonight. Besides having seen from the way that most of you were dressed, Nancy and I need to go upstairs and change. We're convened to live in over the shop. President Coolidge returned from speaking at a convention where a stream stopped in a small town for coal and water, and a crowd gathered to see him. Coolidge squirmed his hair, straightened his jacket, and looked out to the observation platform, and the crowd applauded Mrs. Coolidge at the end of the girlvation. And a local master of ceremony shouted, I need folks to keep quiet. I'm an absolute silence. The president is going to address us. Just then, it was a hiss of air as the brakes were released, and the train began to roll gently out of the station. President Coolidge raised his hand up high and said, bye. Bye. The words of President Coolidge.