From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.bush,alt.politics.clinton,alt.politics.elections,talk.politics.misc
Subject: SPEECH: Barbara Franklin at RNC 92
Summary: Remarks by Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:40:45 GMT
Followup-To: alt.rush-limbaugh
Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

This is the transcript of remarks made by Secretary of Commerce Barbara
Franklin at the Republican National Convention. Spelling errors are my
own. Please distribute freely to all your friends. :)

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Remarks by Secretary of Commerce Barbara Franklin
Tue Aug 18 1992
Houston Astrodome, Houston TX
Republican National Convention

Thank you, thank you thank you all. Thank you all very much.

Governor Thomas, thank you for that fine introduction. Mr. Chairman,
fellow members of the Cabinet, Governors, Republican delegates,
especially those from my home state of Pennsylvania [cheers] and those
from my adopted home state of Connecticut [cheers] and may I say to
those of you watching at home on television <<or reading on the network>>
what a great honor and privilege it is for me to stand before you
tonight.

Shortly after the President nominated me to his Cabinet, someone said to
me, Lynn Martin at the Labor Department, Carla Hills as Trade
Representative, and now you as Commerce Secretary; three women in such
important positions. Now that takes courage [cheers] and a friend
standing by me quickly replied, that's not courage; that's wisdom.

[Cheers. Applause]

Fortunately we have been led these past four years by a man possessing
both courage and wisdom. A leader who knows that an America engaged in
the world creates jobs and prosperity here at home. That man is the
President of the United States George Bush.

[Cheers, applause]

More than any President in history, George Bush has opened markets and
promoted exports of American goods and services, and under President
Bush, Commerce has become America's new front line [applause <<huh?>>]
for jobs and economic growth. Just look at how the President's global
achievements are benefitting Americans at home.

We are the world's number one exporter. [Cheers. Applause] Last year
alone Americans exported $422 billion worth of "made in America"
products to Japan, to Germany, to Mexico, to Canada, and to all points
around the globe. [Applause] For Americans, these exports translate into
jobs, good jobs. Each $1 billion worth of exports supports over 19,000
American jobs, and our manufacturing workers are the most productive in
the world. Every employed person produces an average of $46,000 worth of
product every year.

We are the leaders in technology. We are the world's most creative and
innovative people, and our special brand of entrepreneurship is uniquely
American. This is where George Bush has led us.

[Cheers, applause]

President Bush has a clear plan to help America succeed in this new
challenge. He has proposed an economic growth package to spur new
investments and new ideas. He has fought for the most far-reaching job
training proposal in decades -- Job Training 2000, a program that would
give millions of Americans a helping hand. He has lobbied hard to reform
our legal system especially the outdated product liability laws that
hamper America's entrepreneurs and keep good products off the shelves
[cheers] and he's working to sweep away many of the regulatory shackles
that strangle and ensnare our businesses.

There is a key difference betweeen our President and his opponent. The
President's opponent has no experience with the challenges of a rapidly
changing world. None. Indeed his whole vision of commerce has been
shaped while on the government payroll.

When President Bush looks at our free enterprise system, he sees a
chance to create, a chance to build, a chance for every American to
improve his or her life. But when the President's opponent looks at
America's free enterprise system, he sees a chance to regulate, a chance
to dictate, and a chance to tax, tax, tax. [Applause] The President's
opponent has nothing to offer but the same old liberal program
repackaged in blow-dried rhetoric.

Now is that someone you want to trust with your future? I don't either,
and that is the choice for America this fall. Do we turn our lives over
to a smooth-talking, slick-looking dandy with no experience? Or do we
put our trust in President Bush, a leader of proven ability and
experience, a Commander-in-Chief who has led us to peace and now will
open new doors to prosperity?

The American people know the answer, and that is why we will return
George Bush to the White House for four more years. [Cheers, applause]
Thank you.
*** END *** 
-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck		eyc@acpub.duke.edu
Biomedical Engineer 1993	Never take me too seriously.
I don't have to have a 4.0 GPA to succeed in life because I'm 
good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.