thank you governor romney the joint efforts of detroit michigan provided double assurance of the financial ability and stability of detroit usa to put on the finest celebration of any city in the financing but also firm resolve on the part of the entire community can do resolve rooted in a can do record of comparable achievement before a city can properly host and handle the olympic games it must  understand fully what those games are and always have been and always must be if the basic ideal of the olympiad is to be properly preserved and presented the olympics are far more than a major athletic event it is vitally important to perpetuate the ageless ideal behind the game and the larger role they play in kindling the flame of international peace important as those practical considerations are detroit usa has the people who know the importance of following through just as we have always followed through in times of world national and community ne we are proud of our record of getting big jobs seemingly on doable jobs it's a record i'm surpassed by any city anywhere in the world but not surprising when you consider that detroit pulls one of the world's greatest reservoirs of organizational talent the kind of man the country and the community have called on before to move mountains and to ask only where would you like the move to and by when these men are attracted to detroit by the unique demands of america's number one industry the pivot point of the nation's economy the kind of men who like nothing better than being told something can't be done because they've never done it before for example it was said that no city could ever go ordinated various charitable fund raising efforts into a single unified drive and realize anywhere near the money needed detroit did it and is still doing detroit's united foundation torch drive has raised more money for charity than any city in the world twenty million dollars last year a lot more important detroit has surpassed its goal every year without a single years exception for fourteen consecutive years and unparalleled examples of follow through on every level of detroit civic and business like remember in one nine hundred forty five when the big job was to get the national economy back on course there were dire predictions from every quarter that detroit couldn't reconvert its assembly lines to peacetime needs and peacetime production almost overnight to get the country back on the road detroit did that to gaining a reputation for its ability to shift its gears under the press of deadline and the pressure of need we remember the time when it was said that detroit because of its preoccupation with building cars could never become a cultural center detroit has not only attracted as residents celebrated sculptors and artists internationally famous architects writers and musicians it has become a showplace for their works the arts at large in the world's most beautiful theater the brand new fisher many of the season's biggest hits filled this auditorium to capacity prior to opening in new york  beautiful acoustically perfect forward auditorium is the home of the world famous detroit symphony orchestra and detroit is host to and supports the metropolitan opera of cultural high point which some said detroiters would never attend big jobs in nineteen sixty detroit got one million four hundred thousand people to come and look at its cars by hosting the most successful national automobile show in history can detroit usa do all that needs to be done by nine hundred sixty eight in order to ready itself fully for the olympic games already the big job is in the hands of the people three hundred twenty two ranking members of the detroit community are hard at work as a committee and underway to get the big job done arose detroiters everywhere are making their voices heard sending in petitions by the thousands upon thousands pledging their support as a group and as individuals detroit citizens with their flair for organization are rolling up their sleeves picking up the job of telling the detroit story our man like mr john f gordon president of general motors corp mr henry ford second chairman of the board ford motor company mr lim townsend president chrysler corporation and mr richard krause chairman of the board the american motors corporation great strength has been added to detroit sped by the able in response the leadership demonstrated by our governor will by rallying bipartisan support affirm the spirit of community cohesion that exists between detroit and michigan now i'd like to ask governor romney to conclude our presentation a champion must not only have the ability to win but the will to win and certainly the study of it is host of the olympics must have the same two things detroit has demonstrated beyond doubt that it has the resources and facilities where and shape to move but let me emphasize that we have much more to offer than physical facilities detroit's the city of champions the whole world knows that the trite is the american city whose products have revolutionized our way of living and only in michigan when you find the man and women whose talent made us the arsenal of democracy in wartime and the economic pace setter in peacetime we not only have a firm program to finance the finest the lympics unaware and the talent to organize them but we also have the united will to those of our will to win has made us champions we've proved by actions and not words that most are going to detroit are responsible and resourceful and are entitled to the designation we received last fall we have rallied there's never before in recent history we have the tools we have the spirit we have the people to do the job in keeping with the classic tradition of the olympiad your committee is meeting here today because of this been claimed that michigan and detroit are financially unable to carry on a successful olympiad that we can't make good on our promises that we are unworthy of your faith and trust in our originally designating detroit the issue of reconsideration faces you are the decision just as vital to our as the question of whether or not the troy shall be the united states site for the olympians it also has a moral and ethical aspect you were asked to reconsider your decision on the grounds that we are not financially or otherwise able to put on the olympic games that our plans are only paper plans that we either don't intend or are not able to do what we have said we will do in other words it's not in our simple question of whether detroit should be selected as a site it's also a question of whether detroit is capable of being aside the meeting here today is not because some other side has come forward to claim that it could do a better job than detroit and michigan in putting on the olympics but rather because it was claimed that detroit and michigan were not worthy to be considered i'm sure you'll agree that this is an unsportsmanlike attack i believe you can see that if for some reason your a limp a com sportsmanship for the fairness and honor that is the essence of the olympics it would confirm the attacks that have been made it would enjoy ross irreparably gentleman to the designee i solemnly assure you that we will not fail you in any way and that we will surprise you with our our standing handling of the on the basis of our detroit olympic presentation made before the united states olympic committee in new york this presentation played a major part in winning put it roy the right to be the host city for the united states when it goes before the international olympic committee in