I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to come to America's heartland to talk about America's future. As you know, I come from a city that gets beat up on quite a bit. Politicians condemn it.
Comedians ridicule it.
And, even Cabinet Secretaries have been known at times to express their frustrations with our nation's Capital. But Washington has its moments and places of beauty. We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. I mention Lincoln because today we celebrate his birthday. And I mention Lincoln, because, he was the first American president to be stolen away by an assassin's bullet.