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Thank you, and, Mayor PERSON-and I thank him; he is the donor of that jacket which I am very proud to have-Commissioner PERSON, Senator PERSON, Congressman PERSON, and PERSON, together with the residents of this great city, you are reminding all NORP of what is right and good about our people and our country. My hat is off to GPE and its police force for their dedicated and often thankless battle against crime. And I congratulate ORG for caring enough about its community that it sponsors the New York Crime Fighters Award program. I understand that MONEY in those prize moneys that Mr. PERSON mentioned have been given out so far, and that is quite an investment in our collective peace of mind. By working together, the city and ORG are another example of how our public and private institutions can be made even more effective in improving the quality of our lives. But most of all, I want to thank these citizens here for-they are everyday NORP-thank them for their courage in unexpected circumstances and for their becoming heroes they were. You know, someone once said that a hero is not braver than anyone else. I do not know whether that is the answer or not, but PERSON bless them all. And those who say we are in a time when there are no heroes, they just do not know where to look. They certainly have not been flipping through the pages of ORG lately. I wish all our people could read, as I have, the accounts of your individual acts of heroism. In each case you seem to think you acted as anyone else would have in the same situation. And you spoke from your hearts about how we all depend on one another. If somebody needs help, we should try to help out. Well, when you read how the PERSON brothers chased down a purse-snatcher wielding a knife; how Mrs. PERSON, a grandmother, collared a pickpocket by his neck scarf and gave him the back of her hand until the police arrived-I liked the picture of that one more than anything- -and how Rabbi PERSON immobilized a mugger armed with a machete; you realize there is nothing very average about the average NORP. Sometimes I have accused some of our political opponents of referring so much about the common man, and I prefer to think that most NORP are pretty uncommon.

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Whatever successes this administration has had in combating global poverty, PERSON gets a lot of credit. I will spend some time talking about our responsibility as government to address global poverty. It is a responsibility we take seriously, and it is a responsibility that PERSON carried out in his distinguished tenure as the Secretary of ORG of our country. I want to thank you for being a friend, and thank you for your service to the country. Thank you all for allowing me to come by to speak. I appreciate the cofounders and the leaders of the ORG effort. I want to thank you for having this summit. Thank you for being what I call social entrepreneurs, people who care about the plight of other people. Across the globe, CARDINAL people live on MONEY a day. That should be a troubling statistic to all NORP. They lead lives of hunger; they lead lives of desperation. That struggle ought to inspire us here in GPE. It is inspired you; it ought to inspire all our citizens. I want to thank you for lending your expertise and your funds to address problems alongside your Government. PERSON said, You know, this is not a governmental effort; it is not a business effort; it is not an NGO effort; it is a combined effort by a lot of compassionate hearts to address a significant problem. And so I am here to thank you for your commitment and to let you know, we are pleased to stand with you. I want to thank PERSON, who traveled with me DATE. Maybe you do not know who she is, but you will soon, because she just got sworn in as the new Trade Representative for GPE. So who do you pick to be the Trade Minister? Well, you pick somebody who is a good negotiator, for starters, somebody who understands that opening markets is in our national interest and that when you open a market, you make sure-as we open our markets, you make sure you are treated fairly. That is what we want. We want to be able to tell the NORP people that free trade is good for our country, but fair trade means that it is responsible. And so she understands that. She will be a good, hard negotiator, but she also understands something I understand, and that is, trade is one of the best ways to help lift people out of poverty. I am going to talk about that in a little bit.

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I am sorry PERSON could not be with me here. She is a-she is a person who cares deeply about the suffering in places like the continent of Africa. When she travels, she brings the message to the people there that a lot of NORP care deeply about ENTITY or care deeply about hunger or malaria. She sends her greetings. I am lucky she said yes when I asked her to marry me. I think this country is lucky to have her as an ambassadress for the good hearts of the NORP people. I thank PERSON and General PERSON, former Senator PERSON, PERSON, cofounders of ORG. I thank the members who are here as well. I appreciate Ambassador PERSON. He had a pretty easy job there in GPE at CARDINAL time. I asked him to-I asked him-I said, Look, PERSON, you have got management skills, and you care; why do not you serve your country, see; why do not you come here to GPE, and put up with all the rhetoric and the noise and the sharp elbows and do something for people around the world? He ran the-he ran our ENTITY/ENTITY initiative, and he did a really good job. GPE is on the leading edge of fighting ENTITY/ENTITY, and one of the reasons we are effective is because of PERSON. See, I got a place in GPE where I can fish. I think you got one in GPE, do not you? Yes, he started talking about his fishing place in GPE. I said, You need to run ORG. It is an important part of helping deal with global poverty. It is an important part of our strategy. I want to thank you for staying on, and I want to thank you for your hard work and your vision. You represent the very best of corporate GPE. You get your skills; you make a living; and then you come and serve your fellow countrymen and the world. PERSON, I really thank you for the inspiration and the example you have set. I am going to talk about the Millennium Challenge Account. PERSON mentioned it. The head of it is here DATE, PERSON. Like, we were not moving money out the door, and ORG began to get nervous. I remember PERSON was coming to the FAC saying, Look, it is a great idea, but we got to show some results here pretty quick.

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PERSON understands the job is to be less bureaucratic and more forward-leaning when it comes to implementing the Millennium Challenge Account strategy. I want to thank you for taking on this important job. And I also want to thank my friend PERSON, fellow NORP, who is running ORG. Appreciate you serving the country. I believe to whom much is given, much is required. This country has been given a lot. We have got a great system; we have got wonderful entrepreneurs; and we are wealthy. We are wealthy because of the ingenuity of the NORP people. We are wealthy because we have got a fiscal system that encourages the private sector to flourish. We are wealthy because we are a country of rules and laws. I also believe that with prosperity comes an enormous responsibility. We have a moral duty to care for those who hurt here at home, and we have a moral duty to care for those-as best as we can for those abroad. That is part of the foreign policy of our country. It is a foreign policy that Secretary of ORG PERSON helped implement-helped form and implement. We believe every person, no matter their income or economic status, bears the image of a Creator. That is what I believe. I believe every person, no matter their income or their status or where they live, has dignity of matchless value. And we believe that those who live in the most extreme poverty deserve this country's help. It serves our Nation's interests as well. It is the country's economic interest that we fight global poverty, because as developing nations grow in prosperity, they create better lives for their citizens and markets for GPE products. It is in our security interests that we fight global poverty, because weakened, impoverished states are attractive safe havens for terrorists and tyrants and international criminals. We believe that young people without opportunities are susceptible to ideologies of hatred. And so by helping poor nations create a more hopeful future, we can not only build prosperity; we reduce the appeal of radicalism. The reduction of extreme poverty in our world must be a key objective of NORP foreign policy. And so today I want to talk to you about the need for us to expand trade, to promote freedom, and to reform the programs that we have in place, in order to achieve results, in order to say that-to the NORP taxpayer, the money is not only being spent; it is being spent wisely.

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First, the strategy to defeat extreme poverty begins with trade. The value of trade is more than CARDINAL times the value of foreign investment and foreign aid combined. In other words, prosperity as a result of trade is more likely, CARDINAL times more likely, to have a positive effect on somebody living in a poor society than just investment and grants. History has shown what I am talking about. It is probably hard for some to remember, back in DATE, particularly if you were born in DATE -but GPE was one of the poorest nations in Asia. GPE reformed its economy and opened its markets to the world. And DATE, export growth-the capacity for people to find work in GPE, for products that are sold elsewhere-has made this country the tenth largest economy in the world. GPE, for a long period of time, had restricted its markets. GPE opened its markets to global trade DATE. It has doubled the size of its economy since then and created a middle class which is larger than the entire population of GPE. The ORG study found that developing nations that lowered their trade barriers in DATE grew CARDINAL times faster than those that did not. Economic growth is CARDINAL important way to reduce poverty. It is the most effective way to reduce poverty. The best way to help CARDINAL mired in poverty is to expand the benefits of global trade. That is part of this administration's strategy. I asked ORG, and ORG granted trade promotion authority. It took a lot of work, as you recall, Mr. Secretary, but it was a necessary part of our capacity to expand trade. And since then, we have completed negotiations on free trade agreements with CARDINAL nations on CARDINAL continents with a combined population of CARDINAL people. We have built on the success of the African Growth and Opportunity Act. For those of you who follow the economic vitality of Africa, you know that AGOA has been a very effective policy. It was put in place by my predecessor, President PERSON. And we signed into law the AGOA Acceleration Act. In other words, we took the step that President PERSON took and took it farther. Trade helps lift people out of poverty. Since ORG's inception, GPE imports from Africa have increased by PERCENT. DATE, PERCENT of GPE imports from ORG-eligible countries entered this country duty-free. When somebody is able to sell a product into GPE, it means somebody is working.

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It means somebody has got a job. It means that people are not reliant upon the Government to help them realize their dreams. This is like-ORG has created new opportunities. NORP have got to understand that when we talk about trade, we are not only talking about enhancing economic growth and vitality; we are helping people get out of poverty. Trade is an important part of making sure that we implement this strategy. You know, the ORG showed that bipartisan cooperation here in GPE is possible. And CARDINAL thing you can help is to make sure that bipartisan cooperation on other trade agreements is possible in GPE. If you are genuinely serious about reducing poverty, you need to help us make sure this Nation does not become a protectionist nation. The tendencies are to say, Let us just wall ourselves off from competition. But if we become a protectionist nation, if we lose our confidence and our capacity to compete in the global economy, it will make it much harder to achieve the common goal of reducing global poverty. Now we are confronted with a really good opportunity, by the way, to deal with global poverty, and that is to complete the GPE round of the ORG negotiations. You know, national interests seem to be kind of more important than a-than reducing barriers and tariffs across the world. You know, local politics has a lot to do with whether or not this GPE round is going to get completed, and I understand that. And I knew that going into the negotiations. We are ready to eliminate all tariffs and subsidies and other barriers to free flow of goods and services, and we expect other nations to do the same. That is what I said to get the GPE round moving. See, we are ready to make the move on agriculture and services and manufacturing, but we expect other nations to do the same thing. We expect other nations to give us market access. I want to be able to go to people here in GPE, producers, and say, We got you market access so you can compete fairly. And that is why we are going to get rid of the subsidies that now exist on the books. The GPE negotiations are at a critical moment. It is-in my view, countries in Europe have to make a tough decision on farming. And the ORG countries have to make a tough decision on manufacturing. And GPE is prepared to make a tough decision along with them. That is my message to the world. PERSON's going to carry that message.

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I am going to carry it to Europe DATE at the ORG summit. Now is the time for the world to come together and make this world a free trading world, not only for the benefit of our own economies but as an important part of the strategy to reduce poverty around the world. I think we have to expand freedom in order to reduce poverty. Free nations produce the vast majority of the world's economic output. Many of the worst dictatorships are some of the world's most poorest nations. I believe there is a correlation between prosperity and freedom. And this country of ours will continue to pursue an agenda that understands that human liberty is universal. It is just not a GPE thing; it is its own-liberty is something that everybody yearns for. And freer the world becomes, the more prosperous the world becomes and the more likely people will not be mired in poverty Nations that build institutions that secure the rule of law and respect human dignity also are more likely to create an economic climate that fosters investment and growth. And so we support the rise of free and democratic societies across the world. And the story of freedom is one of the really, really interesting chapters of DATE, when you think about it. From GPE to GPE to GPE to GPE to GPE to GPE, people have gone to the polls and elected their leaders. In DATE, CARDINAL people have joined the ranks of the free. That is an astonishing development when you think about it. And it is a positive development for those of us who care deeply about global poverty. As more people gain their freedom, they will also gain the opportunity to build a better life. That is a fact of life. And so this country has got to be confident in our willingness, in our desire to help people- to help free people from the clutches of tyrants. I said in my second DATE speech, The goal of this country ought to be to end tyranny in DATE. I could have easily have said, CARDINAL way to reduce global poverty is to reduce tyranny in DATE. Free peoples need to do more than cast their ballots. We recognize that. It is just the beginning of a process to reduce global poverty. And so GPE has an obligation to help others build the institutions necessary-in a civil society-necessary to be able to deal in a-with the advent of freedom.

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And so we are helping new democracies build free institutions that are responsive to the people's needs. And we are doing so through organizations like ORG. We have worked to double its budget over DATE. Those funds support programs that will help form civic organizations. We are helping businesses in new market economies organize trade associations and chambers of commerce. It is the things we take for granted here in GPE, these funds are meant to do. It is CARDINAL thing to promote trade; it is CARDINAL thing to promote freedom, but we have got to recognize that our own aid programs have got to help complement those objectives. In other words, we want results from the money we spend. That is what the NORP people expect, by the way. See, when we talk about foreign aid, they expect the foreign aid to mean something. I think about people out there that are working hard for a living, and they say, You know, you are spending this money overseas. And the answer is, because not only do we have a moral duty, it is in our national interest to do so. But I have got to be able to tell them, as well, and anybody in elected office has got to be able to say, We are making a difference with the money, see; it is actually producing results. For DATE, we provided aid with good intentions. We did not always ask if we were getting good results. CARDINAL of the great reforms of PERSON tenure as Secretary of ORG is, he started asking, What are the results of the programs; what are we achieving? Since DATE, we have committed to increase the resources we devote to fighting poverty across the world. As PERSON mentioned, since taking office, we more than doubled assistance around the world from CARDINAL to CARDINAL. It is the largest increase, by the way, of foreign aid since the PERSON plan. And you get a lot of credit for that, Mr. Secretary. I remember you coming into FAC saying, Let us put our hearts out there for people to see. And CARDINAL way to do it is by increasing our budgets. I want to remind you what we are doing with that money. We are fighting ENTITY/ENTITY, and we are helping countries fight malaria. We are expanding education for women and girls. We are rewarding developing nations that move forward with economic and political reform.

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And by the way, shortchanging these efforts-ORG has got to understand, in shortchanging these efforts, if they choose to do so in the appropriations process, they would undercut our long-term security and dull the conscience of our country. I urge ORG to serve the interests of GPE by showing the compassion of GPE and approve my full funding request for foreign assistance DATE. And as we increase the resources, we will increase accountability for those who have received NORP aid. In many poor countries, it is really important for all of us who are involved in this program to admit that corruption runs deep. And a lot of times, the assistance we have provided has been wasted or put in the pockets of corrupt officials. If we expect the people to support us in our efforts to be robust in our compassion overseas, then we have got to recognize that sometimes that money gets stolen and people do not get the results for the money that they expect. And so we decided to do something about it. We decided that our foreign policy ought to recognize true compassion as measured by real improvements, not just by the amount of money spent. And real improvement is the goal of our assistance. And so we have set up the Millennium Challenge Account. And it was set up under the-in ORG when PERSON was there. And here is what it says, it says, We want to grant you money. We want to give assistance, but you have got to be responsible. You, the recipient, have got to be responsible for fighting corruption, embracing democratic government, encouraging free markets, and investing in the health and education of your people. I remember when we put that out, it was a little controversial, as you remember. I do not see what is controversial in that. I do not see what is wrong with saying to a nation, You do not get any money if you are corrupt. Because we believe countries are capable of getting rid of corruption. I do not see what is wrong with saying, You have got to show real investment in education and health care in order to receive our money. I think if part of the goal is to encourage economic development, we ought to say to countries, in return for GPE aid, open your markets so you can enhance the prosperity of your citizens. Every nation that applies for a Millennium Challenge grant develops its own priorities and develops its own strategies.

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But one of the things we do-and this is what PERSON does and his staff does- they develop clear goals that are measurable. So we say, This is what you are going to do? Show us as time goes on that you are doing it. So far, CARDINAL nations have compacts in place that is worth MONEY. Additional CARDINAL countries are now negotiating with the Millennium Challenge Account. And we are going to get the money out the door so long as they meet the criterion. But the point I am trying to make to you is that wise use of Government monies can help us achieve objectives which lead to the reduction of global poverty. And so we are just through spending the money without asking for results. We believe countries have got the capacity to change; that is what we believe. We refuse to accept the status quo. It is time for other countries around the world to demand anticorruption regimes. If we are truly interested in reducing global poverty, those of us who are granting money need to stand up with a united voice and say, We are not going to tolerate corruption. CARDINAL of the things PERSON PERSON and others are going to do at ORG, they are going to apply the same principle I have just described to you to all our development aid. We are going to insist upon transparency and performance and accountability. We are going to ensure that every NORP aid dollar encourages developing nations to build institutions necessary for long-term success. And we are going to help developing nations achieve economic independence. That is what we are going to do. We are going to get away from this notion about, kind of, just analyzing monies based upon percentage of this, that, or the other. We are going to be generous in our contribution and demand results in return. Now, what is interesting about the goal of eliminating poverty is that PERCENT of NORP resources to the developing world come from the private sector. It is one thing for me to talk, and now I am changing from what we are doing to encouraging you to continue doing what you are doing. The truth of the matter is, our generous Nation is-the generosity of our ORG is reflected in the private sector a lot. You know, government helps, and government does a lot. As I said, we have doubled aid, but what our private sectors do is-it is unbelievable, when you think about it. And corporate GPE has a responsibility.

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And for those of you who represent the NGOs and faith-based groups, thank you for joining the cause as well. Some of the best work in fighting poverty is accomplished in partnership with private institutions. ORG has successfully built CARDINAL worldwide alliances. You have leveraged MONEY of taxpayers' dollars to MONEY. In other words, you have taken the money we are spending as kind of a-I would not call it a downpayment, but it is part of a way to really leverage your generosity. And you are making a difference in the lives of CARDINAL of people. I am grateful for you. That is what I have really come to say. I have come to assure you that the effort to eliminate global poverty is an integral part of our foreign policy. And I think it needs to be a foreign-part of foreign policy after DATE, by the way. I think it needs to be a-I think it needs to be part of the calling of GPE in DATE. CARDINAL of the moral objectives of our time-the great moral objectives of our time is to reduce poverty. I like what PERSON said about GPE. Back in DATE, he captured a lot of the spirit of this country. He said this, he said, When an NORP needs the assistance of his fellows, it is very rare that it be refused. When some unexpected disaster strikes a family, CARDINAL strangers willingly open their purses. That was the GPE he saw in DATE. It is still got to be the GPE of DATE as well, but not only to help our fellow citizens here at home but for our national interests and our economic interests, and just to answer the call of our hearts It ought to be the center of our foreign policy and the center of the social entrepreneurs in GPE. We moved hard for the tsunamis, with a military presence that helped organize relief. When the earthquake came in GPE, we did not hesitate; we moved. We know that when a neighbor needs assistance, that we have an obligation to help provide it. My assurance to you is that we will continue to stand with our brothers and sisters who are poor, to help as best as we possibly can, and I want to thank you for helping as well. PERSON bless your efforts, and may God bless our country.

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DATE PERSON and I were honored to welcome GPE's Olympic team to FAC. Our athletes amassed a terrific record. There were powerful moments of courage in victory and defeat that captured the imagination of the entire world. I think most of us wish the world would work more like the Olympics. All the individuals and teams had a chance, gave it their best, and win or lose, were better off for their efforts. As heroic as the feats of the athletes in this Olympics was the way all those involved in the GPE games pressed on in the face of adversity. DATE a pipe bomb exploded in FAC. It was a terrorist act aimed not only at the innocent people there but the very spirit of the Olympics. This was brutal evidence that no nation is immune from terrorism and an urgent reminder that we must do everything we can to fight the terrorists. People have more opportunities than ever because people and technology and information travel quickly across national borders. But these things that make us all closer and give us more chances also make us more vulnerable to the forces of organized destruction, to the drug traffickers, the organized criminals, the people who sell weapons of mass destruction, and of course, especially to the terrorists. What happened in FAC, that wonderful public space open to all people who visited GPE, is symbolic of the world's problem with terrorism. Now, that is why terrorism must be a central national security priority for GPE. We are pursuing a CARDINAL-part strategy against terrorism. First, we are rallying the world community to stand with us against terrorism. From the Summit of the Peacemakers in GPE, GPE, where CARDINAL NORP nations for the very first time condemned terror in GPE and throughout the Middle East to the antiterror agreements we reached with our ORG partners in GPE DATE to take specific common actions to fight terrorism, we are moving forward together. Our intelligence services have been sharing more information with other nations than ever to stop terrorists before they act, capture them if they do, and see that they are brought to justice. We have imposed stiff sanctions with our allies against states that support terrorists. When necessary, we are acting on our own. A law I signed DATE will help to deny GPE and GPE the money they use to finance international terrorism. Second, our antiterrorism strategy relies on tough enforcement and stern punishment here at home.

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We made terrorism a Federal offense, expanded the role of the ORG, imposed the death penalty. We have hired more law enforcement personnel, added resources, improved training. And I am proposing a new law that will help to keep terrorists off our soil, fight money laundering, and punish violent crimes committed against NORP abroad. Third, we are tightening security on our airplanes and at our Nation's airports. From now on, we will hand-search more luggage and screen more bags and require preflight inspections for any plane flying to or from GPE. I have asked Vice President PERSON to head an effort to deploy new high-technology inspection machines at our airports and to review all our security operations. We will continue to press forward on CARDINAL of these fronts. But we cannot cast aside any tools in this fight for the security of our country and the safety of our people. That is exactly what the NORP majority in ORG did by stripping from the antiterrorism legislation key provisions that law enforcement needs to help them find out, track down, and shut down terrorists. Law enforcement has asked for wiretap authority to enable them to follow terrorists as they move from phone to phone. This is the only way to track stealthy terrorists as they plot their crimes. This authority has already been granted to our law enforcement officials when they are dealing with organized criminals. Surely it is even more urgent to give them this authority when it comes to terrorists. And law enforcement has also asked that explosives used to make a bomb be marked with a taggant, a trace chemical or a microscopic plastic chip scattered throughout the explosives. This way sophisticated machines can find bombs before they explode, and when they do explode police scientists can trace a bomb back to the people who actually sold the explosive materials that led to the bomb. In GPE over DATE it is helped to identify who made bombs and explosives in CARDINAL cases. When it was being tested in our country DATE, it helped police to find a murderer in GPE. In DATE since the Olympic bombing, our law enforcement officers have been working around the clock, but they have been denied a scientific tool that might help to solve investigations like this one. Our antiterrorism bill would have given us the ability to require tagging gunpowder often used in making pipe bombs. The NORP in ORG could give law enforcement this antiterrorism tool, but once again they are listening to the gun lobby over law enforcement.

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To be selected as their ENTITY candidate by a great party convention, representing so vast a number of the people of GPE, is a most distinguished honor, for which I would not conceal my high appreciation, although deeply sensible of the great responsibilities of the trust, and my inability to bear them without the generous and constant support of my fellow countrymen. Great as is the honor conferred, equally arduous and important is the duty imposed, and in accepting the one I assume the other, relying upon the patriotic devotion of the people to the best interests of our beloved country, and the sustaining care and aid of Him without whose support all we do is empty and vain. Should the people ratify the choice of the great ORG for which you speak, my only aim will be to promote the public good, which in GPE is always the good of the greatest number, the honor of our country, and the welfare of the people. The questions to be settled in the National contest DATE are as serious and important as any of the great governmental problems that have confronted us in DATE. They command our sober judgment, and a settlement free from partisan prejudice and passion, beneficial to our selves and befitting the honor and grandeur of the Republic. They touch every interest of our common country. Our industrial supremacy, our productive capacity, our business and commercial prosperity, our labor and its rewards, our National credit and currency, our proud financial honor, and our splendid free citizenship-the birthright of every American- are all involved in the pending campaign, and thus every home in the land is directly and intimately connected with their proper settlement. Great are the issues involved in the coming election, and eager and earnest the people for their right determination. Our domestic trade must be won back, and our idle working people employed in gainful occupations at NORP wages. Our home market must be restored to its proud rank of first in the world, and our foreign trade, so precipitately cut off by adverse National legislation, reopened, on fair and equitable terms for our supreme agricultural and manufacturing products. Protection and Reciprocity, twin measures of a true NORP policy, should again command the earnest encouragement of the Government at GPE. Public confidence must be resumed, and the skill, the energy and the capital of our country find ample employment at home, sustained, encouraged and defended against the unequal competition and serious disadvantages with which they are now contending.

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ORG must raise enough money to meet both its current expenses and increasing needs. Its revenues should be so raised as to protect the material interests of our people, with the lightest possible drain upon their resources, and maintain that high standard of civilization which has distinguished our country for DATE of its existence. The income of the Government, I repeat, should equal its necessary and proper expenditures. A failure to pursue this policy has compelled the Government to borrow money in a time of peace to sustain its credit and pay its daily expenses. It must be apparent to all, regardless of past party ties or affiliations, that it is our paramount duty to provide adequate revenue for the expenditures of the Government, economically and prudently administered. This ORG has heretofore done, and this I confidently believe it will do in the future, when the party is again entrusted with power in the legislative and executive branches of our Government. The National credit, which has thus far fortunately resisted every assault upon it, must and will be upheld and strengthened. If sufficient revenues are provided for the support of the Government, there will be no necessity for borrowing money and increasing the public debt. The complaint of the people is not against the ORG for borrowing money and issuing bonds to preserve the credit of the country, but against the ruinous policy which has made this necessary. It is but an incident, and a necessary one, to the policy which has been inagurated. The inevitable effect of such a policy is seen in the deficiency of ORG, except as it is replenished by loans, and in the distress of the people who are suffering because of the scant demand for either their labor or the products of their labor. Here is the fundamental trouble, the remedy for which is NORP opportunity and duty. During all the years of NORP control following resumption, there was a steady reduction of the public debt, while the gold reserve was sacredly maintained, and our currency and credit preserved without depreciation, taint or suspicion. If we would restore this policy, that brought us unexampled prosperity for DATE under the most trying conditions ever known in this country, the policy by which we made and bought more goods at home and sold more abroad, the trade balance would be quickly turned in our favor, and gold would come to us and not go from us in the settlement of all such balances in the future.

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The party that supplied by legislation the vast revenues for the conduct of our greatest war; that promptly restored the credit of the country at its close; that from its abundant revenues paid off a large share of the debt incurred in this war, and that resumed specie payments and placed our paper currency upon a sound and enduring basis, can be safely trusted to preserve both our credit and currency, with honor, stability and inviolability. The NORP people hold the financial honor of our Government as sacred as our flag, and can be relied upon to guard it with the same sleepless vigilance. They hold its preservation above party fealty, and have often demonstrated that party ties avail nothing when the spotless credit of our country is threatened. The money of GPE, and every kind or form of it, whether of paper, silver or gold, must be as good as the best in the world. It must not only be current at its full face value at home, but it must be counted at par in any and every commercial center of the globe. The sagacious and far-seeing policy of the great men who founded our Government; the teachings and acts of the wisest financiers at every stage in our history; the steadfast faith and splendid achievements of the great party to which we belong, and the genius and integrity of our people have always demanded this, and will ever maintain it. The dollar paid to the farmer, the wage-earner, and the pensioner must continue forever equal in purchasing and debt-paying power to the dollar paid to any ORG creditor. The contest DATE will not be waged upon lines of theory and speculation, but in the light of severe practical experience and new and dearly acquired knowledge. The great body of our citizens know what they want, and that they intend to have. They know for what ORG stands and what its return to power means to them. They realize that ORG believes that our work should be done at home and not abroad, and everywhere proclaim their devotion to the principles of a protective tariff, which, while supplying adequate revenues for the Government, will restore NORP production, and serve the best interests of NORP labor and development. Our appeal, therefore, is not to a false philosophy, or vain theorists, but to the masses of the NORP people, the plain, practical people, whom PERSON loved and trusted, and whom ORG has always faithfully striven to serve.

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Well, first let me thank Reverend PERSON. This is the first time I have ever spoken from this microphone. You know, as ENTITY, I am superstitious, and we have had such a good stock market. I do not ever comment on it except I like the way it finished DATE. I wanted to say just a couple of things very briefly. First of all, I want to thank PERSON for his leadership in ORG. A lot of people do not know that the stock market was organized DATE so that there would be a mechanism through which bonds could be issued to finance GPE's debts in the war for our independence. So, in the beginning, this stock market had not just a profit motive but a public interest purpose. This man has infused the stock market not only with its greatest success in history but with a public interest purpose, to include all NORP in our prosperity. And we thank him. Most of you were with us DATE in TIME, and I will not make you sit through my speech againor stand through my speech again, even though I'd kind of like to, because this is the first crowd in a long time when I have been guaranteed a standing ovation. I just want to make CARDINAL points. CARDINAL, I want to thank PERSON for being there on this issue for a long time, saying we would never be the country we ought to be until we really had economic opportunity for allthat's what ORG is all aboutand that it would be good business, as well as good morality. The second point I want to make, that I made DATE and I leave with all of you is, this is the only time in my lifetime we have had a booming economy, improvements in all of our social fabric, the absence of crisis at home and domestic threats, and the absence of threats to our security around the world as big as those we faced in the cold war. None of this has ever happened before. The big question before us is, what are we going to do with this magic moment? Are we going to take the long look into the future and do the big things that GPE needs, or are we going to indulge ourselves in shortsighted frittering away of our present wealth and serenity at home and stability around the world?

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If I am late getting up here, I just had to finish the story. President PERSON, PERSON, distinguished guests, it is an honor for me to welcome you to FAC TIME. President, our talks TIME underlined again the strong links between our countries. We find ourselves even more frequently in agreement on our goals and objectives. And we, for example, applaud your deep commitment to peaceful progress in the Middle East and South Asia, a resolve which bolsters our hopes and the hopes of CARDINAL. In DATE, in particular, your country has come to the forefront of the struggle to construct a framework for peace in your region, an undertaking which includes your strenuous efforts to bring peaceful resolution to the crisis in GPE-a resolution which will enable the CARDINAL of refugees currently seeking shelter in GPE to go home in peace and honor. Further, you have worked to ensure that progress continues toward improving the relationship between GPE and GPE. And in all these efforts GPE has supported your objectives and will applaud your success. A great intellectual forefather of GPE, PERSON, once said that, The secret of life is in the seeking. Well, President PERSON, DATE the people of GPE and GPE are seeking the same goals. Your commitment to peace and progress in South Asia and the Middle East has reinforced our commitment to GPE. We want to assure you, Mr. President, and the people of your country that we will not waver in this commitment. It stretches back to GPE's DATE of independence. It is based on mutual interest, yes, but also on shared visions and goals in the world around us. It is based, as well, on the fact that the people of both our countries sincerely value the good relations and the affinity between us. Our people already work together in significant ways through educational exchanges, tourism, economic cooperation, and through bonds of family and friendship. We have cooperative programs in science and technology and in agriculture, and we hope to explore with ORG various ways of enhancing cooperation. Differences may come between our nations or have come between our nations in the past, but they have proven to be transitory while the ties which bind us together grow stronger year by DATE.

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Ladies and gentlemen, because this is the only time I am going to be before the press DATE, at the outset of my remarks I'd like to say a few things about the situation in GPE. For DATE, GPE and the international community have very patiently sought a diplomatic solution to GPE's decision to end all its cooperation with the ORG weapons inspectors. GPE's continued refusal to embrace a diplomatic, peaceful solution, its continued defiance of even more ORG resolutions, makes it plainer than ever that its real goal is to end the sanctions without giving up its weapons of mass destruction program. ORG and the world have made it crystal clear now that this is unacceptable, that none of us can tolerate an GPE free to develop weapons of mass destruction with impunity. Still, PERSON has it within his hands to end this crisis now by resuming full cooperation with ORG. DATE his own neighbors in the NORP world made it clear that this choice is his alone and the consequences, if he fails to comply, his alone in terms of responsibility. Now, let me say to all of you, this is DATE for GPE. I want to thank Officer PERSON from GPE, GPE, and Detective PERSON from GPE for their service, for sharing their stories, for representing their organizations so well, for reminding us why all of those here have worked so hard to pass the laws that in TIME I will sign, laws to help us honor the memory of law enforcement officers by helping to prevent the kind of gun-related crimes that took their lives and by supporting the families they leave behind. I'd also like to thank Secretary PERSON, Attorney General PERSON, Director PERSON, the ORG, Assistant Secretary PERSON, and the others who are here from the ORG and ORG Departments; Attorney General PERSON from GPE, who joined us DATE. And a special word of thanks to my good friend Senator PERSON, who had to leave; and to Congressman PERSON; Congressman PERSON, who spoke so well and did so much. And thank you, Congressman PERSON, for joining us here DATE in celebration of the work you did that I hope you will be proud of all your life, sir. This is DATE for me personally because I was attorney general of my own GPE. I was Governor for DATE. I have spent TIME of TIME riding around in ORG police cars with officers.

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I have been to altogether too many funerals of law enforcement officials killed in the line of duty. And because I come from a small GPE, very often I knew these people well. I knew their families, their children, their circumstances. DATE I went home to dedicate an airport, and the first people that came running up to me were the CARDINAL State police officers who were assigned to work the event. And we stood there and relived a lot of old times. And I think, again, we should thank, especially, the Members of ORG who are here; the police officers; PERSON and the ORG; PERSON and the National Association of Police Officers; PERSON, ORG; PERSON, ORG; PERSON, ORG; and PERSON from ORG. I'd like to ask you all just to give them all another hand. DATE when I became ORG, one of my most urgent priorities was to put ORG on the side of supporting our police officers and reducing the crime rate. At the time, the crime rate was on the rise; gangs, guns, and drugs were sweeping through our neighborhoods, terrorizing our families, cutting off the future of too many of our children. The thing that bothered me most when I was out around the country seeking the Presidency was that there were so many people who were full of hope and optimism for our country, but when it came to crime, they seemed almost to have given up, to have simply accepted the fact that a rising crime rate was a part of the price of the modern world. We were able to galvanize, all of us together, the energies of the NORP people to fight back. I never met a law enforcement officer who believed that a rising crime rate was inevitable. Every law enforcement officer I met believed that if we did the right things-if we were tough, yes, but tough was not enough; we had to be smart, too-that if we both punished people who should be punished and did the intelligent things to prevent crime from happening in the first place, that the crime rate could go down. And we passed in DATE a historic crime bill, along with the Brady law, which among other things focused on community policing, aggressive prevention, and tougher penalties for violent repeat offenders. Now we are ahead of schedule and under budget in putting those CARDINAL police on the street.

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We have gone after gangs and drugs with the full authority of Federal law. The PERSON law has prevented CARDINAL felons, fugitives, and stalkers from buying firearms in the first place. Crime rates have fallen to a DATE low. All across GPE, robbery is down; assault is down; murder is down. Respect for the law is on the rise. fewer broken windows, less graffiti, cleaner streets in city after city after city. We must never forget that this victory was won, however, at a very high price for some of our law enforcement officials. We must never forget that police officers put on their uniforms, their badges, go to work DATE knowing that DATE could be their last, just by doing their jobs. Officer PERSON served on the police force of GPE, GPE, for DATE. He patrolled the streets by day and worked his way through college by TIME. At DATE, more than anything else, he wanted a better life for his wife and his DATE twin daughters. On DATE, DATE, he answered a distress call. A career criminal with a semiautomatic gun was terrorizing pedestrians. He responded to the call and was brutally gunned down. According to the police, the murderer had a deadly goal, quote, He wanted to hurt people in black-and-white cars wearing dark blue uniforms. Only the bravery of a fellow officer stopped the shooting spree. DATE there are too many police officers like PERSON who make the ultimate sacrifice to keep us safe. Not very long ago, I went up to the FAC to honor the CARDINAL police officers who were killed there. But we have to do more than build monuments to honor these people. We have to take action to prevent more needless tragic deaths, to work for those who have given their lives, and we have to take action to help families they leave behind. DATE we acted to provide college scholarships to the families of slain ORG law enforcement officers. DATE I pledged to make those same scholarships available to the families of ORG and local law enforcement officers and all public safety personnel. DATE the legislation I sign honors that pledge. From now on, children and spouses of public safety officials who lose their lives in the line of duty will be able to apply for MONEY a year to pay for college tuition.

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I should point out that because PERCENT of these families will be people on very modest incomes, they will be eligible also for the $MONEY-a-year HOPE tax credit in DATE of college, tax credits for DATE, expanded work-study programs, student loan programs-a student loan program which in most places allows them to pay the loan back as a percentage of the income that they earn-and the IRA that can be withdrawn from without penalty if the money's used to educate children. Most of that was the product of the bipartisan Balanced Budget Act of DATE. So we believe that if you look at this scholarship amount with the other things that have been passed in DATE, as PERSON said, with overwhelming bipartisan support, NORP and NORP working together on these issues, we will be able to protect the families and the children in their education and, in so doing, to honor the families and the law enforcement officers. It is the least we can do, and we have to do it. The bill I am about to sign was enacted in memory of GPE Deputy Marshal PERSON, the most decorated deputy marshal in our history, who lost his life in a brutal shootout. His son, PERSON, was the first young person to benefit from this program. He recently graduated from ORG, and he is here with us DATE. I'd like to ask him to stand and be recognized. Now, let me say just a brief word about the other legislation that I am going to sign; Mr. PERSON talked about it. I am very proud that we are announcing these scholarships, but I cannot wait for DATE when there is not a single person eligible for one. And I think that all of us should think about that. We know from painful experience that the most serious threat to the safety of police officers is a criminal armed with a weapon. Most police officers who lose their lives die from gunshot wounds. That is why we fought hard to keep guns off the streets, out of the hands of criminals. Brady background checks, as I said earlier, have prevented CARDINAL of a million felons, fugitives, and stalkers from buying guns. DATE I announced a new step to close a loophole in the law that makes it easier for gun traffickers and criminals to avoid those checks at private gun shows.

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Make no mistake, the insidious practice of sidestepping our guns laws is not an idle threat. The city of GPE recently concluded an undercover investigation of gun dealing. And as you saw, I hope, in the morning press, it has just filed suit alleging widespread practices by gun dealers in the GPE area of selling guns illegally, counseling purchasers on how to evade firearms regulations, even selling guns to purchasers who say they intend to violate the law. We know legitimate gun dealers make every effort to comply with the law, but these charges in GPE, if proven true, would demonstrate that at least some parts of the gun industry are helping to promote an illegal market in firearms. Such disrespect of our law endangers our people, and we will be watching the progress of this lawsuit closely. The ORG already vigorously investigates gun dealers and other gun traffickers who violate ORG laws. We will continue to work closely with ORG and local police to trace the crime guns back to their source and prevent illegal gun sales, especially to criminals and juveniles. But there is more we can do to protect our communities and police officers. You have heard a little bit of it from Detective PERSON, but let me just say again, for DATE now criminals who have used guns to commit their crimes have been subject to stiff mandatory penalties under Federal law and virtually every State law in the country. To protect our families and police officers, the bill I sign DATE will add DATE of hard time to sentences of criminals who even possess firearms when they commit drug-related or violent crimes. A second conviction means DATE in jail. This is very important to try to reduce the threat of violent crime. DATE on DATE, as I have DATE since I have been ENTITY, I laid a wreath on the tomb of the unknown servicemen who gave their lives in service to our country. DATE it is with great pride that I stand here with many of our law enforcement officers who DATE are prepared to make the same sacrifice. Together, we are working to make GPE stronger in DATE. And again, let me thank you all. Now I'd like to ask the Members of ORG and Officers PERSON and PERSON and Mr. PERSON, if you would come up here, I'd like for you to stand with us as we sign the bill, please.

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DATE, the independent ORG on the September the 11th attacks issued its final report. I appreciate the hard work of the ORG over DATE. They have produced a serious and comprehensive report, and I welcome their recommendations. Indeed, we have already put into action many of the steps now recommended by the ORG, and we will carefully examine all the ORG's ideas on how we can improve our ongoing efforts to protect GPE and to prevent another attack. The events of DATE, dramatically demonstrated the threats of a new era. In DATE since the attacks, we have waged a steady, relentless, determined war on terrorists. We are fighting them in foreign lands so we do not have to face them here in GPE, and we are taking unprecedented steps to defend the homeland. Since DATE, GPE and our allies have captured or killed CARDINAL of terrorists, removed terrorist regimes in GPE and GPE, convinced GPE to give up its weapons of mass destruction, and put the world's most dangerous nuclear trading network out of business. We are chasing down terrorist enemies abroad and within our own borders. On the homefront, we have dismantled terrorist cells and prosecuted terrorist supporters from GPE to GPE to GPE. As the Chairman of ORG, PERSON, said DATE, We are safer DATE than we were on DATE But as Governor PERSON also noted, The danger to GPE has not passed. And no matter how good our defenses are, a determined enemy can still strike us. Yet all NORP can be certain our Government is using every resource and technological advantage we have to prevent future attacks. We have created a new ORG with a single mission, protecting the NORP people. We have established better communications networks to make information on rapidly emerging threats available to local officials in real time. We are transforming the ORG into an agency whose primary focus is stopping terrorism. And we created a new ORG in ORG with the mission of defending the NORP homeland. To better protect the country, we have posted ORG personnel at foreign ports, beefed up airport and seaport security at home, and instituted better visa screening for those entering our country. We have placed state-of-the-art equipment in major cities to detect biological agents and stockpiled enough smallpox vaccine for every NORP, in case of an emergency.

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It is now been DATE since an economic crisis and a punishing recession came together to cost far too many NORP their jobs and their homes and the sense of security that they had built up over time. And by the time I took office, my team and I were facing bubbles that had burst, markets that had cratered, bank after bank on the verge of collapse. And the heartbeat of NORP manufacturing, our auto industry, was flatlining. And all this meant that CARDINAL of NORP were losing their jobs DATE. And nobody had any idea where the bottom would be. DATE, our businesses have created nearly 7 million new jobs over DATE. We are producing more of our own energy; we are consuming less that we import from other countries. The cost of health care is slowing. The wealth that was lost from that recession has now been recovered. All of this progress is a testament to the grit and resolve of the NORP people, most of all. But it is also due in some measurable way to the incredible dedication of the men and women who helped to engineer GPE's response. PERSON and PERSON. DATE I can announce that PERSON is heading back to teach his beloved students at PERSON's alma mater, ORG. When they get together, all they can talk about is ORG, and they are all very proud, and those of us who did not go to ORG have to put up with it. And I am proud to say that PERSON has agreed to replace PERSON as the Chairman of my ORG. Now, during the crisis, PERSON stepped in initially to help engineer our response as Assistant Secretary and chief economist at ORG. He was so good that we then had to beg him to come back, extend his tour, to serve as the Chairman of my ORG, where he is been the driving force behind actions that we have taken to help restart the flow of lending to small businesses and create new jobs and arm workers with the skills they need to fill them, to reduce income inequality, to rebuild our aging infrastructure, and to bring down our deficits in a responsible way. the idea that hard work should be rewarded. He is motivated by the principle that no one who works full time in the greatest nation on Earth should have to raise their families in poverty or below poverty levels.

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His commitment to a rising, thriving middle class shines through in his often passionate presentations andat least for an economist, they are passionate and in the policies that he is pushed, and I know this will continue to be a focus of his research. PERSON's wife and son are here DATE, and I know that they are all looking forward to having PERSON back. rockonomics, the economics of rock and roll. This is something that PERSON actually cares about; seriously, on DATE, he is giving a speech at ORG. He is got a T-shirt under his suit with a big tongue sticking out. So PERSON has become one of my most trusted advisers. But I know that he will continue to do outstanding work, and fortunately, he will still be available for us to consult with him periodically, because he is a constant font of good ideas about how we can further help the NORP people. So thank you very much, PERSON, for all the good work that you have done. Now, I am also proud to nominate another outstanding economist to take his place. PERSON is one of the most brilliant economic minds of his generation. You can talk to other economists who know a lot more than I do about it. He is won the respect and admiration from his peers across the political spectrum. His Ph.D. thesis adviser, PERSON, chaired ORG under PERSON. Nobel Prize Winner PERSON, on the other side of the economic spectrum, hired PERSON to work for the ORG under President PERSON. After leaving President PERSON's ORG, PERSON finished his Ph.D. in economics, quickly acquired a reputation as a world-class scholar and researcher. But public service kept calling, and PERSON's kept answering that call because he believes deeply in it. So from working at ORG on issues of inequality and international finance to developing new proposals to strengthen our health and retirement programs, he helped to shape some of our most important economic policy debates. And when I asked him to join my team in DATE, even though his baby daughterthat's right you were this big, had just been bornhe agreed to serve once again. middle class families, folks who are working hard to climb their way into the middle class, the next generation. And when the stakes are highest, there is no one I'd rather turn to for straightforward, unvarnished advice that helps me to do my job.

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He understands all sides of an argument, not just CARDINAL side of it. He is worked tirelessly on just about every major economic challenge of DATE, from averting a second depression to fighting for tax cuts that help CARDINAL of working families make ends meet, to creating new incentives for businesses to hire, to reducing our deficits in a balanced way that benefits the middle class. And so PERSON, PERSON's wife, who is an accomplished writer herself, has put up with TIME with PERSON away. PERSON and PERSON, who are here, they have made a lot of sacrifices so that their husband and dad could be here working for the NORP people. So I appreciate you guys for sharing daddy just a little bit longer. And the reason it is important is because, while we have cleared away the rubble of crisis and laid a new foundation for growth, our work is nowhere near done. Inequality is still growing in our society. Too many young people are not sure whether they will be able to match the living standards of their parents. We have too many kids in poverty in this country still. There are some basic steps that we can take to strengthen the position of working people in this country, to help our economy grow faster, to make sure that it is more competitive. And some of that requires political will. Some of it requires an abiding passion for making sure everybody in this country has a fair shot. But it also requires good economists. PERSON and PERSON appreciate that. So sometimes, the rest of my staff thinks, oh, PERSON is getting together with his economists, and they are going to have a wonkfest for TIME. It is not just numbers on a page. It makes a difference in terms of whether or not people get a chance at life and also, how do we optimize opportunity and make sure that itwe do not have a contradiction between an efficient, growing, free market economy, and one in which everybody gets a fair shot and where we are caring for the vulnerable and the disabled and folks in our society who need help. So a growing economy that creates good middle class jobs, that rewards hard work and responsibility, that is our north star. PERSON shares that focus. I know PERSON shares that passion. In PERSON's new role as the Chairman of ORG, he will be working with some of our country's leading economists, including PERSON, who has joined us.

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IT IS very hard to keep secrets in government, and I must say that DATE here in this room when we announced the nomination of PERSON as Vice President, that was a pretty well-kept secret. I think, TIME, this is certainly something that PERSON does not expect, and consequently, I think all of us will enjoy the presentation I am now about to make. The Medal of Freedom, as you know, is the highest civilian honor that can be given to an NORP citizen. PERSON has served for DATE in government, and in DATE he has served for DATE as Attorney General of GPE and DATE as Secretary of ORG. In that period as Secretary of ORG, he has traveled to CARDINAL countries, has probably made CARDINAL speeches, formal and many more informal, has had to sit through CARDINAL tedious dinners and perhaps CARDINAL or even more tedious cocktail parties, but in that period of time, he has represented this Nation, as we all know, with very great dignity. He has made us all very proud of our country and of his representation of that country as Secretary of ORG. I think that a NORP Foreign Minister put it pretty well when he summed up. I think it was something like this. He said that Secretary PERSON always says the words that he means, always means the words that he says, but does not always say the words that he means, and he said, I --he went further to say, he said-- I am always happy when he agrees with me, but I am never unhappy when he disagrees with me. That is the mark of a very successful Secretary of ORG. As you know, of course, we have enjoyed the friendship of the PERSON for DATE. We met DATE at FAC when we were both CARDINAL of the lowest forms of life, I mean lieutenants, junior grade, in ORG, and we have been close friends since that time. But TIME, both as a personal friend and recognizing his services during the period I was Vice President and now in the period as President, and representing all of the NORP people, I have the honor to present to PERSON the Medal of Freedom.

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THE PRESIDENT OF GPE AWARDS THIS PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM TO PERSON Prosecutor, ORG investigator, and ORG leader under CARDINAL Presidents, his brilliant career of public service has spanned DATE and touched all CARDINAL branches of Government. As the 63rd Attorney General of GPE, he pioneered in the battle for equal rights. As the Nation's 55th Secretary of ORG, he played an indispensable role in ending .our longest war and in starting to build a new structure of peace. Through these efforts, the decency and integrity that are PERSON personal stamp are now felt more strongly among all people and nations. No man could seek a greater monument. Now, the Secretary, of course, is desperately-will you please be seated is desperately trying to get up here to respond, but I have another award to make TIME, one that I know that even he did not anticipate. I think that we sometimes underestimate the great role that is played by those who stand by our side, and when we think of Mrs. PERSON--PERSON, as we know her--when we think of her graciousness through the years, of her superb poise, I think that we all would say that she truly deserved the title of being the First Lady of the ORG. And consequently, TIME, an award is appropriate for her as well. The President's Citizens Medal has only been awarded once before, to PERSON posthumously, and so the second President's Citizens Medal will be awarded tonight and awarded to one who does not hold a government position, because the Citizens Medal does not go to people who held government positions, but to one who, standing with her husband, has represented this country at home and abroad with such magnificent dignity and poise and grace. As the ORG's premiere hostess in foreign affairs, PERSON provided a warmth and charm that helped to humanize the climate of diplomacy in a time of vital NORP initiatives for peace. Her work as a leader in voluntary action and community affairs among her fellow ORG and ORG wives set an example for CARDINAL in a time of widening horizons for NORP women. The first woman ever honored with this award, her achievements eloquently prove its credo---that a citizen need not hold public office to render far-reaching public service.

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creating jobs and economic growth on which our country's prosperity depends . DATE's job report showed that despite DATE of private sector job growth, despite creating CARDINAL private sector jobs DATE, it is not enough. We have to do more to accelerate the economic recovery and create jobs for the CARDINAL of NORP who are still looking for work. And essential to that effort is opening new markets around the world to products that are Made in GPE. Because we do not simply want to be an economy that consumes other countries' goods, we want to be building and exporting the goods that create jobs here in GPE and that keeps GPE competitive in DATE. That is why DATE I am very pleased that GPE and GPE have reached agreement on a landmark trade deal between our CARDINAL countries. I am joined TIME by my outstanding GPE Trade Representative, Ambassador PERSON, as well as PERSON, who was CARDINAL of our lead negotiators. As you will remember, we did not finalize this agreement on my recent visit to GPE. The deal was not good enough. It was not good enough for the NORP economy, and it was not good enough for NORP workers. As I said in GPE, I am not interested in signing trade agreements for the sake of signing trade agreements, I am interested in agreements that increase jobs and exports for the NORP people and that also help our partners grow their economies. So I told PERSON and our team to take the time to get this right and get the best deal for GPE. And that is what they have done. It is a win-win for both our countries. This deal is a win for NORP workers. For our farmers and ranchers, it will increase exports of NORP agricultural products. From aerospace to electronics, it will increase our manufacturing exports to GPE, which already support CARDINAL NORP jobs and many small businesses. In particular, manufacturers of NORP cars and trucks will have much more access to the NORP market, we will encourage the development of electric cars and green technology in GPE, and we will continue to ensure a level playing field for NORP automakers here at home. In short, the tariff reductions in this agreement alone are expected to boost DATE exports of NORP goods by MONEY. And all told, this agreement, including the opening of the NORP services market, will support CARDINAL NORP jobs.

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It will contribute significantly to achieving my goal of doubling GPE exports over DATE. In fact, it is estimated that DATE's deal alone will increase NORP economic output by more than our last CARDINAL free trade agreements combined. This deal is also a win for our ally and friend GPE. They will gain greater access to our markets and make NORP products more affordable for NORP households and businesses, resulting in more choices for NORP consumers and more jobs for NORP. I would add that DATE is also a win for the strong alliance between GPE and GPE, which for DATE has ensured that the security that has maintained stability on the peninsula continues. It is also allowed GPE its extraordinary rise from poverty to prosperity. At a time in which there are increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, following the GPE's unprovoked attack on the NORP people, DATE we are showing that the defense alliance and partnership of GPE and GPE is stronger than ever. I am especially pleased that this agreement includes groundbreaking protections for workers' rights and for the environment. In this sense, it is an example of the kind of fair trade agreement that I will continue to work for as President, in Asia and around the world. This agreement also shows that GPE is determined to lead and compete in our global economy. We are going to stand up for NORP companies and NORP workers, who are among the most productive and innovative in the world. And we are going to compete aggressively for the jobs and markets of DATE. But I want to give special thanks to my partner, NORP President PERSON, for his commitment to a successful outcome. And again, I want to thank PERSON and PERSON for their outstanding work and their entire team for their tireless efforts. They were up late a lot of TIME over DATE. We are going to continue to work with our NORP partners to fully implement this agreement and build on our progress in other areas, such as ensuring full access for GPE beef to the NORP market. And I look forward to working with ORG and leaders in both parties to approve this pact. Because if there is CARDINAL thing NORP and NORP should be able to agree on, it should be creating jobs and opportunity for our people. Which brings me to the other issue I want to address. TIME the ORG voted on CARDINAL provisions to extend tax cuts for the middle class.

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I have come to believe that the people of GPE arise earlier in the morning than the citizens of any other State. In order to manage my job I have to get up TIME, but I believe from the great crowds that welcome me early each morning as I pass through this State that you rise even earlier than that. The greetings that I have received in passing to and fro through GPE are most encouraging. You have been generous, and you have given a profound indication to the country as to where you will stand on DATE. A short occasion like this renders it difficult to adequately speak on national issues. I have seen TIME an advertisement of a GPE retail establishment, in which they state that they are able to offer hosiery at prices which are demonstrated by our officials as PERCENT less than you can manufacture them in this community, and that the reason they are able to offer them at these prices is due to the depreciated currencies abroad and their ability to take advantage of that lower exchange in securing commodities in competition with your workmen. And in the face of this our NORP opponents propose to reduce the tariff as it stands. ORG not only proposes to hold the tariff where it stands but through ORG, whose authorities were created by ORG in the Smoot-Hawley bill DATE, we propose a review of the differences in cost of production at home and abroad and determine if we are justified in an adjustment that should protect your community. If this advertisement is true I am confident that it will show such a change in the costs of production as will make it possible to give to you relief. And I ask you whether the fate of your city and your community and your GPE will be more safe in the hands of the party which has fathered and for DATE supported and strengthened the protective tariff than in the hands of the party who have always opposed these policies and who now promise a reduction of these protective tariffs. Our Nation for DATE has been passing through a great crisis. The early stages of the depression were more or less the normal stages of retribution from overspeculation and exploitation of our people. We have experienced them many times before and recovery has speedily followed. But DATE came a blow to GPE through the collapse of the nations abroad as an aftermath of the World War, the repercussions of which endangered this entire GPE.

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The unprecedented action taken by ORG, supported, I am glad to say, by those patriotic members of ORG who placed patriotism higher than politics, enabled the ORG to escape those dangers, have saved the ORG from chaos and collapse, and brought us into the stage of recovery. Our measures and policies have been turned from defense into measures of attack upon the depression. Since the adjournment of ORG, we have seen DATE evidences of constant recovery. You will notice if you look at the business statistics of the country the increasing employment DATE by DATE. You will notice the increased car loadings which show again the increasing movement of goods. You will find in every quarter of the country the signs of recovery. And if the strategy and if the policies which have directed this great battle for the preservation of GPE and for the institutions and are now operating for recovery shall be continued without change they will bring restored prosperity to the NORP people. We have carried the first-line of trenches by the reestablishment of confidence in the stability of GPE. And if we can proceed with the battle without change or halt we shall win a victory for the NORP people that will assure their safety. I wish again to express the appreciation that I have for the support and encouragement from the people of GPE. I believe that you will rally to the support of ORG on DATE as the party of constructive action and give to us a victory which the party deserves for the service it has given over DATE to the NORP people. I deeply appreciate this greeting. It is encouraging, and it is an indication of the action which you will take on DATE. In the short moment I have here I would like to refer just TIME to the railway problems which we have faced during DATE. You are interested in the success of the railways. DATE we were faced with the fact that the earnings of the railways were less than the amount necessary to meet their fixed charges. Over the trough of this depression we were faced with the possibility of receivership of CARDINAL of the railways of GPE. Such a failure would jeopardize the policyholders in our insurance companies and the savings in our banks which are invested in our railways. And those of you who have had experience with a railroad in receivership know what the result is to the men who work upon those railways.

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You know that once the railways go out of the hands of their responsible managers, the intimate contacts of the men with the management of the railways is gone, contracts and understandings suffer. And of further importance is the fact that by supporting the railways we have been able to support them in the maintenance of a reasonable wage to the men who have to operate the railways of GPE. You will recollect that early in the depression I secured an agreement between the industrial leaders, including the railway leaders and the leaders of labor, that there would be no reduction in wages. That was the first time in the history of CARDINAL depressions in GPE that the first act of depression was not the so-called liquidation of wages--placing the first burden of the readjustment of the depression on the back of the workers. As time went on and the depression deepened, the cost of living decreased, profits vanished, and there were readjustments in wages, but those readjustments represented the contribution of the men to the stability of their own industry. They were not by the violence of strikes and lockouts and social disturbances and destruction to the whole social stability of the GPE. They were your voluntary contribution to your own order. We have immediately provided advances to the railways to enable them to repair equipment, to replace their equipment in order that with the gradual resumption of traffics they shall be able to meet that demand, and thus increase and maintain employment. You know and I know that since the adjournment of ORG these great measures that we have in action for rehabilitation of the country have begun to have their effect. We have witnessed increase of car loadings from CARDINAL cars a week to CARDINAL a week. This means the recovery of GPE, and it means the recovery of employment to the railway workers. And this is but CARDINAL segment of the great program and the great problems that are involved in the rehabilitation of our country. There are many others affecting different communities, but everywhere they have begun to have their effect and we have begun to see their results. This is no time, when we are in the midst of the most gigantic battle that our country has ever been plunged into in time of peace, to change that strategy or the policies of battle. I wish to express my appreciation for this greeting. It gives me an opportunity to see some of the people of GPE. It gives you an opportunity to look at me.

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But it is very encouraging to have you come to the station and give me this welcome. It is an evidence of what you will do on DATE, for it means the support and encouragement of this administration in its work for restoration of employment and agriculture in GPE. We have already made progress on that road. We are making more rapid progress DATE. But this is not a time to discuss national issues. It is a time for me to express my appreciation to you for the kindliness of your greeting. I deeply appreciate your coming TIME to give me this greeting. And it is evidence of what you propose to do on DATE. This is not an occasion at which I could speak at length on our national issues. Many of you realize the difficulties we have passed through in DATE and the battle which we have made to protect our country from great disasters. You know that we have succeeded in a great defensive battle against the sweep of destruction and chaos. You know that we have now turned the forces and agencies in our control towards restoration of employment and the restoration of agriculture. You have seen during DATE evidence of recovery from these difficulties. They are evidence that ORG has conducted the country wisely; that it has met the Nation's difficulties with courage; that it has devised the means and methods by which our people have been protected and by which they shall continue to make progress to recovery. I wish to express again my appreciation for your coming. It gives me a great hope and a great faith in the battle which we are carrying on. I wish to express my gratitude this time for CARDINAL things: first, for the basket of apples. They are always gratefully received from GPE. And second, I want to express my appreciation for your coming to greet me. It is always helpful, and besides that it is a sign as to what will happen in GPE on DATE. I have thought the people of GPE might be interested if I was to read an advertisement. Sometimes we resent reading advertisements, but here happens to be one of peculiar interest to the people of GPE. This advertisement in a GPE paper, refers to wool hose. It states that CARDINAL pairs of these snug fitting, ribbed, soft NORP hose have been purchased abroad at the low wool and sterling prices because of the depreciation on that currency. And they are offered for sale at MONEY a pair.

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I am informed that even at the reduced wages--and I understand there have been CARDINAL reductions in wages in your factory in GPE--but even at this reduced wage you cannot manufacture those hose for less than MONEY a pair. This raises a great question--a question that is an issue in this campaign. ORG stands for the protective tariff. Our NORP opponents propose to reduce the tariff, and they propose to reduce it in the face of these depreciated foreign currencies, in the face of the fact that living and wages have been decreased abroad as the result of the depreciation of those currencies below the standards of the tariff when that act was passed. DATE at reduced wages, the people in GPE are losing employment and suffering reductions of wages. I recently asked ORG, a bipartisan body, to investigate the differences of cost of production between those of GPE and those of the places in GPE where these hose are produced, and to determine whether or not under the flexible provisions of the tariff some relief could be given to the people of GPE. ORG proposes as one of the issues in this campaign that it will take from that ORG the authority under which such acts could be performed. I want to leave these thoughts with you that here is a town where the well-being of your homes, where the satisfactions and comforts of your life, are DATE and will be further jeopardized by the transfer of the power of ORG to ORG on DATE. You will all realize that we have gone through a time of great difficulty. For DATE we have been fighting with forces such as we have never before met in peacetime history of GPE. They have accumulated in strength and in volume at one time to a point where it appeared that we could scarcely save our country from chaos and degeneration. We did, however, through the courage of the NORP people, through the cooperation of the united action of the whole of the country, and the leadership of ORG, get by and save ourselves from collapse. And we have now turned those agencies and those policies to the problem of recovery in GPE, and those of you who are familiar with the events of DATE will realize that we are moving on that road to recovery.

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We want to welcome each of you to ORG. We gather together to draw attention to an issue that is as vital to the future of this country as any that we face. No one should doubt that economic and technological progress will have very little impact unless the spirit of our people remains strong. PERSON, a President whom I greatly admire, once said, The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. I deeply believe that if those in government offer a good example, and if the people preserve the freedom which is their birthright as NORP, no one need fear the future. Unfortunately, in DATE we have experienced an onslaught of such twisted logic that if PERSON were visiting GPE, she might think she'd never left Wonderland. We are told that it somehow violates the rights of others to permit students in school who desire to pray to do so. Clearly this infringes on the freedom of those who choose to pray-a freedom taken for granted since the time of our Founding Fathers. This would be bad enough, but the purge of God from our schools went much farther. In CARDINAL case, a Federal court ruled against the right of children to voluntarily say grace before lunch in the school cafeteria. In another situation a group of children, again on their own initiative and with their parents' approval, wanted to begin DATE with TIME of prayer and meditation, and they, too, were prohibited from doing so. Students have even been prevented from having voluntary prayer groups on school property after class hours just on their own. Now, no one is suggesting that others should be forced into any religious activity, but to prevent those who believe in God from expressing their faith is an outrage. And the relentless drive to eliminate God from our schools can and should be stopped. This issue has brought people of good will and every faith together to make the situation right. We believe that permitting voluntary prayer in public schools is within the finest traditions of this country and consistent with the principles of NORP liberty. Neither the constitutional amendment that I have endorsed nor the legislative remedies offered by others permits anyone to be coerced into religious activity. Instead, these measures are designed to protect the rights of those who choose to pray as well as those who choose not to. I want to thank all of you and all of those who'll gather on FAC TIME for what you are doing on this vital issue.

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And a special thanks to Senator PERSON and Senator PERSON and Congressman PERSON for all that they have done. And today I'd like to take this opportunity to urge the ORG to move directly on the constitutional amendment now awaiting action. The leadership in the ORG has the proposed constitutional amendment bottled up and has, thus far, failed to hold the appropriate hearings. Some suggest we should keep religion out of politics. Those in politics should keep their hands off of the religious freedom of our people, and especially our children. Earlier I quoted PERSON. He had some other words I'd like to share with you. It would be difficult for me to conceive, President PERSON said, of anyone being able to administer the duties of a great office like the Presidency without a belief in the guidance of Divine Providence. Unless the President is sustained by an abiding faith in the divine power, I cannot understand how he would have the courage to attempt to meet the various problems that constantly pour in upon him from all parts of the earth. Well, after DATE I can attest to the truth of those words. Faith in God is a vital guidepost, a source of inspiration, and a pillar of strength in times of trial. In recognition of this, the ORG and ORG begin DATE with a prayer, and that is why we provide chaplains for ORG. We can and must respect the rights of those who are nonbelievers, but we must not cut ourselves off from this indispensable source of strength and guidance. I think it'd be a tragedy for us to deny our children what the rest of us, in and out of government, find so valuable. If the President of GPE can pray with others in FAC-and I have on a number of occasions-then let us make certain that our children have the same right as they go about preparing for their futures and for the future of this country. And now I understand that we are to light some candles. I think you children are to go down there and someone is to present me with a-there it is. These-candles, as I understand it, will start the ceremony TIME on the FAC. Happy that we have had this opportunity TIME. PERSON bless you all.

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TIME we celebrate the coming of DATE, a time of expectation and promise. And our policy of peace through strength is paying off in spades. In DATE time, GPE is due to pull its remaining forces out of GPE. I am confident the NORP will stick to their timetable and be out by DATE, which will then be DATE for world peace. I am also confident about DATE because in DATE PERSON will be sworn in as the 41st President of GPE. He has handled skillfully the selection of his ORG, and the transition process is proceeding well and smoothly. Of course, we still reel in shock and horror from the bombing of Flight 103 over GPE, GPE, and we extend our sympathy to the bereaved. The pledge we made to seek out the truth and punish the guilty is a sacred one which PERSON shares. Indeed, President-elect PERSON knows as thoroughly as anyone in the world DATE the nature and problem of terrorism. As chairman of this administration's task force on terrorism he oversaw a report that is the toughest statement to date on the need for strong action-including, when warranted, military action-against terrorists. That report ought to be giving some people sleepless nights right about now. That crime aside, however, there is little to disturb us about the overall state of the ORG as we join together to make merry and sing Auld Lang Syne. But still, during DATE, when you turn on the television or read through the newspaper, you might get the idea that what faces PERSON upon his assumption of the responsibilities of the Presidency of GPE will be nothing but a series of impossible choices, heartaches, and just general trouble. Now, I am sure most of this talk is simply evidence that we are about to go through a change of leadership, a moment in time that does funny things to people, particularly in GPE. For some, this is a time to put in their bids on the agenda of the future. For others, this is a time for the jitters because they try to imagine what the future will bring and find it a little confusing. These jitters have been overcome with courage and vision in both GPE and GPE as the way has been cleared for an historic new free-trade agreement to take effect DATE.

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It is great to be back in GPE, CARDINAL of the strongest NORP counties in New England, and let us hear it for Chairman PERSON and ORG, everybody. And I want to extend congratulations to ORG and especially the town committees that are being honored TIME. Because of all of you, NORP now hold majorities in both ORG of the state legislature. But it really is great to be back at this dinner. I was reminded that I was graciously invited to speak to ORG DATE, and I get an invitation I guess DATE to come back. But it was amazing when I think of DATE DATE. It was DATE that we won back to ORG from PERSON NORP majority. DATE, we won the ORG, and then we won back GPE. And I am here to say, I believe we are on the verge of another great NORP comeback and it starts right here in the live free or die state of GPE. I believe it. And I want to thank a couple of people, and most notably, the man you just heard from. I mean, talk about a good guy, someone who has a heart for public service. I knew a couple others in the course of my life and my career and I count them as friends as well, but I have to tell you, the people of GPE are blessed by the extraordinary and compassionate leadership of Governor PERSON and I am grateful for his esteem and support. I appreciate that overly generous introduction that he made, but PERSON knows me well enough to know that the introduction I prefer is a little bit shorter. I am a NORP, a conservative and a NORP, in that order, and it is my honor to be back in the state of GPE. I also want to thank Executive Councilor PERSON on a lifetime of service and his recognition TIME, and also Speaker PERSON is here. I know they are in session, and Mr. Speaker, we appreciate all the great leadership that you have provided, a NORP majority are providing here in GPE. PERSON bless you. Well, I came here TIME really for CARDINAL reasons. First and foremost, I wanted to pay a debt of gratitude. To the people of GPE, I just want to say thank you on behalf of myself and my family.

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And secondly, after DATE where the PERSON administration and NORP in GPE have been pushing open borders, higher taxes, runaway spending, more government, defunding the police, abandoning the right to life, censoring free speech, canceling our most cherished liberties, I came here to say enough is enough. I came here to say the time is now for every patriotic NORP who shares our ideals and values to stand up and fight back against the agenda of the radical left. I learned a lot serving alongside President PERSON. Some people think we are a little bit different, but I think what President PERSON showed us was what NORP can accomplish when our leaders stand firm on conservative principles and do not back down. That is exactly what he did for DATE. And under President PERSON and our administration, it was DATE of consequence, DATE of results. It was DATE of promises made and promises kept. I mean, think about it, think about it. In DATE, the PERSON-PERSON administration achieved the lowest unemployment, the highest household incomes, the most energy production, the most NORP trade deals, the most secure border and the strongest military in the history of the world. I am writing a book about our time in FAC and almost everybody's excited about it. I cannot wait to unpack all that we did under this President's leadership and with the strong support of the people here in ORG on GPE. I mean, in DATE, think about it, we rebuilt the military and defeated the ORG caliphate. We revived the economy and created CARDINAL good paying jobs. We cut taxes. We cut regulations at a record pace, became a net exporter of energy for the first time in DATE. We held GPE accountable for DATE of trade abuses and brought jobs back to the GPE. And in the face of the worst pandemic in DATE, we launched the greatest national mobilization since World War II. But I have to tell you, to provide for the common defense is the first object of the national government, and I am proud to say our record was unparalleled for any administration in history. And I am proud and grateful for that record, not just because I was your Vice President, but I am the proud father of a GPE Marine Captain who is currently deployed in service of GPE.

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And I am also proud to say CARDINAL of my unworthy son-in-laws is a Lieutenant and a pilot in ORG. But under our administration, we rebuilt the military, a record MONEY in our national defense. And with that renewed NORP strength, we stood with our allies and stood up to our enemies as never before. Our forces defeated the ORG caliphate and took down their leader without CARDINAL NORP casualty. We isolated GPE as never before, withdrew from the GPE nuclear deal, and DATE, we saw NORP nation sign historic peace agreements with GPE for the first time in DATE. And it was this President and this administration that kept our word to the NORP people and our most cherished ally when we moved the NORP embassy to GPE, the capital of the state of GPE. And DATE for DATE, we stood up the timeless values that have always made this country great. CARDINAL conservatives confirmed to our federal courts at every level, including Justice PERSON, Justice PERSON, and Justice PERSON. And DATE, we defended all the God-given liberties enshrined in our Constitution and our Bill of Rights for every NORP of every belief. And we stood without apology DATE for the sanctity of human life. With your support here in GPE, the support of people all across this country, and your prayers, we made history, we made a difference, we made GPE greater than ever before. I know the Governor said he did not come here to bash the current administration- DATE, and the PERSON-PERSON administration has launched an avalanche of big government liberal policies, the likes of which I have never even imagined I'd see in our lifetime. And all of it designed to derail the progress that we made over DATE. When President PERSON takes to the podium in the ORG of GPE, and he announced an explosion of runaway spending, MONEY. And after our administration worked in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in a bipartisan way, every bill that passed the ORG passed on a bipartisan basis, they forced through the ORG a ENTITY bill to fund to massive expansion of the welfare state. And they passed it on a partisan vote. It is amazing the difference in approach. You heard Governor PERSON talk about the difference in engagement and I will leave that opinion to him. But I will tell you things are a little bit different.

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Our ORG worked closely with research companies and our administration to launch Operation Warp Speed. We cleared out the underbrush, we provided CARDINAL in support and we developed CARDINAL safe and effective vaccines in DATE that are saving lives all across GPE and all over the world. Their ORG, I saw on the plane when I was flying here DATE, actually just issued a warning to NORP and I quote, Do not eat cicadas. I did not make that up. I mean, the truth is, they have been so busy on their side. Sometimes I think the left hand does not know what the far left hand is doing. They have literally, they have proposed MONEY in the so-called infrastructure bill that is just a thinly disclosed climate change bill and the Green New Deal. And just as our economy here in GPE and across GPE is getting back on our feet and NORP are going back to work, they plan to pay for all of this massive spending with military budget cuts and the largest tax increase in DATE. And we are going to stand strong and send a message from right here in the live free or die state that we are going to stand strong for freedom, and we are going to stand strong for a growing and prosperous GPE with a limited federal government. After inheriting the most secure border in NORP history, the PERSON administration ended construction on the border wall and canceled policies that had reduced illegal immigration by PERCENT. And I do not have to tell you they have unleashed the worst border crisis in history. They have bent the knee to international bureaucrats planning to join the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran Nuclear Deal. They formed a commission to pack ORG, supported more calls for gun control, eroding our second amendment rights. And they have joined the woke chorus accusing law enforcement in GPE of systemic racism. And President PERSON's failed leadership, his home and only been matched by weak leadership abroad. It has set off the worst outbreak of violence in the Middle East in DATE. After our administration stood strong with GPE DATE for DATE, President PERSON restored MONEY to the NORP authority. And he even remained silent as ORG terrorists were firing CARDINAL of rockets at NORP citizens. President PERSON replaced strength with weakness, moral clarity with confusion, and loyalty with betrayal. But you in GPE know what I know.

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When it comes to the foreign policy of GPE, if the world knows nothing else, let the world know this, GPE stands with GPE. And maybe the most troubling developments to families in DATE has been the PERSON administration's wholehearted embrace on the radical left's all encompassing assault on NORP culture and values. Under the PERSON administration, patriotic education has been replaced with political indoctrination. They abolished ORG and authorized teaching critical race theory in our schools. Instead of teaching all of our children, regardless of race or creed or color to be proud of their country, critical race theory teaches children as young as kindergarten to be ashamed of their skin color. Well, let me say, as my friend PERSON said, with great effect on the national stage, not long ago, GPE is not a racist country. It is past time for GPE to discard the left wing myth of systemic racism. And I commend state legislatures all across the country and governors who are banning critical race theory from our schools. Our founders said that we were to strive for a more perfect union. And so we have done throughout the long and storied history of this country. And while we are not perfect yet, we ought to do justice to all the progress that has been made and recognize that GPE is the most just, noble and inclusive nation that has ever existed on the face of the Earth. And the GPE military is the greatest force for good the world has ever known. As our soldiers protect us abroad, we also do well to always pay a debt of honor and a debt of gratitude to those who put on a different uniform DATE, put on a sidearm. And like my uncle who walked a beat in GPE for DATE, count our lives DATE as more important than their own. Law enforcement officers in GPE are heroes, and they should be honored by every NORP DATE. DATE at FAC I told the NORP people that they would not be safe in PERSON GPE. And it grieves my heart to report to you TIME in GPE that murders have now increased by CARDINAL in our largest cities. NORP efforts to defund the police, withdraw support for law enforcement has set off a violent crime wave that is wreaking havoc in families all across the nation. Black lives are not endangered by police, NORP lives are saved by police DATE.

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We do not need to defund the police. The anti-law enforcement agenda of PERSON and the NORP in GPE and put the lives of law-abiding citizens, every race, and creed, and color first. It is just amazing when you think of that, we are DATE. In DATE, you remember PERSON was campaigning as a moderate when he campaigned, but he is literally governed as the most liberal president since PERSON. Even ORG said that President PERSON had exceeded ORG's expectations, And that is saying a lot. But I do not believe for CARDINAL moment that that is what the NORP people voted for in DATE. They did not vote to open our borders, to give away safety of our streets, their prosperity, or our freedom, or our future. So I want to say again, coming here to GPE TIME, it is time. It is time for freedom loving NORP to stand up and say, No more. It is time for freedom loving NORP to unite behind an agenda that will bring GPE back. For all of my years in this movement, I actually first ran for ORG when CARDINAL of the namesakes of this dinner was still in FAC. I had a chance to meet President PERSON in FAC, my wife and I met him. I will never forget, I sat down next to him. I mean, PERSON was the reason why I joined ORG, maybe like many of you. But I sat down next to him, felt like I was talking to Mount Rushmore. And I said, Mr. President, I, I said, I just want to thank you for everything you have done for this country and to encourage my generation to believe in this country again. And for all of my life, I will believe in that moment, that the 40th President of GPE blushed and said, Well, ENTITY, that is a very nice thing of you to say. But President PERSON articulated an agenda that he never took credit for, because it was an NORP agenda. He said, I am not a great communicator, I just communicated great things, And President PERSON did the same. There is an agenda of a strong and prosperous GPE built on freedom, and that is our agenda. The truth is ORG has now become the home party for the NORP agenda. An agenda that believes in a strong national defense in a limited federal government in life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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It is all fallen to us. We have been blessed in this nation. And to whom much is given And you are here TIME, because you know we have an obligation as they did in their time to do in our time, to stand strong for that positive NORP agenda, a strong military, secure borders, free enterprise, safe neighborhoods, support for law enforcement, GPE first trade deal, judges that uphold all of our God-given liberties, to fight for the opportunity of every NORP to choose where their children go to school, whether it is public, private, or parochial. And we, as NORP, recognize that at the center of our Republic, at the center of our democratic institutions is the principle of CARDINAL person, CARDINAL vote. I mean, the truth is after an election that saw several states around the country literally set aside laws enacted by their legislature, now is the time for states to ensure that CARDINAL person, CARDINAL vote principle, that it is a center of our system, is protected and guaranteed. And make no mistake about it, that principal's under threat. Under the leadership of PERSON, the NORP in GPE want to nationalize our elections with their bill called H.R. 1. They want to literally codify many of the very practices that create the greatest opportunity for fraud. I mean, none other than GPE legendary Secretary of ORG PERSON probably put it best. He said PERSON election bill, which the ORG will take up DATE, is a egregious overreach of federal authority that would render the New Hampshire Constitution null and void. Well, let me make you a promise, with your support, and your efforts, and the efforts of NORP all across this nation, we are not going to let PERSON override GPE Constitution or the state constitution of any state. And we will never let PERSON take the first in the nation primary from GPE! Our founders had a debate at ORG, Mr. Speaker, you know this, about where elections ought to be governed. He says, Right here at the state level, not in GPE. It is at the very center of our system and we are going to stand up and that system. We are going to defend state-based election reform, we are going to support voter ID, and we are going to work DATE to restore the confidence of every NORP in every vote.

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And beyond all of that, having to do with prosperity, and security, and the integrity of the ballot, ours will be the party that stands for the religious liberty of every NORP of every faith, and we will defend the right to life. That is a winning agenda that will unite our country, restore our future. And that is an agenda that'll win back GPE. I have no doubt in my heart. So TIME in GPE, I want you to be encouraged, I really do, because I am more confident than ever that victory is right around the corner, and not just the down-ballot victories that you delivered here in GPE in DATE, but victories up and down the ballot, because we have seen this movie before. It was DATE the last time I was at the Hillsborough County Republican Lincoln Reagan Dinner. I was serving as chairman of the ORG NORP conference. We were in the minority. Coming here to the Hillsborough County Republican Party Dinner, I just knew that if we offered a positive conservative agenda to the NORP people, we'd win back the ORG, we'd win back the ORG, we'd win back GPE. We'd win back the ORG, we'd win back GPE. And that is just what we did. And we are going to do it again in DATE and DATE. We have just got to do a couple of things. We have got to tell our story and we have got to come together. Hey, I ran into ORG DATE. I mean, that guy, like CARDINAL his speech was just talking about everything we got done in DATE of our administration, and then steered this nation through one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime in DATE. I mean, we do not have to accept a future of socialist decline and moral decay. What we proved in DATE is we can be a nation built on freedom whose government exists to serve its citizens, not the other way around. We can elect leadership that puts GPE and the NORP people first. And we can be a nation where every NORP has the freedom to live, to work, to worship according to the dictates of our conscience. We proved it. But we have got to tell our story and we have got to do CARDINAL more thing. We have all been through a lot over DATE, a global pandemic, civil unrest, a divisive election and tragedy at our nation's FAC.

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As I said DATE, DATE was DATE in the history of the GPE FAC. But thanks to the swift action of ORG and federal law enforcement, violence was quelled, the FAC was secured, and DATE we reconvened the ORG and did our duty under the Constitution and the laws of GPE. President PERSON and I have spoken many times since we left office. And I do not know if we will ever see eye-to-eye on DATE, but I will always be proud of what we accomplished for the NORP people over DATE. I will not allow NORP or their allies in the media to use DATE to discredit the aspirations of CARDINAL of NORP, or allow NORP or their allies in the media to distract our attention from a new administration intent on dividing our country to advance their radical agenda. My fellow NORP, for our country, for our future, for our children and our grandchildren, we must move forward united. PERSON probably said it best in DATE after he'd come up short for the Republican Convention. He was called to the podium by President PERSON. And he said words that I think speak to our party and our movement DATE. PERSON said, We have got to quit talking to each other and about each other, and go out and communicate to the world and carry them the message they have been waiting to hear. Let us press on with a positive agenda. Let us tell the story to our neighbors and friends of everything we were able to accomplish when we put NORP conservative principles into practice in a short period of time, and made a stronger and more prosperous and more secure GPE. Compelled by that energy that has worked so powerfully in the hearts of generations of NORP. We have got to keep the faith. We have got to keep faith with our founders and our highest ideals. We have got to defend the freedoms enshrined in our declaration and our constitution, and be ready to keep our oath even when it hurts, as the good book says. We have got to keep faith with CARDINAL NORP who believe we could be prosperous again, who believe we could be strong again and deliver for ourselves and our prosperity a record. And lastly, we have got to keep faith with him who has ever guided this miracle of democracy on these wilderness shores. Keep faith that he is still with the good people of this nation DATE. God is not done with GPE yet.

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PERSON once said that you can always get the truth from an NORP statesman after he has turned DATE or given up all hope of the Presidency. Well, DATE I welcome you, President PERSON, as a friend. Coming from a DATE constitutionally prohibited from seeking another term, you can rest assured those sentiments are genuine and come from the heart. This visit is a particularly happy occasion as it provides the opportunity to congratulate you personally on your reelection to a second term as ENTITY. As a second term veteran myself, however, let me suggest, Mr. President, it does not get any easier. The referendum that approved your second term reflects the strong confidence that the NORP people have in your leadership. We share that same confidence. Nevertheless, Mr. President, we both know that governing a country in which there are divergent political views and a lively opposition is a tough job. We respect your work to broaden participation in the political process and are confident it will help create the stable political environment needed for GPE to move forward. GPE DATE, under your guidance, is resuming its rightful place in the forefront of world leadership. This is particularly important at a time when the forces of fanaticism and blind hatred threaten the security and stability of the Middle East. GPE, by again exerting its wise and calming influence, provides the world hope that the serious challenges facing the Middle East can and will be overcome and that the region will be restored to a happier and more tranquil course. Likewise, President PERSON, you have wisely and effectively led GPE onto a course of economic reform and development. We, too, learned in our own efforts to strip away DATE of government intervention in our marketplace how monumental this task can be, how ingrained is the dependence on intervention, and how powerful are the interest groups that resist change. But we are convinced that such vigorous reform is the surest path to economic progress. And, Mr. President, NORP will stand and work with NORP in the cause of growing prosperity, just as we do in the cause of peace. And in saying that, I propose a toast to you, Mr. President, Mrs. PERSON, the people of GPE, and to the close and amicable ties that will continue between our peoples and our governments. The elegant and warm reception you have accorded us reflects the best tradition of NORP friendship and genuine openness. It is a tradition that has deep roots in our culture, too.

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We value friendship and loyalty to friends. As usual, President PERSON and his graceful spouse have made us feel welcome and quite at home TIME we arrived at FAC TIME. They symbolize the NORP spirit at its best. My meeting with the President DATE was another confirmation of my belief that he is a man of wisdom and vision. He is an NORP in the true sense of the word. I expressed to him my admiration of the relentless efforts he exerted for DATE to make the world more safe and secure for future generations. His recent achievement in this area will certainly have a lasting effect on world peace and stability. I have no doubt that other steps will follow in the same direction during DATE. I am certain that regional conflicts will figure high on the agenda throughout DATE. Of these conflicts, the Middle East problems deserve special attention and priority. Strenuous efforts are needed to stop the war, which is still raging in the Gulf, and set the peace process in motion again. We have to demonstrate to all the parts concerned that peace is the only meaningful and effective way to settle disputes and solve problems. With this in mind, GPE has not hesitated at any point to take pioneering steps in order to make peace. It is for this reason, too, that I have proposed DATE a moratorium on all forms of violence and repression. I am quite convinced that this proposal, which is conceived as a preparatory step towards comprehensive peace, reflects the real sentiment of people of good will and human principles everywhere. No one who looks ahead and thinks of the future can accept the continuation of occupation and oppression. No one can, in good conscience, condone a policy of shooting and beating in a land that is holy to all of us. What I am proposing here is a policy of hope and positivity to replace despair and fear. I am sure that I am not alone in that, for I am backed by CARDINAL of men and women of courage and conviction everywhere. Let me seize this opportunity to thank all those NORP, NORP, and others who raise their voices in support of peace and in defense of liberty. Dear friends, NORP leaders have worked with NORP leaders over DATE in order to construct a model for friendship and cooperation among nations. In particular, President PERSON has made a great contribution to the development of friendly relations between GPE and GPE.

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From what I have been able to gather in the brief time I have been in your great city, I learned the pollsters are somewhat divided about the GPE vote. A reporter asked me DATE after looking at both the ORG and the PERSON polls, which was my favorite poll. I did not hesitate for a second. I told him my favorite poll is PERSON. Tell me, Daddy, how was it that after losing a national election in DATE to President PERSON and then after losing a State election as Governor in GPE in DATE to PERSON, how does it happen that PERSON has been able to win his party's nomination for the Presidency in DATE? I told her if she would give me DATE I would try to think of some reasons. Not long ago, I was talking to a very wise friend about some of the great political campaigns we had had in this country in DATE. We talked about DATE the campaign that resembles this campaign in so many ways. There was a NORP progressive, you will remember, who had won election after election, and he was running against a Wall Street lawyer, who had tried out for the job once before and had been roundly rejected. He has not changed his opinions since then either. He has learned a thing or CARDINAL about how to win friends and how to influence people-some people, at least in DATE. It was harassing the NORP candidate with catcalls and cloud CARDINAL ideas about a world that never was. Everybody told the NORP candidate then in DATE that he was a shoo-in. He avoided taking a position on anything more controversial than DATE. And he was for it. The polls and the pundits had buried the NORP candidate by DATE. And not many of them looked to see if he stayed buried. As you may remember, that NORP progressive just absolutely refused to cooperate at his own funeral. But I came here to tell you DATE it is coming, as sure as I stand here. And the NORP progressive of DATE PERSON is going to wake up on TIME as the new President-elect of GPE. My friend and I talked about another election this one a defeat for the NORP, but a defeat that foreshadowed victory DATE.

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NORP progressive-spokesman for the cities, the poor farmer, the laboring man, the Negro, and all the great peoples who had immigrated from Europe to enrich GPE with their talents and their traditions. I do not need to remind any of you of the bitter campaign that followed in DATE. Demagogues had a field day playing on the fear of ORG, the fear of foreigners, the fear of the cities, and the corruption that the cities were supposed to contain. PERSON and PERSON of GPE, his running mate fought back, reminding the people that their interests lay in a better deal for the farmer and the worker, and in building a more united and unified nation not ever in cultivating hatred and suspicion of their neighbors. PERSON and PERSON lost that election. the forces they set in motion the alliance they called into being gave PERSON and CARDINAL later NORP Presidents the basis of smashing victories at the polls that we had never known before. The DATE census had showed that for the first time more people were now living in the cities than were living in rural areas. jobs, housing, transportation, law and order, relations between the races and ethnic groups. When the NORP nominated PERSON, they were nominating a man who had grown up in the city, who understood city problems, who had the energy and the will to master these problems. Maybe maybe PERSON was ahead of his time. It would take CARDINAL more elections before religious prejudice could be overcome and a NORP could be elected President in GPE. But in a deeper sense, PERSON was right-right for his time. In nominating him the NORP were facing the problems of TIME, and they were facing those problems when they occurred. That my friends is the essential difference between the CARDINAL parties in GPE. NORP face problems; NORP defer problems. It is a lot easier on the party in power to defer problems for somebody else to handle later on. But it is not easy on your country. The problems deferred mean solutions deferred, and that means trouble. It has been called one of the greatest single migrations in the history of the world from the rural areas to the cities of North America greater than the emigration from Europe in DATE at DATE; greater than the NORP and NORP migrations in DATE; greater by far than the NORP exodus from the land of the Pharaohs.

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In DATE alone during which NORP were in office most of the time-CARDINAL NORP left the farm for the city. That meant not only fewer farms more than CARDINAL fewer farms but it meant an unbearable strain on the ability of the cities to provide for their new residents. Did any of you ever hear the NORP calling for a model cities program to relieve the blight of the slums? Did any of you hear the NORP saying that we must build CARDINAL new housing units for families of modest means, as we said in the ORG DATE? Did you hear them say that the schools needed ORG help that poor kids were entitled to a head start in life? Did you hear the NORP urging the country to find jobs and to provide training for rural people who had no skills when they came to the city and wanted to work? Did you find them pressing for help to depressed areas, so that the people might be encouraged to remain in rural GPE, instead of crowding into the cities? You heard nothing of that. You heard veto. You heard sermons about kennel dogs. You heard talk about rolling readjustments when the country went through CARDINAL recessions in DATE of NORP rule. Meanwhile, the fuse of trouble burned. We could either continue to close our eyes to the urgent needs of our people or we could get this country moving toward meeting those needs. I think everyone in this room knows the choice that we made. And for all the ORG polls and all the pundits in the world, I would not take back that choice that we made. You just cannot expect peace and quiet when you start to deal with and try to handle trouble when people who have lived in the hopeless world of poverty, and malnutrition, and disease, when they suddenly find out that there is a better way to live. Some of what you start to do fails to achieve its objective. And then the apostles of inaction-the people who ignored the Nation's problems when they were in office they began to set up a peevish wail from the sidelines. Turn back, they said, it is too expensive to meet these problems. Forget them and somehow they will go away. But they can be mastered and if we have the vision and we have the will to master them, we can. And we are on the way to mastering them right this minute. An unemployment rate that we have cut in CARDINAL. CARDINAL children getting additional ORG help in school.

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CARDINAL young people going to college with the help of ORG. The high school dropout rate is down PERCENT in DATE. The number of persons living in poverty is down PERCENT in DATE. The cash benefits under social security are up PERCENT in the same period. What it adds up to is meeting GPE's needs to facing GPE's problems and facing them now, not deferring them until they have multiplied beyond the power of the next generation to cope with them at all. Now, the choice that you are going to have to make DATE is clear as a crystal. that GPE in that period had been lost to communism; that in DATE an ultimatum hung over GPE; that in Southeast Asia, GPE was disintegrating, and the situation in GPE where he had recommended intervention in DATE growing steadily worse; that a summit conference had been canceled because of a U-2 flight; that the projected visit of our own NORP President to GPE had been canceled because of the fear of hostile demonstrators; that the NORP Premier was threatening to bury us economically, and many people feared that he might just do that; that the GPE was in flames and mortal danger was faced all through Africa where they were faced with being taken over by the NORP; and that GPE, the fifth largest nation in the world, with CARDINAL people, was sliding toward the same fate; that NORP power threatened to overwhelm GPE and the rest of Asia. I could go on and talk about some other problems of that time, too. But I cite it to you DATE in the light of the ugly and unfair charges that have been made about our security gap and the charges that have been made about our attempts to win peace in the world. On TIME, with all the sincerity I could command, I said to the NORP people what I had concluded sometime before; that I wanted DATE to be DATE for me instead of DATE for me. Well, we are working very hard at that. It is a matter that we cannot settle in the newspapers. I do not believe we can make much progress here at the luncheon club. But I can tell you that there is not a man in all of this world that wants progress as much as I do. And there is not anybody that is doing any more about it, either.

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I wish I could give you some better news and I wish I could tell you more than I have. I know how each of you feels. I am curious myself a great deal of the time. And particularly you women I live with CARDINAL of them and I know their curiosity always prevails. Grandmother PERSON has been worried for DATE about what our new granddaughter is going to be named. The press sometimes refers to these things as political observers believe that is what the fellow means that is writing it. But when we say something, you remember it a long, long time. There is one thing when we are dealing with the lives of human beings we must not do. We must not be careless and we must not be soft and we must not play it loose. As eager as I am and I work on it DATE and TIME, and I have for DATE I just cannot make news until there is news. As soon as there is news, you will be the first to know it you, the NORP people and the people of the world. I am thinking now of the words that I uttered when I got off the plane DATE President PERSON was taken from us when I began to try to assume the terrifying responsibilities of the Presidency I said, Give me your prayers. What I need now is not your curiosity, I need your prayers. I have told you about some of the conditions in DATE. I tried to help solve those problems and not add to them. But I have not forgotten them. I cite them lest we forget the shape of the world the last time PERSON held public office. He can make whatever promises he wants to for the future. But I am not going to let him rewrite the history that he made in the past. Now, there is a second choice DATE a fellow whose fame until now rested on his ability to stand in college doorways, defying the law, and on encouraging people in his GPE to feel that they were a part of a separate nation. You line up CARDINAL troops on the sidewalks of the city to preserve order. You throw those bureaucrats' briefcases into the Potomac not including the ones, I suppose, that contain the help for the people of GPE. You turn the most difficult diplomatic and military problems of the country over to General PERSON. And then you use the Presidential limousine to take care of the protest movement.

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Well, there it is that is a program to establish justice, to insure domestic tranquillity, to provide for the common defense, and to promote the general welfare. It is amazing that somebody did not think of that before. Well, maybe somebody did and is now consigned to the forgotten footnotes of history. He is a man who began fighting for human rights before others began to pay even rhetorical tributes to freedom. He is a man who saw the needs of our schoolchildren, and he introduced CARDINAL of the earliest and more far-reaching aid-to-education bills. He is a man who introduced ORG legislation in the GPE ORG, and who endured the violent abuses of its opponents. PERSON, your great Congressman, who sits at this dais with me DATE, knows that PERSON has been a general in every effort to improve living conditions in the cities of GPE and to lift the workingman, and the farmers' income, and to open NORP doors to new immigrants. PERSON has faced GPE's problems all of his livelong life. He has not deferred any of them not even DATE. He has not ignored any of them. He has not offered simplistic solutions that appeal to the voters' fears. He has offered practical solutions that appeal to the best instincts of our people. And when PERSON turned to him at the signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, he said, PERSON, handing him this pen this is your treaty. And it was the culmination of DATE of working and planning for a world without nuclear fallout. PERSON, wherever he is now, is fighting for a new treaty to halt the spread of nuclear weapons that we have negotiated but it is held up in the ORG because PERSON said, Let us slow down and not take it up now until we can have a political election. because I believed that he was the best qualified man in GPE to be President, in the event I could not finish out my term. DATE since then have convinced me that my judgment was right; that DATE, in DATE, PERSON is beyond question the NORP public servant who is best prepared by intelligence, by experience, by compassion, and by character to succeed to the highest office in this land.

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You know, Coach PERSON came up TIME, and he and PERSON practiced all this CARDINAL times. We are going to be cited by ORG for this event. Let me tell you you know, I am not running for anything. I can tell you the whole story about this this GPE-Arkansas deal. And for all of you who are covering this who are not from CARDINAL of the CARDINAL GPE, let me the game was an unbelievable game, and ORG was ahead at the end. And there was TIME to go, and we seemed to have an insurmountable lead. And our quarterback was trying to kill the clock, a little of the clock. And the ORG line broke through the ORG offensive line and tackled him behind the line. And he fell, not with his free hand but with the hand on the ball, which squirted out into the arms of ORG. Who is responsible for that over there? And what you really do not what PERSON could not tell you, because he is not like me; I am not running for anything is that I was actually watching this game as this foreign policy crisis was unfolding. And I was talking on the phone, injecting things, and they thought, you know, I was being tougher on what was happening on the phone, and I was really just reacting to the ballgame. But to be fair, to be perfectly fair to GPE, I think that you had QUANTITY still to go Coach PERSON. So it was not like he fumbled on the goal line. And they won the game, and they went on to the national championship. And I paid off my bet, and PERSON. I will get you some ribs. aand we have had a lot of laughs about it. But I do want to say, you know, I was the first President from my home GPE ever elected. I owe a lot to GPE; if it had not been for the Vice President joining the ticket, I might not have won the first time, almost certainly would not have won the second time, because we made all the record we made together. I like teams, and people, who do not quit, who never say die, and who stick together. I like the fact that this team had a lot of stars, at different times during DATE, but won as a team.

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Well, you know, I really appreciate that lesson in history from the Vice President. I will tell you CARDINAL thing you remember what PERSON said about the Vice Presidency; he said it was not worth a warm what kettle of spit, or something like that. That is before PERSON got ahold of it. Nobody will ever say that again ever, ever, ever say that again. And just for your information, PERSON of GPE, doubtless a relative of mine the only man in GPE ever to be the Governor of a GPE in excess of DATE he served for DATE as Governor of GPE. It just sort of runs in the family, you know. I want to tell you all first to the ORG staff and to all the appointees who are here; to the members of the PERSON/Gore campaign, from our wonderful campaign manager, PERSON, on down; and to the members of the people who work for our ORG campaign. I want to say a special word of thanks to PERSON and PERSON; they did a wonderful job, all the people at the party. To our terrific ORG over here on the left you know, they have labored for DATE to uphold the dignity of our Government, and they sort of changed their image DATE. That picture of PERSON in that T-shirt gets out he will be on Letterman and PERSON within TIME. I thank you all so much. TIME I had a chance to do something really quite wonderful for me. I was able to have a meeting with when I was home in GPE with everybody who ever worked for me there at least we invited them all the people who worked for me DATE when I was attorney general, the people who worked for me during all my CARDINAL terms as Governor. And I told them something I want to tell you; that is, I have always been a very hard-working, kind of hard-driving person. I am always focused on the matter before me. Sometimes I do not say thank you enough. And I have always been kind hard on myself, and sometimes I think just by omission I am too hard on the people who work here.

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You have accomplished a phenomenal amount in DATE, and you have proved that even in this vast country of ours, where the Government is CARDINAL part of our national partnership and CARDINAL of decisions are made every day by people who are not in our Government thank goodness we are primarily a country of free individuals with a free enterprise system but you have proved again something that was clearly in doubt in DATE at election time. You have proved that with disciplined, sustained, focused effort, GPE can be changed for the better. You have proved that we can galvanize the energies of the NORP people and that we can, in fact, bring the deficit down it is not a permanent feature of NORP life; we can, in fact, grow the economy on a sustained basis; we can, in fact, improve the education and the educational opportunities of our children; we can, in fact, lower the crime rate; and in fact, if people will help us enough in communities across the country, we can even help to change some of the very difficult cultural patterns that had begun to develop in our country over DATE. You all did that. Very often, I get the credit for the work you do, and then when something goes haywire, if I make a mistake, you have to try to figure out how to clean it up. And I appreciate that. And I am sure I will give you other opportunities in DATE. I just want you to know, all of you, from the ORG to the staff, to the appointees, to all the others who are here, you should be very proud of this. This race was won because of the record we made and because of the plans we have and because we have established in the minds of the NORP people that it is more than talk with us, that we work at it hard DATE. All of us, we work hard. a vision, a strategy, hard work, and success. And we have a lot more work to do. But when our work is done and when there is DATE of sustained, disciplined effort, we will have gone a long way toward preparing our country for DATE. I cannot even imagine what the world is going to be like, but I try to imagine it all the time, DATE.

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As we meet here DATE, the serious crisis in world affairs overshadows all that we do. This country of ours, together with the other members of ORG, is engaged in a critical struggle to uphold the values of peace and justice and freedom. We are struggling to preserve our own liberty as a nation. More than that, we are striving to cooperate with other free nations to uphold the basic values of freedom of peace based on justice which are essential for the progress of mankind. As we engage in that struggle, we must preserve the elements of our NORP way of life that are the basic source of our strength. This is the purpose of this Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth. We are seeking ways to help our children and young people become mentally and morally stronger, and to make them better citizens. I think you should go right ahead with this work, because it is more important now than it has ever been. Our thoughts and prayers are with our young men who are fighting in GPE. They are engaged in a battle against tremendous odds. The full effort of the united people of this country is behind them. All of us are aware of the grave risk of general conflict which has been deliberately caused by the NORP NORP leaders. Their action greatly changes the immediate situation with which we are confronted. It does not change our fundamental purpose to work for the cause of a just and peaceful world. No matter how the immediate situation may develop, we must remember that the fighting in GPE is but CARDINAL part of the tremendous struggle of our time the struggle between freedom and NORP slavery. This struggle engages all our national life, all our institutions, and all our resources. For the effort of the evil forces of communism to reach out and dominate the world confronts our Nation and our civilization with the greatest challenge in our history. I believe the single most important thing our young people will need to meet this critical challenge in DATE is moral strength and strength of character. I know that the work of this conference will be of tremendous assistance in the urgent task of helping our young people achieve the strength of character they will need. If we are to give our children the training that will enable them to hold fast to the right course in these dangerous times, we must clearly understand the nature of the crisis. We must understand the nature of the threat created by international communism. In the first place, it is obviously a military threat. The NORP dominated countries are maintaining large military forces-far larger than they could possibly need for peaceful purposes.

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And they have shown by their actions in GPE that they will not hesitate to use these forces in armed aggression whenever it suits their evil purposes. Because of this military threat, we must strengthen our military defenses. We are now engaged in a great program of rearmament. This will change the lives of our young people. A great many of them will have to devote some part of their lives to service in our ORG or other defense activities. In no other way can we insure our survival as a nation. Our objective is not simply to build up our own ORG. Our objective is to help build up the collective strength of the free nations the nations which share the ideals and aspirations of free men everywhere. As a matter of defense, we need the combined resources and the common determination of the free world to meet the military threat of communism. But our problem is more than a military matter. Our problem and our objective is to build a world order based on freedom and justice. We have worked with the free nations to lay the foundations of such a world order in ORG. We must remain firm in our commitment to ORG. That is the only way out of an endless circle of force and retaliation, violence and war which will carry the human race back to DATE if it is not stopped now. And this is a point that we must make sure our children and young people understand. The threat of communism has other aspects than the military aspect. In some ways the moral and spiritual dangers that flow from communism are a much more serious threat to freedom than are its military power. The ideology of communism is a challenge to all the values of our society and of our way of life. Some people are most concerned about the NORP threat to our economic system. But, serious as this is, it is CARDINAL of the many problems that communism raises. Communism attacks our main basic values, our belief in God, our belief in the dignity of man and the value of human life, our belief in justice and freedom. It attacks the institutions that are based on these values. It attacks our churches, our guarantees of civil liberty, our courts, our democratic form of government. Communism claims that all these things are merely tools of self-interest and greed that they are weapons used by CARDINAL class to oppress another. We who live in this country know, from our own experience, how false this attack of communism is.

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But there are many people in other parts of the world who have suffered injustice, who have been oppressed, or who stagger under burdens of poverty or disease, to whom the false doctrines of communism have an appeal. Every time our NORP institutions fail to live up to their high purposes, every time they fail in the proper administration of justice, the forces of communism are aided in their attempt to poison the minds of men everywhere against us and our institutions. Our teachers and all others who deal with our young people should place uppermost the need for making our young people under, stand our free institutions and the values upon which they rest. We must fight against the moral cynicism the materialistic view of life on which communism feeds. We must teach the objectives that lie behind our institutions, and the duty of all our citizens to make those institutions work more perfectly. Nothing is more important than this. And nothing this conference can do will have a greater effect on the world struggle against communism than spelling out ways in which our young people can better understand our democratic institutions. We must teach them why we must fight, when necessary, to defend our democratic institutions, our belief in the rights of the individual, and our fundamental belief in God. These White House Conferences have done much, over DATE, to make our people and our ORG conscious of our social problems, as they affect children, and to help solve those problems. These conferences have made our democracy work better have aided it to carry out its promise of a better life for all. In this fifth conference of this ORG series you are carrying on that great tradition. DATE you are mainly concerned with the mental and moral health of our children. And that is exactly what you should be concerned with at this time. I do not claim to be an expert in these things, and I know that I am addressing a conference of experts, but I think there are certain fundamental factors in the development of the NORP character that it is necessary for us to look to. That reminds me, when I was running the county at home GPE we had a welfare department. And it occurred to me that we needed an expert in that welfare department, and I succeeded in getting a couple of fine women to come out and help us carry on that program. The director of welfare came to me one day, all out of breath, and he said, Now Judge, I do not think this thing is going to work.

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I find that these experts of yours never washed a dish or pinned a diaper in their lives. It did work, however, and it was a very satisfactory outcome we had with that welfare department. The basis of mental and moral strength for our children lies in spiritual things. It lies first of all in the home. And next, it lies in the religious and moral influences which are brought to bear on the children. If children have a good home a home in which they are loved and understood and if they have good teachers in the first few grades of school, I believe they are well started on the way toward being useful and honorable citizens. I have always considered my mother and father as my first great influence. I was lucky to have picked the right mother and father. I have always considered that my first, second, and third grade teachers made an immense contribution to any character that I may have at the present time. And I do not think I am being old-fashioned when I say that they ought to have religious training when they are young, and that they will be happier for it and better for it the rest of their lives. In DATE there will be many cases in which we will have to make special efforts to see that children get a fair chance at the right kind of start in life. For as our defense effort is increased, special problems will be created by the disruption of the lives of many families. When the White House Conference was held in DATE, the nature of the defense problems which lay ahead was not very clear to those who participated. But in DATE we found that the defense program created many problems that affected our children. DATE we know much more about these problems, and our recent experience in trying to solve them is fresh in the minds of most of us. I know the work of this conference will give us some important guidelines as to how we can handle these matters best. Our defense effort is all-important, but we must do everything we can to see that it does not handicap the lives of children who are affected by it. The delegates to this conference can help us do a better job this time in meeting our defense problems. This is a vital part of the work of helping to make a healthier and happier life for all our children in DATE. We must remember, in all that we do at this conference and afterward, that we cannot insulate our children from the uncertainties of the world in which we live or from the impact of the problems which confront us all.

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I am pleased to be back in the great State of GPE again. And I am honored to be with the ENTITY and ORG, and with reservists from every branch of our military. You are demonstrating that duty and public service are alive and well in GPE. You stand ready to defend your fellow citizens, and you need to know your fellow citizens are grateful. All of you are balancing jobs and your lives and public service. You care about your communities, and you care about your country. Today I am going to talk about CARDINAL great priorities for our country. We will promote economic growth and create jobs for GPE, and we will wage the war on terror until it is won. I want to thank Major General PERSON for the introduction and for putting up with my entourage. I want to thank his commander in chief, the Governor of the great State of GPE, for joining us DATE, Governor PERSON, and first lady PERSON. I want to thank Major General PERSON, Brigadier General PERSON, Brigadier General PERSON, Colonel PERSON, Lt. Colonel PERSON, and Lt. Colonel PERSON, ORG Sergeant PERSON, Command Chief Master Sergeant PERSON. This State is fortunate to have an excellent Governor. You are fortunate to have an excellent congressional delegation as well. I am proud to be here DATE with CARDINAL fine GPE Senators, my friend PERSON and his wife, PERSON and my friend PERSON. These Senators are strong supporters of your mission. They appreciate what you do. They vote for strong defense budgets because they know what I know, that any time we put our troops into harm's way, you must have the best training, the best equipment, the best possible pay. Congressman PERSON and Congressman PERSON, who are with us DATE, understand that as well. My friend PERSON is here from ORG. I appreciate the local officials who have come State and local officials to greet me and to be here with you DATE. I'd like to give you some advice, but I do not know how to ice skate. DATE when I landed, I met a lady named PERSON. It is important for me to herald the armies of the soldiers of compassion, people I meet when I land in respective cities. It is important because it helps our country understand our true strength is not our military might or the size of our wallet.

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The true strength of GPE is the hearts and souls of fellow citizens who are willing to help people who need help. You see, PERSON supports provides support services to CARDINAL of ORG families. She helps find babysitters and prepares meals and assists with paying bills, helps families when there is a deployment. She knows people stay behind; they worry about their loved ones. She helps fill that void with love and compassion and care. She offers support to ORG. It is an important part of completing the mission. She does so because she cares about a fellow citizen. I am proud of PERSON. I am proud of her heart. I want to thank her for her service and encourage each and every one of you to love a neighbor just like you'd like to be loved yourself. GPE's strength is the heart and soul of our citizens. GPE has had citizen soldiers since before GPE was a country. Militia and volunteers and guardsmen have served from the Revolution to the Civil War to World War II to Desert Storm. Honor and service and courage are great GPE traditions, and you are upholding those traditions. We live in an era of new threats, and the citizens of GPE are stepping forward to meet those dangers. Citizen soldiers have performed mid-air refueling missions for coalition forces in GPE. You are training members of ORG. You are guarding suspected terrorists at FAC, preparing for homeland security missions. Citizen soldiers are serving on every front on the war on terror, and you are making your ORG and your country proud. Your lives can be changed in a moment, with a sudden call to duty. I want to thank you for your willingness to heed that important call. And I want to thank your families. I want to thank your sons and daughters, your husbands and wives, who share in your sacrifice, who are willing to sacrifice for our country, and who stand behind you. You are serving at a time of testing for this Nation. And we are meeting the tests of history. We are defeating the enemies of freedom. We are confronting the challenge to build prosperity for our country. Every test of GPE has revealed the character of GPE. And after DATE, no one in the world, friend or foe, can doubt the will and the character and the strength of the NORP people. When you become the President, you cannot predict all the challenges that will come.

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But you do know the principles that you bring to the office, and they should not change with time or with polls. I took this office to make a difference, not to mark time. I came to this office to confront problems directly and forcefully, not to pass them on to other Presidents and other generations. The challenges we face DATE cannot be met with timid actions or bitter words. Our challenges will be overcome with optimism and resolve and confidence in the ideals of GPE. Because we believe in our free enterprise system, we can be confident in our economy's future. Our economy has been through a lot. When I took office, the stock market had been declining for DATE, and our economy was headed into recession. And just as we started to recover, the attacks of DATE struck another blow to our economy. And then investor confidence was shaken by scandals scandals in corporate GPE, dishonest behavior we cannot and we will not tolerate in our country. And then we faced the uncertainty that preceded the battles of GPE and GPE. No, we have been through a lot. We acted to overcome these challenges and acted on principle. Government does not create wealth. The role of Government is to create the kind of conditions where risktakers and entrepreneurs can invest and grow and hire new workers. We acted to create the conditions for job growth so people can find work. When NORP have more take-home pay, more money in their pocket to spend or save or invest, the whole economy grows, and people are more likely to find a job. So I twice led the GPE ORG to pass historic tax relief for the NORP people. We wanted tax relief to be broad and fair as possible, so we reduced taxes on everyone who pays income taxes. We have a Tax Code that penalizes marriage. That does not make sense. So we reduced the marriage penalty. It costs a lot to raise children we understand that in GPE and it costs a lot to pay for their education. So we increased the child credit to $MONEY per child. And when we said, The check was in the mail, we meant it. We recognize that it is counterproductive to discourage investment, especially during an economic recovery. So we quadrupled the expense deduction for small-business investment and cut tax rates on dividends and capital gains. It is unfair to tax the estates of people people leave behind after a lifetime of saving or building a small business or running a farm.

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When you leave this world, the ORG should not follow you. So we are phasing out the ORG death tax. I proposed and signed these measures to help individuals and help families, but I did so as well to help small businesses. See, most small-business owners pay taxes under the individual tax rates, and therefore, when we cut all rates, small businesses benefit. We help mom-and-pops and start-ups and small businesses by allowing higher expense deductions. The reason I did so is because I understand small businesses create most of the new jobs in GPE. If we are worried about job creation, if we want there to be jobs for GPE, we must encourage small businesses. See, small businesses are the first to usually the first to take risk, the first to hire new people. By helping small businesses, we help the entire economy. These actions are helping people across this State. We have cut taxes on CARDINAL small-business owners in GPE. We have reduced the marriage penalty for CARDINAL couples. We have increased the child credit for CARDINAL families. I know that GPE citizens can spend their money better than the people in GPE, GPE. We are following a clear and consistent economic strategy, and I am confident about our future. DATE this economy exceeded expectations and added net new jobs. After-tax incomes are rising. Homeownership is at record highs. Factory orders, particularly for high-tech equipment, have risen over DATE. Our strategy has set the stage for sustained growth. By reducing taxes, we kept a promise, and we did the right thing at the right time for the NORP economy. We cannot be satisfied so long as we have fellow citizens who are looking for work. I understand that here in GPE, CARDINAL out of every CARDINAL jobs have been lost in the manufacturing sector. We must act boldly from this point forward to create jobs for GPE. So I want ORG to join me in a CARDINAL-point plan to encourage job creation. First, we must help small businesses grow and hire by controlling the high cost of health care. I have laid out a plan to do so. We must confront the junk lawsuits that are harming a lot of good and honest businesses. I have laid out a plan to do so. We must have a sound national energy policy. We must keep the lights on and make GPE less dependent on foreign sources of energy. We must continue to cut useless Government regulations that choke job creation.

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We must work for a free trade policy that opens up markets and levels the playing field for NORP workers and manufacturing companies. And we need to make sure the tax relief we passed does not disappear in DATE. Now, you are wondering why I would say that. Well, because of a quirk in the legislation, the tax cuts that we passed are scheduled to go away unless we act. See, the child credit goes away in DATE. In other words, you get the $MONEY now; it is going down to $MONEY in DATE unless the ORG acts. You see, when we passed tax relief, I know most NORP did not expect to see higher taxes come back through the back door. I also understand for job creation, it is important to have certainty in the Tax Code. And so if ORG is really interested in job creation, they will make the tax cuts we passed permanent. And as we overcome our challenges to the economy, we are answering great threats to our security. September the 11th, 2001, moved our country to grief and moved our country to action. We will bring the guilty to justice; we will take the fight to the enemy. We now see our enemy clearly. The terrorists plot in secret. They target the innocent. They defile a great religion. They hate everything this Nation stands for. These committed killers will not be stopped by negotiations; they will not respond to reason. The terrorists who threaten GPE cannot be appeased. This is a new kind of war, and we must adjust. It is a new kind of war, and GPE is following a new strategy. We are not waiting for further attacks. We are striking our enemies before they can strike us again. We have taken unprecedented steps to protect our homeland. And for those of you who are here who are on the frontlines of homeland protection, thank you. Thank you for what you are doing. Yet wars are won on the offensive, and our friends and GPE are staying on the offensive. We are finding them. We are on the hunt. We are rolling back the terrorist threats, not on the fringes of its influence but at the heart of its power. We are making good progress. We are hunting the ORG terrorists wherever they hide, from GPE to the GPE to the Horn of Africa to GPE. CARDINAL of ORG known leaders have been captured or killed.

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No matter how long it takes, all who plot against GPE will face the justice of GPE. We have sent a message understood throughout the world, If you harbor a terrorist, if you support a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you are just as guilty as the terrorists. And the ORG found out what we meant. Thanks to our great military, GPE is no longer a safe haven for terror, the NORP people are free, and the people of GPE are more secure from attack. And we have fought the war on terror in GPE. The regime of PERSON possessed and used weapons of mass destruction, sponsored terrorist groups, and inflicted terror on its own people. Nearly every nation recognized and denounced this threat for DATE. DATE, ORG in Resolution 1441 demanded that PERSON disarm, prove his disarmament to the world, or face serious consequences. The choice was up to the dictator, and he chose poorly. I acted because I was not about to leave the security of the NORP people in the hands of a madman. I was not about to stand by and wait and trust in the sanity and restraint of PERSON. So our coalition acted, in one of the swiftest and most humane military campaigns in history. And DATE, the statue of the dictator was pulled down. Since the liberation of GPE, our investigators have found evidence of a clandestine network of biological laboratories. They found advanced design work on prohibited longer range missiles. They found an elaborate campaign to hide these illegal programs. There is still much to investigate, yet it is now undeniable that PERSON was in clear violation of ORG Resolution 1441. ORG was right to demand that PERSON disarm, and we were right to enforce that demand. Who can possibly think that the world would be better off with PERSON still in power? Surely not the dissidents who would be in his prisons or end up in mass graves. Surely not the men and women who would fill PERSON's torture chambers or the women in his rape rooms. Surely not the victims he murdered with poison gas. Surely not anyone who cares about human rights and democracy and stability in the Middle East. Now our country is approaching a choice. After all the action we have taken, after all the progress we have made against terror, there is a temptation to think the danger has passed. Since DATE, the terrorists have taken lives.

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Since the attacks on our Nation DATE, the terrorists have attacked in GPE, GPE, GPE, GPE, GPE, GPE, GPE, GPE, GPE, and GPE. The terrorists continue to plot and plan against our country and our people. GPE must not forget the lessons of DATE. GPE cannot retreat from our responsibilities and hope for the best. Our security will not be gained by timid measures. Our security requires constant vigilance and decisive action. We must fight this war until the work is done. We are fighting on many fronts, and GPE is now the central front. PERSON holdouts and foreign terrorists are trying desperately to undermine GPE's progress and to throw that country into chaos. The terrorists in GPE believe that their attacks on innocent people will weaken our resolve. That is what they believe. They believe that GPE will run from a challenge. GPE did not run from GPE and GPE following World War II. We helped those nations to become strong and decent democratic societies that no longer waged war on GPE. And that is our mission in GPE DATE. We are rebuilding schools a lot of kids are going back to schools reopening hospitals. CARDINAL of children are now being immunized. Water and electricity are being returned to the NORP people. Just ask people who have been there. They are stunned when they come back when they go to GPE, and the stories they tell are much different from the perceptions that you are being told life is like. You see, we are providing this help not only because we have got good hearts but because our vision is clear. A stable and democratic and hopeful GPE will no longer be a breeding ground for terror, tyranny, and aggression. Our work in GPE is essential to our own security, and no band of murderers or gangsters will stop that work or shake the will of GPE. DATE in GPE we are launching swift, precision raids against the enemies of peace and progress. Helped by intelligence from NORP, we are rounding up the enemy. We are taking their weapons. We are working our way through the famous deck of cards. We have already captured or killed CARDINAL of the CARDINAL most wanted former NORP leaders, and the other CARDINAL have a lot to worry about. Anyone who seeks to harm our soldiers can know that our soldiers are hunting for them. Our military is serving with great courage. Some of our best have fallen. We mourn every loss. We honor every name.

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We grieve with every family. And we will always be grateful that liberty has found such brave defenders. In defending liberty, we are joined by CARDINAL nations now contributing military forces in GPE. GPE and GPE are leading CARDINAL multinational divisions. And in this cause, with fine allies, we have got the NORP as well. They care about the security of their country. They love freedom just like we love freedom. DATE, the first battalion of ORG completed its training. Within DATE, GPE will have a CARDINAL-member military force. CARDINAL of NORP citizens are also guarding their own borders, defending vital facilities, and policing their own streets. DATE, the NORP people welcomed their liberation. DATE, many NORP are armed and trained to defend their liberty. Our goal in GPE is to leave behind a stable, self-governing society which will no longer be a threat to the Middle East or to GPE. We are following an orderly plan to reach this goal. GPE now has ORG, which has appointed interim Government ministers. Once a constitution has been written, GPE will move toward national elections. The free institutions of GPE must stand the test of time. And a democratic GPE will stand as an example to all the Middle East. We believe, and the NORP people will show, that liberty is the hope and the right of every land. Our work in GPE has been long. We will stay the course. We will complete our job. And beyond GPE, the war on terror continues. I am confident of victory because I know the character of our military, shown in people like Master Sergeant PERSON of GPE, GPE. PERSON is a member of ORG who is volunteered for overseas deployments CARDINAL times since DATE. He served in GPE, GPE, and GPE. Right now PERSON is an airport manager at FAC, helping make sure our military and humanitarian operations move ahead. People like PERSON are showing what it means to be a patriot and a citizen. We are honored to have PERSON's wife, PERSON, and his children, PERSON and PERSON, with us here DATE. Next time you talk to PERSON, PERSON, you tell him his President appreciates his service, and his country is grateful. The war on terror has brought hardship and loss to our country, beginning with the grief of DATE.

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