1 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:16,680 Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Gayheart Danes, Chairman of GOPATH. Welcome to its 2 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,200 Speaker 1: morning in America again, the latest in our series of 3 00:00:20,239 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: training tapes. I hope you have benefited from the insights 4 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: of our speakers over the nineteen ninety five ninety six 5 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: election cycle. In this tape, Speaker of the House Nut 6 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,519 Speaker 1: Gingrich reflects upon the results of the nineteen ninety six election. 7 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: Our tremendous victories of nineteen ninety four were not reversed. 8 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,160 Speaker 1: For the first time in sixty eight years, a Republican 9 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: Congress was reelected. Not since Nicholas Longworth in nineteen twenty 10 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: six and nineteen twenty eight has a Republican Speaker of 11 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: the House retained the gavel for more than a single Congress. 12 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: This is a significant achieve. The Speaker also lays out 13 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: his vision for the tasks ahead for the one hundred 14 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: and fifth Congress for nineteen ninety eight and beyond. In 15 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: the Speaker's words, quote, each of us, in our own 16 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: way has to be bold if we are to renew 17 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: the American civilization. The last time a Republican group got 18 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:46,520 Speaker 1: together to welcome a reelected Speaker of the House was 19 00:01:46,640 --> 00:01:51,720 Speaker 1: nineteen twenty eight. I don't trying to think about that 20 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:54,960 Speaker 1: for a minute. You are at a moment in history 21 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:00,240 Speaker 1: which has not occurred in sixty eight years, and you 22 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 1: are the first group I have talked to since the election. 23 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: Half of that is an accident of scheduling, and the 24 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 1: other half is the other half is pretty good planning 25 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 1: by John Shattigan, Gay Gaines, and it's the combination those 26 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 1: two that came together tonight. It is first of all, 27 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 1: I just have to say that, because many of you 28 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: are sort of family here, I have to say, first 29 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:39,960 Speaker 1: of all, it is a little weird to have an 30 00:02:39,960 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 1: introduction which half of which is me on tape, and 31 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: there's a there's a point here you get you're sitting 32 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: down here going okay, enough of this. I mean, I 33 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 1: remember me. Uh, there's another power I was going. I 34 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,240 Speaker 1: was thinking of jumping up and saying gay. That was 35 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:57,640 Speaker 1: eighty thousand commercials ago. Do you think I'm crazy? You know, 36 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,600 Speaker 1: don't encourage them. Uh you know, when the Democrats have 37 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:03,520 Speaker 1: figured it out and let him go sleep for a while, 38 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:05,960 Speaker 1: they had a good two year run at it, and 39 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 1: they failed. It was wonderful. Truth. The truth is that 40 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: I occasionally would try to suggest on various talk shows. 41 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: Being the anti nude Party is a remarkably narrow base 42 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: in which to run a campaign. Adding to it a 43 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:30,679 Speaker 1: few lies about Medicare, it doesn't strengthen you very much. 44 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 1: And then having the union bosses run ads so you 45 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,080 Speaker 1: can prove you have no ties to the local community 46 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: ends the game. And if you think I'm exaggerating Joni Tay, 47 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: go talk to JD. Hayworth, who once people figured out 48 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: what was going on, he gained fourteen points in about 49 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: ten days. Now, I will tell you it's kind of 50 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 1: exciting before they figured out what was going on. And 51 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:56,200 Speaker 1: also I listened to that quote from two years ago, 52 00:03:56,240 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 1: two and a half years ago, and on one level 53 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,320 Speaker 1: when we talked about casually, just remember we have very 54 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: dear friends who lost this year, really good people. Congressman Longley, 55 00:04:06,480 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: who was a great independent idealist in Maine, Congressman Torkleson 56 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: and Blute. Congressman Martini is one of the most creative 57 00:04:14,160 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: legislators I've work with, Congressman Funderberg and Congressman Hyneman who 58 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 1: was just a great human being, and Raleigh and who 59 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,279 Speaker 1: had really done a lot just to try to help 60 00:04:24,279 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: the DC police Department, for example, he's a former chief 61 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,280 Speaker 1: assistant chief in the Bronx. Now Congressman Christler, who probably 62 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 1: had the most money spent against him of any single 63 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 1: member in the entire country, well over three million dollars 64 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: was poured in to try to defame him and beat 65 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 1: him down. A Congressman Hooke and Congressman cremeans Congressman Flanagan 66 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: who occupied the Rostenkowski seat, which may well have been 67 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:49,360 Speaker 1: one of the hardest seats in America to keep, and 68 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 1: he campaigned very honorably Congressman Baker, who was a wonderful 69 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:58,000 Speaker 1: conservative activist who went on his own and led bus 70 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 1: loads of volunteers to campaign Tom Campbell at a time 71 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 1: when people would never believe that Bill Baker, the right winger, 72 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,800 Speaker 1: would be going door to door with Tom Campbell to 73 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 1: moderate But he knew in that desperately important special election 74 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,719 Speaker 1: of December last year that it was vital the whole 75 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: team win. And Bill Baker's a great American And that 76 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,039 Speaker 1: particular seat was bought by the Democrat who now owns 77 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:24,320 Speaker 1: it because without her money personally spent on San Francisco television, 78 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,440 Speaker 1: she could never beaten Baker. Andrea C. Strand, who's a 79 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 1: wonderfully sincere person in a very very difficult district, and 80 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 1: maybe the hardest single defeat Randy Tait in Seattle, who's 81 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: just a great, great American who had worked very, very hard. 82 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,599 Speaker 1: Now I have several others who were in very close 83 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:44,240 Speaker 1: racist and night, and I'm not going to count them 84 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: as casualties at the stage, but it's hard when you 85 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:49,039 Speaker 1: think about these people who worked really hard, and when 86 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,480 Speaker 1: you realize how many of them lost because the Democrats 87 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 1: and the Unions lied about medicare, it just infuriates you 88 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 1: to take casualties that are not should be there, and 89 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: that I think frankly or immoral and dishonorable. And these 90 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,359 Speaker 1: are people who were good, hard working, sincere people, And 91 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: while we celebrate, we should also remember that they paid 92 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,400 Speaker 1: for this with their careers and with their losses, and 93 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: in some cases, I hope we'll talk to them into 94 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,679 Speaker 1: running again and rejoining us, because I think nineteen ninety 95 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,360 Speaker 1: eight is going to be a remarkably good Republican year 96 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: and I think we're going to gain. See Gay and 97 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 1: John have turned out to be a great team here 98 00:06:36,600 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: at go Pack. They've worked very very able together I've 99 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:42,679 Speaker 1: made various phone calls to training sessions all of the country. 100 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: I have been out on the road occasionally helping them 101 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,479 Speaker 1: a little bit. And I know how much work the 102 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: two of them have done, And in particular, I want 103 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:54,960 Speaker 1: to say in San Diego, their effort reaching out to 104 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 1: Charter members helped the California Civil Rights Initiative had a 105 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: key moment in its sister and I think it's fair 106 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: to say that the money that many of you in 107 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,039 Speaker 1: this room and your friends around the country gave was 108 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: vital to what will turn out to be someday an 109 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:15,560 Speaker 1: extraordinarily heroic victory for individual human liberty without oppression by 110 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:17,560 Speaker 1: the state. And I want to thank all of you 111 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: for you did. It was sixty eight years ago the 112 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:35,080 Speaker 1: last time a Republican majority was reelected. The speaker was 113 00:07:35,160 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 1: Nicklas Longworth. He got a building name for him, just 114 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: a general hint. It happened after he was dead. So 115 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: I'm going to be I wanting to be patient, and 116 00:07:46,200 --> 00:07:49,240 Speaker 1: I hope it'll be a very long time despite whatever 117 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:55,239 Speaker 1: David Bonnier's fondest hopes are. Let me also say that 118 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,800 Speaker 1: I really admired Bill Packson election. The day after the 119 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: because he rode a nineteen twenty eight car to the 120 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: press conference announcing our victory, and I thought it was 121 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 1: exactly the right touch, a sense of history and a 122 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: sense of humor and a sense of being pretty happy. 123 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: And I also want to say I regard Bill Paxson 124 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 1: as one of the two key people who made this 125 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,080 Speaker 1: victory possible, because as in his role as a Congressional 126 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:28,400 Speaker 1: campaign Committee chairman, he worked tirelessly for four years and 127 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: he did an amazing job along with Maria Cino, his 128 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 1: executive director. The other person who was indispensable, literally indispensable, 129 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,680 Speaker 1: both in winning in ninety four and then in keeping 130 00:08:39,720 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: control in ninety six is here tonight, and I hope 131 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: all of you will say thank you to Joe Gaylord, 132 00:08:44,760 --> 00:09:00,520 Speaker 1: who made it possible. Sitting up here at the head 133 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 1: table with a great friend of many years, Don Rumsfeld, 134 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: who was the youngest member of the US House when 135 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,360 Speaker 1: he visited Emery University, is part of a truth squad. 136 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,000 Speaker 1: And I was at that time a senior in college 137 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: and studied avidly under him and admired his intelligence and 138 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: his commitment. And over the years he rose and took 139 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,760 Speaker 1: with him an assistant named Dick Cheney, who ultimately became 140 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,040 Speaker 1: a member of my freshman class, and of course went 141 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: on to other things and in fact left the Whip's office, 142 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: and that vacancy made it possible for me to become Whip. 143 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,640 Speaker 1: So in many different ways, Don and I go back 144 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 1: for a long time, and he taught me many things 145 00:09:36,840 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: over the years. But I couldn't help but think, because 146 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,720 Speaker 1: he had served in the minority in the sixties and 147 00:09:42,880 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: he knew from his many personal ties, how frustrating and 148 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 1: how difficult it was for a Republican party that had 149 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: come to see itself as a permanent minority. And I 150 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,760 Speaker 1: guess what I would suggest to all of you, And 151 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 1: I think Don has the right perspective. As a remark 152 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: coably successful business manager, secretary defense, chief of staff to 153 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: a president, member of Congress, an ambassador in NATO, he's 154 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: seen a lot of things, and he's the general chairman 155 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:13,319 Speaker 1: of the Dole campaign, and he's seen the country from 156 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 1: many different angles. I think, if I look back, the 157 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: one mistake I made that in reporting to you in 158 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,880 Speaker 1: after we'd won the election of ninety four, is I 159 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 1: had underestimated degree the degree to which the other side 160 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:31,960 Speaker 1: was unhappy with having lost. And I say this because 161 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:34,560 Speaker 1: I think it's an important thing to think about historically, 162 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,320 Speaker 1: and it explains a lot of the last two years. 163 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:43,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it's Fox Connor once said to Dwight Eisenhower, 164 00:10:43,080 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: always take your job seriously, never yourself. And it's a 165 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: very useful injunction to remind ourselves, particularly in this city 166 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:54,880 Speaker 1: which has so many pathologies of ego, that it ain't 167 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:58,160 Speaker 1: that big a deal. And all these people rush around 168 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,840 Speaker 1: fighting over corner offices and windows and limousines and who 169 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:03,719 Speaker 1: sits where at the table in which table we get 170 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,439 Speaker 1: to ain't that big a deal. But we should have 171 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:11,880 Speaker 1: understood that in the natural, legitimate history of things, that 172 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: if you have been a power structure embedded for forty 173 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: years in the House, and if you have been a 174 00:11:16,960 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: liberal establishment embedded since nineteen thirty two, to actually be 175 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: taken head on is likely to make you irked, and 176 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 1: then to lose is likely to make you enraged. And 177 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 1: your first reaction of being that rage is to be 178 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,440 Speaker 1: faced with a sense an active cognitive dissonance, to be 179 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: sitting there going okay, I'm not empower now? Now why 180 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: am I not empower? I could either not be empower 181 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: a because I'm out of touch of the American people, 182 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: have lost out on what really works and have been 183 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: rejected or being the other side cheated. Now, a whole 184 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: bunch of people of whom Bonnier was the most active 185 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:59,760 Speaker 1: example what it's true across the board, in the news, 186 00:11:59,760 --> 00:12:02,319 Speaker 1: meet you downtown, in the clintonistration, a whole bunch of 187 00:12:02,320 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: people decided, let's pick b the other side cheated. We 188 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: were the other side. I bring this up in part 189 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:12,080 Speaker 1: because this is a gopacked and I simply want to 190 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 1: thank all of you for staying together and contributing and 191 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: being involved. Think about what weaker and more timid souls 192 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: would have flinched at being attacked in the press day 193 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: after day, being attacked in federal court by the Federal 194 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,120 Speaker 1: Election Commission, having eight thousand pages of your documents dumped 195 00:12:32,120 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: in the open mean, would we love to have seen 196 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:36,560 Speaker 1: eight thousand pages of the Clinton Gore campaign, You bet 197 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: you would. We love to have seen eight thousand pages 198 00:12:38,679 --> 00:12:40,520 Speaker 1: of the DNC, you bet you would. We love to 199 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 1: see eight thousand pages of John sweeneen and the unions, 200 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 1: you bet you None of those were dumped by the FEC. 201 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: The go pack was all of our planning, all of 202 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,560 Speaker 1: our documents. And I'll bet you any reporter in this 203 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: town would have told you, you give me eight thousand 204 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:57,960 Speaker 1: pages a go Pack, they'll get convicted. Well, we court 205 00:12:58,040 --> 00:12:59,920 Speaker 1: got eight thousand pages of go Pack. The judge said 206 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,079 Speaker 1: what is this case about? And threw it out because 207 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: the FEC couldn't make the faith. So in part of 208 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:17,360 Speaker 1: what I want to suggest to all of you is 209 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: that every time you saw you see an attack on 210 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: go Pack, you ordered this relaxed and say yourself, we 211 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:25,920 Speaker 1: must really be doing something right. They do. The left 212 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 1: does not attack institutions that are unthreatening. The left does 213 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:35,080 Speaker 1: not attack institutions that are ineffective. You can be in 214 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:37,840 Speaker 1: this city passively going to cocktail parties the rest of 215 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: your life, and people will patch you on the head 216 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,600 Speaker 1: and you will be described glowingly in the New York 217 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: Times as a significant and wise person and they will 218 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:54,720 Speaker 1: just say, now there is a reasonable Republican and miss 219 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,839 Speaker 1: McConnell's been through it and he can tell you about it. 220 00:13:57,520 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: If you stand up for what you believe in, and 221 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: it's what America believes in, then the elites will go 222 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:10,240 Speaker 1: nuts because it's inappropriate. Now the thing. I think it 223 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:12,319 Speaker 1: is amazing, and I just want to make this pronouncement 224 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: tonight because I think Republicans are confused, and they're confused 225 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: in part because they don't know exactly whether we should 226 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,000 Speaker 1: be happy about the election or sad about the election. 227 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 1: Are we upset about Dole winning? Are we happy about 228 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 1: a lot in game Whige still being in the majority? 229 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: But what does it all mean? And that's confusing, That's 230 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,640 Speaker 1: fair enough. So I want to give you a couple 231 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,280 Speaker 1: of broadways of thinking about this tonight. First of all, 232 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,000 Speaker 1: and I really have to confess I have taken this 233 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: from John Shaddy, who came over very generously and offered 234 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: it this evening because he knew I was going to 235 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:45,120 Speaker 1: get to speak, and he already had a shot, and 236 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: he wasn't clever enough to think of it earlier today. 237 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:50,800 Speaker 1: But he's exactly right. We all ought to quote Ronald Reagan, 238 00:14:51,520 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: it is morning in America again. The Larston Press Corps 239 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: going to save themselves to our morning. How can Gingrich 240 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 1: be standing there and with my good friend Don who 241 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: was the chairman of the dual campaign. Is this disrespectful 242 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,120 Speaker 1: to Bob Dolan? Jack kept not at all, but let's look. 243 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,320 Speaker 1: Let's look at the larger institutional fabric of where we are, 244 00:15:20,560 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: and let's start with four years ago. And here are 245 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:29,200 Speaker 1: the numbers. Depending on the final recounts and the two 246 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: specials in the runoffs in Texas, we are between forty 247 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 1: seven and fifty seats stronger in the House than in 248 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,360 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two. That's in that game. In fact, if 249 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: we win the two specials in Texas, we will probably 250 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,520 Speaker 1: end up exactly where we were in nineteen ninety four. 251 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: Two thirty and the other six came, remember from five 252 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:54,280 Speaker 1: switches in one special election, so we'd actually be back 253 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 1: to where we were in nineteen ninety four. This should 254 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 1: only be thought of as no loss, but in all fairness, 255 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,160 Speaker 1: it'll be a loss of five or six because we 256 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 1: did gain a seat in the special just as in 257 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: the next two years, we'll gain another five or ten 258 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: seats during the course of events, and one of the 259 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 1: nineteen ninety eight campaign I think probably at almost two 260 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 1: forty and then we'll pick up another twenty seats, so 261 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:15,920 Speaker 1: we'll be in pretty good shape at the end of 262 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:20,640 Speaker 1: ninety eight the Senate. Again, Mitch can tell you that 263 00:16:20,680 --> 00:16:24,760 Speaker 1: this has really made a big difference plus eleven. We 264 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: are eleven senators stronger tonight than in nineteen ninety two, 265 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: State Houses of Representatives, two hundred and twenty eight more 266 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: Republicans than in nineteen ninety two, state senator one hundred 267 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: and seventy two more Republicans than in nineteen ninety two, 268 00:16:54,480 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 1: governorships thirteen more Republicans than in nineteen ninety two. And 269 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:05,160 Speaker 1: there's a wonderful analytical piece in the Financial Times this 270 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 1: morning in which the English Observer says, if you imagine 271 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:15,399 Speaker 1: a president committed to a balanced budget, welfare reform and 272 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:19,879 Speaker 1: a stronger death penalty, would you say conservatism was losing 273 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:24,280 Speaker 1: or would you say that the only way to win 274 00:17:24,320 --> 00:17:27,359 Speaker 1: a national election in America is to now be conservative? 275 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:37,400 Speaker 1: And so I would say, first of all, though we're 276 00:17:37,400 --> 00:17:40,760 Speaker 1: actually entering nineteen ninety seven in a remarkably strong position, 277 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,920 Speaker 1: I would commend to all of you Grover Norquist articles. 278 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,639 Speaker 1: Grover's right over here, and I think he talked to 279 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,680 Speaker 1: you earlierday, head of Americans for Tax Reform and one 280 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: of the great leaders of the whole lower tax movement 281 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 1: in this country. But he made the point that in 282 00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: a sense nineteen ninety six was the equivalent in World 283 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: War Two terms of the Battle of the Bulge, and 284 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 1: that you had an opponent who had launched the last 285 00:18:05,680 --> 00:18:10,159 Speaker 1: desperate effort. All the Union money, all the medicare misinformation, 286 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,239 Speaker 1: all the efforts, and what are they what are they 287 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: going to do for an encore? Because it didn't work, 288 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,640 Speaker 1: And think that's a very important thing to remember. Joe 289 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,280 Speaker 1: taught me a paraphrase from Reagan, which was that America 290 00:18:24,359 --> 00:18:27,080 Speaker 1: is a great country filled with good people. And all 291 00:18:27,119 --> 00:18:29,959 Speaker 1: through September and October when we campaign around the country, 292 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: I kept remembering that mantra because I kept thinking to myself, 293 00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,960 Speaker 1: if this is truly a great country filled with good people, 294 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,160 Speaker 1: in the end, they won't believe the misinformation. And again, 295 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 1: if you talk to the various members or here at night, 296 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,600 Speaker 1: as they thought it through, the American people turned out 297 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,800 Speaker 1: to be a lot smarter than the posters, and as 298 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:50,639 Speaker 1: they thought through the issues, they turned out to have 299 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:53,000 Speaker 1: a lot more depth, and in the end they didn't 300 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:55,080 Speaker 1: believe it. And in the end they re elected a 301 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,399 Speaker 1: Republican Senate in a Republican House, and in the end 302 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 1: we ended up with exactly the same number of governors 303 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 1: as we had before this election began, and I think that, frankly, 304 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:10,919 Speaker 1: while is discouraging at the presidential level, it's encouraging to 305 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,280 Speaker 1: know that the only way Bill Clinton could win the 306 00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: presidency was to give up tax increases, give up the 307 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 1: liberal welfare state, give up the core language of the left, 308 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,159 Speaker 1: declare publicly he was not a clauset liberal, be indignant 309 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,000 Speaker 1: at the thought, and announced that he would basically govern 310 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:30,640 Speaker 1: on our terms. And I think that that is an 311 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,320 Speaker 1: enormous step. And when he says can we find a 312 00:19:33,359 --> 00:19:36,479 Speaker 1: common ground? My answers yes, and I think that's how 313 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:38,240 Speaker 1: we got to enter into this. It's very Let me 314 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: explain why I think this is so important. We cannot 315 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:47,920 Speaker 1: be in a permanent campaign. The world looks to us, 316 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,120 Speaker 1: and I don't have any different feelings that I had 317 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: a week ago. But I know that for the future 318 00:19:56,920 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: of the human race, America has to function. And the 319 00:20:01,160 --> 00:20:05,399 Speaker 1: Founding Fathers, in their wisdom, deliberately designed the system of 320 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:11,080 Speaker 1: extraordinary inefficiency. Their core goal is to design a machine 321 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 1: so inefficient that no dictator could make it work, and 322 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,760 Speaker 1: that means that as volunteers, we have a hard time 323 00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: getting it to work. But they would all laugh at 324 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:27,199 Speaker 1: our frustration and say to us, yes, frustration is the 325 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,879 Speaker 1: price of freedom. And so I can sell all of you, 326 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: and I think this as one of the most partisan 327 00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:35,479 Speaker 1: groups I've ever worked with, in a group that I cherish, 328 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: and many of you are part of the extended family 329 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 1: that Marianne and I have, and I can tell all 330 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: of them it is vital for this country's future that 331 00:20:45,160 --> 00:20:49,439 Speaker 1: we find some ability to reach beyond our partisanship and 332 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: to reach beyond our personalities, because that is what distinguishes 333 00:20:54,680 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: America from other countries. I was struck with it at 334 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:14,919 Speaker 1: two levels. In sort of avoiding the campaign, you do 335 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,600 Speaker 1: get to point here where you get burned out and 336 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: you sort of think, can I read something that isn't political? 337 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,160 Speaker 1: In my case, two of the things I read were 338 00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:26,679 Speaker 1: Volume one of Churchill's history, The English Speaking People, and 339 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,159 Speaker 1: a novel by Gerald Seymour, who's the finest novelist that 340 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,919 Speaker 1: I know of, on the problems of terrorism and violence 341 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:38,680 Speaker 1: around the world, and I was struck in both of them. 342 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: Churchill describing the long, slow growth of freedom and it's 343 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: really vital. The law is for little people. Ris people 344 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: don't need the law. They have bribery. Ris people don't 345 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:01,639 Speaker 1: need the police. They have they have gone. Rich people 346 00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: don't need safe neighborhoods. They can buy us states. But 347 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,120 Speaker 1: if you are an everyday person anywhere on this planet, 348 00:22:09,560 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: you need the law. It is the law which humbles 349 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: the wealthy. It is the law which humbles the powerful. 350 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: It is the law, not the cold forty five. It 351 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:24,720 Speaker 1: is the law which was the great equalizer. And yet 352 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: the law, in the end is a voluntary binding. It 353 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:35,639 Speaker 1: is we the people, forming a contract. And part of 354 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,159 Speaker 1: that has to be mythical in the deepest sense of 355 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:57,080 Speaker 1: the word. Something we believe in, something we cherish. Secondly 356 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,679 Speaker 1: smour in particular, I was reading two of his novels, 357 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 1: one of Guatemala and the other Incroasion, and his descriptions 358 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,639 Speaker 1: of the brutality and the violence, the hatred, the willingness 359 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 1: of people in the Balkans to kill each other in 360 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 1: memory of their grandparents who killed each other, in memory 361 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 1: of their grandparents who killed each other in memory of 362 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: something which happened in fourteen hundred. And think about it. 363 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,879 Speaker 1: You can migrate to America from any ethnic group on 364 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:33,600 Speaker 1: the planet with any tradition of hatred, and within twenty 365 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,000 Speaker 1: years your kids can be playing together on a football team, 366 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: or a soccer team, or a basketball team, and they 367 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: can be united in their determination to beat the other team. 368 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: Because there is something mystical about our capacity to dream 369 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:52,960 Speaker 1: about the future more than we have nightmares about the past, 370 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,919 Speaker 1: and it is decore of the American system. Now, I 371 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,199 Speaker 1: just want to suggest you that that has to be 372 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 1: the spirit with which Republicans enter into the next four years. 373 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: We cannot allow ourselves to be mired down as the 374 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: anti Clinton Party, subsumed in some sense of anger or rage. 375 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:16,560 Speaker 1: And it's not that I'm saying let's give up on 376 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: the medicare dishonesty. It's not that I'm saying let's not 377 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,359 Speaker 1: look at the foreign corruption issue. It's not that I'm 378 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:24,720 Speaker 1: saying let's turn our back on things we should know, 379 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,960 Speaker 1: but let's put them in their proper perspective. The Congress 380 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,840 Speaker 1: has an obligation to have oversight that's appropriate, but it 381 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,840 Speaker 1: has an obligation not to allow that oversight to absorb 382 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:40,439 Speaker 1: everything else. We as leaders have an obligation to trust 383 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,639 Speaker 1: but verify, to quote Ronald Reagan, to sit down with 384 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,960 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, as we will tomorrow morning as President of 385 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,320 Speaker 1: the United States and Trentlot and I are representing the 386 00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: Senate in the House, will seek to find every possible 387 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,919 Speaker 1: common ground to work with him for the betterment of America, 388 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,280 Speaker 1: because the entire our world is watching to see if 389 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: we can make this experiment and self government work. And 390 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,120 Speaker 1: I think that's what's at the core of this now. 391 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,400 Speaker 1: I think there's a very simple test. And I don't 392 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 1: I don't say this is a test purely for President 393 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:26,960 Speaker 1: Clinton or for New Gang which you're trying to lie 394 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,960 Speaker 1: when people, but it's something you can watch. This one 395 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: will be one of the great emerging stories of nineteen 396 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: ninety seven. When we talk about a center for America, 397 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: is that center defined by Americans? Or is that center 398 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 1: defined by the liberal leads. You see usually when you 399 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,080 Speaker 1: watch television or you read the New York Times, the 400 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: Washington Post and you hear something about a center, what 401 00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: they're telling you about is their center. Their center is 402 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:59,480 Speaker 1: very far to the left, the center of the American people. 403 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: I asked a reporter to day, I said, if ninety 404 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,480 Speaker 1: percent of the country wants to balance budget, where's the center. 405 00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:14,160 Speaker 1: It's not between the ninety and ten. If eighty five 406 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: percent of the country is sick, of drugs, And I 407 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,840 Speaker 1: recently had a dear friend who's nineteen year old sister 408 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,679 Speaker 1: odeed on a drug and is now in a coma 409 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,920 Speaker 1: and probably will not ever come back. And it is personal, 410 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:29,640 Speaker 1: and I do feel it intensely, and I will say 411 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: to all of you, I hate those who exploit our 412 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,160 Speaker 1: children for their own enrichment, and I will do anything 413 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: to break the back of the drug trade in the 414 00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:51,480 Speaker 1: next four years. But as the center between those who 415 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:55,920 Speaker 1: would despise the drug trade and those who would legalize it, 416 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:59,800 Speaker 1: or is the center in the middle of the overall 417 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,760 Speaker 1: holming majority who want to save their children, And you 418 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: can go through item at fedom the work ethic versus 419 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:11,679 Speaker 1: guaranteed welfare. Ninety three percent of the country favored welfare reform. 420 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:15,200 Speaker 1: In the New York Times own poll, eighty eight percent 421 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:19,040 Speaker 1: of those on welfare favored welfare reform. Now, where is 422 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,440 Speaker 1: the center at that point? It is totally committed to 423 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: welfare reform. So if by center our friends mean the 424 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 1: center of the American people, they will find us standing there, 425 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: ready to work. But if by center they mean some 426 00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: mythological liberal fantasy, they will find us totally opposed. It 427 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: is that simple. We also have to work together for 428 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: a very practical reason. We are the only country capable 429 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:03,879 Speaker 1: of leading the world. There is no substitute, there's no competitor. 430 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,720 Speaker 1: It is gradually sinking in as the Cold War fades 431 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: that we have a unique obligation. It's both an external 432 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,160 Speaker 1: obligation and an internal obligation. It's an obligation to work 433 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,200 Speaker 1: together in every way we can. And that again doesn't 434 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,000 Speaker 1: mean you don't have honest debate. It doesn't mean you 435 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:27,560 Speaker 1: don't have honest disagreement, but you try wherever possible to 436 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,840 Speaker 1: find a way to work together. So America deals with 437 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 1: the world with a unity and a consistency of purpose. 438 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,440 Speaker 1: It also means we have to talk honestly among ourselves. 439 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,320 Speaker 1: We must reform the UN. But then, frankly, we're going 440 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: to have to pay for the UN, and that's frankly 441 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: going to be a challenge. We can't end up as 442 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: a country totally isolated around the world because people don't 443 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: understand our policies and don't understand what we're doing. We 444 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: have to build a sense of commitment and consistency about 445 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,760 Speaker 1: where we'll send troops and why we'll send troops. We're 446 00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: very fortunate tonight to have one of the great political 447 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: theoreticians of this country and Ken jalut here and Ken 448 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:10,680 Speaker 1: was commenting me earlier two great phrases I want you 449 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,040 Speaker 1: to think about, and I want to sort of steal 450 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,480 Speaker 1: from if I can, because I can probably get these 451 00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: in the nexus fast and he can. One is the 452 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:23,600 Speaker 1: concept of violent weakness. The what you see in Rwanda, 453 00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:28,480 Speaker 1: what you see in Croatia and all across the Balkans, 454 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:33,680 Speaker 1: in Bosnia, in Serbia, what you see in Czechnia is 455 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,600 Speaker 1: not strength, it's weakness. What you see in East La, 456 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 1: what you see when you have violence anywhere is normally 457 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 1: the intense act of those without power, because the strong 458 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,600 Speaker 1: don't have to be violent, and strong systems can use 459 00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:53,160 Speaker 1: the rule of law. And so we have to be 460 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: aware of the notion that at the margins across the 461 00:29:56,120 --> 00:30:01,040 Speaker 1: planet there is a permanent danger of what he described, 462 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:04,040 Speaker 1: I think very veraptly as violent weakness. And then he 463 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,080 Speaker 1: said it's combined with something which is different from the 464 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: communism fascism cycles, and that is it's combined in many 465 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: places with parochial murder, violence committed by local people for 466 00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:23,640 Speaker 1: local reasons that make no sense. Unless you're inside the 467 00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:27,000 Speaker 1: mindset of that particular group. And whether that violence is 468 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,760 Speaker 1: Black against Korean in Los Angeles, whether that violence is 469 00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,320 Speaker 1: white against black, whether that violence is black against black, 470 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:38,200 Speaker 1: and or Rwanda, whether that violence is white against white 471 00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,280 Speaker 1: in the Balkans. Again and again across the planet, you 472 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,840 Speaker 1: find examples of a level of passion and a level 473 00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: of violence, and no positive sense of a better alternative 474 00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:55,720 Speaker 1: way of organizing life. Now we have, I think, three roles. First, 475 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,280 Speaker 1: to prove in our own country by reaching out to 476 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:02,800 Speaker 1: every emergent and by truly reaching into the poorest and 477 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:06,400 Speaker 1: the most violent of neighborhoods ending the drug trade, creating 478 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: hope and guaranteeing a chance to learn and guaranteeing a 479 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: chance to improve life, that every human being is endowed 480 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: by their creator, and every human being has a better future. Second, second, 481 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:33,080 Speaker 1: by being strong enough economically, strong enough, culturally, strong enough diplomatically, 482 00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:38,960 Speaker 1: and strong enough militarily that when danger threatens, good wins. 483 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:44,880 Speaker 1: It's a very important principle of the world. Phil Graham 484 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:46,800 Speaker 1: used to say that he was all for the lion 485 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,640 Speaker 1: laying down with the lamb. He just preferred we be 486 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:54,880 Speaker 1: the lion. I think it's important to think about if 487 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,840 Speaker 1: we kid ourselves about how dangerous the world can be, 488 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: then this is the nineteen twenties and great violence is 489 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,719 Speaker 1: coming within the generation. If, on the other hand, we 490 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,600 Speaker 1: are sadly realistic about the need to be the strongest 491 00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 1: on the planet and willing to bear that burden, then 492 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,080 Speaker 1: I believe our children and grandchildren will live in relative peace, 493 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 1: and their children and grandchildren will live in prosperity and freedom. 494 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 1: But we have to be prepared to be the bridge 495 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 1: of security across the generations of progress. Finally, I think 496 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:37,120 Speaker 1: that we have to be prepared here at home to 497 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:39,920 Speaker 1: be the model of that kind of leadership, so that 498 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,440 Speaker 1: across the planet when people see us, and frankly, I think, 499 00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:46,320 Speaker 1: far more than the damage that Hollywood does to America 500 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 1: inside America, is the damage that Hollywood does to America 501 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 1: outside America. If you watch the various violent, nehalistic programs 502 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,760 Speaker 1: that make no sense and imagine you don't live here 503 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,880 Speaker 1: and don't realize they're purely anees, we come across as 504 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: a violent, barbaric and horrifying society. We have, in a 505 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: sense replaced Jimmy Stewart with Freddy Krueger. And it is 506 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:14,760 Speaker 1: to the disadvantage of our civilization, both at home and overseas. 507 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:18,120 Speaker 1: And Hollywood should not be threatened by government, but they 508 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: should be morally ashamed of the kind of trash they 509 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: put across the planet, and the fact that they get 510 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:28,640 Speaker 1: rich doing it is no justification for the damage they 511 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: do to the future of the human community. I feel 512 00:33:46,480 --> 00:33:52,520 Speaker 1: very fortunate in that I grew up as the son 513 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,640 Speaker 1: of those who fought in World War Two, so my 514 00:33:55,720 --> 00:34:01,480 Speaker 1: father did in Korean Vietnam, those who laid the base 515 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: to defeat the Soviet Empire. I got in politics to 516 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,920 Speaker 1: help defeat the Soviet Empire as much as any single reason, 517 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 1: and in the process of the Soviet Empire is collapsing. 518 00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,000 Speaker 1: Serving in the house with your support and your help, 519 00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:25,279 Speaker 1: I got to know people of truly remarkable courage. Backlofavel, poet, philosopher, 520 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,840 Speaker 1: a man who willingly risked prison because he believed in 521 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,040 Speaker 1: freedom at a time when in his own country it 522 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:38,080 Speaker 1: was remarkably dangerous to believe in freedom and to say 523 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:43,960 Speaker 1: anything about it. Nelson Mandela the concept of twenty six 524 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:48,440 Speaker 1: years in jail and then inviting your jailers to here 525 00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:53,359 Speaker 1: inaugural to set the record that if you can forgive them, 526 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:55,880 Speaker 1: who in your society is going to tell you they 527 00:34:55,960 --> 00:35:02,800 Speaker 1: have a grievance? And what a wonderfully American comment that was. 528 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,879 Speaker 1: I had a chance to chat with President Andella once 529 00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,440 Speaker 1: about progress economically, and I said, have you been looking 530 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:14,000 Speaker 1: at Taiwan and Singapore and the Asian tigers? And he said, oh, 531 00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:16,720 Speaker 1: we pay them some attention, He said, frankly, the place 532 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:20,360 Speaker 1: we want to study the United States, because we value 533 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,919 Speaker 1: the freedom of your society more than whatever we see 534 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,319 Speaker 1: anywhere else on the planet, and we want to learn 535 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: from you. And it was very humble to think about 536 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:35,800 Speaker 1: what he risked because he believed a chance to again 537 00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,200 Speaker 1: and again to be with Leck Valenza, who said one 538 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:42,319 Speaker 1: afternoon and his speech to the Congress that he was 539 00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,760 Speaker 1: glad he'd had the chance to jump over the fence 540 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,960 Speaker 1: and back into the shipyard a decade earlier, because he 541 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,920 Speaker 1: was younger and later and could do it, and was 542 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: not sure that he could have actually met the challenge 543 00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:56,680 Speaker 1: at this stage of his life to realize what he 544 00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:01,040 Speaker 1: had risked going back in to help lead the strike, 545 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,760 Speaker 1: which was the first great signal that the Soviet Empire 546 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,359 Speaker 1: was beginning. To crumble. And I say that to all 547 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:09,839 Speaker 1: of you because I think it's important to recognize that, 548 00:36:10,239 --> 00:36:13,160 Speaker 1: whether it's a newspaper headline or a story, or whether 549 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,200 Speaker 1: it's eighty thousand ads or whatever happens in this system, 550 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:24,080 Speaker 1: it is nothing, nothing, compared to what our contemporaries have 551 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: risked around the planet, and all of us should recognize it. 552 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,240 Speaker 1: No matter how big a check you wrote, no matter 553 00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,120 Speaker 1: how many houses you walk to, no matter how many 554 00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,319 Speaker 1: phone calls you made, no matter how many offices you 555 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:41,680 Speaker 1: ran for and lost, nothing any of us does is 556 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:46,120 Speaker 1: a tiny drop compared to what people are doing across 557 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,359 Speaker 1: the planet tonight to be free, and it's important to 558 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:54,240 Speaker 1: remember them. And I was forcibly struck with it Wednesday 559 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:56,480 Speaker 1: night after we had won and we were beginning to unwind, 560 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,840 Speaker 1: and it was truly an amazing experience, the whole sense. 561 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,960 Speaker 1: The few of you were down in Atlanta, and Gay 562 00:37:03,040 --> 00:37:04,840 Speaker 1: was there and knows what I'm talking about, that Stanley 563 00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: was there, and this whole sense of this was the 564 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,719 Speaker 1: first time in sixty eight years, and it had been 565 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 1: a long, long, long campaign. It started in late nineteen 566 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:20,279 Speaker 1: ninety three, ran all through ninety four ninety six, and 567 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,319 Speaker 1: the other side was quite sincere and trying to take 568 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,040 Speaker 1: it back. And you have to give them credit if 569 00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,160 Speaker 1: you tried to design everything they could do. If you 570 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,959 Speaker 1: think of anything more, don't mention it. It was enough. 571 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,879 Speaker 1: It was amazing. And so Mary Anne and my older 572 00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:35,799 Speaker 1: daughter Kathy, who many of you know, and a friend 573 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:41,400 Speaker 1: of ours, decided to take Wednesday evening off and we 574 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,680 Speaker 1: stayed in the hotel where we had the campaign the 575 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:48,759 Speaker 1: night before, and we watched two movies on television, just 576 00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:50,719 Speaker 1: sitting chatting, and it happened to be I thought, a 577 00:37:50,719 --> 00:37:54,439 Speaker 1: perfect evening in a sense. The first was Tin Cup, 578 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,719 Speaker 1: which is a very fine late movie. I haven't had 579 00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,480 Speaker 1: a golfer, so I'm sure I miss some of the nuances, 580 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,919 Speaker 1: and I like Kevin Costner a lot as an actor, 581 00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,759 Speaker 1: and it was a great light movie. The second was 582 00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,759 Speaker 1: Courage under Fire with Denzel Washington McGrane. Now many of 583 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,480 Speaker 1: you may not be movie buffs, so I won't borrow 584 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:12,520 Speaker 1: you along with this, but it really struck me about Sunday. 585 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:14,640 Speaker 1: I own to come right back to what our mission 586 00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,440 Speaker 1: is for the next four years. Ten Cups of Fun move. 587 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:20,600 Speaker 1: It's about a golfer who loses his nerve and ends 588 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,640 Speaker 1: up on a very bad driving range in a small 589 00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 1: town in West Texas surrounded by Armadilla. Is not doing 590 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,359 Speaker 1: although well, falls in love with the girl, decides he'll 591 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,160 Speaker 1: prove to her he's really worth it, and does so 592 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 1: by getting into the US Open and almost wins it, 593 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,000 Speaker 1: except in a moment of mad romantic stubbornness, he has 594 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,520 Speaker 1: to do something totally stupid and against the odds and fails, 595 00:38:37,760 --> 00:38:40,399 Speaker 1: but fails gladly. So the message is even if as 596 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,120 Speaker 1: long as you buck the system, even if you lose, 597 00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:46,400 Speaker 1: if you bucket grandly, you win. Courage under Fire is 598 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,160 Speaker 1: about a woman helicopter pilot who dies in combat trying 599 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:54,200 Speaker 1: to save other Americans. And I realized, and we watched 600 00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 1: him in that order. My dad, of course, is a 601 00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:00,600 Speaker 1: career infantryman for twenty six years. And I realized at 602 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:02,480 Speaker 1: the end of the second movie. It's haunted me for 603 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:06,880 Speaker 1: the whole week since the part of our problem as 604 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,400 Speaker 1: a society right now, as we think that being nobly 605 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:14,160 Speaker 1: stupid is good enough. The guy was right out there 606 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:16,120 Speaker 1: in the middle of television. He was on a golf course. 607 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,719 Speaker 1: Wasn't that wonderful? Now we can all forget it and 608 00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:22,120 Speaker 1: go home. And in fact, I guess what I want 609 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: to suggest to you, without sounding too overly moralistic, is 610 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:30,080 Speaker 1: that life is real. The nineteen year old girl I 611 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:32,759 Speaker 1: reported to you a while ago, it's gonna die. She's 612 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,720 Speaker 1: in a coma. She's been in a coma for three weeks. 613 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:40,120 Speaker 1: She's gonna die because some total low life put a 614 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:44,600 Speaker 1: drug in her drink. And that low life bought that 615 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,640 Speaker 1: drug from some other guy who's making a ton of 616 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,399 Speaker 1: money off our children. There are kids within a mile 617 00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,040 Speaker 1: of this building tonight, living in lousy quarters paid for 618 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,959 Speaker 1: by the US taxpayer, surrounded by prostitutes, pimps, and drug dealer, 619 00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,040 Speaker 1: in danger of being shot on the way to a 620 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:06,040 Speaker 1: school building that is eighty years old, a building that 621 00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,920 Speaker 1: is administered by a school board that is a disgrace 622 00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:12,320 Speaker 1: to the process of self government, surrounded by a city 623 00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,879 Speaker 1: government mired in its own ineptitude. And it is the 624 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:19,200 Speaker 1: capital of the most powerful nation in the world. And 625 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:21,360 Speaker 1: it is a disgrace that we have not found a 626 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:23,440 Speaker 1: better solution. And I am one of the people who's 627 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,719 Speaker 1: at fault because I've been speaker for two years in 628 00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,439 Speaker 1: despite our best efforts, we haven't succeeded. There are kids 629 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:32,719 Speaker 1: in Indian reservations in John Shaddick State who do not 630 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,080 Speaker 1: have the right to pursue happiness they ought to have, 631 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,120 Speaker 1: and the tribal culture doesn't tolerate even talking about their 632 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:41,560 Speaker 1: true pursuit of happiness. And there are other kids in 633 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:46,040 Speaker 1: John State who've come across from Mexico who don't really 634 00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:47,920 Speaker 1: have the right to pursue happiness, and we don't know 635 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:50,320 Speaker 1: why what to do with them. And there are folks 636 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,880 Speaker 1: in my state of Georgia from all sorts of backgrounds. 637 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,360 Speaker 1: And I've worked with Jimmy Carter someone his effort to 638 00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,600 Speaker 1: reform Atlanta. And while the Atlanta project isn't all I'd 639 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,000 Speaker 1: like it to be, at least Carter had the guts, 640 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:02,400 Speaker 1: the nerve to put his name on it and go 641 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:04,719 Speaker 1: and try to help somebody. And I just cite all 642 00:41:04,760 --> 00:41:10,360 Speaker 1: this to you because America needs to put away Freddy Krueger, 643 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:15,080 Speaker 1: It needs to put away Tin Cup. It needs to 644 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:20,960 Speaker 1: honor the courage of people such as the Army helicopter 645 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:24,800 Speaker 1: pilot that Meg Ryan played, and it needs to recognize 646 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,279 Speaker 1: that each of us, in our own little way, has 647 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,960 Speaker 1: to be heroic. We talked a while ago about the 648 00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,480 Speaker 1: California Civil Rights Initiative. And I'll leave you with this example, 649 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:50,439 Speaker 1: Ward Connolly is a genuine American hero. Ward Connelly, by 650 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,240 Speaker 1: his own brass and his own nerve, and his own courage, 651 00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:55,600 Speaker 1: and his own stubbornness and his own persistence, he went 652 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,640 Speaker 1: out and as an African American businessman who just thought 653 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:03,640 Speaker 1: it was wrong to have quotas, he went out and 654 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:08,359 Speaker 1: he created the California Civil Rights Initiative. And despite frustration 655 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:20,040 Speaker 1: after frustration after frustration, vicious attacks from the left which 656 00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 1: would have been totally repudiated by the elites had they 657 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:29,480 Speaker 1: ever come from the right, nastiness, not very concealed racism, assaults, 658 00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:34,920 Speaker 1: and Connolly's character and his background, his intelligence and his decency, 659 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:40,120 Speaker 1: he never ever backed off. Now that's the act of 660 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,360 Speaker 1: a genuine hero. And I would put Ward Connolly in 661 00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:48,759 Speaker 1: the same league as Pavel or Dubcheck or Mandela or 662 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:52,279 Speaker 1: any other courageous person who, in the end, faced with 663 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,399 Speaker 1: great risks, says, as Martin Luther did at the diet 664 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:59,000 Speaker 1: of worms, God rest my soul. Here I stand. I 665 00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 1: can do no other that is the core of freedom. 666 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:07,640 Speaker 1: And by your willingness to come here tonight you represent 667 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:12,279 Speaker 1: once again your commitment, in your own way, with your 668 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:16,040 Speaker 1: own background, to be committed to freedom. And my point 669 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:21,200 Speaker 1: is this, those of us who believe in a decentralized, 670 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:26,600 Speaker 1: smaller government with less power on Washington, with lower taxes, 671 00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:30,640 Speaker 1: with clear decisive rules for everyone, rules that include the 672 00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:34,080 Speaker 1: work ethic, rules that include the pursuit of happiness, rules 673 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:39,560 Speaker 1: that pursue that include equal opportunity before the law, rules 674 00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,520 Speaker 1: that include do not kill and do not sell drugs. 675 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,719 Speaker 1: All of us who truly believe in those should not 676 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:50,440 Speaker 1: flinch from four years of working with this administration because 677 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:53,960 Speaker 1: it is the administration the American people chose, and we 678 00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:57,239 Speaker 1: should be fair, very common walking in and saying, to 679 00:43:57,280 --> 00:43:59,600 Speaker 1: the degree we can find a common ground in the 680 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:02,759 Speaker 1: center created by the American people, to the degree we 681 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:04,759 Speaker 1: can find a way to do that which is right 682 00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,480 Speaker 1: for America, we will every day try to be helpful. 683 00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,440 Speaker 1: To the degree we can't, we will every day do 684 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:15,440 Speaker 1: what we believe in that we shouldn't flinch, We shouldn't 685 00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:19,280 Speaker 1: be frightened, We shouldn't back off, We shouldn't be antagonistic. 686 00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:22,760 Speaker 1: We should calmly preach that this is a great country 687 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,640 Speaker 1: filled with good people, and that from city council and 688 00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:30,799 Speaker 1: county commission and school board and volunteer association and families 689 00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,839 Speaker 1: and individuals up through state governments to Washington, DC. At 690 00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:38,040 Speaker 1: every level, we are going to pursue what is made 691 00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:42,040 Speaker 1: American civilization great. We are going to renew American civilization 692 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:45,040 Speaker 1: and then on that base, in the next generation, we 693 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:47,640 Speaker 1: are going to lead the entire human race to safety 694 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,480 Speaker 1: and prosperity and freedom. And that is the mission of 695 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,360 Speaker 1: the American people. And it is our job to serve 696 00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,360 Speaker 1: that mission and to serve the American people. Thank you, 697 00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:05,160 Speaker 1: good luck. Thank you to the University of West Georgia 698 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:09,600 Speaker 1: Ingram Library Special Collections and specifically the Katherine and Jeff 699 00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:13,360 Speaker 1: Breedlove Political Collection. 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