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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
(Kansas City, Missouri)
For Immediate Release
September 11, 1992
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
TO STUDENTS AND LOCAL COMMUNITY
Missouri Southern State College
Joplin, Missouri
9:30 A.M. CDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you 50 very much.
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years! Four more
years!
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all so much. What a welcome.
What a great welcome to Southwest Missouri. Thank you all.
(Applause.)
First let me salute your -- our -- great Governor John
Ashcroft. You are lucky to have this man, and what a job he's done
for this state. (Applause.) And thank you, John, for that
introduction. May I salute another great citizen of Missouri who is
working in Washington. If we had more like him we wouldn't have to
clean House -- I'm talking about Kit Bond. Send him back, he's doing
a superb job there. (Applause.) And of course, another one, your
own Mel Hancock, with whom I work on so many issues. Delighted he's
here. (Applause.) And then our next governor, the Attorney General
now -- you know who I'm talking about -- Bill Webster, GOP candidate
for governor. And may I salute Mayor Johnson, and our host, Dr.
Leon.
And I spend my days in the Oval Office in Washington.
let me just say it's great to be in The Oval at Missouri Southern
State. (Applause.) I think Millie would like it out here in this
Oval, I'll tell you. (Applause.)
Four years ago, when I spoke on this campus, our
country, our cities, our towns were marked by thumbtacks on a war map
inside the Kremlin walls. Today, I stand before you and say
something that no President has ever been able to say before: The
Cold War is over -- freedom finished first. (Applause.)
And I think young people understand that reducing the
fear of nuclear weapons is something that is very, very important.
And peace is precious but precarious. We must know its risks to reap
its rewards. For America to be safe and strong, we must win the
defining challenge of the 1990s: We must win the economic
competition. We must be a military superpower, an export superpower,
and an economic superpower. And this must be our goal. (Applause.)
Our goal: a $10-trillion economy by the beginning of the
next century. The opposition will tell you we can't cut it. I say
anyway you cut it, America can get the job done. We are not
pessimists, we are optimists about this greatest country in the
world. (Applause.)
Yesterday I released my Agenda for American Renewal.
This is my agenda for action. America's a place where ordinary
people can do extraordinary things if only they're set free. Here
are my keys to unlock the door.
- 2 -
The first unlocks foreign markets; it's called
Challenging the World. I want to complete the global trade
negotiations and get congressional approval of the North American
Free Trade Agreement. (Applause.) Trade with Mexico and Canada
already brings $2 billion into this state each year. Our agreement
would turn the entire continent into a gigantic free trade agreement
-- free trade zone -- a s6-trillion market from Manitoba to Mexico
City, and create over 300,000 jobs for American workers. so do not
let the other side try to scare you into thinking we're not up to the
job. (Applause.) I believe that when trade is free and fair
American workers can beat the competition fair and square --
anywhere. I'm certain of it. (Applause.)
When it comes to exports, I say this continent is not
big enough alone for the American worker. I want a free trade
agreement with Chile, Poland, and with Hungary. And we will have
these agreements -- and we will lead the world to a new era of
commerce -- and we will do it by the end of my second term, the end
of the next four years. (Applause.)
AUDIENCE: Four more years! Four more years!
THE PRESIDENT: You know, I'd hope to come here and not
talk about my opponent, but I've got to mention this. (Laughter.) I
just have to. He used to support the free trade. First he was for
the Mexican free trade agreement -- then he wasn't quite so sure.
And now he says, "I'm reviewing it carefully, and when I have a
definitive opinion I will say so." Now, are there any history
students in the audience? You may recall that Walter Lippmann said
leadership means guarding quote -- "a nation's ideals." And the
Roman historian Tacitus defined leadership as -- quote -- "reason and
judgment." But, you know, I studied a little history, and I don't
recall ever hearing leadership defined as "Please leave a message and
we'll get back to you later." (Applause.)
It doesn't work that way in the real world. There's no
"call-waiting" on the phone in the Oval Office. (Laughter.) And
when you're President, when you're commander in chief -- you have to
make decisions." And you have to make decisions whether you're
popular or not, and I stand with free trade agreements because they
are good for American jobs and American workers. (Applause.)
The second key is Preparing our Children. Developed
economies demand developing minds. Our schools must prepare our kids
to compete on a world scale. We must raise standards, we must demand
accountability, and we must give parents the right to choose their
kids' schools. (Applause.) My GI Bill for Kids would give
scholarships to your younger brothers and sisters, your children
maybe, so that kids can go to the school that their parents choose.
Now, both Clinton and I -- Governor Clinton and I want to change
the schools. He wants to change them a little. I want to change
them a lot. (Applause.) My opponent says he's for a variety of
school choice. His variety: public, public, public. And I
disagree. Whether it's a public school, a private school or a
religious school, I believe parents, not government, should choose
their children's schools. (Applause.)
The third key must unlock the future: We must Sharpen
Businesses' Competitive Edge. My opponent wants to do for American
business what he's done for Arkansas businesses. (Laughter.) But if
you ask the entrepreneurs of Arkansas, they'll tell you there's been
little hope in Little Rock. Private dollars build more businesses.
Public dollars build more bureaucracies. Which do you think will
help our economy? I believe that we must cut the regulations that
turn red tape into pink slips. And we've got to put a restraining
order out on our legal system. (Applause.) This country is suing
itself silly. But the cost to our competitiveness is no laughing
matter.
MORE
- 3 -
Just yesterday, just yesterday on the Senate floor we
had a chance to change our product liability system and put an end to
these crazy lawsuits that are costing America jobs. But the liberal
Democrat leadership heard from their friends, the trial lawyers, and
twisted a few arms. When they were finished they wouldn't even let
the issue come up to a vote, in spite of the majority wanting to do
something about these lawsuits.
NOW, ask yourself, which candidate for President will
fight against the special interests -- the trial lawyers? When it
comes to taking on the trial lawyers, my opponent's over in the other
corner, sponging their brow. I want to step into the ring for
another round, and strike a blow against frivolous lawsuits.
(Applause.)
The fourth key is Promoting Economic Security. That
means job training to ease our workers into the new economy. It
means health care reform -- proposals that I've introduced to cut
almost $400 billion of health care costs over the next five years so
that you and your neighbors can afford it. And I will bring
insurance to the poorest of the poor. Everybody should have a shot
at insurance, and that's what our plan does. (Applause.)
Governor Clinton's ideas could end up turning 13 percent
of our Gross National Product over to the government. I don't like
the idea of Uncle Sam, M.D. I don't believe that's the right
prescription for America. (Applause.)
And the fifth key -- and it's one I know young people is
concerned about -- is Leaving No One Behind. My approach to welfare
is not how much we hand out, but how many we help up. The policies
of the past put a roof over people's heads, but they forgot to build
the door. We must build that door with housing vouchers, enterprise
zones, and workfare reforms. You see, I believe that our policies
won't work unless people do, too. Workfare not welfare. (Applause.)
The final key is what I call Right-sizing Government.
Today the federal government spends almost a quarter of every dollar
of the nation's income. Apparently my opponent thinks we're getting
off cheap. He's proposed $150 billion in new taxes and at least $220
billion in brand new spending -- and that's batteries and spare parts
not included. He's promising a rainbow -- but first you've got to
hand over the pot of gold.
Recently the people of Missouri voted down a tax
increase and sent a message that should echo from coast to coast:
government's not taxing too little, it is spending too much.
(Applause.) So send that same Missouri message to Washington when
you vote this November.
The agenda I published yesterday contains specific
proposals to cut the fat: caps on the growth in mandatory spending:
a freeze on domestic spending; a balanced budget amendment; a line-
item veto. (Applause.) Your Governor, your able Governor --
Governor Ashcroft -- has a line-item veto, and he's used it almost
for a quarter of a billion dollars to keep that in your pockets.
Imagine what a President could do with the same power. I've also
proposed a check-off box on tax returns to allow you, the taxpayer,
to earmark 10 percent of your income tax to reduce the budget
deficit. If Congress won't do it, let's give the taxpayers their own
private veto pen. (Applause.)
I am committed in this campaign to providing serious
answers to the questions Americans are asking about our future. And
I've diagnosed the problems and offered serious solutions -- not all
of which are popular. And I'm asking for a mandate -- to put my
solutions into action, and get this country moving. (Applause.)
For now at least, my opponent has chosen a different
strategy. Rather than talk about what he wants to do for America, he
spends his time belittling my ideas, playing on fears. One example:
Ti
I want to talk about limiting the growth of government spending to
get the deficit under control -- an idea my opponent says he agrees
with. But instead of offering serious ideas of his own, he simply
says, watch out senior citizens, watch out veterans, watch out
disabled Americans. It won't work. This administration has
strengthened Social Security, we have stood beside the nation's
veterans, we signed legislation that brought the disabled into our
economic mainstream. Do not let this Governor try to scare you,
America. (Applause.)
Governor Clinton is running a Freddie Krueger candidacy.
(Laughter.) He's more interested in playing on people's fears than
in dealing with this country's real problems. I don't want to scare
the American people, I want to deal with our real problems -- I want
to get America moving forward. (Applause.)
I am confident that I will win this election because I
know America doesn't scare easily. We know the future holds its
challenges, but we're not cowards, we're not quitters.
Let me tell you a little story about a fellow born not
far from here in Commerce -- maybe you know him. Mickey Mantle
played in the minors right here in Joplin before he went up the
Yankees. His dad was a coal miner -- Mutt Mantle. And he worked all
his life in the mines so that Mickey wouldn't have to. And then one
day Mutt got a long-distance call from his son. The Yankees were
sending Mantle back to Joplin. Mickey said, "Dad, I can't play."
Well Mutt just hung up the phone, jumped in his car, drove through
the night to Mickey's hotel. Without a word, he started packing his
son's suitcase. Mickey said, "What are you doing?" His dad replied,
"You can work the mines with me. You can come back and work in the
mines with me. I didn't think I raised a quitter." That night Mutt
Mantle drove home all alone.
America is like Mickey Mantle: in face of tough
challenges we never quit. (Applause.) Confronted with the Cold War
we didn't flinch -- and we won. Confronted with the new economic
competition, I say this: America will never retreat, we will always
compete. And we will win. (Applause.)
I need your help. The next 53 days are going to be
difficult. I've never seen a political year like this in my life.
And I promise you to continue to advance real issues, and I ask your
support -- because our ideas are right for America. My opponent says
we're a nation in decline. I say America is always on the rise, if
we but make the right choices. (Applause.) So for our great
country, for America, it's time to step up to the plate and hit it
out of the ballpark.
Thank you. God bless each and every one of you, and may
God bless the United States of America. Thank you very, very much.
Thank you. (Applause.)
END
9:45 A.M. CDT
Mayon Criota of Joplins
(Grossman)
September 9, 1992
JOPLIN
Draft Four
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE COLLEGE
JOPLIN, MISSOURI
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1992
Governor Ashcroft, thank you for that introduction.
[Acknowledgements]. ((I spend my days in the Oval Office in
Washington, let me just say it's great to be in the Oval at
Missouri Southern State. Millie would love this Oval -- she'd
have a thousand people to walk her. ))
FOR Four years, when I spoke on this campus, our country, our
cities, our towns, were marked by thumbtacks on a war map inside
the Kremlin walls. Today, I stand before you and say something
no President has ever been able to say before: The Cold War is
over -- freedom finished first.
Peace is precious but precarious. We must know its risks to
reap its rewards. For America to be safe and strong, we must win
the defining challenge of the 1990s: we must win the economic
competition. We must be a military superpower, an export
superpower, and an economic superpower.
This must be our goal: a ten trillion dollar economy by the
beginning of the next century. The opposition will tell you: we
can't cut it. I say anyway you cut it
we can.
Yesterday I released my Agenda for American Renewal. This
is my agenda for action. America is a place where ordinary
people can do extraordinary things if only they are set free.
Here are my keys to unlock the door.
2
The first unlocks foreign markets, it's called Challenging
the World. I want to complete the global trade negotiations, and
get congressional approval of the North American Free Trade
Agreement. Trade with Mexico and Canada already brings two
billion dollars into this state each year. Our agreement would
turn the entire continent into a gigantic free-trade zone -- a $6
3
trillion market from Manitoba to Mexico city, and create over
400,000 jobs for American workers. Don't let the other side try
to scare you into thinking we're not up to the job. I believe
that when trade is free and fair -- our workers can beat the
competition, fair and square.
When it comes to exports, I say this continent's not big
enough for the American worker. I want a free trade agreement
with Poland
and with Hungary. I want an agreement with
Czechoslovakia. We will have these agreements by the end of my
second term.
My opponent used to support free trade. First he was for
the Mexican free trade agreement -- then he wasn't so sure. Now
he says: "I'm reviewing it carefully; when I have a definitive
opinion I will say so." Now are there any history students in
the audience? You may recall that Walter Lippman said leadership
means guarding, quote, "a nation's ideals." And the Roman
historian Tacitus defined leadership as, quote, "reason and
judgment."
But you know
I don't recall ever hearing
leadership defined as "Please leave a message and we'll get back
3
to you. " It doesn't work that way. In the Oval Office,
there's no "call-waiting. II
The second key is Preparing our Children. Developed
economies demand developing minds our schools must prepare our
kids to compete on a world-scale. We must raise standards, we
must demand accountability, and we must give parents the right to
choose their kids' schools. My GI Bill for Kids would give
scholarships to your younger brothers and sisters, your children
to go to the school of their choice. Now both Governor Clinton
and I want to change schools: he wants to change them a little.
I want to change them a lot. My opponent says he's for a variety
of school choice: public, public, or public. I disagree.
Whether it's a public school, a private school or a religious
school -- I believe parents, not government, should choose their
children's schools.
The third key must unlock the future: We must Sharpen
Businesses' Competitive Edge. My opponent wants to do for
American businesses what he's done for Arkansas businesses. But
if you ask the entrepreneurs of Arkansas, they'll tell you
there's been little hope in Little Rock. Private dollars build
more businesses. Public dollars build more bureaucracies. Which
do you think will help our economy? I believe that we must cut
the regulations that turn red tape into pink slips. And we've
got to put a restraining order out on our legal system. \\ This
country is suing itself silly but cost to our competitiveness
is no laughing matter. When it comes to taking on the trial
4
lawyers, my opponent's over in their corner, sponging their brow,
I want to step into the ring and strike a blow against frivolous
lawsuits.
The fourth key is Promoting Economic Security. That means
job training to ease our workers into the new economy. It means
health care reform -- proposals I've introduced to cut almost 400
billion dollars of health care costs over the next five years so
that you and your neighbors can afford it. Governor Clinton's
ideas could end up turning 13% of our GNP over to the government.
Uncle Sam, M.D.? I don't believe that's the right prescription
for America.
The fifth key is Leaving No One Behind. My approach to
welfare is not how much we hand out -- but how many we help up.
The policies of the past put a roof over people's heads, but
forgot to build the door. We must build that door, with housing
vouchers, Enterprise Zones, and workfare reforms. You see, I
believe that our policies won't work unless people do too.
The final key is what I call Rightsizing Government. Today
the federal government spends almost a quarter of every dollar of
the nation's income. Apparently my opponent thinks we're getting
off cheap. He's proposed $150 billion in new taxes and at least
$220 billion in brand new spending -- and that's batteries and
spare parts not included. He's promising a rainbow -- but first
you've got to hand over the pot of gold.
Recently the people of Missouri voted down a tax increase,
and sent a message that should echo from coast to coast:
5
government's not taxing too little -- it's spending too much.
Send that same message to Washington when you vote this November.
The agenda I published yesterday contains specific proposals
to cut the fat: caps on the growth in mandatory spending and a
freeze on domestic spending; a balanced budget amendment and a
line-item veto. Governor Ashcroft has a line-item veto -- and
he's used it to keep almost a quarter of a billion dollars in
your pockets. Imagine what a President could do with the same
power. I've also proposed a check-off box on tax returns -- to
give the taxpayers their own private veto pen.
I am committed in this campaign to providing serious answers
to the questions Americans are asking about our future. I have
diagnosed the problems, and offered serious solutions -- not all
of which are popular. And I'm asking for a mandate -- to put my
solutions into action, and get this country moving.
For now at least, my opponent has chosen a different
strategy. Rather than talk about what he wants to do for
America, he spends his time belittling my ideas, and playing on
fears. One example. I want to talk about limiting the growth of
government spending an idea my opponent says he agrees with.
But instead of offering serious ideas of his own, he simply says:
watch out senior citizens, watch out Veterans, watch out disabled
Americans.
Governor Clinton is running a Freddie Kreuger candidacy,
he's more interested in playing on people's fears than in dealing
with this country's real problems.
6
But America doesn't scare easily. We know the future holds
its challenges, but we're not cowards
we're not quitters.
Let me tell you a little story about a fellow born not far
from here in Commerce, maybe you know him. Mickey Mantle played
in the minors right here in Joplin before he went to the Yankees.
His dad was a coal miner. Mutt Mantle worked all his life in the
mines so that Mickey wouldn't have to. One day Mutt got a long-
distance call from his son. The Yankees were sending Mantle back
to Joplin. Mickey said, "Dad, I can't play." Well Mutt just
hung up the phone, jumped in his car, and drove through the night
to Mickey's hotel. Without a word, he started packing his son's
suitcase. Mickey said, "What are you doing?" His dad replied,
"You can work the mines with me. I didn't think I raised a
quitter. " That night Mutt Mantle drove back home alone.
Now I wasn't raised a quitter and I reckon you weren't
either. The competition in the coming years will be tough. But
let's remember who invented the game. It's not time to pick up
our ball and go home, it's time step up to the plate. Thank you,
God bless you, and God bless America.
#
#
#
PAGE
(c) 1988 Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1988
Bush kicked off a 12-day Southern swing with appearances in the Missouri
Ozarks and capped the day with a rally in Dallas.
"Our campaign is alive and well and charging forward," he proclaimed to 2,500
supporters gathered at Missouri Southern State College here.
"I am here today to ask for your support. Whoever wins Super Tuesday will win
the presidency of the United States
II
More Forceful Approach
The trip, scheduled to include stops in most of the states that will elect
800 delegates March 8, highlighted a more forceful approach and a visibly more
confident Bush.
Unlike the final scrappy days before the New Hampshire primary, Bush did not
take on his chief opponent, Kansas Sen. Bob Dole, by name but he did issue a few
backdoor jabs.
"The question is the issues," he said in Dallas, where several hundred
supporters gathered in a hotel atrium to welcome him. "Who best to lead the
United States of America? Leave aside the one-liners. Leave aside who has the
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MEMO FOR BINKY
FROM: MATTHEW
RE: MISSOURI
Taxes
o
Missouri has line-item veto, used often by Gov. Ashcroft in
dealing with a Democratic-controlled legislature. Altogether
these vetos have saved taxpayers almost a quarter of a billion
dollars ($240.8 million). Also has a constitutional balanced-
budget requirement.
o
Partly as a result of these, it's the only midwestern state
-- and one of just four states in U.S. -- to have an AAA bond
rating. (Source: Governor's Office). It has seen a net gain of
338,000 in jobs under Republican Ashcroft; and an increase of 37
percent in exports over the past three years; more than 100,000
Missouri jobs are directly linked to exports. And it has an
unemployment rate 1.2 percent below the national average
o
In a recent special referendum voters rejected a state tax
increase overwhelmingly.
Economic
O
Public Safety, Inc. -- a St. Louis company -- is a good
example of relatively small firms entering the global
competition. Thirty-five percent of its total annual sales are
merchandise exports -- and this has all come about since 1988.
It makes the flashing lights for emergency vehicles, exporting
these to 42 different countries.
o
Multiplex, Inc. in St. Louis, manufactured the soft drink
machines used at the MacDonald's in Moscow. The machine pours
some 20,000 sodas per day.
o
Another good example is the company 800 Pres. Bush will visit,
1400
Contract Freighters, Inc., just four miles from Missouri
Southern. In 1988 it had 1400 employees; today, 2,200 employees.
The company is now building a 100,000-sq.-ft. facility. At any
given moment, 900 of the company's air-ride trailors (designed to
bear cargo over Mexico's poor road system) can be found in that
country. Does lots of business w/ Canada, illustrates benefits
of NAFTA, etc.
School Choice
o
Gov. has repeatedly pushed for the idea, but the legislature
refuses. A compromise was reached last time around, allowing
state to experiment with school choice during the summer school
session. No stats available on number of parents opting for the
plan. Also, a few districts here and there have agreed on
testing the reform, and though no stats are available the
response is good. Ashcroft promises to keep pressing.
Environment
o
Clinton's posture as an environmentalist, Gov's press sec.
tells me, will never sell in Missouri because more waste has
flowed from Arkansas into the state (from the White River system)
than is annually produced by all of New York City. Claim comes
from stories about Ark. pollution in Mar. 22, '92 Wash. Post and
April 4, '92 New York Times.
Misc.
o
State motto: "The Welfare af the people shall be the supreme
law. "
o
Voter participation in '88: 70 percent turnout. (Maybe a
reference to this as proof of Missourans' demanding "show-me"
attitude toward pols?)
o
Twain quotes:
--"Change is the handmaiden Nature uses to do her miracles
with."
-"What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change."
"It was without [peer] among swindles. It was perfect, it
was rounded, symmetrical, complete, colossal." (To describe
Clinton tax plan?)
"What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax
collector? Answer: A taxidermist takes only your skin."
--"When in doubt tell the truth."
"Do not tell fish stories where the people know you; but
particularly, do not tell them where they know the fish."
Dear President Bush,
I am proud of our country because we stand up for what
we believe in and we also fight for what we think is right.
LLkewhen we won the war in Saudi Arabia. That SHOWS we stand
for what we believe in It told all countries that we won't
Back out on what we say . that is why F m proyd of our country.
I also think that you should be president again.
sincernly yours'
TRICIA WILL
Inicia
Will.
St. houis MO 63129
Call me 894-7497.
September 9, 1992
MEMO FOR BINKY
FROM: MATTHEW
RE: MISSOURI
Taxes
o
Missouri has line-item voto, used
times by Gov. Ashcroft
in dealing with a Democratic-controlled legislature. Also has a
constitutional balanced-budget requirement.
o
Partly as a result of these, it's the only midwestern state
-- and one of just four states in U.S. -- to have an AAA bond
rating. (Source: Governor's Office). It has seen a net gain of
38 percent in jobs under Republican Ashcroft. And it has an
unemployment rate 1.2 percent below the national average
o
In a recent special referendum voters rejected a state tax
increase overwhelmingly.
Economic
o
Public Safety, Inc. -- a St. Louis company -- is a good
example of relatively small firms entering the global
competition. Thirty-five percent of its total annual sales are
merchandise exports -- and this has all come about since 1988.
It makes the flashing lights for emergency vehicles, exporting
these to 42 different countries.
o
Multiplex, Inc. in Joplin [?] manufactured the soft drink
drinks
machines used at the MacDonald's in Moscow. The machine pours
some 20,000-a-day.
o
Another good example is the company Pres. Bush will visit,
Contract Freighters, Inc., just four miles from Missouri
Southern. In 1988 it had 1400 employees; today, 2,200 employees.
The company is now building a 100,000-sq.-ft. facility. At any
given moment, 900 of the company's air-ride trailors (designed to
bear cargo over Mexico's poor road system) can be found in that
country. Does lots of business w/ Canada, illustrates benefits
of NAFTA, etc.
School Choice
o
Gov. has repeatedly pushed for the idea, but the legislature
refuses. A compromise was reached last time around, allowing
state to experiment with school choice during the summer school
session. No stats available on number of parents opting for the
plan. Also, a few districts here and there have agreed on
testing the reform, and though no stats are available the
response is good. Ashcroft promises to keep pressing.
Environment
o
Clinton's posture as an environmentalist, Gov's press sec.
tells me, will never sell in Missouri because more waste has
flowed from Arkansas into the state (from the White River system)
than is annually produced by all of New York City. Claim comes
from stories about Ark. pollution in Mar. 22, '92 Wash. Post and
April 4, '92 New York Times.
Misc.
o
State motto: "The Welfare if the people shall be the supreme
law. "
o
Voter participation in '88: 70 percent turnout. (Maybe a
reference to this as proof of Missourans' demanding "show-me"
attitude toward pols?)
o
Twain quotes:
--"It was without [peer] among swindles. It was perfect, it
was rounded, symmetrical, complete, colossal." (To describe
Clinton tax plan?)
-- [More to come]
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ever since: that the world was destined to become a smaller
place, no matter what we might do to try to make it otherwise.
And so as President I have tried, in this agenda, to bring
our foreign policies and our domestic policies together; to turn
our strength as a world power to our advantage as an economic
power; to match the security we feel militarily with the economic
security we must build at home.
My Agenda for American Renewal calls for action on six
interconnected fronts. We face complex problems; no single
solution will suffice. The whole of our agenda will be greater
than the sum of its parts.
First, Challenging the World. During the Cold War, we built
a global security structure with military alliances across the
Atlantic and Pacific. In the same way, the post-Cold War era
requires a strategic economic and trade policy -- global in
scope, and built on our foundation as an economic and export
superpower.
We are uniquely positioned to achieve this goal. As the
largest fully integrated market in the world, we wield leverage
with other countries that want access to our market.
As both a Pacific and a European power, we are tied to the
largest and most rapidly growing economies across both oceans.
And as the strongest nation in our hemisphere, we are looked
to for leadership by free economies emerging from Chile to
Mexico.
Local Color: Joplin, MO
-Metro area includes Joplin, Jasper, Newton City (pop. 141,000)
-within Joplin city limits 40,000 people
-within 10 mile radius 80,000 people
-350,000 within 50 mile radius - including people from SE Kansas,
Northeast Oklahoma, Northern Arkansas
Local Business Information:
Cardinal Scale, Webb City: Founded 1931 by Les Murphy
-first to use welded steel in making scales
-merged with Cardinal President William H. Perry in 1958
-led to more than 20 scale patents for the company
-company attitude: "there is always a better way. "
Leggett & Platt, Carthage: founded 1883 by J.P. Leggett and C.B.
Platt
-invented coil bed spring
-about to celebrate 100th year
-1960 sales were approx. $7 million
-1981 sales were $263 million
-1991 estimated sales $1.2 billion
-still located in Carthage
FAG Bearings Corporation: a German company
-just completed $60 million expansion
-employs 405 people
-received federal grants
Contract Freighters, Inc.: POTUS scheduled to visit them
-received President's "E" Award for Export Service Excellence
-first trucking company to receive this award
-strong export ties to Mexico and Canada
PERSONALITIES FROM JOPLIN AREA
-Mickey Mantle, baseball Hall of Famer, grew up 30 miles away in
Commerce, OK and played for the Joplin Minors before going to the
Yankees.
-Langston Hughes, poet, born in Joplin
-George Washington Carver, born and raised there, slave. The
George Washington Carver National Monument is located a few
minutes to the SE of Joplin.
-former Congressman Gene Taylor is from nearby Sarcoxi, very
popular among the citizens, known for his stories and sense of
humor. The Gene Taylor Education and Psychology Building is on
the Mo. Southern State College campus.
MO. SOUTHERN STATE COLLEGE INFO
-diverse campus, approx. 6,000 students
-13-15% are non-traditional students
-teams are the Lions
-Lions football team won first game last week, beating Cameron
University
-Rod Smith, wide receiver on football team, All-American last
year, pre-season All-America this year
-Woman's Softball Team Defending Divison II National champions.
-chief rival is nearby Pittsburg State, they play them Oct. 24
-Sigma Pi is "big" frat on campus
-Larry Seneker is Class President
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The purchasing power of Americans gives us the highest
standard of living in the world.
We enjoy the highest home ownership rate of all major
industrialized countries.
We send 68 percent of our children on to higher education -
- more than any other country -- and well above Germany's 32
percent and Japan's 30 percent.
And with 5 percent of the world's population, we produce 25
percent of the world's total output.
I do not mean to suggest that all is well -- that we do not
need to lead and manage the changes transforming our economy.
But you can't chart the stars if you think the sky is falling.
Over the past 12 years we have almost doubled the size of our
economy. It's as if we created two extra economies the size of
Germany's from scratch.
How will we meet our goals? Before you hear the specifics
of my agenda, let me tell you a little bit about what I believe -
- because change, if it is to be a force for good, must be guided
by principles. And the principles that must guide change are the
principles that never change.
I believe we are a nation of special individuals, not
special interests.
I haven't always been in government. I spent half my life
before public service out in Texas. And I learned that if you
want the heartbeat of our country, if you want to find what makes
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it tick, you'll find it in Waco, not Washington -- you listen to
Carthage, not Capitol Hill.
And I believe individuals draw their enduring strength from
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their families, from their neighbors and communities, not the from
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government
So I believe we have to keep government smaller,
to
never asking do what families and neighbors and individuals
can better do for themselves and for one another.
I believe -- because I've seen it -- that economic growth
comes from the small businesswoman who takes a risk on a new
product, from the computer hacker working in a lonely garage,
from the merit scholar in South Central L.A. with a future as big
as his dreams.
And I believe government owes it to these people to keep tax
rates low and make them lower; to keep money sound; to limit its
own spending and regulations; and to open (the way for greater
competition, and freer trade.
But I do not believe, as some might, that government's
obligation ends there. As a conservative I believe that
government can help people -- offer them hope and opportunity --
by giving them the means and the confidence to make the
decisions that matter in life.
As a young man I saw the world -- a bit more of it than I
wanted to, in fact. I was a pilot, but thanks to the best
efforts of a Japanese fighter plane I ended up for a time on a
submarine -- spent some long nights in the tower standing watch.
And I remember thinking then what I have seen over and over again
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JOPLIN MSA
1991 LABOR MARKET INFORMATION
POPULATION
TOTAL EMPLOYMENT
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE
135,000
68,000
0
130,000
87,000
65,000
a
125,000
63,000
5
120,000
81,000
7
115,000
59,000
57,000
8
110,000
55,000
105,000
5
53,000
00,000
51,000
4
930 1940 1950 1980 1970 1980 1890
78 79 80 81 82 83 84 66 66 87 60 89 90
78 79 80 01 82 # 84 as 66 87 as - 90
POPULATION
TOTAL POPULATION
1990 Race & Ethnic Group Population
AMER INDIAN
ASIAN &
ESKIMO &
PACIFIC
OTHER
HISPANIC
TOTAL
1990 1980 1970 1960
WHITE
BLACK
ALÉUT
ISLANDER
RACES
ORIGIN
MINORITY
JOPLIN MSA'
134,910 127,513 112,833 108,956
130,093
1,327
2,452
751
287
1,150
5,623
JASPER COUNTY
90,465
86,958
79,852
78,863
87,093
1,153
1,504
516
199
797
3,935
Joplin²
40,961
38,893
39,256
38,958
38,927
872
773
262
127
477
2,355
Carthage
10,747
11,104
11,035
11,264
10,216
236
102
177
16
63
573
NEWTON COUNTY
44,445
40,555
32,981
30,093
43,000
174
948
235
88
353
1,688
Neosho
9,254
9,493
7,517
7,452
8,821
99
190
121
23
86
487
1. Date in this table and above graph based on current MSA definition
2. Includes part in Newton County
Total
Employment - 70,687
July 92 92
LABOR FORCE
*
*
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1985
1984
1983
1982
1981
1980
1979
1978
*
LABOR FORCE
71,749 70,791 70,483 68,826 67,225 64,668 62,055 59,447 57,319 57,011 55,077 55,211 54,250
EMPLOYMENT
67,827 66,947 66,555 64,827 63,443 60,812 57,985 53,765 52,085 53,258 51,380 52,973 51,728
UNEMPLOYMENT 3,922 3,844 3,928 3,999 3,782 3,856 4,070 5,682 5,234 3,753 3,697 2,238 2,522
RATE
5,5
5.4
5.6
5.8
5.6
6.0
6.6
9.6
9.1
6.6
6.7
4.1
4.6
MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF LABOR & INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
DIVISION OF EMPLOYMENT SECURITY
P O BOX 59
Research & Analysis
JEFFERSON CITY, MO 65104-0059
(314) 751-3595
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ECONOMIC INDICATORS - Joplin Area: 1991 1992
* - Month of
JULY
**_ - Year To Date
PERCENT
Area of Survey
1992
1991
DIFFERENCE
DIFF.
* Bank Demand Deposits
(000)
$94,832
$79,235
15,596
19.7%
* Bank Time & Savings Dep.
(000)
$492,840
$404,550
88,290
21.8%
* Total Joplin Bank Dep.
(000)
$587,672
$483,785
103,887
21.5%
**Checks Cashed
(000)
$5,545,430
$5,153,409
392,021
7.6%
**Bank Clearings
(000)
$569,526
$524,188
45,338
8.6%
**Total Building Permits
(000)
$34,786
$14,682
20,103
136.9%
**Mortgages Recorded
(000)
$535,491
$250,790
284,701
113.5%
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**Retail Sales Tax Rec.
(000)
$3,583
$3,292
292
8.9%
**Postal Receipts
(000)
$3,275
$3,233
42
1.3%
* Total Labor Force
76,146
72,493
3,653
5.0%
* Number Employed
70,687
67,605
3,082
4.6% INCREASE
* Number Unemployed
5,459
4,888
571
11.7%
**Elect Energy Generated
M/kwh
408,018
425,216
(17,198)
-4.0%
* Electric Meters in Service
27,765
27,370
395
1.4%
* Gas Meters in Service
N/A
19,033
(19,033)
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WHAT RECESSION? ALL SIGNS POINT TO STRONG GROWTH!
Joplin appears to be in for a great 1992-93, with a surge of
construction activity on a number of different fronts.
city of Joplin Public Works Director Harold McCoy said "in my 33
years here, I have never seen the level of broad-based activity
we're now experiencing."
city of Joplin Director of Planning and Zoning Richard Largeant
said his office is swamped with projects. Much of that has dealt
with plats for housing. "We're working on about 10 plats
representing about 400 lots, and we hear there are three or four
other plats to come to us in the near future."
City Hall will also be busy in 1992 with a number of
improvements to meet the demands that certain developments will
place on them. Among others, Maiden Lane is being widened to 4-
lanes from 4th Street north, and the city has a $2 million sewer
expansion project south of Interstate 44 which is opening excellent
land for development.
HOUSING
Ron Wheeler, President of the Home Builders Association of
Southwest Missouri said "housing starts in the first quarter were
at their greatest level since 1960. There are a lot of factors
built into that, but our members tell us it looks like a very good
year."
Mark Mayberry of Mayberry Brothers Construction reports that Deer
Run Estates, open for sale for about one year, should sell the last
six of its original 16 lots by the end of summer. Homes must be at
least 2,000 sq. ft. on these lots, which sell for $20,000-25,000.
He reports that duplexes are selling well in different locations of
the city.
Randy Anderson of R.S. Anderson, Inc. and Heartland Homes has
been Webb City's busiest developer/homebuilder, and he's bringing
some of that action to Joplin. He just bought about 60 acres south
of Zora between Main and St. Louis. His plan is to put in more
than 200 homes. Forest Ridge will offer homes in the $60's.
Groundbreaking on Phase I, scheduled for June, will include 15
homes.
Hidden Valley, south of Interstate 44 and west of Connecticut,
may have some of Joplin's newest and largest homes. Opened by Tom
Prince just a few years ago, only a few lots remain.
Bob and Kathleen Martz are partners with Kevin and Tania Locke on
The Highlands, south of Wildwood. Annexed into Joplin in 1962, it
is the furthest point south in the City. The initial plat opened
with 16 lots 3 months ago, and eight are already sold, with three
homes under construction. Plat #2 will have 18 lots. These 1/2
acre-plus lots sell for $19,000-$25,000.
Joplin Square is being platted with 91 lots at 36th & Brownell
(behind the nursing home at 34th & Texas). Nick Pitts is the
developer.
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Joplin Globe, July 5, 1992
Joplin Globe, July 12, 1992
Joplin Construction Hits
Best Start in Six Years
Future Building Contracts Up
Contracts for future building
From the standpoint of estimated
construction in the two-county Joplin
dollar commitments, Joplin building
Metroplitan Statistical Area totaled $38.8
construction and improvement is off to its
million during the first five months of 1992,
best start in years.
Work started during the first six
according to F.W. Dodge Division of
McGraw-Hill Inc. This represents an
months of this year totals $19.6 million in
increase of 60 percent over the
estimated construction cost, up 55 percent
from the corresponding period last year,
corresponding period of 1991.
according to city building permit records.
The $19.6 million is the highest amount for
the first half of the year since the record
high of $29 million was set in 1986.
The permits reflect the start of 125
dwelling units during the first half of the
year, the highest number for the first half of
the year since 139 were started in 1987.
That includes both single-family residences
and multiple-family structures. Permits for
single-family residences totaled 87 during
the first half of the year, up two from the
corresponding period of last year. Thirty-
eight units are reflected in permits covering
multiple-family dwellings.
The $3.8 million in estimated
construction cost covering six building
permits for new commercial buildings issued
during the first half of the year was the
highest for the category since the
corresponding portion of 1987, when the
total for 13 permits was $6.8 million.
Permits in the second quarter totaled
$12.4 million in estimated cost of all types
of construction, about twice the amount for
the corresponding quarter of 1991, and was
the greatest for any second quarter since
1986.
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Oak Hill Hospital broke ground March 1 on a $9 million, three-story expansion that will more
than double the hospital's floor space. The project will add 95,000 square feet to the hospital,
which has 85,000 square feet. The addition will be on the west end of the existing building.
The Joplin Globe
February 23, 1992
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St. John's Regional Medical Center Completed a $18.25 million expansion and renovation
project, which included a parking garage and a surgery center. Construction cost $15.5 million,
and equipment, $2.75 million.
The Joplin Globe
February 23, 1992
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Freeman Hospital is adding a 39,000 square foot Sports Medicine and Orthopedics Center. The
$3.2 million office building is to be connected to the hospital via a tunnel.
The Joplin Globe
February 23, 1992
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WHAT RECESSION? ALL SIGNS POINT TO STRONG GROWTH!
Joplin appears to be in for a great 1992-93, with a surge of
construction activity on a number of different fronts.
City of Joplin Public Works Director Harold McCoy said "in my 33
years here, I have never seen the level of broad-based activity
we're now experiencing."
City of Joplin Director of Planning and zoning Richard Largeant
said his office is swamped with projects. Much of that has dealt
with plats for housing. "We're working on about 10 plats
representing about 400 lots, and we hear there are three or four
other plats to come to us in the near future."
City Hall will also be busy in 1992 with a number of
improvements to meet the demands that certain developments will
place on them. Among others, Maiden Lane is being widened to 4-
lanes from 4th Street north, and the City has a $2 million sewer
expansion project south of Interstate 44 which is opening excellent
land for development.
HOUSING
Ron Wheeler, President of the Home Builders Association of
Southwest Missouri said "housing starts in the first quarter were
at their greatest level since 1960. There are a lot of factors
year." built into that, but our members tell us it looks like a very good
Mark Mayberry of Mayberry Brothers Construction reports that Deer
Run Estates, open for sale for about one year, should sell the last
six of its original 16 lots by the end of summer. Homes must be at
least 2,000 sq.ft. on these lots, which sell for $20,000-25,000.
He reports that duplexes are selling well in different locations of
the city.
Randy Anderson of R.S. Anderson, Inc. and Heartland Homes has
been Webb City's busiest developer/homebuilder, and he's bringing
some of that action to Joplin. He just bought about 60 acres south
of Zora between Main and St. Louis. His plan is to put in more
than 200 homes. Forest Ridge will offer homes in the $60's.
homes. Groundbreaking on Phase I, scheduled for June, will include 15
Hidden Valley, south of Interstate 44 and west of Connecticut,
may have some of Joplin's newest and largest homes. Opened by Tom
Prince just a few years ago, only a few lots remain.
Bob and Kathleen Martz are partners with Kevin and Tania Locke on
The Highlands, south of Wildwood. Annexed into Joplin in 1962, it
is the furthest point south in the City. The initial plat opened
with 16 lots 3 months ago, and eight are already sold, with three
homes under construction. Plat #2 will have 18 lots. These 1/2
acre-plus lots sell for $19,000-$25,000.
Joplin Square is being platted with 91 lots at 36th & Brownell
developer. (behind the nursing home at 34th & Texas). Nick Pitts is the
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HOUSING (continued)
Bob Landis of Landis Construction is developing one of the last
remaining Roanoke tracts. The first home is nearly complete and
already sold, and nine homes will be added.
Northbrook subdivision has 32 homes between and $60-85,000. Phase
2 is underway this year, with an estimated six new homes. This Ed
Loyd subdivision will eventually have up to 173 homes, on lots
priced from $10,500 to $14,500 for 100' frontage.
Oak Pointe, off of South Jackson, continues with brisk activity
for executive home construction. Developed by Ruestman
Construction, phase two is going very well, with several new homes
by various builders under construction.
Rainbow Estates is Gene Anderson's new development at 30th and
Patterson, with more than thirty lots being developed with homes in
the $80,000 range.
South Hampton, at 30th and McConnell, has 18 lots for homes from
out of the ground this summer.
the upper $70's, with one home near completion, with more coming
Sunset Ridge by Ed Loyd will have 83 homes when fully developed.
Thirteen are up, with three under contract and 3 more to build this
year. Homes are priced at $165,000 and up. Lots are priced between
$22,000 and $32,500 for 1/2 to 1 1/4 acres.
Wildwood, Tom Prince's large development west of south Range
Line, has added several executive homes in the past year.
Woodland Hills features wooded lots, some with creek frontage,
selling for $20,000 to $28,000. This subdivision was recently
platted with 100 lots ranging from 1/2 acre to 1 acre. Phase 1 will
have 45 lots, with 6 lots already sold with one home under
construction. Phase 2 will add 55 lots. Homes will average about
$100,000, according to Steve Smith, President of Joplin
Construction Design and Management.
Pending approval from Planning and Zoning on April 27, Zelleken
Hills will be platted at 44th & Indiana, south of I-44. Mike
Buckingham said the completed BBP Development, Inc. project will
include 90 residential lots on 32 acres for all-brick homes.
Buckingham is the great grandson of Edward Zelleken, who built the
first and second brick homes in Joplin.
Phase one calls for six lots, with an entrance off of 44th Street
across from Hidden Valley Estates. Buckingham said he has contracts
for three houses immediately, with two pending. He said the 1,500
sq. ft. minimum homes will sell for $80-140,000.
Small multi-family projects are on the drawing boards around the
city, but no major apartment projects have been announced.
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COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
Joplin Chamber President Gary Tonjes said that activity has
picked up. "We are seeing interest from large developers who have
been in town looking around, and we have been pleased with the
response we're getting from our marketing efforts. I think you
will 93." see a number of large commercial projects announced in 1992-
On 32nd Street, Smitty's and Food-4-Less will have more than
100,000 square foot of new grocery space between them when they
open later this year. A commercial strip center across at 32nd &
Wisconsin and a planned 37,000 square foot strip center just west
of Smitty's are good projects in the works.
On Range Line, David Myers of Woodmont reports that they are
close to signing three additional national tenants for the new
Northpoint Center. Phar-Mor and Ryan's Steak House are to open
within the next few months, giving the new Toys-R-Us some company.
The highway department offices will be torn down in early 1993.
*
Construction will begin soon on the 193,000 square foot Wal-Mart
Supercenter, and at least two more large commercial developments on
Range Line are in the works. Braum's will open this spring its
third Joplin store.
Northpark Mall's Greg Sims gives a good report. Total sales are
up over a year ago, and new stores are being added. Everything is
$1.00 opened April 15, The Buckle is expanding and remodeling,
sporting goods store and Kinney's subsidiary Champs will open in
about 60 days, one new women's clothing store is coming to, and
another women's store expanding in, the mall.
Downtown is benefitting from a few projects, as well, including
The Sports Page restaurant and bar, Champ's expansion, a planned
Guocione's expansion, and a relocation to downtown by Electronic
Security Systems.
Retail sales tax receipts are up 7% over a year ago, and the
outlook is good for continued growth.
ESTABLISHED MANUFACTURERS
Several Joplin area manufacturers are expanding. A special
Report. feature will be included in an upcoming edition of the Joplin
HEALTH CARE
Health Care continues to provide Joplin with much of its growth
and building construction activity. Major projects are underway at
all three hospitals. Freeman Hospital is adding a 39,000 sq. ft.
Sports Medicine and Orthopedics Center, Oak Hill Hospital is adding
95,000 square feet in a $9 million expansion, and st. John's
Regional Medical Center just completed an $18.25 million expansion
and renovation project. All three report they will be bringing
more health care professionals to Joplin.
Spring River Christian Village behind Northpark Mall is nearing
completion on its major expansion.
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TRANSPORTATION/TRAVEL
Joplin's trucking community still represents a good avenue of
growth. The largest expansion on the board is Contract Freighters,
Inc.'s move to a new $20 million complex, but other carriers
continue to expand.
There's much speculation about another large truck stop complex,
as well as a newcomer to the lodging business. The Chamber has
motels. talked with a couple of developers interested in building new
A new highway 71 from I-44 south will likely bring road
construction jobs within a year, and help fuel future growth for
the Joplin area. The Missouri Highway and Transportation
Department District 7 Headquarters at 32nd St. and Duquesne will be
complete around the end of the 1992.
While US Air Express' future in Joplin is uncertain, the Lone
Star connections to DFW and St. Louis have improved the air travel
Joplin to St. Louis for $165.
market. Beginning this month, Lone Star offers a round trip from
CHURCHES
Several congregations must be feeling good about Joplin. A new
church with family life center is under construction at 44th &
Silver Creek for Christ's Community United Methodist Church. St.
Paul's United Methodist Church members have their new church home
being built on W. 26th near Cecil Floyd Elementary. Villa Heights
Christian Church has a major expansion in progress on East 7th, and
First United Methodist Church razed the block at 4th and Moffet for
its new Family Life Center.
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MMMM COLLEGE HAS AN INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION EMPHASIS.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES TAUGHT AT THE COLLEGE: RUSSIAN,
JAPANESE, CHINESE, ARABIC, FRENCH, SPANISH. GERMAN.
additive MANY PROFESSORS ARE FROM OTHER COUNTRIES. COLLEGE
PRESIDENT WAS BORN AND EDUCATED IN CHILE. HIS WIFE IS
FROM HONG KONG. FACULTY REGULARLY TRAVEL AND
STUDY ABROAD. COLLEGE HAS OUTSTANDING HONORS
PROGRAM AND SENDS 20 TO 30 STUDENTS EVERY
SUMMER TO STUDY AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND
SALAMANCA, SPAIN.
MMMM PRESIDENT BUSH SENT GREETINGS TO PARTICIPANTS
IN THE MISSOURI SOUTHERN INTERNATIONAL
PIANO COMPETITION. A RECOGNIZED INTERNATIONAL
COMPETITION THAT ATTRACTS OUTSTANDING PIANISTS
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THE WINNER THIS YEAR IS
A YOUNG PIANIST FROM RUSSIA WHO WILL. AS PART OF
HER GRAND PRIZE, MAKE HER DEBUT IN CARNEGIE HALL
THIS OCTOBER.
**** THE COLLEGE EMPHASIZES TEACHING. ALL CLASSES ARE
SMALL TUITION IS THE SECOND LOWEST IN MISSOURI
AND AMONG THE LOWEST IN THE NATION.
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MMMW AS PART OF PRESIDENT BUSH EDUCATIONAL GOALS
FOR THE YEAR 2.000, THERE IS AN OBJECTIVE THAT CALLS
FOR COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES TO ASSESS THE LEARNING
OF COLLEGE GRADUATES TO INSURE THE COMPETITIVENESS
OF OUR EDUCATED WORKFORCE. MISSOURI SOUTHERN
STATE COLLEGE HAS HAD A, STRONG ASSESSMENT OF
OUTCOMES PROGRAM SINCE 1986 WHERE ALL GRADUATING
SENIORS ARE TESTED IN BOTH GENERAL EDUCATION AND
IN THEIR MAJOR FIELD OF STUDY.
**** THE RESULTS OF THE ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING ARE
PUBLISHED IN THE COLLEGE CATALOG £ A REPORT CARD,
SO TO SPEAK) AND IN THE PRESS FOR ALL PROSPECTIVE
STUDENTS, PARENTS AND PUBLIC TO SEE.
IGMM THE CAMPUS IS WELL MAINTAINED AND IS ONE OF THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL COLLEGE CAMPUSES IN THE NATION.
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QUALITY IN GRADUATING SENIORS
Southern also is setting an impressive pace
Missouri Southern seniors performed
with the quality of its graduating seniors.
extremely well in this measure of
In February, 488 Southern seniors took a
educational performance! In fact, ACT the
nationally normed examination (the ACT-
testing service company, compared the
COMP) along with some 31,000 other
performance of Missouri Southern seniors
graduating seniors from colleges and
to the performance of seniors from 20
universities across the United States.
other colleges and universities whose
The ACT-COMP is a comprehensive 4-hour
seniors had entering levels of achievement
examination that measures the level of
similar to or slightly lower than MSSC
General Education acquired by college
seniors and concluded that
students. As such, it is an important
measure of the students' ability to
"This performance by, your senior
sample compares quite favorably
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communicate, to solve problems, to
function effectively in social institutions, to
with the performances of senior
effectively use the sciences and the arts,
samples in the reference group and
and to clarify values. General Education is
indicates an effective program at
considered to be the most important
MSSC in fostering acquisition of the
component of the curriculum for a college
general education skills and
education.
knowledge assessed by the ACT-
COMP.'
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1
5
01
5
20
25
or
35
40
45
09
55
09
65
0
75
80
85
90
95
00
MSSC
Score
TABLE 2
Total
Societ Inst
Function
Science
Using
Arts
the
Burn
callog
Communi
Problems
Salving
Comparison of ACT-COMP results
Values
Clark,
MSSC
0
5
01
5
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
55
09
65
70
75
80
85
90
95
100
Percentlies
Average
Missouri Southern State College 3,060
Southwest Missouri State University 3,299
Northwest Missouri State University 3,783
Missouri Westem State College
Central Missouri State University
Southeast Missouri State University 4,536
Northeast Missouri State University 5,031
Lincoln University
Harris Stowe State College
University of Missouri
Percent of 1990-1991 State Average
Appropriation per FTE student and
TABLE 3
5.339
3,744
4,218
4,520
5,693
$7,185
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Table 1 to the right shows the 20 colleges and
universities to which the performance of MSSC
TABLE 1
seniors was compared, while Table 2 shows the
actual results. Note how the MSSC students
Colleges/Universities compared with MSSC
(depicted by the diamond symbol) generally
University of Missouri-Kansas City
outperform the results of seniors at the other 20
University of Missouri- St. Louis
colleges and universities identified in the table by
Northwest Missouri State University
the black bullets. Specially noteworthy are the
results in the Total Score, Using Science and
Southeast Missouri State University
Clarifying Values columns.
Colorado State University
Missouri Southem is extremely proud of the
Ohio University
general education skills and knowledge provided
South Dakota State University
by our Core Curriculum. The quality of education
University of Tennesse-Knoxville
our students receive prepares them to function
Washington and Jefferson College
competitively in a world where breadth of
Bemidji State University
knowledge, critical thinking and problem solving
skills are the keys to success.
Tennessee Technological University
As Table 3 shows, Missouri Southern receives
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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the lowest state appropriation per full-time
Fort Lewis College
equivalent student in the state (57 percent of the
Morehead State University
state average). Given the performance results by
Old Dominion University
our seniors in the ACT-COMP and the level of state
University of Montevallo
support received by MSSC, one can say that MSSC
educational programs YIELD RESULTS EQUAL TO
Western Michigan University
OR BETTER THAN MANY OTHER STATE
Memphis State University
INSTITUTIONS AT HALF THE COST TO THE
Murray State University
STATE OF MISSOURI!!
University of North Carolina-Charlotte
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P.7
BUSH 92 QUAYLE
7:30 Precious Moments Group BEGIN
7:50 Precious Moments END
7:55 C.J. & Cass BEGIN
8:10 C.J. & Cass END
8:15 Southern Exposure BEGIN
8:35 Southern Exposure END
(Pastor and children go onstage together)
8:40 Prayer & Pledge of Allegience
Dr. Phillip McClendon - Calvary Baptist Church
Area Children saying the Pledge
8:45 National Athem Sung
Sung by Cassandra Goade
8:50 Bill Webster BEGIN
-as M.C.-to intro platform comm. (come up and be
seated as introduced)
8:59 Mel Hancock addresses crown(after intro from Webster)
then throws back to Webster.
9:03 - Kit Bond addresses crowd (after intro from Webster)
then throws back to Webster
9:07 Webster addresses crowd
GOV Ashcroft
9:12 Gov schoroft or Bill Webster builds up crowd.
9:15 President Bush walks up on stage and begins speaking.
(BAND PLAYS)
9:30/35 Pres. Bush finishes speaking and brings Sen. Bond
and Attorney Gen. Bill Webster (Cong. Hancock)
back on stage with arms raised.
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The Fourth
MISSOURI SOUTHERN INTERNATIONAL
PIANO
COMPETITION
April 21-25, 1992
Taylor Performing Arts Center
Missouri Southern State College
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P.9
DEPARTMENT a THE UNITED
N
STATE
STATE
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
March 10, 1992
I am pleased to send greetings to the participants
in the Fourth Missouri Southern International
Piano Competition.
Whether embellishing an orchestra in a concerto,
accompanying a singer, or providing the lone voice
in a sonata, the piano has long been acclaimed for
its beauty, versatility, and range. Artists who
have mastered this remarkable instrument bring a
special touch to the world of music, and I salute
the outstanding young pianists who are taking part
in this event. Through years of training and
practice, you have developed your natural talent
and your innate love of music into a high degree
of proficiency and skill. I am sure that,
regardless of the outcome of this competition,
each of you will enrich the lives of countless.
others through your unique contributions to the
performing arts.
Congratulations on your individual accomplish-
ments, and best wishes for a memorable
competition.
CyBul Buil
Atty Gen Bill Wibster's father grad. Mo. south. st. of
New building named for
State Sen. Richard Webster
Regublican Condidate for Gov.
will be Encee.
In front Nath of & POTUS slightly east. shiny of
where Pres. speaks-
building
(Grossman)
September 9, 1992
JOPLIN
Draft One
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE COLLEGE
FRED HUGHES STADIUM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1992
(Acknowledgements) [local color, jokes.]
Unfortunately, in some quarters, this race has degenerated
to the level of a food fight. I am the man that braved the
broccoli. of course, some of my younger staff wanted to
retaliate. But they couldn't find any kind of food my opponent
didn't like.
I've got a message for the cafeteria campaigners: Stop
playing with your food -- sit up straight and pay attention.
Yesterday I took this debate on to higher ground. I
released my Agenda for American Renewal -- an agenda that
diagnoses our problems, and defines our principles. This is my
agenda for action. Our country stands at the edge of a century.
This is my bridge to the other shore.
First let's take a step back. Take a look at where we've
come from and where we are. For the first time in half a decade,
America is a nation at peace. Some Americans paid for that peace
with their lives. Others, with their labor. All, with their
taxes. Peace is precious but precarious. We must know its risks
to reap its rewards.
For America to be safe and strong, we must win the defining
challenge of the 1990s: to win the economic competition -- to win
the peace. \\ We must be a military superpower, an economic
superpower, and an export superpower. We must look outward -- to
open new markets and prepare our people to meet international
competition. We must look forward -- to strengthen our families
-- to save and invest -- so we can win.
My opponent calls for change. But from where I stand, he
makes about as much sense as a rainmaker in the middle of a
rainstorm. Change is here, it is all around us.
When I read my mail, I hear each American describing a little
part of a big picture. For some, the changes have been painful:
the defense worker laid off from his job. The college senior
wondering if she has the skills to take her from the classroom to
the board room. Others changes are hopeful: a fourth grader
giving me tips on my computer lessons. Small business people
telling me about how exports are bringing their companies back to
life.
America has changed and is changing still. My opponent's
like the doctor who diagnoses the growing pains, and advises the
patient to stop growing. I want America to grow bigger and
better -- stronger and smarter. I am looking forward to the
future, because I understand the past.
I understand how many Americans feel that we won the Cold
War, only to lose the very jobs that made victory possible. We
must ease our transition to a peacetime economy -- but we must
also look forward to the future: freeing up our skills and
technologies for peacetime growth.
I understand how our industries are changing -- our economy,
evolving. We are witnessing the greatest economic transformation
since the Industrial Revolution. But like all revolutions, this
one has had its casualties
and we will take care of our own.
But the smoke will clear on a new economy -- bigger, better, and
ready to take on the world.
I understand that while the 80s brought the greatest
peacetime expansion in our history, it also boosted debt.
Companies have been paying it down while gearing themselves up -
-getting ready for greater profits when growth resumes.
Our financial system has changed too. We entered the 80s
with a banking system designed before Ozzie and Harriet started
dating. Our system has evolved and the fittest have survived --
banks will be more efficient, capital will be more available,
and credit will be more affordable.
And
Finally, I understand that when we changed the world, the
world would change us too. No nation is an island today. All
around the world, countries have been freed, markets are being
opened. Only America has the energy, the attitude, and the
resources to take advantage of this opportunity. If we can look
outward, we will move forward.
The other side has conveniently skipped over our strengths
and on to our weaknesses. Some folks will tell you that the sky
is falling just so they can promise you the moon. But you can't
build on your strengths unless you know what they are. Inflation's
is down, interest rates are at a twenty year low, and our
purchasing power gives us the highest standard of living in the
world.
this is America, and
These are good signs. But good's just not good enough.
Over the past 12 years we've almost doubled the size of our
economy. It's as if we created two economies the size of
Germany's from scratch. So this is my goal: by the beginning of
the next century we will bring this economy to ten trillion
dollars strong. The opposition sings samp the same oldowing Hold on you're moing
How will we do it? I will tell you the program, but first +00 faot,
Nisten to the principles. Our approach will be flexible, ready
They tell
you
to meet the challenges of a changing world. But the principles
we
that must guide change, are the ones that must never change.
)
do
it.
I believe that we are a nation of special individuals, not They're
special interests. That the future of our democracy is not in right:
bureaucracy -- but in our communities, our neighborhoods, they cant.
ourselves
cl can, And
d will.
I believe that economic growth flows from Main Street to
Wall Street -- not the other way around. That small business is
the anatomy of the American Dream.
I believe that government must keep tax rates low and make
them lower. It must keep money sound, keep spending and
regulations down, and keep trade free and fair.
But I do not believe, as some might, that government's
obligation ends there. As a çonservative I believe that
government can help people to help themselves, to empower them to
make the decisions that matter in life.
America
Daplace Ordinary people can do extraordinary things if only they are
where
set free. Here are my keys to unlock the door.
The first must unlock the markets of the world. The United
States is the largest fully integrated market in the world. This
is the bait we must use to cast lines overseas. Right here in
an increase of almost 40%
over the past fan years.
Missouri, exports support over 150,000 jobs. Trade with Mexico
into this state each
and Canada brings Missouri two billion dollars a year. With
congressional approval of NAFTA, those dollars could double in
years.
For small business, bigger exports can mean big business.
Think about it: people in Moscow, lining up at McDonald's to buy
pop
Think of the ambulances
soda^ from soft drink machines made right here in Missouri. ^ Last
in Isnael or the police cars in feru clearing 4n streets w/siners made in St. Louis, Today cling
time I was here, I visited Public Safety, Inc in St. Louis. It
going! Contract Breighter clingong to be talking to The folk that send trucks over the
makes flashing emergency lights for export to 42 countries around
beyonds of Canada I the barpy back roads of Mexico They're created 800 jobs in just
the world. There is no question: if we want to succeed at home, for years.
we've got to lead abroad. \\
Their must be botter
line ts an
our minds + unleash our
botter line:
The second key must unlock American potential.
Developed economics alemand develo prio minds our schools mus
International compet ition means more than playing by the same
rules it means competing with the same tools. Job training -
to keep our workers ahead of the curve of change- Education
My opponent has got to
reform to prepare our kids for the competition.
Money alone
understand :there's just some things that money carry buy.
won t solve our problems except for Switzerland, we spend more
almost
We mustraise standards, we must involve
money per pupil than any other country in the world^ Whether
The commities,
and un
it's public, private our religious -- parents, not government,
must give
parents
childrens'
school
should choose their kids schools.
choice.
must unlock- the futne:
The third key: Sharpening businesses' competitive edge. Our
ultimate success as an economic superpower depends on the
performance of our private businesses -- on our success in
encouraging entrepreneurial capitalism. People need to be
allowed to keep more of what they produce. When you tax more of
something, you get less of it: less capital, fewer profits, and
slower growth.
That's why I want enterprise zones in our inner cities and
rural areas; a permanent R&D tax credit; and a cut in the capital
gains tax, indexed for inflation.
We must strengthen small business by cutting taxes and
ensuring that credit is available. We must cut the regulations
that turn red tape into pink slips. And when our legal system
gets under people's skin -- we've got to get it under control.
The fourth component of my agenda is Promoting Economic
Security. That means job training to ease our workers into the
new economy. It means a reform of our health care system. And
it means retirement security.
And when it comes to helps on poor LLL the appositi with build a non ulavious.
Support wats
The fifth key: Leaving No One Behind. My approach to + wait to slip
welfare is not how much we hand out -- but how many we help up.
the the kgs.
dow
The welfare policies of the past put a roof over people's heads,
but they forgot to build the a door. Our goal should not be
greater government dependence but rather a new Declaration of
Independence believe in housing vouchers, in Enterprise
Zones, /in experimentation with workfare reforms. Our policies
won't work unless people do too.
The final kg is called
I call the final component of my Agenda: Rightsizing
Government. At a time when companies across the country have
been restructuring, cutting fat, increasing efficiency -- all to
prepare for the economic competition of tomorrow -- the federal
government has an obligation to do the same. Today the federal
government spends almost a quarter of every dollar of the
On August ,The people of MO roted down Tax tocoast: increase, n't taxing too little it 15
Snd that
sendy nation's income. A Government is too big and spends ing too much. An
overweight federal government, serving itself seconds before
same message 2 washing tm when you votein November 11
serving the people first, will weigh us down in our race for the
future.
The agenda I published yesterday contains specific proposals
to cut the fat: caps on the growth in mandatory spending and a
freeze on domestic spending; a balanced budget amendment and a
line-item veto. Governor Ashcroft has a line-item veto -- and
he's used it to keep over $240 in your pockets. Imagine what a
President could do with the same power. I've also proposed a
check-off box on tax returns -- to give the taxpayers their own
Some editoricalist chuckle at my check off rdea,
private veto pen. I want to give the taxpayers a chance to write
their own ending to the federal debt. The usual this know bas t.
But American sen to like tn. idea.
As usual 11. try know better.
10 thillin dollar economy, Some say that's optimistic. cl 50y, so
is Missami-
and Same say that's ambitions cl 5g So is America. My opponed tcl
Het my tell you a sty in
have enguid to disagn,
He thags American is
bin "ridicaled and
the world." Hethiks
August 4, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR RAY PRICE
FROM:
JENNIFER GROSSMAN
SUBJECT:
THOUGHTS ON CLINTON
SLICK WILLIE
--Clinton was born with a silver soundbite in his mouth
--They've run a campaign of safe bets and sound bites.
--During a political season in Great Britain, Margaret Thatcher
once remarked: "We were told that our campaign wasn't
sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment."
--I've got to hand it to my opponents
they're two very
promising young men. I'm sure they 11 keep on promising till
November.
--He says he'd make a model president. I don't know. He might
make a good model, though.
--would you buy a used car from this man?
SPIN NEGATIVE SPIN
-when we call a spade a spade
the Clinton camp demands a
retraction.
CHANGE CANDIDATES
The other side talks of change. They just don't get it. The
fact is, we are the change. The Democratic Platform speaks of
the "Revolution of '92" -- a revolution in which the Democrats
are leading the charge. Kind of reminds me of the old con man's
advice to the new kid on the block: "Son," he said, "When you're
bein' run outta town, just get in front and make it look like a
parade."
--New Covenant/Born-Again Democratic Party: During this campaign,
the Democrats have promised that their born-again. But they're
really like the guy who goes to church on Sunday to repent what
he did on Saturday
and will probably do on Monday.
--Different views on a kinder gentler America: Their America will
be kinder to enemies abroad
gentler to criminals at home.
Kinder to bureaucracy
gentler to the special interests.
--I want to throw out the garbage
they want to change the air
freshener.
BABY BOOM BOYS
Bill Clinton: leadership for the 1970's.
--And when his country called on him to serve
Hell no, he
wouldn't go.
JOKES
--Maybe he's just having a bad hair day.
--Barbara keeps a copy of Clinton's economic plan on her bedside
table. She says she loves a good mystery.
--Some of you may have heard that the Baby Boom Boys took a
cross-country tour. Well, they ran into a little problem. An
officer pulled them over and wrote them a ticket. Turns out they
were trying to smuggle a little liberalism across the Mason-
Dixon line.
--From copy-cat covenants
to counterfeit cookies -- there's
just no end to what some people will try to pull. I think there
should be a roadside warning on the Democratic campaign trail.
It should read: "Slippery When Wet."
PHILOSOPHICAL DIFFERENCES
--he has offered XX in new spending
but America is not for
sale.
--I believe in equal rights
not special privileges.
-When it comes to taxes, Bill Clinton will put you out of
pocket. When it comes to his economic policy, Bill Clinton will
put you out of your job. When it comes to leadership, America,
Bill Clinton will put you out of your misery.
--We have enough Liberal Bills coming out of Washington DC. We
don't need one more. ( (or: Think of it this way -- If you put
one Liberal Bill in Washington
you'll get one-hundred out.))
--Clinton's economic plan: Paying Your Bill.
--Now I may be showing my age -- but even I remember a time when
the White House was occupied territory -- occupied by the
Democrats. It was a time when foreign policy was conducted
through capitulation. The flag was a quaint relic. Patriotism
was passe. And freedom was just another word for nothing left to
lose. When the Democrats ran the county, America was
a
joke.
At home, their slogan was: "Government Knows Best. H They
told us that government knows best how to spend our money. That
government knows best how to make our choices. That government
knows best where our kids should go to school. Government always
knew best. But all that time -- the American people
knew
better.
( (John Major on Labor Government: "It was a world in which we
were told that government knows best. They knew best how to
spend our money -- how to make our choices. They knew best who
should own homes and run businesses
Through all that time
the
people of Britain knew better.) )
They say you can tell a man's character by the kind of company
he keeps. Well I think you can say the same about Bill Clinton.
He's the posterchild of the pundits
the babydoll of big
labor
the sweetheart of the NEA
the darling of the law lobby.
THEIR LEAD
--Don't despair, America. We're going to win. Don't start
crying before you're hurt.
GOVERNMENT
THE GREATEST PERVERSION OF DEMOCRACY IN OUR TIME HAS BEEN THE
MISCONCEPTION OF THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT.
government must return to its limits: do things right and do
the right things.
government can make good laws
but it can't make men good.
government must act to help families -- not replace them.
--We want a weightwatcher government. They want to watch and
wait.
You don't fix a broken car by giving it more gas. You don't
fix a broken program by feuling it with more money.
Programs building castles in the sand.
EDUC
-When it comes to challenging the education establishment, the
Democrats have become the party of the shameless teacher's pets -
- repeating everything they're told by the teachers' unions.
It's time to stop polishing bad apples.
Your kid gets sent home from school for breaking the rules.
When a drug dealer confronted him, he was caught praying for his
life.
"Developed economies demand developing minds."
when kids have to punch a picture of a hamburger to order lunch
because they can't read
--I don't want an America where our kids have to say their
prayers in their head and the pledge under their breath.
FOREIGN POLICY
DEFENSE
beware of sheep in wolves' clothing.
for the Democrats: "freedom's just another word for nothing
left to lose."
-double dutch defense policy
--our national symbol's the American Eagle
not the clay
pigeon.
COLD WAR
when my predecessor, Ronald Reagan, called the Soviet Union the
"evil empire, M we were roundly ridiculed by our critics. When
the empire fell last year, one Russian citizen put it this way:
"It was evil. Thank God we have finally been delivered from it."
-never again will a child have to go to bed wondering if he'll
ever wake up. The doomsday clocks, the bomb shelters, the duck
and cover drills
those days are over.
MIDDLE EAST
"where peace still roams as the region's prodigal son"
"turn the cycle of demanding an eye for an eye into one of
offering a hand for a hand."
GULF WAR
When the Bagdad Butcher invaded Kuwait
I bit the bullet,
while some folks in Congress bit their nails.
PHILOSOPHICAL
when we do the hard work of freedom
freedom works.
NEW WORLD ORDER
--We have won the war. Now we must wage the peace.
August 18, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR STEVE PROVOST
FROM:
JENNIFER GROSSMAN
SUBJECT:
MORE LANGUAGE
DEM'S CONVENTION
you put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put
your left foot in -- then you stick it in your mouth. (Hokie
Pokie)
CHARACTER
--character is what you are when no one is looking
it's what
you say when you think no one is listening.
--you've got to give the other side credit. They say: if you've
got it
flaunt it. Well -- they've got the second part down
pat.
--I'll tell you a little something I learned from my old navy
days: the guy who blows his horn the loudest is usually in a fog.
IF YOU LIKED CARTER
YOU' LL LOVE CLINTON
(On why we're revisiting the Carter era) "Those who cannot
remember the past are condemned to repeat it." -- Santayana
My opponent says this election is about change
but how will
he change America, when he can't even change his own party.
after the last liberal has left the world stage
the
Democratic Party will be there to turn out the light.
Double-digit inflation: if you told your girl she looked like a
million bucks -- she thought you were selling her short.
BERLIN WALL
--as reported in yesterday's Washington Post, there is a section
of the Berlin Wall on display at the arena on the Astrodome
grounds
I'm having someone check on how far it is from podium
and if it sports any relevant graffitti.
RNCNOT
--Drop-by, offstage announce, Rich Bond introduces, 200 people,
all RNC members, some White House Staff and spouses, 10 min
remarks. They've been there. You've got people from every
state.
--I don't know if many of you know this, but one of Rich's
favorite movies is called "The Repo Man." One of the characters
in the movie has a line that goes: "Repo men are very intense."
I can see why Rich likes that movie. Well starting today
the
repo men and women of the RNC have but one mission: It's time to
Repo the Big 'Mo.
--this has been an historic convention
for the Republicans, it
is the end of the beginning. For the
Democrats
it is the
beginning of the end.
--For months now
and every time we tried to set the rècord
straight
every time we called a spade a spade
-Elvis was at the astrodome in 1974 ((I thought I did a fair job
last night. But you know, it's still going to be tough to
outflank the competition. I mean, Elvis was already here in
'74.))
--beware of sheep in wolves' clothing.
-they talk about "tax fairness" -- but we've heard that old line
before. Don't let that tax fool you, America
and don't let
that fool tax you.
--We had a quiet night
Barbara brought along Clinton's economic
plan for a little bedside reading. She say's she loves a good
mystery.
--I want them to know what my heartbeat is.
--We have won the war. Now we must wage the peace.
And if the Democrats are finished borrowing it
I'd like my
language back: We have changed the world and now we can change
America.
the things that must guide change are the things that must
never change.
--I believe that the greatest perversion of democracy in our time
has been the misconception of the role of governmetnt.
Government must return to it's limits
to do what's right, and
do the right things.
-government can make good laws
but it can't make men good.
--I believe that the transmission of values depends on
parents
they think it depends
on your perspective.
--I believe that patriotism is not just another point of view.
-Remember the Democratic Convention -- where was the Democratic
leadership of the House? Where was the Democratic leadership of
the Senate? They had them hiding behind closed doors. Gives a
whole new meaning to the term "closet liberal."
-the other side talks of change the fact is, they just don't
get it. We are the change. Their platform heralds the
"Revolution of '92" -- a revolution they are leading. Kind of
reminds me of the old con man's advice to the new con man in
town: "Son, " he said, "When you're bein' run outta town, just get
in front and make it look like a parade."
--It's been a great convention
one of the things I love about
being back in Texas is the music. The great thing about Texas is
it's cultural diversity. Why, right here in Houston, you can
listen to both kinds of music: country
and western.
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--We shared the small triumphs -- we shared the pain that never
goes away. Lived life -- as the author says -- its own self.
--it's never the wrong time to do the right thing.
****I don't want to win this thing out of personal ambition
I
want to win it for the country. I like fishing, I've got my
family and my health
wouldn't I prefer tossing horshoes. Let
me tell you why I'm going after it.
--a call beyond political ambition
August 18, 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR STEVE PROVOST
FROM:
JENNIFER GROSSMAN
SUBJECT:
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH LANGUAGE
EMPOWERMENT
--We have learned that the only Great Society is a good society.
-- (on helping the poor) : The Democrats want to slip more money
under the door. We want to hand them the keys.
--We put a roof over their heads, but we forgot to build a door.
--The poor aren't asking for a free ride
they just want us to
clear the roadblocks.
FAILED POLICIES OF THE PAST
--to rephrase a famous old saying: those who cannot remember the
missteps of the past
are condemned to step in it again.
-they're just spitting into the wind.
CONGRESS
-they want to rearrange the deck chairs
I want to clear the
decks.
--when I set course
they dropped anchor.
BUSH
-- (UN, China) : I always knew that America was important to the
world
I found out how important the world was to America.
CLINTON
--Clinton's like the politician who says: "The question is
.
Some are for
.
And some are against
.
And after serious
consideration and thought, I agree with them. " (maybe balanced
budget?)
--Let me tell you the story about the farmer and his pig. This
pig was so slick that it kept slipping out of it's pen. One day
the farmer went looking for it, and followed its tracks all over
creation. When he came back, his wife asked if he knew where the
pig was. The farmer said: "Yes ma'm I found him
he's on both
sides of the fence."
MORALANG (values language)
THE THINGS THAT MUST GUIDE CHANGE ARE THE THINGS THAT MUST
NEVER CHANGE.
--government can make good laws
but it can't make men good.
--it's never the wrong time to do the right thing.
--let me talk a little about covenants
no, not the new kind.
Let me talk about some old ones. [Run through moral
We camel sg
home special
mandates
moral foundation for our agenda].
--there's a hole in the heart of the American dream
--my opponent reminds me of the cynic who knows the price of
everything but the value of nothing.
--a rope of sand
--written on the wind
--America has been a question in search of an answer. But in
many ways
we've carried the answer inside of us all the while.
--every life is a portrait of the person who lives it. These
people have signed their with charity and good will.
QUOTES:
--"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us." (Emerson).
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we
give.' (Churchill)
America is great because America is good. If America ever
ceases to be good,
she will cease to be great (DeTocqueville).
FAMILY LANGUAGE
-marriage matters
(KIDS ON G.B.)
--out of the mouths of Babes: nine-year old Vance says "He is a
good leader to have around in case some crazy guy attacks you. "
Eight year old Cassandra says: "George Bush is okay
for a
boy. And Marina, all of twelve years old, says "I'm waiting to
see what he does in the next seven years then I'll make my
decision. " Well, Marina, I don't know what I'll be doing in the
next seven years -- but I know what I'll be doing in the next
four.
GOVT AND FAMILY:
the last thing we need is the government as a babysitter
the hand that rocks the cradle
ABORTION
My opponent is fond of saying: "We can't afford to wast a
single American." Well, Governor, last year we wasted about 1.7
million Americans -- 1.7 million Americans deprived of their most
basic right
their right to life.
--what about those heartbeats, America?
WE'VE WON OUR BATTLES BUT HAVE YET TO WIN THE WAR:
--applies to childcare choice and school choice (childcare stage
one -- school choice is stage two)
QUOTES:
--Tolstoy: "All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family
is unhappy in its own way. "
-Mormon quote about how "No success can overcome failure in the
home."
--Santayana: "Family is one of nature's masterpieces."
Father Hersburgh: "The most important thing a father can do for
his children is to love their mother."
--MLK: "I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds
the future. "
RACE RELATIONS
for better or for worse
in sickness and in health
America
is one family
One Nation Under God.
"an America by the numbers only adds up short"
"some bureaucrat's paint-by-number dream"
-"when you're in the trenches, you don't care what color your
cover is. When you're on a mission, you don't ask your wingman
how he prays. "
Thank you
the other side wants us to fight fair
so
tonight I promise to keep my eloquence in check. Four years ago
America
I came to you and told you that I was a quiet man
a
quiet man who heard the quiet voices others didn't hear.
All my life I have tried to listen a little harder
to look
a little farther. Where others saw danger to a young kid
I saw
the duty of a grown man. Where others saw the girl next door
I
saw Barbara Bush. Where others saw sagebrush
I saw Texas gold.
Where others saw a cold war
I saw a coming peace. Where others
saw problems
I saw promise. I tried to listen a little
harder
to look a little farther
I saw the things others
don't see.
Some have gotten so caught up in the moment
that they ve
forgotten the hour. So caught up in changing course that they've
forgotten where they want to go. The world has been
remapped
the global market has been transformed
and our
economy is undergoing the greatest transition in its history.
Some feel the pains and want to stop the growing. Some feel the
waves, and want to jump the ship. But I can see the horizon,
America
I can see the shore.
Our future hangs between the heartbeats of time. We can't
go back, America
we can't cross a burnt bridge. America has
changed the world
and some now fear how the world will change
America. Some say we should take our ball and go home. I say we
should step up to the plate. Don't forget we invented the game.
I have faith in America because I have faith in Americans.
We won't just pull through we will roar back: bigger, bolder,
better than we ever were.
random:
I remember my favorite scene from my favorite movie, "It's a
Wonderful Life. " George and Mary got a call from New York, and
they had to share a phone. The guy in New York wanted them to
invest in a new deal. He said it was "the chance of a lifetime."
Mary looked at George and repeated: "it's the chance of a
lifetime. " They took their chance
George and Mary knew the
real chances the real choices they saw the things that others
don't.
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B&DF
Lars Pierson
Anne
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Do. Joolin Chainbur of
Dept.
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(302)456.6218
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B & D Fabrication is a structural steel
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fabrication shop, multifunctional in the
construction industry. To addition 10
fabricated structural steel, they also
supply rebar, wire mesh, culvert pipe, and
have a fully staffed drafting department.
I for B & D, no job is too large or too small.
B & D Fabrication, 1121 Byers, was
purchased in February 1989 from Sam &
Betty Ross. At the time of the purchase,
Percy Blinzler; manager of the facility,
supervised three employees. The
company has experienced steady growth
and now has a total of 15 employees.
The company announced in June plans
to expand into a larger building on a 4 1/2
acre tract at the Joplin Southern
-
Industrial Park at 25th and Stevens.
Estimated completion of the new facility
is mid-September. The larger building
will allow the company to double
production and add 15 to 20 workers in
the next 18 months. The new structure
will be approximately 10,000 square feet
creating an estimated 10 jobs annually.
The Chamber congratulates B & D
and will accommodate B& D's projected
Also planned is a 2,000 square foot
Fabrication on their success and
growth plan of ten percent per year, thus
office building.
growth in Joplin!
CFI Receives President's "E"
Award
Contract Freighters, Inc. was recently presented
with the President's "E" Award for Export Service
Excellence. The company was chosen for
recognition by the U.S. Department of Commerce as
a U.S. company demonstrating superior export
service in the promotion of international business
development. CFI has the distinction of being the
first trucking company to receive this award in its 30
year history.
Celebrating the raising of the "E" flag are Contract Freighter
Governor John Ashcroft raised the President's "E"
representatives (l-r) Dick Griot, Chairman, Mark Swab, Herb
Award Flag at CPI July 21 in recognition of the honor
Schmidt, Don Flippin, Angelo Ianello, and Eric Bullard, and
and as part of a fly-around tour of the state to thank
Governor John Ashcroft with CFI President Glenn Brown.
Missouri exporters for their contributions to the
Congratulations to CFI. We're proud of your accomplishments!
state's economy and quality of life.
Oak Hill Hospital
Growing
For You
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LABOR
HEALTH SERVICES
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA): Jasper & Newton
Hospital(s): 8
Number of beds: 665
Civilian labor force (Aug. 1991): 70,887
Clinic in community:
Yes
X
No
Total employment (Aug. 1991): 66,301
Medical personnel:
MD(s) 142 DO(s) 73 DC(s) 18
Unemployed (Aug. 1991): 4,586
Dentist(s) 53 DVM(s) 18
Unemployed as % of work force (Aug. 1991): 6.5%
Nurses:
Registered 741 Practical 140
Nonagricultural employment (1990 Average): 59,361
Manufacturing employment (1990 Average): 17,104
Nonmanufacturing employment (1990 Average): 42,258
MAJOR EMPLOYERS
Union
Name
Product/Service
Male/Female
Affiliation
Contract Freighters, Inc.
Common Carrier Trucking
1622
None
Tri-State Motor Transit
Common Carrier Trucking
1304
None
Eagle Picher Industries
Batteries, Chemicals
1200
URW, Chem.
St. John's Regional Medical Center
Health Care
1173
None
Joplin R-VIII School District
Education
1064
None
Freeman Hospital
Health Care
853
None
Burlington Motor Carriers
Common Carrier Trucking
838
None
Empire District Electric Company
Electric Supplier
700
None
Missouri Southern State College
Education
591
None
Oak Hill Hospital
Health Care
554
None
Tamko Asphalt Products, Inc.
Asphalt Roofing Products
480
None
FAG Bearings Corporation Just completed
LaBarge Electronics, Inc.
Cable-Circuit Boards
450
Teamsters
Atlas Powder Company
$60 million
Bearings
405
None
expans ion
Explosives & Chemicals
400
None
Sitton Motor Lines
Germen Company.
Common Carrier Trucking
350
None
Able Body Corporation
Truck Bodies/Sleepers
342
None
City of Joplin
City Government
327
None
CLIMATE
RECREATION FACILITIES
TEMPERATURE:
Number of recreation facilities in city or within 10 mi/16 km:
Coldest month: January
Normal: 33°F 1°C
Public swimming pool(s) 4
Public tennis court(s) 20
Hottest month: July
Normal: 80°F 27°C
Public park(s) 19
Public golf course(s) 1
PRECIPITATION:
Country club(s) 3
Public volleyball court(s) 2
Driest month: January
Normal: 2 in 5 cm
YMCA/YWCA
Yes
X
No
Wettest month: September
Normal: 5 in 13 cm
Movie theatre(s):
Indoor 18 Outdoor 1
Annual average: Rain: 40 in 102 cm
Nearest public access lake: Mi 30 Km 48
Snow: 12 in 30 cm
Activities allowed:
Swimming: Yes X No
Fishing: Yes X No
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Water skiing: Yes X No
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Other recreation facilities or special features:
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Indoor Roller Skating Rink; Sports Complex;
Joolin Co. Chainba of
Canoeing: Soccer Fields: Softball Complex; Missouri
Dept.
Southern State College Basketball, Baseball and
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Football Complex; Scuba Diving; Bowling.
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The Beginning of an Industry
J.P. Leggett and C. B. Platt were
his brother-in-law, for manufacturing
available. Modifications and
both residents of Carthage, a county
capability and expertise in producing
improvements of that early open coil
seat town in southwest Missouri, when
his newly patented bedspring. The end
bedspring were the forerunner of
they formed their business partnership
product helped launch an industry.
today's spring filled bedding sets.
in 1883. Leggett was an inventor,
Leggett had found a need and filled
having several diverse patents to his
it. The L&P bedspring. when used as a
credit. When he developed an idea for a
resilient base for the then popular
coil bedspring he went to C. B. Platt,
cotton, feather or horsehair mattresses
offered the best night's sleep yet
An old invoice. For a
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short time the firm was
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purchasing Leidy's
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Above: The patent that launched an industry.
Right: Leggett & Platt's original bedspring.
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Developing New Strategy
In 1960 Harry M. Cornell, Jr. was elected
We studied the components markets
complemented by a timely acquisition
president of Leggett & Platt. Determining
which like the markets for finished
program designed to extend our
the course the company would take in
products, were highly fragmented. We
component manufacturing function within
future years became management's top
determined that there were many
the industry.
priority. Shortly thereafter. decisions were
components we could make and market
While we market primarily to the
made concerning the company's long-
nationally. By focusing our efforts and
manufacturers of finished furniture and
range plans for growth.
resources in this specialized area, we could
bedding, our acquisitions have often
manufacture these component products
offered us an entree into diversified
Our total sales in 1960 were
approximately $7 million from 3
more efficiently and effectively than most
markets as well. Capitalizing on these
locations Kentucky, Texas and Carthage.
finished product manufacturers could
opportunities to manufacture products
Missouri, our headquarters then as well as
make them for themselves. Service to the
sold outside the home furnishings
industry as a components specialist
industry contributes to better production
now.
became our reason for being and our
efficiency and thereby enhances our overall
In laying out a course for our future, we
opportunity.
profitability. Our diversified products
determined that our expertise was in
bedding and furniture and we weren't
As feasible, we opened new plant
divisions should in the future continue to
locations, installed modern equipment and
be an important part of the company's
going to stray from that field. We decided
on an innovative and practical
established product research and testing
profitable growth.
approach we would make the industry,
departments to further our technical
With this new strategy, management saw
including its leaders, our customers.
position in the furniture and bedding
an opportunity in the early 1960s for
industry. Internal growth was
corporate growth that otherwise seemed
unattainable. Its success, we believe, is
confirmed by the long-term record of
financial performance and nationally
recognized position of leadership Leggett
has achieved as "The Components People"
of the household furniture industry.
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A planning meeting and strategy session during the late 1960s.
At the opening of the Carthage Wire Mill
in 1970, industry and political leaders
attended and several addressed the crowd.
Better Products through R&D
]
1r product development teams have
Our people developed and perfected
through the years for manufacturers of
IVS been alert to new product
mechanisms for close-to-the-wall reclining
bedding who wanted something different
kthrough opportunities. Product and
chairs. Wall Hugger is a registered
to offer and merchandise to their
customers. This has been accomplished by
p
hinery improvements are continuous
trademark of Leggett & Platt and is used
th
in marketing these styles of mechanisms.
using different gauges of coils and border
fu
have been since the early years. The
inal L&P bedspring consisting of spiral
Many of our customers apply the term to
rods, various styles of edge supports and
different treatments of the surfaces.
P
I coils laid on wood slats was Improved
their finished recliners.
II
Leggett's patented Lectro-LOK® grid top
including attachments of various kinds.
ly times. Colling and other
sufacturing equipment was developed
boxspring was the result of extensive R&D
Innerspring units are manufactured and
Leggett to meet the needs for increased
In a search for a superior boxspring
sold according to the end results desired
construction. After the introduction of
by bedding manufacturers anything from
duction and improved products.
lc
Lectro-LOK® boxsprings, new market areas
soft to extra firm.
ough the years many patents have
M
2 issued for-new products and
were opened and assembly plants were
Our patented Mira-Coil® continuous
n
chinery that were designed and
located in each. These "satellite" facilities.
spring assembly is a new and exciting
structed in our Carthage facilities.
established primarily for the assembly of
product. It is completely different in design
Lectro-LOK® boxsprings, also warehouse a
and offers significant market potential in
d
variety of the company's other bedding and
the bedding and upholstered furniture
b
furniture components for local
industries.
go.
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distribution.
Leggett's marketing position has been
a
Innerspring units have not been
strengthened with new and improved
is
neglected in our R&D plans. Many special
products. Some have been developed in
styles of innersprings have been developed
collaboration with the end-product maker
in answer to his need. In assuming these
component production functions for our
customers, we are relieving them of the
need for substantial capital to finance
plants, equipment and Inventories and
also the need to maintain technological
capabilities which have little bearing on
their most important functions styling.
assembling and marketing.
The R&D efforts of our National
Technical Center in Carthage are tied
principally to bedding and furniture
components. The Center is also used for
extensive product testing. Other major
Leggett facilities that manufacture and
market to the furniture industry and for
diversified markets also have their own
specialized and very effective R&D
departments.
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Mire-Coll® continuous coil
Lectro-LOK® grid top boxsprings are
herspring units are a giant step
superior products which account for a
ward in Innerspring technology. The
large volume of L&P bedding
rfection of Mira-Coll® included ten
components sales.
MS of product and machine
1.
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The Juggernaut Rollator can torture
finished bedding with more than a lifetime of
wear and tear. The 250 lb. roller moves back
and forth for as many cycles as desired.
Indention Load Deflection
Equipment graphs the degree of
firmness of finished bedding sets or
component units.
Cornell Tester. This
Drop testing finished
equipment, developed by
bedding. The shock of the
Testing individual
Cornell University, can
weighted plunger can destroy
innerspring or boxspring
pound bedding components
inferior components.
coils.
unmercifully.
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10 inch wide clear poly strip
2.1
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Among the new products from our furniture
spring division is the "Equalizer". It
combines the best features of several
systems to form a complete, quickly
mounted, trouble-free spring
support for chairs, sofas and
loveseats.
The die casting expertise of
the EST division is illustrated
by this aftercooler housing which
has saved a large diesel engine
manufacturer a million dollars a year. In a
contest sponsored by Modern Metals Magazine
this casting won the grand prize over numerous
worldwide entries in 1981.
Convertible sleeper mechanisms are sold in
large volume to manufacturers of upholstered furniture.
Measuring the Results
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In 1966, the year prior to the first public
cash dividends. Leggett has paid dividends
their families have for many years had a
offering of Leggett's common stock. our
Sales
on its common stock in each year since
significant equity investment in the
sales totaled $22 million and earnings
1939 and in 1982. the eleventh
company. We are pleased with the
were S.34 per share. In 1981, the most
consecutive year in which the cash
expressions of confidence that these and
recent year for which annual results are
dividend rate was increased, the total
our other shareholders' investments
available at this writing, sales and
dividend was $.68 per share. As shown in
represent and continue to encourage
earnings were at record levels of $263
the graph of dividends per share. the
widespread employee ownership of shares
million and $3.14 per share, respectively.
2
fifteen-year growth rate in the cash
through incentive programs.
These increases represent compound
billion
payment to shareholders averaged 16.6%
In management's opinion, an above-
annual growth rates averaging 18.0% in
compounded annually from 1966 through
average rate of growth in earnings per
sales and 16.0% in earnings per share for
after
1981.
share provides the most probable
this fifteen-year period.
1991
As the above record reflects. it is the
assurance to our shareholders that they
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The trends in reported sales and
Board of Directors' intention to provide
can realize an attractive long-term total
earnings per share from 1966 through
dividend growth commensurate with
return on their investments. As with any
1981 are illustrated in two of the
increased earnings. At the same time. our
marketable security. Leggett's stock price
accompanying graphs. As shown, Leggett
dividend policy recognizes the importance
is often affected by overall market forces
has exceeded its continuing long-term
of maintaining a sufficient earnings plow
entirely unrelated to the individual
objective of sustaining growth in sales and
back to sustain the company's future
characteristics of the company and there
earnings per share of at least 15.0%
growth. A 20-25% payout ratio based on a
is no certainty that market trends of the
compounded annually during the last five.
three-year moving average of earnings has
past will continue in the future.
ten and fifteen-year periods.
satisfied these criteria during the last
Nevertheless, having noted Leggett's
One of the ways our shareholders have
several years.
growth since 1966, it is interesting to
benefited from the company's profitable
Our Board of Directors, employees and
trace the total investment return on 100
growth has been through increases in
Left: Missouri Rolling Mill, located in St. Louis, produces
the steel angle used in L&P's home furnishings products.
Other products include highway sign posts, studded fence
posts, electric fence posts and merchant bars of various
sizes and shapes.
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Below: A Wells Transfer machine automatically assembles
innerspring units with speed and accuracy.
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shares of the company's common stock
this period of almost 15% years. Moreover,
from the initial public offering to the
today's indicated annual dividend rate of
average of the high and low closing prices
$.68 per share would provide a cash return
in November. 1982, just prior to the
of $255 per year. or a current yield of
printing of this booklet.
25.5% on the original $1,000 Investment.
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Leggett's shares were first offered to the
We are proud of our company's heritage.
public on March 29. 1967 at a price of $10
including its long-term record of financial
per share. Thus, the market value of an
performance. As we enter our centennial
investment of 100 shares at that time was
year. we are confident about the prospects
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$1,000. As a result of additional shares
for continued, above-average profitable
received from stock splits in 1969. 1973
growth and look forward to the challenge
and 1978, the initial 100 shares would
of making it happen.
now be represented by 375 shares. In
November. 1982. Leggett's stock closed at a
high price of $27 1/2 per share and a low
Right: An In-Sight protective
price of $24% per share on the New York
chair bag developed by L&P's
Stock Exchange. Based on the average of
Packaging division. offers product
those two prices, or $257/s per share, the
visibility much the same as the In-
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market value of the initial investment
increased from $1.000 to $9,703.13. In
addition, cash dividends received during
Left, below: Trundle beds with
this period totaled $1,732.76.
pop-up units that store
The above increase in market value plus
underneath when not in use, are
Right, below: Woodtoned wide
accumulated dividends would have
popular space-saving home
metal rails match the wood in
provided a total investment return
furnishings items. They afford
beds but offer strength, durability
averaging 16.7% compounded annually for
daytime seating and comfortable
and safety not found in wood bed
sleeping for two at night.
rails.
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PRESIDENTS OF LEGGETT & PLATT, INCORPORATED
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J.P. Leggett and C.B. Platt. Partnership
1883-1901
J.P. Leggett
1901-1921
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C.B. Platt
1921-1929
J.P. Leggett, Jr.
1929-1932
F.B. Williams
1932-1935
George S. Beimdiek, Sr.
1935-1953
H.M. Cornell, Sr.
1953-1960
H.M. Cornell, Jr.
1960-current
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An evening view of Leggett &
Platt's home office, located on a
rolling hillside acreage four
miles west of Carthage,
Missouri. The building was
completed in 1978.
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Cardinal Scall
CARDINAL SCALE
WEBB CITY
The Early Years
In 1931 a young Les Murphy started
much greater tensile strength
bullding and servicing scales in
and, comparatively, much lighter
his garage in Sacramento, Calif.,
in weight than cast iron, used
and, inspite of a nation-wrenching
throughout the scale industry at
depression, his business grew.
the time.
Midway through the 30's Murphy
Steel was also less susceptible to
Les Murphy laid the ground work
began experimenting with welded
flaws, commonly found in cast
for Cardinal's dedication to innova-
steel for use in hopper scales. He
tion. He was a strong proponent of
iron, flaws which eventually led
found welded steel to be of
"welded steel" scale construction
to breakdowns.
and foresaw industry's ever-increas-
ing need for portable truck scales.
The two concepts were more than
compatible and today Cardinal's
self-contained vehicle scale, made
of welded-steel, is the standard of
the industry.
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Murphy and Cardinal President William H. Perry
This scale came into its own during the Eisen-
found common ground in welded steel. Togeth-
hower Administration, when a bill for an inter-
4d
er they crashed the cast iron gates of tradition
state highway project was passed by Congress.
and brought this new concept to the forefront
of the industry. And, grudgingly, the industry
A network of concrete began to spread across
accepted the changes, the simplified scale
the land. Scales were a key step in production
designs and other improvements these two
and those scales had to be portable. The Car-
men offered.
dinal-Murphy self-contained vehicle scale,
made of welded-steel, was perfect for the job.
The official merger of the two companies,
Murphy Scale and Cardinal, came about in
The dedication of Les Murphy and Bill Perry,
Innovation
1958. The company eventually laid claim to
their abilities to look beyond the traditional bar-
more than 20 scale patents.
riers of the industry and to innovate, established
One design that has since received world-
a theme-a way of life-to which the entire
wide attention is the self-contained vehicle scale.
Cardinal organization adheres.
obtained poitable scold in
citize
Early days In Murphy-Cardinal tool room
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Years of Development
Cardinal Scale, in its early development, made an effort
have been constantly redesigned and rebuilt to keep
to determine the weighing requirements of industry
of
pace with modern needs.
all types of industry and to build its scales accordingly.
Railway track scales also received the touch of innovation
As industry diversified. SC did Cardinal's weighing systems.
at Cardinal. Cardinal's design became the first steel lever
Through the years, Cardinal has built scales for the most
railway scale approved by A.R.E.A. (American Railway
delicate of applications and the most rigorous.
Engineering Association). the first to combine fabricated
For example, Cardinal designed. built and installed a
steel double link suspension with steel lever design in high
gigantic scale for o coal-mining operation in Wyoming, a
capacity railway scales and the first to abandon the old
scale that at the time offered the greatest weighing capacity
deadrail design. Cardinal's welded-steel scale design has
west of the Mississippi River. This scale was designed to
proven itself well in this application.
handle off-road heavy haulers and their mountainous
There have been other major design breakthroughs in
payloads, sometimes totalling more than 400,000 pounds.
Cardinal's years of development. For instance, Cardinal
This unit exhibited the massive strength and stamina of
was an innovator in type registering beams, bringing new
a Cardinal welded-steel motor truck scale. The scale
levels of accuracy to a time-proven method of indication.
showed a high degree of accuracy as well-during testing,
Cardinal built and developed its own dials. The exclusion
a truck and test weight of 365,960 pounds weighed in
magnetrol dial readout is shock-proof, highly accurate and
without error (see photograph at right).
capable of registering weight up to 100,000 pounds. Like
Research and development have always been the
$0 many Cardinal products, it has become a standard
backbone of Cardinal Scale. Through the years of develop-
weighing apparatus in many industries.
ment, Cardinal established a reputation for building
The result of these years of development have been greater
scales that others would not tackle specially designed
accuracy and more reliable weighing systems. A special
scales for specific markets. in many cases. these scales
attitude has grown at Cardinal-an attitude that "there is
developed into standard production items at Cardinal.
always a better way'. There is a constant challenge to
Such were tank and hopper scales. These scales were
improve upon the company's own, unique design. This quest
Cardinal's first experience with welded steel and they proved
for perfection has given Cardinal an expertise in all phases
flawless. They were designed orginally in the 1930's but
of industrial weighing.
Tank
scale
assembly
locuted at base of sylinder
unit, portable truck scale with timber deckar,
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Cardinal Today
If you have a and design engineering to provide an answer. That answer Is than 400
problem in weighing applications, you can depend on Cardinal's then department brought to
of research of the four modern manufacturing facilities shown below. With Cardinal more plants
life in one in almost 1,000,000 square feet of manufacturing space, all four systems
employees provide service, not only in mechanical, but electronic and computer weighing
and accessorles.
Cardinal SCALES
AUTO CONTROL INC.
Webb City factory and corporate headquart
(SED
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Cardinal
and the Electronic Revolution
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Electronic application and the use of computer technology
adaptability became key factors in the development of new
have mushroomed in the scale industry. So great is their use
weighing systems. Electronics and computer applications
that companies entirely alien to the scale industry have
were the way of the future and Cardinal set the pace.
entered the market solely on the strength of "gadgetry."
Cardinal Scale, on the other hand, devotes its entire elec-
In 1962 Cardinal introduced one of the first digital weight
tronic capabilities to the weighing inclustry. Take the 2130 High
indicators to hit the market. II was called simply "DWI." It
Speed Dot Matrix Data Printer for example. This printer was
eventually evolved into an entire line of state-of-the-art
developed solely at Cardinal Scale and it was designed
digital indicators, including the DI-910, a sophisticated,
specifically for the weighing industry.
extremely accurate electronic weight display. If is an off-
shoot of Cardinal's latest advance in microprocessor
The same goes for the DI-910 digital weight display.
technology.
Its capabilities are nearly limitless. It's the most versatile,
efficient weight display on the market today.
At Cardinal Scale, we believe in electronics but we're still in
the weighing business and if the best scale for your operation
Cardinal's inroads In electronics and computer design
happens to be mechanical, that's what we'll recommend. At
began in the early 1960's when the diversification and
Cardinal Scale we closely monitor the latest in electronic
specialization of Industry increased weighing applications
developments for use in weighing applications to Insure that
ten-fold. The need for versatility. accuracy, speed and
the latest technology is utilized in serving our customers.
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Notable
Cardinal Achievements
Self-Contained Vehicle Scales
CBW 80
A portable, welded steel truck scale that needs no plt. When an
operation has to be moved, just take this heavy-duty scale with you.
A continuous bulk weighing system based on another Cardinal
Available with beam. dial and digital indication. A revolutionary
innovation the Dash 80. incorporates a full-color cathode ray
design in the 50's, it's still the standard of the industry.
tube display terminal, rack-mounted computer and Cardinal's latest
dot matrix data printer. The CBW 80 easily Interfaces with a central
Ground Hugger
computer system for purposes of data processing.
The first all-steel, pitless truck scale. Low profile, full electronic opera-
Floor Mounted Tank and Hopper Scales
flon and factory assembly result in quick and easy installation.
This design started with Cardinal Scale in 1936 and through the years
DI-910 Digital Weight Display
the basic double-link suspension system has been refined to the
Performs instructional and conditional prompting functions.
point of perfection. The scales are bullt in sizes to fil virtually any tank
includes one-line 16 character display terminal. Input. output
or hopper.
capabilities from remote locations, Interfaces with Cardinal's
Wilogs
2400 series data printers..
Like so many innovative Cardinal designs, this system started as a
2130 High Speed Dot Matrix Data Printer
special project, Now this "waste information logging system" is In use
The latest innovation in Cardinal's long line of electronic weighing
nationwide. In its simplest form, Wilogs is a computer controlled
accessories. The 2130 prints o variety of ticket sizes in variable print
weighing system designed specifically for the solid waste industry.
fonts. It's fast, printing bidirectionally at 200 characters per second.
Print out accessories Include truck and account Identification, weigh
It offers top or bottom eject and a host of other features. Made
ticket printing and processing of money transactions.
specifically for weighing applications.
Stainless Steel Bench Scales
Floor Hugger
This started as a special production, limited-quantity scale. However
A versatile, pitless warehouse scale. Easily moved. Outboard-
it caught on quickly due to its electronic accuracy and stainless
mounted load cells and free-floating platform provide maximum
steel durability. All scale parts are made of Type 304 stainless steel. The
stability while protecting the scale's electronic components.
digital weight indicator is housed in a stainless steel, NEMA 4 enclosure
and the entire scale, including indicator, may be washed down.
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Railway Track Scales
Cardinal's welded steel railway track scale has
made the old deadralt, cast iron design ob-
solete. Unlike the cast iron scale, Cardinal's
heavier and stronger design will support the
weight of road engines, eliminating the need
for the deadrall.
Cardinal's railway track scale incorporates
"A" frame lever construction and Cardinal's
famous double-link suspension that virtually
ellminates wear in the self-allgning bearings
a
and pivots.
This scale can be built to American Rallway
Engineering Association specifications or stan-
dard industrial specifications, according to
customer preference.
Electronic Motor Truck Scales
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Welded steel construction, double link suspen-
sion. Each truck axle weighed independently.
Individual axle weights and total vehicle weight
displayed. Designed for truck lines, govern-
ment agencies and industry.
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Cardinal
and The Future
E
The future of Cardinal Scale is closely linked to the needs
Once-it seems like 0 long time ago-a scale was
of industry. In the past, when Industry has demanded
required to deliver only weight. Now industry demands
something more, Cardinal has filled the bill. Specially-
data processing capabilities, Inventory control, com-
constructed weighing systems have always been a
plete printouts of transactions and more. What was
way of life at Cardinal. In the future they will be a key
once a simple institution has become an extremely
ingredient in the technological advancement of the
complex technology.
scale industry.
The future, as always, will hurl many challenges.
If is obvious that electronics and computer technology
Cardinal will lead the way in
will continue to play amore expanded role in our future.
answering them.
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Cardinal Service
Nationwide
Cardinal Scales services nationwide marketwith the industry argest
network of independent scale.dealers, Every dealer has Cardinal's
full factory support plus more than ahalf-century. of experience
to call upon n'handling everycustomers,necds.
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Department Academic Affairs Office
(Vice President for Academic Affairs)
MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE COLLEGE
3950 Newman Road - Joplin, MO 64801-1595
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Build a Future That's Solid to the Core
High school is an exciting and important time in
your life. It's a time when you make choices which
may affect the rest of your life. Even before you
enter high school, you should plan how to get the
best from those four years of education. They will
be vitally Important to your future, whether you think
you'll go to college, join the armed forces or get
a job.
Whatever you decide, one thing is clear - the more
you know, the more successful you 'Il be. The courses
you take In high school matter- a lot /
Missouri Southern has established a High School Core Curriculum as a requirement for admission to the
College beginning in 1996. The Core includes four years of English, three years of mathematics, three years of
social studies, two years of science, one year of visual or performing arts, and three years of electives from these
courses and/or foreign language.
Missouri Southern, as well as many other colleges and unlversities, is expecting students to be better prepared for
college level work and is reducing or eliminating remedial courses. Unprepared students may find It harder to get
into a college and succeed.
Because a college education is increasingly important in today's changing world, you shouldn't let the opportunity
for a solid high school education slip by.
MAKE YOUR PREPARATION SOLID AT THE CORE:
Here is a suggested Core Curriculum for your high school years. It's not the easiest group of courses, but It is the
best - to prepare you for college or for work.
Remember: If you plan to attend Missouri Southern, the following courses MUST be completed to be admitted.
English
Math
Science
Social
Visual and
Electives
4 units
3 units
2 units
Studies
Performing
3 units
These classes
You must take
General science
3 units
Arts 1 unit
You may select
should require
Algebra i, and
does not count.
classes from for-
Courses should
Fine arts courses
reading, writing, lit-
Algebra II, and
One unit must
include: United
Include visual
eign. languages
erature, speaking.
Geornetry, A
be a laboratory
States History
arts such as
and/or a com-
Two units must
fourth level
course. Biology,
(one unit) and
painting, drawing
bination of.courses
emphasize writing
math class is
physics, and/or
from the above
units selected
or sculpture, mu-
skills. Two other
strongly re-
chemistry are
from world his-
sic, dance or
areas. Two units of
units may come
commended
strongly recom-
tory, govern-
theatre (drama).
the same foreign
from speech, de-
mended.
ment, geography
language are
bate, or literature
or economics.
strongly recom-
mended.
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THINGS TO CONSIDER
1. You must take an English course every year, beginning in the ninth grade.
2. Take as much math as you can. If you take algebra in junior high, an additional math course could be
scheduled. However, a "consumer math" class would not meet the three unit
requirement. Remember, you must take Algebra I and II and Geometry.
3. Begin your science study in your sophomore year. Physical science will meet the Core requirement and can
prepare you for physics or chemistry. Earth science is also acceptable but general science courses
are not. One course must have a laboratory.
4. Foreign language will not meet the fine arts requirement; however, it is strongly recommended as an elective.
5. Although a computer course may be helpful, it will not count as part of the Core Curriculum.
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS
The Core requirements will be phased in over the next four years. Those who will be high
school freshmen in fall 1992 will need to complete all the Core requirements listed above
for college admission in the fall 1996. Those graduating from high school and entering
college before 1996 should meet the following Core schedule:
1994-95: 10 units including 3 English, 2 Math, 2 Social Studies and 1 Science.
1995-96: 12 units including 4 English, 3 Math, 3 Social Studies, 2 Science.
PLANT CAREFULLY THE SEEDS OF YOUR FUTURE
Plan the four years of your high school schedule before you start high school.
Talk to the high school counselors about college study and career choices.
Share your plans with your family. They'll help you each step of the way.
HELP THE SEEDS GROW
1. Sit close to the front of the classroom when possible.
2. Join in class discussion.
3. Ask questions. If you're in doubt about something, others in your class probably are, too.
4. Look for ways to sharpen your basic skills in each class. Practice reading in mathematics, writing
skills In history, algebra skills in science,
5. Learn to manage your time properly. Set a clear order of what assignments need to be done and don't put them off.
6. Learn to type and use a computer keyboard.
7. Learn to take good class notes. You'll be taking lots of them in college.
8. Limit work hours; don't neglect studies.
FAMILIES CAN HELP TOO.
1. Set aside a time and a place for your student to do homework.
2. Work with your student, assist when needed.
3. Sit In on a class. Visit with teachers. Attend conferences
4. Volunteer to help at school. Be actively involved in your child's education.
5. Encourage less television and more reading.
6. Read and discuss news Items, books, magazine articles, music, everything, with your student.
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If you would like more information on the High School Core Curriculum
and other college entrance requirements, contact:
Missouri Southern State College
3950 Newman Road
Joplin, MO 64801-1595
(417) 782-MSSC collect
or 1-800-492-4811
Distinctions
Jasper County:
- Joplin
Newton County:
-Neosho
- thage
Local Color: Joplin, MO
County County & Neosho { thage.
JOPLIN. Metro area includes Joplin, Jasper, Newton
(pop. 141,000)
-within Joplin city limits 40,000 people
-within 10 mile radius 80,000 people
-350,000 within 50 mile radius - including people from SE Kansas,
Northeast Oklahoma, Northern Arkansas
-Employment increased from 51,380 (1980) to 70,687 (as of July 1992)
Local Business Information:
Cardinal Scale, Webb City: Founded 1931 by Les Murphy
-first to use welded steel in making scales
-merged with Cardinal President William H. Perry in 1958
-led to more than 20 scale patents for the company
-company attitude: "there is always a better way.
Leggett & Platt, Carthage: founded 1883 by J.P. Leggett and C.B.
Platt
-invented coil bed spring
-about to celebrate 100th year
-1960 sales were approx. $7 million
-1981 sales were $263 million
-1991 estimated sales $1.2 billion
-still located in Carthage
FAG Bearings Corporation: a German company
-just completed $60 million expansion
-employs 405 people
-received federal grants
Contract Freighters, Inc.: POTUS scheduled to visit them
-received President's "E" Award for Export Service Excellence
-first trucking company to receive this award
-strong export ties to Mexico and Canada
PERSONALITIES FROM JOPLIN AREA
-Mickey Mantle, baseball Hall of Famer, grew up 30 miles away in
Commerce, OK and played for the Joplin Minors before going to the
Yankees.
-Langston Hughes, poet, born in Joplin
-George Washington Carver, born and raised there, slave. The
George Washington Carver National Monument is located a few
minutes to the SE of Joplin.
-former Congressman Gene Taylor is from nearby Sarcoxi, very
popular among the citizens, known for his stories and sense of
humor. The Gene Taylor Education and Psychology Building is on
the Mo. Southern State College campus.
MO. SOUTHERN STATE COLLEGE INFO
-diverse campus, approx. 6,000 students
-13-15% are non-traditional students
-teams are the Lions
-Lions football team won first game last week, beating Cameron
University
-Rod Smith, wide receiver on football team, All-American last
year, pre-season All-America this year
-Woman's Softball Team Defending Divison II National champions.
-chief rival is nearby Pittsburg State, they play them Oct. 24
-Sigma Pi is "big" frat on campus
-Larry Seneker is Class President
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To Gary Foster
From Pat Micell
Re: The President's trip to Joplin, Missouri
September 11, 1992
The President would travel to Joplin
to address students and the local community
at Missowi Southern state college, and participate
in an "Ask George Bush at Central Freighters Inc.
Droposed Event Sites:
Missowi Southwn State Collage Fred Hughes Stad
Missowi Southern State College in has
a student population of approximately 6,000.
The event would be hosted by the College Republin
U.S. Dept publication
Business America
Schering-Plough Pharmaceutical profile
Sand adoz Pharm
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Dave Anderson
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(908) middletown coc (908)671-3360
(Herkts)
Belma Beach
(703)524-6361
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Siemens lelect
VFW Hall
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Phillips GMBH (electrical)
Midelletown, NJ
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Lever Brothers
BQ Rally
Quote NAFTA - I'll get back to
Woodrew leadership Wilson you defining
fact - how many # $ jobs
result
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per annum
202 3 biggest
Povergn companies
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and twe would be no restriction on a political
event. The president of
the college is supportive and willing to help in
any way possible.
The event would be at the football stadivers,
and the President would address one side &
the stands. The audience would be seated
in the stands and as the track. I recommend
That the crowd be allowed ou the Cootball Giels
people
So that there A are people on twee sides
of the
President, as illustrated in the
attached diagrams.
Because of the sun angle and in
the morning, the press platform will need
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to be angled, and out door lighting und to
taxe out shadows.
The will The dais will need
to be built, with a phywood back to Slock
the empty stands on the other side of the
Gold. I recommend a blue painted Sackdrop
with
red and white lettering over the
President's head. Flags could be
plaud every Good two or three feet to add
color.
I understand that there are some painted
plywood backdrops from the Branson event, that
were used on the entertainment stage,
Maybe these could be used to flank the dais.
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The local contacts suggest that a crowd
of 7,500 Dob could be vaised. The
stadium will seat approximately that member,
with the ability to handle overflow on the
field and anagrass, hill on the sides of the
stands
Contract Freighters, Inc (LFI)
CFI is located approximately
four
miles from Missowi Southern. CFI is an expart
tructing company, which ships extensively to
Canada and Metico, This is an excellent
site to tout the benefits of NAFTA.
CFI has grown from 1400 employees in 1989
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to 2,200 today. The company recently
received 4 the President's "E" Award for
excellence in exporting.
The site would be outdoors behind
the headqual ters. I suggest that tructs be
person parked in a large semi-circle, to
create an mane artificial amphitheater.
Again, audience could be seated on twee sides
of the President and the Six to eight people
could be seated to his immediate left and right
to give the appearance that the Presidento is
seated in the crowd. The President stould sit in a de
This "Ast George Bush" could be smaller than
usual and shorter than usual. There are approxin
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250 employees on. site that could participate
in the event.
Proposed Senario :
The President would arrive at the Joplin,
Missouri airport via C-20 circraft, and
motorcade to the stadium at Missowi Southern
(Drive time! 5 minutes)
State College 1 on arrival, the President would
be greated, and escorted to audsive the track, ausk
introduced on to the dais, remarks.
and presentation
After his sparch, he would depart the dais and
proceed to the motorcade.
The President would motorcade to CFI
(Drive time: 5 minutes), and proceed to
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the back parting lot, depart the motercade,
and begin participation in the "Ast George
Bush." (LFI recently speakeaded distorster relief
efforts in Joplin for Louisiona and Florida --
the President may wish to commend the employees,
After participation, the President would depart
to the Joplin airport ( Drive time: 5 minutes).
Contacts :
Southern Missouri:
John Tiede Senior VP
(6)(417)-625-9395
(H) (417) 623 - 3779
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Becky Berkstreyser, College Republian
(H) (417) 624 - 2249
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I.
INTRO
local color, jokes
II.
JOPLANG
Mantle was born and raised in Oklahoma. But was spotted by the
Yankess and sent to their minor league team in Joplin.
--I want to tell you a little story about Mickey Mantle and his
dad. Mutt Mantle was a coal miner. He worked all his life in
the mines so that Mickey wouldn't have too. Like all parents, he
wanted a little better for his kid. One day Mutt got a call from
his son. The Yankees were sending Mantle back to Joplin. Mickey
was crying, he said, "Dad, I can't play. " Mutt hung up the phone
and drove all the way to Chicago. He showed up at his son's
hotel room. Without a word, he started packing his son's
suitcase. Mickey asked, "What are you doing?" His dad replied,
"You can work in the mines with me. I didn't think I raised a
quitter. That night Mutt Mantle drove back home alone.
--Langston Hughes was born in Joplin
--Truman's birthplace, Lamar Missouri, was born 30 miles away.
-Mickey Mantle has a residence in Missouri.
Will Rogers was born in Claremore, Oklahoma.
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DATE:
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SUBJECT:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1992
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
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FRED HUGHES STADIUM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1992
(Acknowledgements) For the first time in half a century,
America is a nation at peace. Some Americans paid for that peace
with their lives. Others, with their labor. All, with their
we taxes can say: We ran freedom a race finished of arms first. and armies Today, and ideas Intard -- and before in 1992 you D
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like the doctor who diagnoses the growing pains, and advises the said before
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patient to stop growing. I want America to grow bigger and
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better -- stronger and smarter. I am looking forward to the
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future, because I understand the past. \\
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I understood that when we changed the world, the world would
change us too. I understand how our industries are changing --
our economy, evolving. We are witnessing the greatest economic
transformation since the Industrial Revolution. But like all
softa
was
revolutions, this one has had its casualties. and we will take
care of our own. But the smoke will clear on a new economy --
bigger, better, and ready to take on the world.
The other side has conveniently skipped over our strengths
and on to our weaknesses. Some folks will tell you that the sky
is falling just so they can promise you the moon. But you can't
build on your strengths unless you know what they are.
Inflation's down, interest rates are at a twenty year low, and
Americans have the highest standard of living in the world.
2
These are good signs. But this is America, and good's just
not good enough. So this is my goal: by the beginning of the
next century we will bring this economy to ten trillion dollars
strong. The opposition will say: Hold on, you're moving to
fast. They'll say: we can't do it. Well maybe they're right.
They can't. I can, and we will.
Yesterday I released my Agenda for American Renewal. This
is my agenda for action. America is a place where ordinary
people can do extraordinary things if only they are set free.
Here are my keys to unlock the door.
The first unlocks foreign markets, it's called Challenging
trade
the World. We've got to complete the global trade negotiations,
and get congressional approval of the North American Free Trade
free the
Agreement. Trade with Mexico and Canada already brings two
billion dollars into this state each year. NAFTA would turn the
whole country into a gigantic free-trade zone -- a $6 trillion
market from the Yukon to the Yucatan.
continent
My opponent used to support the agreement. Now he says: now he
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"I'm reviewing it carefully; when I have a definitive opinion I against
will say so." Now Walter Lippman said leadership means guarding,
quote, "a nation's ideals." The greek philosopher Tacitus
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economies demand developing minds
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kids to compete on a world-scale. My opponent's got to
understand: There's just some things that money can't buy. We
spend more per pupil than almost any other country in the world.
We must raise standards, we must involve the community, and we
must give parents school choice. Whether it's public, private or
religious -- parents, not government, should choose their
children's schools.
The third key must unlock the future: Sharpening Businesses'
Competitive Edge. My opponent wants to do for American
businesses what he's done for Arkansas businesses. But if you
ask the entrepreneurs of Arkansas, they'll tell you there's been
little hope in Little Rock. Private dollars build more
businesses. Public dollars build more bureacracies. Which do
you think will help our economy? We must cut the regulations
that turn red tape into pink slips. And we've got to put a
restraining order out on our legal system. They say that talk
is cheap
until you hire a lawyer. My opponents wants you to
hire one to run the country.
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The fourth key is Promoting Economic Security. That means
job training to ease our workers into the new economy. It means
health care reform -- proposals I've introduced to cut 394
billion dollars of health care costs over five years. The good
Governor has a different prescription: "take two asprin and call
me after the election."
When it comes to helping our poor, my opponent wants to give
them a room with a view -- I want to slip them the keys. The
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fifth is Leaving No One Behind. My approach to welfare is not
how much we hand out -- but how many we help up. The policies of
the past put a roof over people's heads, but they forgot to build
the door. We must build that door, with housing vouchers,
Enterprise Zones, and workfare reforms. Our policies won't work
unless people do too.
The final key is called Rightsizing Government. Today the
federal government spends almost a quarter of every dollar of the
nation's income. Apparently my opponent doesn't think that's
quite enough. He's proposed $150 dollars worth of new spending.
Looks like he's promisinng a rainbow -- but first you've got to
hand over a pot of gold. \\
On August XX, the people of Missouri voted down a tax
increase, and sent a message that should echo from coast to
coast: government's not taxing too little -- it's spending too
much. \ Send that same message to Washington when you vote this
November.
The agenda I published yesterday contains specific proposals
to cut the fat: caps on the growth in mandatory spending and a
freeze on domestic spending; a balanced budget amendment and a
line-item veto. Governor Ashcroft has a line-item veto -- and
he's used it to keep over $240 in your pockets. Imagine what a
President could do with the same power. I've also proposed a
check-off box on tax returns -- to give the taxpayers their own
private veto pen. Some editorialist chuckle at my check-off
5
proposal. As usual they know best. But the American people seem
to like my idea. As usual, they know better. \\
Some say my goal of a $10 trillion economy is optimistic.
Some say it's ambitious. I say so is America. \\
My opponent and I have simply agreed to disagree. He says
that America's being "ridiculed around the world." I know the
competition's tough. But when the going gets tough, we don't get
packing, we get up, gear up, and give it our best shot.
Let me tell you a little story about a fellow born not far
from here in Commerce, maybe you know him. Mickey Mantle played
in the minors right here in Joplin before he went to the Yankees.
His dad was a coal miner. Mutt Mantle worked all his life in the
mines so that Mickey wouldn't have to. One day Mutt got a long-
distance call from his son. The Yankees were sending Mantle back
to Joplin. Mickey said, "Dad, I can't play.' Well Mutt just
hung up the phone, jumped in his car, and drove through the night
to Mickey's hotel. Without a word, he started packing his son's
suitcase. Mickey said, "What are you doing?" His dad replied,
"You can work the mines with me. I didn't think I raised a
quitter." That night Mutt Mantle drove back home alone.
Now I wasn't raised a quitter and I reckon you weren't
either. The competition in the coming years will be tough. But
let's remember who invented the game. It's not time to pick up
our ball and go home, it's time step up to the plate. Thank you,
God bless you, and God bless America.
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PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
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(Acknowledgements) I don't know if you heard about the
to artempete
incident, but my opponent's let this race degenerate to the level agone
of a food fight. So let's set the ground rules: tomatoes only MY DPPORTS
of course, after the broccoli incident some of my younger
POST ON
staffers wanted to retaliate. But they couldn't find any kind of NAFTA
food my opponent didn't like.
I've got a message for the cafeteria campaigners: Stop chese
playing with your food -- sit up straight and pay attention.
Schools
Yesterday I took this debate on to higher ground. I
a lot
released my Agenda for American Renewal -- an agenda that
change
diagnoses our problems, and defines our principles. This is my
cools
agenda for action.
a little
First let's take a step back. Take a look at where we've
come from and where we are. For the first time in half a
century, America is a nation at peace. Some Americans paid for
that peace with their lives. Others, with their labor. All,
with their taxes. Peace is precious but precarious. We must
know its risks to reap its rewards.
For America to be safe and strong, we must win the defining
challenge of the 1990s: we must wage the peace, by winning the
competition. \\ We must be a military superpower, an economic
superpower, and an export superpower. We must look outward -- to
open new markets and prepare our people to meet international
2
competition. We must look forward -- to strengthen our families
-- to save and invest -- so we can win.
My opponent calls for change. But from where I stand, he
makes about as much sense as a rainmaker in the middle of a
rainstorm. Change is here, it is all around us.
When I read my mail, I hear each American describing a
little part of a big picture. For some, the changes have been
painful: the defense worker laid off from his job. The college
senior wondering if she's got the skills she'll need to compete.
Others are hopeful: a fourth grader giving me tips on my computer
lessons. Small business people telling me about how exports are
bringing their companies back to life.
America has changed and is changing still. My opponent's
like the doctor who diagnoses the growing pains, and advises the
patient to stop growing. I want America to grow bigger and
better -- stronger and smarter. I am looking forward to the
future, because I understand the past.
I understand how many Americans feel that we won the Cold
War, only to lose the jobs that won the peace. We must ease our
transition to a peacetime economy, but we must also look
forward
to freeing up our resources for peacetime growth.
I understand how our industries are changing -- our economy,
evolving. We are witnessing the greatest economic transformation
since the Industrial Revolution. But like all revolutions, this
one has had its casualties
and we will take care of our own.
3
But the smoke will clear on a new economy -- bigger, better, and
ready to take on the world.
I understand that while the 80s brought the greatest
peacetime expansion in our history, it also boosted debt.
Companies have been paying it down while gearing themselves up -
- getting ready for greater profits when growth resumes.
Our financial system has changed too. We entered the 80s
with a banking system designed before Ozzie met Harriet. Our
system has evolved and the fittest have survived -- banks will be
more efficient, capital will be more available, and credit will
be more affordable.
And I understood that when we changed the world, the world
would change us too. No nation is an island today. All around
the world, countries have been freed, markets are being opened.
Only America has the energy, the attitude, and the resources to
take advantage of this opportunity. If we can look outward, we
will move forward.
The other side has conveniently skipped over our strengths
and on to our weaknesses. Some folks will tell you that the sky
is falling just so they can promise you the moon. But you can't
build on your strengths unless you know what they are.
Inflation's down, interest rates are at a twenty year low. We
have the highest standard of living in the world, and the most
productive workers on the face of the earth.
These are good signs. But this is America, and good's just
not good enough. Over the past 12 years we've almost doubled the
4
size of our economy. It's as if we created two economies the
size of Germany's from scratch. So this is my goal: by the
beginning of the next century we will bring this economy to ten
trillion dollars strong. The opposition will say: We can't cut
it. I say: anyway you cut it, we can.
America is a place where ordinary people can do
extraordinary things if only they are set free. Here are my keys
to unlock the door.
The first unlocks foreign markets, it's called Challenging
the World. We've got to complete the global trade negotiations
and get congressional approval of the North American Trade
Agreement. The United States is the largest fully integrated
market in the world. This is the bait we must use to cast trade
lines overseas. Right here in Missouri, exports support over
150,000 jobs. Trade with Mexico and Canada brings two billion
dollars into this state each year. NAFTA would turn the whole
country into a gigantic free-trade zone -- a $6 trillion market
from the Yukon to the Yucatan.
We've got to help our small businesses -- companies that may
look small, but can trade big. Think about it: people in Moscow,
lining up at McDonald's to buy soda pop from machines made right
here in Missouri. Think of the ambulances in Israel or the
police cars in Peru -- clearing the streets with sirens made in
St. Louis. Today I'm going to Contract Freighters, to talk to
the folks who send the trucks over the byways of Canada and the
bumpy backroads of Mexico. They've created 800 jobs in just four
5
years. Their bottom line must be our bottom line: to succeed at
home, we must lead abroad.
The second key is Preparing our Children. Developed
economies demand developing minds
our schools must prepare our
kids to compete on a world scale. My opponent's got to
understand: There's just some things that money can't buy. We
spend more per pupil than almost any other country in the world.
We must raise standards, we must involve the community, and we
must give parents school choice. Whether it's public, private or
religious -- parents, not government, should choose their
children's schools.
The third key must unlock the future: Sharpening Businesses'
Competitive Edge. Our ultimate success as an economic superpower
depends on the performance of our private businesses -- on our
success in encouraging entrepreneurial capitalism. That's why I
want enterprise zones in our inner cities and rural areas; a
permanent R&D tax credit; and a cut in the capital gains tax,
indexed for inflation. People need to be allowed to keep more of
what they earn.
We must strengthen small business by cutting taxes and
ensuring that credit is available. We must cut the regulations
that turn red tape into pink slips. And we've got to put a
restraining order out on our legal system.
The fourth key is Promoting Economic Security. That means
job training to ease our workers into the new economy. It means
health care reform. And it means retirement security.
6
When it comes to helping our poor, my opponent wants to give
them a room with a view -- I want to slip them the keys. The
fifth is Leaving No One Behind. My approach to welfare is not
how much we hand out -- but how many we help up. The policies of
the past put a roof over people's heads, but they forgot to build
the door. We must build that door, with housing vouchers,
Enterprise Zones, and workfare reforms. Our policies won't work
unless people do too.
The final key is called Rightsizing Government. At a time
when companies across the country have been restructuring,
cutting fat, increasing efficiency -- all to prepare for the
economic competition of tomorrow -- the federal government has an
obligation to do the same. Today the federal government spends
almost a quarter of every dollar of the nation's income. On
August XX, the people of Missouri voted down a tax increase, and
sent a message that should echo from coast to coast: government's
not taxing too little -- it's spending too much. Send that
same message to Washington when you vote this November.
The agenda I published yesterday contains specific proposals
to cut the fat: caps on the growth in mandatory spending and a
freeze on domestic spending; a balanced budget amendment and a
line-item veto. Governor Ashcroft has a line-item veto -- and
he's used it to keep over $240 in your pockets. Imagine what a
President could do with the same power. I've also proposed a
check-off box on tax returns -- to give the taxpayers their own
private veto pen. Some editorialist chuckle at my check-off
7
proposal. As usual they know best. But the American people seem
to like my idea. As usual, they know better.
Some say my goal of a $10 trillion economy is optimistic.
Some say it's ambitious. I say so is America.
My opponent and I have simply agreed to disagree. He says
that America's being "ridiculed around the world." I know the
competition's tough. But when the going gets tough, we don't get
packing, we get up, gear up, and give it our best shot.
Let me tell you a little story about a fellow born not far
from here in Commerce, maybe you know him. Mickey Mantle played
in the minors right here in Joplin before he went to the Yankees.
His dad was a coal miner. Mutt Mantle worked all his life in the
mines so that Mickey wouldn't have to. One day Mutt got a long-
distance call from his son. The Yankees were sending Mantle back
to Joplin. Mickey said, "Dad, I can't play." Well Mutt just
hung up the phone, jumped in his car, and drove through the night
to Mickey's hotel. Without a word, he started packing his son's
suitcase. Mickey said, "What are you doing?" His dad replied,
"You can work the mines with me. I didn't think I raised a
quitter." That night Mutt Mantle drove back home alone.
Now I wasn't raised a quitter and I reckon you weren't
either. The competition in the coming years will be tough. But
let's remember who invented the game. It's not time to pick up
our ball and go home, it's time step up to the plate. Thank you,
God bless you, and God bless America.
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worth $3000 dollars -- to be used towards the training program of
their choice.
And let me say: choice is critical. You know what I mean.
You don't need I don't see job training as an excuse to shoehorn
you into whatever program has an open slot, or the next box on
some bureaucrat's checklist. I want to give you the power to go
where you want to get training -- in the kind of career that you
choose. //
These are some of the ideas I'm talking about to Renew
America. Many are underway, others are just beginning.
You see, I'm committed in this campaign -- to providing
serious answers -- to the questions Americans are asking about
our future. I have diagnosed the problem, and offered serious
solutions -- not all of which are popular. And I'm asking for a
mandate -- to put my solutions into action, and get this country
moving.
For now at least, my opponent has chosen a different
strategy. Rather than talk about what he wants to for America,
he spends his time belittling my ideas, and playing on fears.
One example. I want to talk about limiting the growth of
government spending -- which my opponent says he agrees with.
But instead of offering any ideas of his own, he simply says --
watch out seniors, watch our Veterans.
Governor Clinton is running a Freddie Kreuger candidacy,
"he's more interested in playing on people's fears, than in
dealing with this country's problems.
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(Grossman)
September 9, 1992
JOPLIN
Draft Three
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE COLLEGE
JOPLIN, MISSOURI
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1992
Governor Ashcroft, thank you for that introduction.
[Acknowledgements]. ( (First let me say, it's great to be in an
oval where
I spend my days oh the Oval office in
Four years when I spoke on this campus, our country, our
our
cities and towns, were marked by thumbtacks on a war map inside
the Kremlin walls. Today, I stand before you and say something
lasting
nd
no President has ever been able to say before: The Cold War is
over and freedom finished first.
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that
reap its rewards. For America to be safe and strong, we must win
the defining challenge of the 1990s: we must wage the peace, by
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winning the economic competition. We must be a military
superpower, an export superpower, and an economic superpower.
Missouri
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Southern,
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we can't cut it. I say anyway you cut it
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September 9, 1992
JOPLIN
Draft Two
PRESIDENTIAL REMARKS:
MISSOURI SOUTHERN STATE COLLEGE
FRED HUGHES STADIUM
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1992
(Acknowledgements) Four years, when I spoke on this campus,
our country, our cities and towns, were marked by thumbtacks on a
warmap inside the Kremlin walls Today, I stand before you and I
say something no President has ever been able to say before: The
Cold War is over and freedom finished first.
Peace is precious but precarious. We must know its risks to
reap its rewards. For America to be safe and strong, we must win
the defining challenge of the 1990s: we must wage the peace, by
winning the economic competition. We must be a military
superpower, an export superpower, and an economic superpower.
This must be our goal: a ten trillion dollar economy by the
beginning of the next century. Now the opposition will tell you:
we can't cut it. I say anyway you cut it
we can.
Yesterday I released my Agenda for American Renewal. This
is my agenda for action. America is a place where ordinary
people can do extraordinary things if only they are set free.
Here are my keys to unlock the door.
The first unlocks foreign markets, it's called Challenging
the World. I will secure additional trade negotiating authority
from Congress so that I can work towards free trade agreements
with Poland, Hungary, and Czechloslovakia by the end of my second
term
And I will finish what I start: completing the global
trade negotiations, and getting congressional approval of the
300, jobs for
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North American Free Trade Agreement. Trade with Mexico and
Canada already brings two billion dollars into this state each
year. NAFTA would turn the entire continent into a gigantic
free-trade zone -- a $6 trillion market from the Yukon to the
Yucatan. Don't let the other side try to scare you into thinking
we're not up to the job. I know that when trade is free and fair
-- our workers can beat the competition, fair and square.
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My opponent used to support Fretnude WAFTA. First he was for
the Mexicom truch
then he was against it. Now he says: "I'm reviewing it
agreemly
carefully; when I have a definitive opinion I will say so." Now
Walter Lippman said leadership means guarding, quote, "a nation's
ideals. II The Roman philosopher Tacitus defined leadership as,
quote, "reason and judgment." I don't recall ever hearing
leadership defined as "Please leave a message and we'll get back
to you. " I've got some news for the governor: There's no "call-
waiting" in the Oval Office.
The second key is Preparing our Children. Developed
economies demand developing minds our schools must prepare our
kids to compete on a world-scale. My opponent's got to
understand: There' S just some things that money can't buy. We
spend more per pupil than almost any other country in the world.
We must raise standards, we must involve the community, and we
Ghty
must give parents school choice. Both the Governor and I want to
change schools: he wants to change them a little. I want to
change them a lot. My opponent says he's for a variety of school
choice: public, public, and public. I disagree. Whether it's a
3
public school, a private or a religious -- parents, not
government, should choose their children's schools.
The third key must unlock the future: Sharpening Businesses'
Competitive Edge. My opponent wants to do for American
businesses what he's done for Arkansas businesses. But if you
ask the entrepreneurs of Arkansas, they 11 tell you there's been
ittle hope in Little Rock. Private dollars build more
businesses. Public dollars build more bureacracies. Which do
you think will help our economy? We must cut the regulations
that turn red tape into pink slips. And we've got to put a
restraining order out on our legal system. I want to step
accetate then an.
into the ring with the trial lawyers but my opponent's over in
their corner, sponging their brow rot thetrial Canger.
The fourth key is Promoting Economic Security. That means
job training to ease our workers into the new economy. It means
I you
health care reform proposals I've introduced to cut almost 400
billion dollars of health care costs over five years. The good
and
clinton'- idear could endup
Governor has a different tungove prescription: National Health Care. In
other words, let s-just turn 13% of our GNP over to Uncle Sam.
Before you swallow that pill America: Consult Your Doctor TO See
If This is Right For You. Loke Jane M.D. That's
When it comes to helping our poor, my opponent wants to give not
them a room with a view -- I want to slip them the keys. The
the
fifth is Leaving No One Behind. My approach to welfare is not
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how much we hand out -- but how many we help up. The policies of
the past put a roof over people's heads, but they forgot to build
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the door. We must build that door, with housing vouchers,
Enterprise Zones, and workfare reforms. Our policies won't work
unless people do too.
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The final key is called Rightsizing Government. Today the
federal government spends almost a quarter of every dollar of the
nation's income. Apparently my opponent thinks we're getting off
cheap. He's proposed $150 billion in new taxes and at least $220
billion in brand new spending -- and that's batteries and spare
parts not included. Looks like he's promisinng a rainbow -- but
first you've got to hand over a pot of gold.
Recently the people of Missouri voted down a tax increase,
and sent a message that should echo from coast to coast:
government's not taxing too little -- it's spending too much.
Send that same message to Washington when you vote this November.
The agenda I published yesterday contains specific proposals
to cut the fat: caps on the growth in mandatory spending and a
freeze on domestic spending; a balanced budget amendment and a
line-item veto. Governor Ashcroft has a line-item veto -- and
he's used it to keep almost a quarter of a billion dollars in
your pockets. Imagine what a President could do with the same
power. I've also proposed a check-off box on tax returns -- to
give the taxpayers their own private veto pen. Some editorialist
chuckle at my check-off proposal. They think they know best.
But the American people seem to like it. I think they know
better.
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Some say my goal of a $10 trillion economy is optimistic.
Some say it's ambitious. I say: So is America.
To the candidate who thinks he can win this election with
hundreds of billions in new spending, I say: America is not for
sale. To those who'd say, that the sky is falling, just so they
can promise the moon, I say: America won't fall for sky-high
promises. To those who think they can so frighten America of the
future, that they can take her back to the past, I say: we're not
frightened, we're not quitters, we're not going.
Let me tell you a little story about a fellow born not far
from here in Commerce, maybe you know him. Mickey Mantle played
in the minors right here in Joplin before he went to the Yankees.
His dad was a coal miner. Mutt Mantle worked all his life in the
mines so that Mickey wouldn't have to. One day Mutt got a long-
distance call from his son. The Yankees were sending Mantle back
to Joplin. Mickey said, "Dad, I can't play." Well Mutt just
hung up the phone, jumped in his car, and drove through the night
to Mickey's hotel. Without a word, he started packing his son's
suitcase. Mickey said, "What are you doing?" His dad replied,
"You can work the mines with me. I didn't think I raised a
quitter." That night Mutt Mantle drove back home alone.
Now I wasn't raised a quitter and I reckon you weren't
either. The competition in the coming years will be tough. But
let's remember who invented the game. It's not time to pick up
our ball and go home, it's time step up to the plate. Thank you,
God bless you, and God bless America.
NAFTA FACT SHEET
PRESS OFFICE
AUGUST 12, 1992
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surveyed and evaluated the various economic analyses of NAFTA.
In May of this year, the USITC reported that:
[T] here is a surprising degree of unanimity in the results
regarding the aggregate effects of NAFTA. All three
countries are expected to gain from a NAFTA.
These independent studies found that NAFTA would increase
U.S. growth, jobs, and wages. They found that NAFTA would
increase U.S. real GDP by up to 0.5 percent per year once it is
fully implemented. They projected aggregate U.S. employment
increases ranging from under 0.1 percent to 2.5 percent. The
studies further project aggregate increases in U.S. real wages
of between 0.1 percent to 0.3 percent.
U.S. exports to Mexico currently support over 600,000
American jobs. The Institute for International Economics
recently estimated this figure will rise to over 1 million U.S.
jobs by 1995 under NAFTA.
Environment, Labor, and Adjustment Issues
In a May 1, 1991, letter to the Congress, the President
described actions that the Administration would implement to
address concerns regarding the impact of free trade on the
environment, labor rights, and worker adjustment programs.
Environment. The Administration has moved forward with a
comprehensive bilateral environmental agenda to allay
concerns that free trade could undermine U.S.
environmental and food safety regulations or lead to
environmental degradation on the U.S.-Mexico border.
During the last year, substantial progress has been made.
Highlights include the following:
-- Standards. The NAFTA allows the U.S. to maintain its
stringent environmental, health, and safety
standards. It allows states and localities to enact
tougher standards based on sound science. It
encourages "upward harmonization" of national
standards and regulations, and prohibits the lowering
of standards to attract investment.
-- Integrated Border Plan. In February 1992, EPA and
its Mexican counterpart (SEDUSOL) completed a
comprehensive plan for addressing air, soil, water,
and hazardous waste problems in the border area.
Agreement has been reached on measures to implement
the first stage of the plan covering the period 1992
- 1994.