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The original documents are located in Box 2, folder "5/25/76 - Hollywood Rotary Club and
Chamber of Commerce Luncheon" of the Carla A. Hills Speeches at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 2 of the Carla A. Hills Speeches at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FINAL
HOLLYWOOD ROTARY CLUB
AND
HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
LUNCHEON
MAY 25, 1976
IT MEANS A GREAT DEAL TO MY MOTHER, TO MY BROTHER
STEVE, AND TO ME TO BE IN HOLLYWOOD TO SEE so MANY OF OUR
OLD FRIENDS AND TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS MEETING IN HONOR OF
MY DAD.
HE WAS SO PROUD TO BE A PART OF THIS BUSINESS COMMUNITY
AND so PLEASED TO HAVE SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE HOLLYWOOD
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE HOLLYWOOD ROTARY.
DAD WAS A TOUGH, PRACTICAL, TALENTED, INDEPENDENT
ENTREPRENUER WHO WAS AN OUTSPOKEN SUPPORTER OF OUR FREE
ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. WHATEVER HE HAD, HE MADE HIMSELF.
As FRED NASON KNOWS so WELL, HE DESPISED UNNECESSARY
GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND WAS GENUINELY CONCERNED ABOUT OUR
BECOMING A SOCIETY BASED IN DEBT -- GOVERNMENT DEBT AND
PRIVATE DEBT ---- RATHER THAN A SOCIETY BASED ON EQUITY,
BECAUSE HE FEARED THAT WE WOULD LOSE OUR FLEXIBILITY AND
OUR ABILITY TO INNOVATE,
GERAJO A. FORD CIBRARY
-2-
WHEN DAD PASSED AWAY IN 1965, 15 CENTS OF EVERY DOLLAR
OF GROSS BUSINESS EARNINGS WENT TO PAY INTEREST AND HE
WORRIED; TODAY IT IS 40 CENTS.
THERE IS NO QUESTION BUT THAT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN VITALLY
INTERESTED IN THE KEY ISSUES OF THIS YEAR'S ELECTIONS, FOR
HE PERSONIFIED MUCH OF WHAT THEY ARE ALL ABOUT.
SINCE I AM A MEMBER OF THE FORD ADMINISTRATION, AND
PRESIDENT FORD JUST HAPPENS TO BE IN A TOUGH PRIMARY BATTLE
-- TO BE DECIDED TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY, THE CAMPAIGN IS VERY
MUCH ON MY MIND -- AND I CAN LITERALLY HEAR MY DAD URGING
ME TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT.
So I WILL.
I SEE THE OVERRIDING ISSUE AS THE STATE OF THE NATION'S
ECONOMY -- WHERE WE ARE TODAY AND WHERE WE'RE GOING TOMORROW.
BECAUSE IF THE UNITED STATES DOESN'T CONTINUE TO KEEP A FIRM
HANDLE ON THE ECONOMIC FORCES THAT CONTROL ITS DESTINY --
ALL THE REST IS TALK.
-3-
Now, WE HAVE HEARD WHAT ALL THE OTHER CANDIDATES, IF
ELECTED, MIGHT DO ABOUT THE NATION'S ECONOMY -- RANGING FROM
THE OLD, OLD, OLD PROPOSITION OF BUYING OUR WAY OUT OF EVERY
CRISIS WITH TAXPAYER DOLLARS, TO THE EVEN OLDER, TURN-OF-
THE-CENTURY NOTION THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD STOP
THE WORLD AND GET OFF.
ONLY ONE MAN IN THE RUNNING, GERALD R. FORD OF MICHIGAN,
HAS PROVEN THAT HE KNOWS WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE NATION'S
ECONOMY IN THE REAL WORLD OF TODAY -- 1976. ONLY ONE MAN
HAS A TEAM IN OFFICE THAT CAN BE JUDGED AS TO ITS PROVEN
CAPACITY TO DO THE JOB.
BECAUSE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN CALIFORNIA IS HAPPENING
ALL OVER AMERICA TODAY, FACTORIES ARE BACK IN PRODUCTION.
LOCAL UNEMPLOYMENT HAS BEEN REDUCED.
THE PRODUCTION LINES, TURNING OUT ALL OF THOSE NEW
PRODUCTS, ARE THE REGENERATIVE PROCESSES OF FREE ENTERPRISE,
PRODUCING NOT ONLY CONSUMER ITEMS AND JOBS AT THE FACTORIES
BUT JOBS IN SUPPLIER PLANTS, IN SERVICE CENTERS, SALES
ROOMS, ADVERTISING COMPANIES, AND ALL OVER THE COUNTRY,
-4-
THESE JOBS ARE REAL JOBS -- NOT GOVERNMENT MAKE-WORK
JOBS.
IN THE EVANS AND NOVAK COLUMN LAST WEEK, A MID-WESTERN
PARTY LEADER WAS QUOTED AS SAYING "FORD HAS BEEN A PRETTY
GOOD CARETAKER.'
THAT WAS MEANT AS A SLAP, BUT THE FACT IS THAT PRESIDENT
FORD HAS BEEN TAKING BETTER CARE OF THIS NATION'S AFFAIRS
THAN ANY PRESIDENT IN RECENT HISTORY.
ON TAKING OFFICE, HE LED THIS NATION THROUGH ITS MOST
SERIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS SINCE ITS BIRTH, AND THEN
PROCEEDED TO RESTORE NATIONAL CONFIDENCE IN THE INSTITUTIONS
WHICH DISTINGUISH OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT FROM THOSE ENDURED
BY A MAJORITY OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLE.
THE PAINSTAKING CARE OF HIS STRONG LEADERSHIP OVER THE
PAST TWENTY-TWO MONTHS HAS RESTORED THE PRESTIGE OF AMERICA
AMONG THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD -- WHILE MAINTAINING PEACE,
ENHANCING GOOD WILL, AND STANDING FIRM ON THE NEED FOR
CONTINUED NATIONAL STRENGTH.
-5-
WHAT BETTER MEMORIAL TO OUR BICENTENNIAL THAN THE FACT
THIS PRESIDENT HAS LED FIRST AMERICA AND NOW THE ENTIRE FREE
WORLD OUT OF A POTENTIALLY DISASTEROUS RECESSION?
IT IS THE DEVELOPMENT UNDER PRESIDENT FORD OF A SOUND
NATIONAL ECONOMIC POLICY -- AND HIS COURAGE TO STICK WITH
IT IN SPITE OF HIS DOOM-CRYING CRITICS -- THAT ESTABLISHES
HIM AS PRECISELY THE CARETAKER WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THE
NATIONAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY, WHICH, THANKS TO HIM, IS FIRMLY
UNDERWAY,
AND THAT IS WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT.
WE ALL KNOW THAT THE 1960's GAVE US AN INCREASING
POPULATION, AND AN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX SOCIETY. ONE WOULD
EXPECT, THEREFORE, A STEADILY INCREASING FEDERAL BUDGET,
BUT, WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED IN 1962 THAT THE FEDERAL
BUDGET WHICH HAD BEEN KEPT BELOW $100 BILLION FOR 185 YEARS
WOULD DOUBLE TO $200 BILLION BY 1971 AND TRIPLE TO $300
BILLION IN 1975?
-6-
BY HINDSIGHT, WE CAN CLEARLY SEE WHAT HAPPENED TO
AMERICA IN THE PAST TEN YEARS -- A DECADE WHICH THE
KNOWLEDGEABLE SEERS OF THE SIXTIES HAD FORESEEN AS AN
ERA OF GOOD WILL AND GOOD LIVING FOR ALL AMERICANS.
IN THAT ONE DECADE WE SQUANDERED OUR RESOURCES,
DECIMATED OUR CITIES, ROLLED UP A STAGGERING $350 BILLION
FEDERAL DEBIT, FAILED TO BUY ANY REAL SOLUTIONS TO OUR
COMPLEX ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS, FIRED A RAGING
INFLATION, AND GENERATED A PAINFUL RECESSION. AND IN
so DOING, WE SEVERELY SHOOK PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN THE
CREDIBILITY AND STABILITY OF BOTH BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT.
INDEED THE LACK OF VOTER CONFIDENCE IN THE ABILITY
OF EITHER THE PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SECTORS TO FIND ECONOMIC
SOLUTIONS HAD PLACED OUR FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM IN ITS
GREATEST JEOPARDY SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION.
IT IS STILL VERY "AMERICAN" TO SING THE PRAISES OF
OUR FREE ECONOMY THAT HAS MADE AMERICA THE ENVY OF THE WORLD,
AND, RECENT POLLS FINDING THAT MOST AMERICANS WOULD MAKE
SACRIFICES TO PRESERVE THE SYSTEM, MAKE WARM READING,
-7-
BUT, WHAT WE SAY ABOUT FREEING OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM
FROM FEDERAL SHACKLES AND WHAT WE ACTUALLY DO DIFFER
MEASURABLY.
TALK OF CUTTING GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES WHICH NOW
COUNT FOR ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF OUR GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT
HAS INCREASED, ON BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL AISLE, BUT
PRESIDENT FORD HAS HAD TO VETO 48 BILLS, TO PROTECT THE
TAXPAYERS FROM $13 BILLION OF ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURES.
THE ISSUE IS NOT WHETHER ANOTHER PRESIDENT WOULD
VETO THE SAME BILLS -- THE FACT IS THAT WITH THE SMALLEST
PARTY SUPPORT IN CONGRESS IN OVER 50 YEARS, HE HAS HAD
THE LEADERSHIP QUALITY, THE POLITICAL WISDOM, AND AN
INVALUABLE KNOWLEDGE OF HOW CONGRESS WORKS TO CAUSE THESE
VETOES WE NEEDED TO BE SUSTAINED.
POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS HAVE BEEN WAGED AND WON ON THE
PROMISE OF "MORE FOR EVERYBODY". RESTRAINT AND REASON
HAVE NOT BEEN THE RHETORIC OF MOST CANDIDATES, MANY NOW
PREACH THE SAME MESSAGE, BUT WHO ELSE HAS EVER MADE IT WORK?
-8-
IN FACT, MANY STILL SINCERELY BELIEVE IN THE POWER
OF GOVERNMENT TO RIGHT EVERY WRONG IN SPITE OF THE EVIDENCE.
You MAY RECALL THE CONTRAST BETWEEN SENATOR MUSKIE'S
RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE
WHEREIN HE SAID:
"WE CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT GOVERNMENT
CAN
PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK.
WITH PRESIDENT FORD'S THEME THAT MORE REAL AND LASTING
JOBS ARE CREATED THROUGH THE PRIVATE SECTOR,
OR TAKE THE CURRENT DEBATE REGARDING THE HUMPHREY-
HAWKINS BILL, WHICH REQUIRES THE GOVERNMENT TO CONJURE UP
PUBLIC PAYROLL JOBS TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT TO 3 PERCENT
IN FOUR YEARS, AND WHICH THE PROPONENTS ESTIMATE WILL
COST SOMEWHERE BETWEEN $30 AND $50 BILLION.
How LONG WOULD THE PUBLIC PAYROLL JOBS CONTINUE?
WHAT WOULD BE THE BILL'S INFLATIONARY IMPACT?
How MANY PRIVATE BUSINESSES WOULD REDUCE THEIR
HIRING BECAUSE OF THEIR INCREASED COSTS RESULTING FROM
THIS FEDERAL EXPENDITURE?
-9-
THE QUESTIONS ARE NOT ANSWERED BECAUSE THE PROPONENTS,
BELIEVE, AND I THINK SINCERELY, THAT WHERE SOMETHING APPEARS
TO BE WRONG WITH THE ECONOMY, THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD RUSH IN
AND BUY A SOLUTION,
WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT IN SPITE OF THE GOOD NEWS FROM
FACTORIES OF MANY KINDS ALL OVER THE NATION, THE CURRENT
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS UNACCEPTABLE. WE DO NOT NEED POLITICAL
SPEECHES TO TELL US THAT JOBLESSNESS GOES BEYOND MERE
STATISTICS, UNEMPLOYMENT AFFECTS PEOPLES' PRIDE, THEIR
HOPE, THEIR WHOLE ATTITUDE TOWARD SOCIETY.
BUT NEITHER WE, NOR THE JOBLESS, SHOULD BE LED TO
BELIEVE THAT LASTING SOLUTIONS CAN COME FROM INCREASING
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S PURCHASE OF PUBLIC SERVICE JOBS,
WE CANNOT IGNORE THE LESSON FOR WHICH WE PAID so
DEARLY IN THE 1960's -- THAT NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE MAY
WILL IT -- A "SOCIETY" IS NOT SUDDENLY MADE "GREAT" THROUGH
WELL-MEANING PROGRAMS WHOSE SOLE SOURCE OF SUSTENANCE IS
THE FEDERAL EXCHEQUER.
-10-
WE KNOW THAT OUR PRIVATE ECONOMY CANNOT SUSTAIN THE
AWESOME FEDERAL DEFICIT OF TODAY'S MAGNITUDE WITHOUT THE
EROSION OF THE VERY FINANCIAL RESOURCES THAT ARE VITAL TO
THE GROWTH AND PRODUCTIVITY OF OUR FREE ENTERPRISES,
WHICH ARE THE SOURCE OF FIVE OUT OF SIX JOBS.
WE KNOW WE CANNOT ACHIEVE REAL ECONOMIC GROWTH IF
THE GOVERNMENT CONTINUES TO COMPETE WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR
FOR DOLLARS TO BUY PUBLIC SERVICE JOBS.
AT THE SAME TIME WE CANNOT AGREE WITH THOSE WHO
SIMPLISTICALLY SUGGEST THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN
WASH ITS HANDS OF THIS NATION'S TOUGH SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC
PROBLEMS, EVEN IF WE WOULD LIKE TO TURN THE CLOCK BACK,
WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO DEAL WITH REALITIES AS THEY
EXIST TODAY.
THE PRESIDENT HAS BEEN AND IS DEALING EFFECTIVELY
IN THESE REALITIES.
HIS BUDGET PROVIDES THE FUNDS TO SUPPORT ADEQUATE
INSURANCE AND PROVEN JOB TRAINING UNTIL EVERY AMERICAN
WHO WANTS WORK CAN FIND IT,
-11-
BUT, HIS POSITION IS CLEAR: THAT THE WAY TO CREATE
REAL, REWARDING AND LASTING JOBS AND TO REACH AND MAINTAIN
FULL EMPLOYMENT IS THROUGH PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. AND THE
WAY TO SUSTAIN ECONOMIC GROWTH IS TO ENCOURAGE PRIVATE
BUSINESS TO EXPAND, TO MODERNIZE AND TO PRODUCE MORE GOODS
AT LOWER PRICES,
HE DOES NOT BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT DECISIONS TO
SPEND CAN REPLACE PRIVATE DECISIONS TO INVEST.
THUS, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE CONFRONTED BY THIS
CLEAR CLASH OF IDEOLOGY, AND THEY MUST MAKE A PROFOUND
CHOICE GROUNDED IN ECONOMICS, INDEED, IT IS A CHOICE
YOU WILL BE MAKING HERE -- IN CALIFORNIA, IN TWO WEEKS,
AND IN NOVEMBER -- AS YOU DECIDE UPON THOSE POLICIES AND
THOSE PERSONS WHOM YOU SHALL CHOOSE TO LEAD THIS NATION
OVER THE FOLLOWING FOUR YEARS,
PRESIDENT FORD'S STRONG AND PROVEN RECORD TAKES THE
GUESS WORK OUT OF MAKING THAT CHOICE -- CORRECTLY!
-12-
WE HIT THE TROUGH OF THE DEPRESSION JUST ONE YEAR
AGO, DISTINGUISHED LABOR AND POLITICAL LEADERS WERE
DEMANDING GREATER FEDERAL STIMULUS AND WERE PREDICTING
THAT THE FISCAL POLICIES OF THIS ADMINISTRATION WOULD
LEAD THIS COUNTRY INTO A DEEPER, DEEPER DEPRESSION,
AND YOU AND I KNOW THAT IT IS FAR MORE EXPEDIENT IN
THE POLITICS OF AN ELECTION CYCLE TO SAY "YES" TO MORE
FEDERAL EXPENDITURES.
So, WE CAN BE VERY PROUD OF PRESIDENT FORD'S COURAGE
IN EFFECTIVELY SAYING "NO" TO A SUCCESSION OF SPENDING
MEASURES LAST YEAR THAT WOULD HAVE FUELED THE DOUBLE
DIGIT INFLATION WHICH HE HAS MORE THAN CUT IN HALF AND
WHICH, FOR THE PAST THREE MONTHS, HAS HELD STEADY AT AN
ANNUAL RATE OF 2.9 PERCENT.
WELL KNOWN ECONOMISTS SUCH AS WALTER HELLER AND
OTTo ECKSTEIN WARNED, CONTRARY TO ALAN GREENSPAN, THAT
UNLESS THE MONEY SUPPLY GREW AT AN ANNUAL RATE OF 10 TO
12 PERCENT, THE ECONOMY WOULD NEVER MAKE IT OUT OF THE
RECESSION.
-13-
IN FACT THAT MONEY SUPPLY GREW AT LESS THAN HALF
THAT RATE, AND THE ECONOMY DID EVEN BETTER THAN PRESIDENT
FORD PROMISED.
WHAT WE HAVE TODAY IS A SOUND RECOVERY UNDERWAY,
WHAT WE COULD HAVE HAD WAS A SERIES OF DISASTEROUS SPENDING
BILLS HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR THE PRESIDENT'S STRENGTH IN
ISSUING VETOES UNPOPULAR AT THE TIME AND THE POLITICAL
SHREWDNESS TO CAUSE MOST OF THOSE VETOES TO BE SUSTAINED
IN THE FACE OF THE SO-CALLED "VETO-PROOF" CONGRESS. THOSE
ARE THE VERY TOUGH POLICY CALLS THAT HAVE LED US TO THE
TURN-ABOUT NOW FIRMLY IN PROGRESS,
CONSIDER THE FACT THAT UNDER HIS "CARETAKER" LEADERSHIP:
PERSONAL SPENDABLE INCOME HAS JUMED BY $100 BILLION,
OUR GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT WENT FROM $1.4 TRILLION
TO A PREDICTED $1.6 TRILLION,
RETAIL SALES JUMPED 17 PERCENT,
AUTO SALES 70 PERCENT.
-14-
GENERAL MERCHANDISE 13 PERCENT.
HOUSING STARTS 46 PERCENT,
NEW FACTORY ORDERS HAVE RISEN FROM $77 BILLION TO
$90 BILLION,
TODAY, 2.6 MILLION MORE AMERICANS ARE WORKING THAN
ONE YEAR AGO, THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE HAS MOVED DOWN FROM
9 PERCENT TO 7.5 PERCENT AND CONTINUES DOWNWARD.
THE INDEX OF CONSUMER CONFIDENCE HAS DOUBLED,
To QUOTE THE PRESIDENT:
"AMERICA'S FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHTER DAY BY
DAY. EVERYTHING THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE
GOING UP IS GOING UP, AND EVERYTHING THAT
IS SUPPOSED TO BE GOING DOWN IS GOING DOWN, "
BUT NOW, IN 1976, THOSE SAME ECONOMIC SEERS -- WHO
WERE so WRONG IN 1975 -- TELL US THAT THE ECONOMY IS SURE
TO GO "THUD" BEFORE THE YEAR IS OUT,
-15-
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT WE HAVE A VERY SOUND BASIS FOR
SUPPORTING THE ONE MAN WHO HAS CALLED EVERY TURN RIGHT
-- AND HAS HAD THE POLITICAL COURAGE, ALONG WITH THE
UNRUFFLED STAMINA TO STICK BY HIS GUNS.
AND, WHEN THOSE SAME POLITICAL AND LABOR LEADERS
PREDICT THAT THE PRESIDENT'S $394 BILLION BUDGET FOR
1977 IS "NOT ENOUGH TO GET CONTINUED DECLINES IN
UNEMPLOYMENT" -- WE CAN LOOK BACK WITH PRIDE TO THE FACT
THAT IN THE FACE OF IDENTICAL PRESSURES LAST YEAR THE
PRESIDENT'S PATIENCE, PRUDENCE, AND RESTRAINT LED TO MORE
JOBS AND ACHIEVED THE SOLID RECOVERY THAT WE HAVE NOW.
THE PRESIDENT'S COURSE HAS BEEN AND CONTINUES TO
BE CLEAR, CAUTIOUS, AND CANDID. HIS PROMISES HAVE BEEN
UNDERSTATED; FROM THE BEGINNING HE HAS DELIVERED MORE
THAN HE HAS PROMISED.
So THE DECISION IS OURS:
FORD
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Do WE WANT THE KNOWN ECONOMIC TEAM THAT HAS PLOTTED
OUR PRESENT COURSE TO CONTINUE TO GUIDE OUR POLICIES?
Do WE WANT A PRESIDENT THAT HAS THE UNPRECEDENTED FULL
SUPPORT OF THE ALL-TO-SMALL NUMBER OF REPUBLICANS IN
CONGRESS, AND THE RESPECT AND SUPPORT OF THE NECESSARY
NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS TO SUSTAIN HIS COURSE OF ACTION? OR
DO WE WANT TO GAMBLE ON AN UNKNOWN TEAM WITH AN UNPROVEN
CANDIDATE WHO COULD NOT HOPE TO DO BETTER?
PRESIDENT FORD HAS HELD THE LINE IN EXPENDITURES.
HE HAS IN PROGRESS THE MOST AMBITIOUS OVERHAUL OF GOVERNMENT
REGULATION EVER ATTEMPTED, HE HAS DIRECTLY ATTACKED
THE DELAYS, THE RED TAPE, AND THE REGULATION MAZE so
DISHEARTENING TO THE INNOVATIVE SPIRT THAT IS THE SOUL
OF THE FREE ENTERPIRSE SYSTEM. HE HAS DONE IT AGAINST
OVERWHELMING ODDS IN CONGRESS AND HE HAS DONE IT IN TWO
SHORT YEARS, ASSEMBLING HIS WINNING TEAM AT THE LOWEST
POINT IN THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY.
HE NEEDS, MORE IMPORTANTLY THE COUNTRY NEEDS, AN
ENDORSEMENT OF THOSE POLICIES, so THAT HE CAN CONTINUE
TO GIVE THE CARE TO OUR ECONOMY THAT IS BY ANY FAIR MEASURE
SUCCEEDING AND SUCCEEDING WELL,
-17-
HIS STRENGTH AND PURPOSE MAKE ME PROUD TO SEEK
SUPPORT FOR HIM AND HIS POLICIES AND TO BE PART OF HIS
ADMINISTRATION,
HE'S MY DAD'S KIND OF "CARETAKER"!