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Alongside Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and professional athletes signed an executive order reestablishing the presidential fitness test in public schools. | |
| During the nearly 35-minute ceremony, President Trump also spoke about tariffs, proposed ballroom construction at the White House, and the humanitarian situation in Gaza. | ||
| Hello, everybody. | ||
| Nice to see you. | ||
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How are you? | |
| We have a lot of athletic talent and great people behind me. | ||
| And I'm going to do some very important things for our country. | ||
| Nobody knows LT, right? | ||
| LT, greatest ever. | ||
| Lawrence Taylor, you look good. | ||
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You could play right now, I think, LT. He only looked that way. | |
| Well, I'm delighted to be here with some of the truly great sports legends of all time as we formally announce the newest members of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. | ||
| This is an important step in our mission to make America healthy again. | ||
| It's something that's very important, what we're doing, very important. | ||
| Dating back to the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, this council has championed the vigor and strength and vitality of the American people. | ||
| Today we continue that very proud tradition. | ||
| This group is led by two-time major champion and one of the greatest players in the world, one of the highest ranked. | ||
| And he just had a phenomenal open championship, as you probably saw, shooting one round that wasn't so good. | ||
| And then he came back with about a 65 or something. | ||
| He was getting a birdie on every hole. | ||
| They were worried he might not make the cut. | ||
| And he made the cut by about 200 strokes. | ||
| It was pretty amazing. | ||
| And he had a great week, actually. | ||
| And he's also the longest hitter of a golf ball, I think ever, but you know, they say ever. | ||
| I would say ever. | ||
| And the longest in the world today. | ||
| And it's Bryson DeChambeau. | ||
| He's a great guy, been my friend for a long time. | ||
| And from his storied amateur career, where he won the U.S. amateur, I think once or twice, did you win it? | ||
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It was once in the NCAAs as well. | |
| Okay, you won a lot of other championships. | ||
| But U.S. amateur champion. | ||
| And then, as you know, he won at Wingfoot, won the U.S. Open in Pinehurst. | ||
| And Bryson has always been a phenomenal ambassador to sports and to golf, but generally to life, in my opinion. | ||
| He's a smart guy and a good guy, great guy, loves our country. | ||
| We're also pleased to be joined by Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | ||
| Bobby, great job. | ||
| He's got some big things happening, and he's got some big statements to be made very shortly in terms of over the next few months in terms of what they've been doing and finding answers to some very, very important questions. | ||
| Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, who's phenomenal, wherever you may be, Linda. | ||
| Hi, Linda. | ||
| What are you doing back there? | ||
| And what's, I mean, look, you've been reading about her exploits and the job that she's been doing, and we're very proud of her. | ||
| Council Executive Director, Catherine Granito. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Great job. | ||
| And several other new members of the council, including JD, is here, our fantastic vice president, and Scott Besant. | ||
| And we're making a lot of deals. | ||
| We're making deals for trillions, trillions and trillions. | ||
| Nobody's ever seen anything quite like it. | ||
| We just made a couple of others a little while ago. | ||
| I don't know if you'd be interested right now. | ||
| I won't even bother telling you. | ||
| This is about sports and about health. | ||
| One of the best defensive players ever. | ||
| I think probably acknowledged to be the greatest defensive player in the history of the NFL, a friend of mine for a long time. | ||
| Too long, right, Lawrence? | ||
| Lawrence Taylor, he's an incredible guy. | ||
| And just been my friend a long time, have we? | ||
| Knew him forever. | ||
| One of the most accurate kickers in NFL history, a young guy still. | ||
| He can kick it long. | ||
| I think he's, I guess he's considered the best there is in the business, Harrison Butker. | ||
| So, Harrison, where are you, Harrison? | ||
| He's a handsome guy, by the way. | ||
| It's usually not my thing, but he is a good-looking sucker. | ||
| One of the truly greatest golfers ever to play of the LPGA tour. | ||
| A lot of people say the greatest female player ever, and a lot of people would say just one of the best players ever. | ||
| She's phenomenal. | ||
| I've played a lot of golf with Annika Sorenstam, and she's amazing. | ||
| Just had an really storied career, Hall of Famer by Easily, a Hall of Famer, by the way, right at the top of the list. | ||
| So it's great to have you with us, Annika, and say hello to the family. | ||
| And then she was here not so long ago with Gary Player, where she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and so did he. | ||
| He's won 168 tournaments and 18 majors, 9-9. | ||
| And she's the same in terms of the women's game. | ||
| But that was a great time. | ||
| It was a great honor to give it to you. | ||
| You really deserved it. | ||
| It's the highest medal you can get outside of the Congressional Medal of Honor. | ||
| That's the military version. | ||
| And the other is the Presidential Medal, and you got it. | ||
| So thank you very much. | ||
| 14-time WWUE World Champion, and he's a man who you're not going to mess around with. | ||
| Even Bryson said, I think I'll take a pass on him, right? | ||
| You're going to take. | ||
| And he's another one that's been my friend for a long time. | ||
| He's really an amazing athlete. | ||
| Triple H. Triple H. Here he is. | ||
| Oh, that's still very strong. | ||
| He's a strong guy. | ||
| And it's great to have you. | ||
| And you felt very strongly about this, about the council. | ||
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100%. | |
| Yep. | ||
| It's a great honor to have you. | ||
| Offensive lineman, NFL, very respected, very smart. | ||
| Cody Campbell. | ||
| Thank you, Cody, very much. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| In addition to the people here, we have other council members that want to just pay their respects. | ||
| One of the greatest players and athletes ever. | ||
| You could say when you look at records, there's probably nothing like it. | ||
| Tiger and Jack. | ||
| This is Jack. | ||
| Tiger was here not so long ago getting the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | ||
| Also, he's a fantastic guy. | ||
| And on the council, we have Jack Dicklis, and he sends his regards. | ||
| We have Gary Player, one of the greats, Nellie Corder, who's a phenomenal, young, I think you'd say great, great young player, Annika, right? | ||
| She's a fantastic person, too. | ||
| NFL icons, Tony Romo, also a great football player, quarterback, also a great golfer. | ||
| Nick Bosa, who's, you know him, he's a modern-day version of Lawrence. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| He's pretty good, right, Lawrence? | ||
| Pretty good. | ||
| He is Saquon Barkley, who's on the council. | ||
| And Tua, Tag Ovalia, the quarterback who is really, he's been fantastic. | ||
| He's been, when he's not injured, he's great. | ||
| He's got to stay healthy, and he's a great guy. | ||
| NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is on the commission. | ||
| NFL Commissioner Gary Bettman. | ||
| And the great one Wayne Gretzky is on, and a man who also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mariano Rivera. | ||
| And when I looked at his record, it was unbelievable. | ||
| The sandman, my wife said, why do they keep playing the sandman when he walks in? | ||
| And I said, because he just puts the batter to sleep. | ||
| He was great. | ||
| When you look at his record compared to second, and Raleigh Fingers was great, and he was really great. | ||
| But when you look at the record, boy, Mariano had a record. | ||
| I've never seen anything like it. | ||
| He was so high up. | ||
| The order that I'll sign today in a few moments directs the council to develop strategies to improve America's physical fitness and renew the American spirit, excellence, competitiveness, and sportsmanship. | ||
| To that end, I'm pleased to announce that we're officially restoring the Presidential Fitness Test and the Presidential Fitness Award, and it's going to be a very big thing. | ||
| From the late 1950s until the 2013, graduate scholars all across our country competed against each other in the Presidential Fitness Test, and it was a big deal. | ||
| This was a wonderful tradition, and we're bringing it back. | ||
| I think Bryson and everybody here wanted to see if we could bring that back, and it's turned out to be very, very popular to do. | ||
| My administration's also pressing forward with the important reforms in sports and athletics, and the group behind me, and the others that I mentioned, and others that have asked to join. | ||
| We have many great athletes have asked to join the council, and we're going to let some of them come in. | ||
| But they're going to also be working on college football in terms of what happened. | ||
| It's a mess. | ||
| What happened? | ||
| It's what they're doing with college football, and the fans are upset about it. | ||
| And players are being taken from team after team, being traded around like playing cards. | ||
| And a lot of money's passing, and nobody knows what's happening. | ||
| So these people behind me are going to be very much involved in figuring that whole thing out and working on it and trying to bring some sanity to that incredible not only the football, college sports. | ||
| Very, very bad for women. | ||
| It's very bad what's happening because now all of a sudden there's no women that are able to get the money that they're talking about. | ||
| You know, it seems to be going mostly to football, some basketball, and women's sports are being totally decimated. | ||
| We know that, Anika, you know, with this. | ||
| It's all going into football and some to basketball and everything else is being left behind. | ||
| And women are being left behind. | ||
| And lesser sports are being left behind. | ||
| And the Olympics is being decimated because that was like training for the Olympics. | ||
| And now we're not going to have that. | ||
| Many of those sports left. | ||
| The smaller sports, they're almost going to be completely wiped out. | ||
| This is crazy what's going on. | ||
| We banned men from competing in women's sports. | ||
| And last week, the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee announced that they will be complying with that order so there won't be men playing in women's sports. | ||
| That seemed like an easy one. | ||
| They say it's an 80-20 issue during the campaign. | ||
| I said, no, that's not 80-20. | ||
| That's 97-3. | ||
| Maybe it's 98-2, perhaps. | ||
| And last Thursday, we terminated third-party pay-for-play schemes in collegiate athletics and effectively saving, we saved college sports, but now we have to make it. | ||
| We have to heal it because it's really a mess. | ||
| It's a real mess. | ||
| This council will play an important role in shaping these new policies and ensuring that we preserve the American athletic tradition for many generations to come. | ||
| And in the years ahead, we'll have the chance to showcase our nation's athletic dominance in the world stage as we host the America 250. | ||
| So we have America 250 and we have, it's going to be incredible, the Patriot Games, but we have the Ryder Cup, we have the President's Cup, we have the 2026 FIFA World Cup, so we have the World Cup here, we have the 2028 Olympics. | ||
| So when they cheated on the election and they picked somebody that wasn't supposed to be there, I was very upset before that because I got the Olympics and I got the World Cup. | ||
| I was the one that did it. | ||
| I can't say I got America 250. | ||
| It just happened to be 200. | ||
| I'd like to take credit for that, but I don't think I'll be able to. | ||
| But we have a big thing coming up, but I was very upset because I got them. | ||
| And it was skipped an election season. | ||
| And so it took place in the next term after the term that we were supposed to have. | ||
| And I was extremely angry. | ||
| And then when I won, I said, wait a minute, I think I just picked up the Olympics and I just picked up the World Cup. | ||
| So it worked out sort of cool. | ||
| But I want to, again, thank everybody in the council. | ||
| They want to work too. | ||
| These are people that really, we only do it by request. | ||
| And people, they want to work and they want to make things better. | ||
| And I think, I hope they can make college sports better. | ||
| They can heal it. | ||
| They can find a solution. | ||
| It's not going to be that easy. | ||
| But you have a lot of smart people. | ||
| So I'd like to begin by introducing Bryson to say a few words. | ||
| And then we'll have Triple H, and we'll have a couple of other people say something. | ||
| And then I'm going to sign that good-looking couple of pieces of paper. | ||
| And it means a lot. | ||
| It's going to be a very important council. | ||
| And thank you all for being here. | ||
| Bryson, please. | ||
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Thank you, everybody, for being here. | |
| And first off, I'd like to say thank you to President Trump and Vice President Vance for your support and this initiative and council. | ||
| And to be honest, I never would have thought that this opportunity would have been here right at our doorstep. | ||
| We have an opportunity, it being the 70th anniversary of the President's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, to literally change the fabric of kids' lives. | ||
| And our first initiative is to bring back and reignite the President's fitness test and then also reestablish some key other metrics on guidelines around building some communities. | ||
| And also, again, with the President's initiatives around college, we think we can help in that regard too. | ||
| But we've got a great established council with us that we believe we can change the fabric of our communities and kids' livelihoods for the future generations that are to come. | ||
| I can't thank you guys enough and looking forward to making massive changes in kids' lives and in our America's future. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
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Please. | |
| First of all, I'd like to say the same. | ||
| Thank you to President Trump. | ||
| Thank you for this honor. | ||
| I'm humbled by it. | ||
| I'm truly honored to be on this. | ||
| Vice President Vance, thank you very much, Secretary Kennedy. | ||
| Truly appreciate all that everybody is doing for the health and wellness of the entire country. | ||
| For me, since I was 14, this has been such an important part of my life. | ||
| Health, fitness, sports, nutrition, all of it. | ||
| I think learning that at a young age sets you up for success in life. | ||
| And without it, you're in a lesser place for it. | ||
| So I look forward to the opportunity to do this. | ||
| I look forward to the opportunity to help make our youth healthy, help get them engaged in sports, and let them learn what it takes to be successful in life. | ||
| So thank you very much for the honor. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Bobby, please. | ||
| Thank you very much, Mr. President. | ||
| In December of 1960, a month after he won the election, my uncle, who was about to be president, wrote an article for Sports Illustrated called The Soft American. | ||
| And he was lamenting the fact that America had prided itself on its beef jerky toughness and that we were losing that. | ||
| We were falling behind Europeans. | ||
| We were falling behind other nations. | ||
| And he was signaling with that article that he was going to make physical fitness of our kids the centerpiece of his administration. | ||
| And I'm so grateful to President Trump for bringing back this tradition. | ||
| I was talking to Paul before we went in here. | ||
| We were part of the Council on Physical Fitness when we were kids. | ||
| And you had to do sit-ups, you had to do pull-ups, you had to do shuttle runs, you had to do one-mile runs. | ||
| And they awarded the top 15% with a patch and with recognition and with certificates. | ||
| And for me, it was a huge item of pride when I was growing up. | ||
| And we need to reinstill that spirit of competition and that commitment to nutrition and physical fitness. | ||
| And I'm so grateful to President Trump for your leadership and bring this back for our country. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Representing the great women in sports, please. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Thank you, Mr. President, Vice President Vance. | ||
| This is truly an honor. | ||
| I want to thank the team behind me here for giving us trust to be able to do this. | ||
| Sport has always been part of my life, and the importance of living a healthy, active lifestyle cannot be any more important than nowadays. | ||
| So thank you for the trust. | ||
| And I can't wait to get to work to make a difference in kids' lives, but also in people's lives. | ||
| I think the time is so important. | ||
| Obesity is the highest it's ever been. | ||
| Mental health, as we all know, the need ought to be tackled. | ||
| So thank you for the trust and look forward to going to work with the team behind me. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| Thank you, Dallas. | ||
| Lawrence, you want to say a few words? | ||
| Come on up. | ||
| Come on. | ||
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He's a little shy, but once he gets going, nobody can stop him. | |
| I know. | ||
| I'm just proud to be on this team. | ||
| I don't know why. | ||
| I don't know what we're supposed to be doing, but I'm here to serve, and I'm here to serve you. | ||
| Okay, so I'm going to do the best I can for as long as I can. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Nobody like him. | ||
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Come on, young superstar. | |
| Obviously, very excited to be here. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. President, for allowing me to serve on the council. | ||
| Just excited to do my part to help make America healthy again, to help our youth be healthy and thrive and grow up and be great citizens of this country and be great family members and contribute to this great country. | ||
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And I think you have to be strong in mind and body and soul. | |
| So thank you so much for allowing me to be here. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| JD? | ||
| Okay, sure, sir. | ||
| Well, thank you all, and thanks to the President for setting up this important commission. | ||
| Thanks to all the great athletes for lending their credibility to it. | ||
| I think all of us who have young kids at home just know that kids are healthier, they're happier, they do better when they're out there, they're being active, they're playing in sports, they're hanging out with their friends. | ||
| I think all of us have thought at one point in the last few years that kids spend a little too much time on their phones, maybe a little bit too much time in front of the TV. | ||
| And we just want kids to do better. | ||
| We want them to be healthier. | ||
| We want them to be happier. | ||
| And we know that getting out there, playing in sports and being active and healthy and physically fit is a critical part of this. | ||
| So all due credit to the President and Secretary Kennedy's leadership. | ||
| This is all about just making our kids better citizens, better people, and happier in their daily lives. | ||
| And I think this is a great team to get it accomplished. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
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Thanks, Sheriff. | |
| Okay, let's sign this. | ||
| Belinda, come on. | ||
| We'll sign this for Belinda. | ||
| She's doing pretty well, right? | ||
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Sharon? | |
| Linda's amazing. | ||
| Good job. | ||
| Okay, we got it. | ||
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Okay. | |
| We'll pass them on out to one. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| That is not signed with an auto fan. | ||
| There's no one. | ||
| We don't want auto fans in the White House. | ||
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Okay. | |
| Any questions, please? | ||
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What is sports meant to you? | |
| And did you have a sports hero growing up? | ||
| Maybe Lawrence Taylor. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It could be Lawrence. | ||
| I know him so well. | ||
| A lot of sports heroes. | ||
| I have admitted a lot. | ||
| I was always a person that loved playing sports. | ||
| I was good at sports. | ||
| When you were really focused on sports, you thought about nothing else. | ||
| It was nothing else outside. | ||
| It kept you. | ||
| And to an extent, this is one of the reasons I like golf. | ||
| You get away for a couple of hours. | ||
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I play quickly and get through it. | |
| And for two hours, you're not thinking about all of the nonsense and all of the important things, frankly, but it cleans your mind. | ||
| No, I think sports is so important. | ||
| I think what this council is doing is going to be very important. | ||
| And it gives you a little exercise, sometimes a lot of exercise. | ||
| It's a great thing. | ||
| It's a great thing. | ||
| Sports are, you learn about people and you learn about how people compete. | ||
| Now, it doesn't mean that if somebody's not a good athlete, a lot of people just are not good athletes, so they can't compete. | ||
| But you learn about people playing sports and playing sports with and against some. | ||
| So I've always loved it. | ||
| It's been very important to me. | ||
| These people are inspirations. | ||
| These are the top people in their individual sports. | ||
| The council itself, I mean, they have the greatest, some of the greatest champions, for the most part, the greatest champions in their sport. | ||
| So they really understand sports and understanding it's very important. | ||
| Thank you for the question. | ||
| Yeah, please. | ||
| Please go ahead. | ||
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Yeah, Mr. President, can you talk about your plans for the new ballroom that was announced today? | |
| Yeah. | ||
| The $200 million that's going to be paid for by yourself as a private donations. | ||
| It's a private thing. | ||
| I'll do it, and we'll probably have some donors or whatever, but it's about $200 million. | ||
| So we've been planning it for a long time. | ||
| They've wanted a ballroom at the White House for more than 150 years, but there's never been a president that was good at ballrooms. | ||
| I'm really good. | ||
| In fact, I looked at one that we just built in Turnberry in Scotland, and it's incredible. | ||
| We're good at building. | ||
| I'm good at building things, and we'll get it built quickly and on time. | ||
| It'll be beautiful, top of the line. | ||
| We've retained the best architects and engineers, everything else. | ||
| It'll be built over on the east side, and it will be beautiful. | ||
| It'll be views of the Washington Monument. | ||
| It won't interfere with the current building. | ||
| It'll be near it, but not touching it. | ||
| And pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of. | ||
| It's my favorite. | ||
| It's my favorite place. | ||
| I love it. | ||
| But they've wanted it. | ||
| And, you know, when they have big events, you entertain the president of China or the president of any place. | ||
| And you have big crowds. | ||
| They've always had to get a tent. | ||
| And you've probably been to some of them, Bobby. | ||
| When it rains, it's a disaster. | ||
| And the tent's 100 yards. | ||
| That's more than a football field away from the main entrance. | ||
| And people schlopping down to the tent. | ||
| It's not a pretty sight. | ||
| The women with their lovely evening gowns, all of their hair all done, and they're a mess by the time they get. | ||
| And they've always wanted to have it. | ||
| And I said, you know, in the first term, I said, you know, if I get another shot at this, I'm going to do a ballroom. | ||
| I was pretty busy in the first because I was running the country and I was also fighting for survival with all of the lunatics I had to beat. | ||
| But it worked out, obviously, it worked out very well because here we are. | ||
| But I always said I was going to do something about the ballroom because they should have one. | ||
| So we'll be leaving it. | ||
| It'll be a great legacy project, and I think it'll be special. | ||
| You saw some renderings of the initial. | ||
| I think it'll be really beautiful. | ||
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No government office at all. | |
| No government of us. | ||
| No. | ||
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I think if you meet between its executive order, trade, Russia, Gaza. | |
| But also, the family of Virginia Duffrey released a statement overnight in response to some of the comments that you made this week. | ||
| You said that Jeffrey Epstein stole people from Mar-a-Lago. | ||
| At the time, did you know why he was taking those young women, including Virginia? | ||
| No, I didn't know. | ||
| I mean, I would figure it was ABC fake news that would ask that question, one of the worst. | ||
| But no, I don't know really why. | ||
| But I said if he's taken anybody from Mar-a-Lago, he's hiring or whatever he's doing. | ||
| I didn't like it. | ||
| And we threw him out. | ||
| We said we don't want him at the place. | ||
| This is a story that's been known for many years, as you know. | ||
| But I didn't like it that he was doing that. | ||
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Yeah, please. | |
| If Canada moves forward in the Palestinian state, if Canada moves forward with recognizing the Palestinian state, is that a deal breaker for you? | ||
| Well, we're going to see. | ||
| No, I didn't like what they said, but that's their opinion. | ||
| I didn't like that. | ||
| Not a deal breaker, but we haven't spoken to Canada today. | ||
| He's quite a bit more. | ||
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We're going to step away here, but you can watch more at c-span.org as we take you live to Lincoln, Nebraska, where Republican Congressman Mike Flood is holding a congressional town hall here on C-SPAN. | |
| It's an honor to have him here tonight. | ||
| And it's an honor to have each of you here tonight. | ||
| I know that many of you stood in line for a long time. | ||
| I know that many of you have made this a point to be here. | ||
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And here's the deal. | |
| And I said this before in Columbus, and I said it in Seward. |