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I've. Talked with you for a little bit and open for questions. A significant turn in the road has prospered since World War economically. But we now are facing a broad policies that protect our environment. That enhanced the health and well-being of our people and it builds for the future. There are significant questions that must be answered and that I preferred to discuss in the campaign they relate to nuclear power

the military draft. The situation in Iran. The space program. The ability of the government to control inflation and the general direction of where we will be as a people. As more and more nations compete with us for jobs and for markets throughout the world we are facing the prospect that while we have been able to dominate so much of the world we're now finding that our steel industry is in deep trouble closing down factories one automobile company. Chrysler is going bankrupt. The textile industry that certainly used to be very much in evidence in New Hampshire and other parts of New England has moved to Taiwan and South Korea. Mass transit simply has to be a primary

focus in this decade for the United States of. America. The United States is probably the only nation in history that ever had a perfectly good mass surface transportation system and let it go to pot. True about the system of railroad streetcar subways and a line to say nothing of buses. We've got to get on with the business of making it attractive once again for people to ride public transportation. John Sherman Cooper a former senator from Kentucky and I along with Ed Muskie from Maine are the sponsors of the first legislation that fermented the use of funds from the Highway Trust Fund. The gasoline tax to be used for urban mass transit has a limited participation but it was the first purchase of cash and I was one of the three co-sponsors of that. And I think that in the future not only do we need to use general revenue to improve mass transit but that we've got to think of something the equivalent of the gasoline tax maybe a farebox tax to make sure that we have a modern and effective public transportation system would that include

excess. The ability to look straight ahead wouldn't it. No I take that for granted not only in transportation but in every public endeavor. There should be there must be accessibility for your handicap in regards to nuclear power a very big issue here in the state of New Hampshire your feelings on alternate energy as well. Well I don't like there's any doubt about what we have to do what we have to do is everything we know how to do because I think that we have no realistic options if we're ever going to break our dependence on foreign fuel. As far as nuclear power is concerned. I think we've got to go ahead with nuclear power. I think the question really is how do we find safe and socially acceptable ways to utilize nuclear power. I think for instance that future nuclear plants should be located in remote. Areas from popular far away from population centers and power parks where more than one reactor would be constructed in the same area where there would be a uniformity of design an operation where one corps of trained operators would operate all

of those reactors and you could develop then an organizational memory on how this operates instead of reinventing the old technique. You could protect them together or you could operate them together you could process fuel together and you could locate them far from population centers as this sort of thing that I think we should be working on rather than spending our energy debating whether we have nuclear power. No I don't think we have the option if we forego nuclear power we will forego such a large increment of our ability to produce energy for the rest of this decade and the next. And I think it would shatter any chance we have of stablish in energy. Energy independence in this century. What are you watching. Thank you.

I think that recent events have underscored the importance of our country selecting the right man to be our president. We want somebody who won't need many months or years of on the job training we want to personally can land with feet running and take over. George is a person I believe and I think the people of New Hampshire agree with this that the best answers are those that are found closest to home. And these people are doing an enormous service to serve in that tough for all of Mayors and I want to see that level of protection participation strengthened in the way you strengthened it to give them as judgment as possible and the way you do that is to have less and the way a categorical instructed grants and more in the way of flexibility for local communities. The difference is that Karen might have from say Burlen or Leo's mare or or they are even though we're in the same state and we should have a system that recognizes that helps these communities but does it by providing the elected local officials to have as much clout as possible.

I would simply refer to that gentleman one I respect his right to have an opinion too I couldn't disagree more. 3 in the jobs I've had tough leadership jobs I have emerged with my integrity intact the integrity of the organization that I had it in tact and a respect for those I lead. Whether was in foreign affairs whether was head of this party whether was running the Central Intelligence Agency. And of course people are going to have different styles. Some feel I guess he does that you have to brutalize somebody to show how tough you are or to leave. That's not my approach. What this country needs is intelligent leadership strong leadership but leadership that will have respect with those that we agree with and must lead our nation our allies and with those who we disagree with. So I

just love the free speech but I don't like what that guy wrote.