Heath: ...Primary Debate. Before you stand the Republican candidates, the leading Republican candidates running for President. I'm Jack Heath, and on behalf of Imes Communications and WMUR-TV, welcome. I will be moderating and asking questions of our candidates this evening. On behalf of WMUR-TV, I would like to welcome our state-wide New Hampshire audience, and a world-wide audience watching on CNN. Joining me tonight as co-moderator and co-questioner, my colleague Karen Brown. Karen. Brown: Thank you, Jack, and good evening gentlemen. We thank you for your participation tonight. Let me briefly explain for our viewers the format of tonight's debate. Each candidate will be allowed to make an opening statement, not to exceed one minute-fifteen seconds in length. We will then move on to the question, answer, and rebuttal phase of the program. Three candidates will be given one minute, thirty seconds each to directly answer the question. Then, the remaining five candidates will be given one minute each for rebuttal. The third and final portion of the debate will consist of the closing statements. So, without further ado, let us begin the opening statements. Lamar Alexander, former Tennessee governor and former U.S. Education Secretary, you will go first. Alexander: Thank you, Karen and Jack. I walked a hundred miles across New Hampshire campaigning for President the New Hampshire way. I didn't see many television cameras on that walk, but the last few days I've hardly been able to walk because of all the cameras. I hope what that means is there are a lot more people willing to hear my new ideas about how to turn job training programs into work scholarships for people changing jobs, helping parents take back their schools with a G.I. bill for kids, turning Washington welfare into neighborhood charity, a new branch of the armed services to control our borders, and cutting the pay of Congress and sending them home to create a part-time citizen Congress. Last week the voters of Iowa said "yes" to new ideas, and they said "no" to negative advertising. That's why I've been so surprised to see that Senator Dole has begun negative advertising on television against Pat Buchanan, and now against me. Senator Dole, you're better than your negative ads. Why don't you pull them off? Why don't we talk about new ideas and our future? That's the way to beat Bill Clinton, that's the way to elect the best first president of the next century. Heath: Thank you, Governor Alexander. Next, Pat Buchanan. He's a commentator and he's also served presidents in the past. Your opening statement, Mr. Buchanan. Buchanan: Thank you. In the first three caucuses and primaries held this year, Pat Buchanan came in first in Alaska, I came in first in Louisiana, and I came in a close second to Senator Dole in Senator Dole's next state - Iowa. Let me tell you why I believe our campaign is catching fire across America. We do have a new idea, and that new idea is a new conservatism of the heart. A conservatism of the heart that speaks for the forgotten Americans who have no voice in Washington. It speaks up for the right to life of the innocent unborn whose silent screams often go unheard in this country. It is a new conservatism that speaks up for the working men and women of America whose jobs are being sent overseas in trade deals, done for the benefit of big, transnational corporations that don't care about America anymore. It's a conservatism of the heart that speaks up for middle Americans who are burdened by taxation and who have to see the wives go out to work when they don't want to work. I want to represent in Washington those people that don't have representatives. And that's what this new conservatism is all about, my friends, and it is catching fire. And we're gonna take it right to this nomination, and into the presidency of the United States. Brown: Thank you very much, Mr. Buchanan. We will now hear from Senator Bob Dole. Dole: Thank you very much, and I am very honored to be here with all of my colleagues. Uh, I saw earlier tonight Dick Upton, who's sort of the father of the New Hampshire Primary, and I fought as hard as anyone up here to make certain that New Hampshire kept it's first in the nation tradition and I'm very proud to be here. And I know the New Hampshire people are proud to have the first primary. If you think about it we're just one election away, think about it, one election away from having a Republican president and a Republican congress that share the same vision. It's been a long, long time. And one year away probably from a balanced budget, we'd be on our way to a balanced budget. We'd be on our way to tax reform, credits, tax credits for families with children. On our way to welfare reform. Put our parents back and putting our parents back in charge of school and untying the hands of the Justice Department. And letting our courts and, make, get good, conservative judges on our courts. We'd have moral leadership in the White House. And I want to ask you for your support. I would only say to Lamar, Lamar I didn't know about negative advertising until I saw you do it against Pete Wilson. You ran the first negative ad in this state, and I guess maybe I thought it was all right since you did it if I at least spelled out your record. But the bottom line is, I, I want to ask for your support. I will be the next President of the United States. I will be a good, mainstream, conservative president with a lot of good ideas about America's future. Heath: Thank you, Senator Dole. Next introduction by Congressman Bob Dornan. Dornan: We always end our speeches by saying God bless America. I would like to begin the first speech of my life by saying God bless America and guide this grand old party. I wish the spirit of Ronald Reagan would descend on New Hampshire, and his eleventh commandment that no Republican should speak ill of another Republican. Every time I've been on the platform with these distinguished gentlemen, I've said I was proud and honored to be with men of character and integrity. Bob Dole once said we're all his friends, and that if he prevailed we'd all be in the Cabinet. I like the sound of that. I'd like to be Secretary of Defense, Bob, if you make it. I think that we have to stop tearing, we have to stop tearing at one another, and focus on what I said in Des Moines, Iowa - the target is Clinton, the moral crisis in the White House. Everyone here has accomplished so much in life, there isn't enough time left in the four days starting at midnight to sell ourselves to the great citizens of this granite state that will lead the way. Gentlemen, we're a family here. Let's unify ourselves and make sure we take the White House on November the 5th. God bless all of you. Brown: Thank you, Congressman Dornan. Mr. Steve Forbes, you may proceed with your opening statement. Forbes: Thank you very much. Choosing the Republican nominee is a very important decision, but before you decide who to believe in, you have to decide who to believe. Look at the men here tonight. Which of them are here because they want to be something? And who is here because he wants to do something? What needs to be done for America? Government has grown so large, so large that control of it, government cog..cog..control of the people is now in question. The whole premise of my campaign is returning control to the people. The reason that returning money, power, and control to the people is so controversial in Washington, the reason is very basic because it flies in the face of the Washington establishment. Some say that a flat tax that is a tax cut for families, is main part, is the main part of my agenda, but it's only part of my agenda. Parents should control education, not the unions. People on Medi-care should control their health plans, not the bureaucrats. Young Americans should have their own social security system that belongs to them; not the Washington politicians. Politicians may talk about such issues, but I've shown what to do about them. Thank you. Heath: Thank you Mr. Forbes. Next introduction by former Ambassador, Alan Keyes. Keyes: Every since I've been coming to New Hampshire folks have been telling me in various ways that the only thing that the voters of New Hampshire think is at the top of the agenda, uh, is economic money issues. I think that if that's the case then both me and New Hampshirites and people in this country are in serious trouble. Because it's pretty obvious that the shadow lengthening over our schools, filling our neighborhoods with violence, getting our fourteen-year-olds, raping our ten-year-olds and our fifteen-year-olds, killing our seventeen-year-olds, teachers afraid to teach, students afraid to learn because of the rising tide of violence among our young people. I don't think that all these folks are out there joining gangs, raping, murdering, and doing other things unheard of at their young age, are doin' it because they have to pay a progressive income tax or because we haven't balanced the budget in Washington. We're gonna have to decide, is it the money or the morals? I think all of us know in our hearts that we, in fact, are in the midst of a moral crisis. We can't afford money-obsessed leaders who will not put that crisis at the top of their agenda. The Keyes campaign is about only one thing - admitting that crisis, admitting that the disillusion of the family needs to be our number one preoccupation, and putting it at the top of our agenda so we can deal with it rightly. If you feel that way, you have no alternative in this race, but Alan Keyes. Brown: Thank you Ambassador Keyes. Senator Dick Lugar, you may now proceed with your opening remarks. Lugar: Earlier this week ah, less than 20% of Iowa Republicans, and they were self-defined as very conservative Republicans, named Mr. Dole and Mr. Alexander and Mr. Forbes and Mr. Buchanan, as their top four choices. Ah, let me simply say that this same group said that only six...only sixteen percent of that group said that beating Bill Clinton was the basic objective; a large number more than that thought that conservative values was the objective. I believe that in New Hampshire the majority of Republicans will vote, I think they will want to defeat Bill Clinton, and to have the strongest candidate. And I would suggest that polls that now indicate that Senator Dole, U.S. News and World Report says, would lose to Clinton 53 to 36, they say that Steve Forbes would lose 51 to 33, indicates some very real problems with, uh, leading candidates. Self inflicted wounds by the top four, as well as wounds they inflict on each other through negative campaigning have made it imperative that New Hampshire voters need to have Dick Lugar as an alternative. They are going to have to have somebody that will pick up the pieces after this situation clears away if we we're to defeat Bill Clinton. On foreign policy and on trust in government, I can defeat Clinton. I believe I'm the best candidate. Heath: Senator, thank you. Next introduction - Morry Taylor. Taylor: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight you'll hear some great ideas and visions, but you'll only hear the solutions from Morry Taylor because I'm a real businessman. Not as a, I'm not a lawyer and I'm not a politician. I started as an engineer and I built a business up from zero sales to $620 million manufacturing wheels and tires. I know how to balance a budget. I know how to create jobs, and I know how to provide the leadership we're gonna need. All these men have very fine visions, but remember, smiles and talk can be fake. You hear about the character, the honesty, the leadership. Mr. Alexander here has broken the federal election laws by spending over the maximum amount allowed in New Hampshire. In fact, he shouldn't be here at all by the law. He signed a contract, and broke the law. If you can't manage a campaign budget, you surely can't manage the federal government. Remember, all this talk and smiles reminds me of the Jimmy and Tammy Faye Baker program - it's fake, folks. If you listen, you'll hear that there's one up here that's a doer, not a talker. Brown: Mr. Taylor, thank you very much. We'll now move on to the question, answer, and rebuttal phase of tonight's program. Jack will ask the first question to Mr. Alexander, Mr. Buchanan, and Senator Dole, and Mr. Alexander, you will go first. Jack. Heath: Thank you Karen. Gentlemen, in November of 1994 your party scored a huge political victory, not only capturing both chambers of Congress for the first time in a long time, but sweeping elections across this country. Since then, as your party has battled with the White House over such mammoth issues as balancing the budget, the White House has branded you as radical and extreme, and based on recent public opinion polls, the White House may be winning that message war. My question to you - have you mismanaged the power that Newt Gingrich held as a revolutionary victory in the Contract with America since November of '94 and are you in danger of losing the message war with the American people? Alexander: Thank you, Jack. Well, of course, I haven't mismanaged it because I haven't been there; I've been outside Washington, but let me stick up for Senator Dole and Newt Gingrich a little bit, and the Republican Congress. I think they've tried. I think we've just got our hopes up too high. We can't make the kind of changes that we want to make without a Republican President. Uh, they've worked on it. Uh, I would've done some things differently; for example, uh, they've got an 800 page welfare bill that Senator Dole has sponsored. I think that's 800 pages, almost, too many. I'd rather cancel Washington welfare, and take the $50 billion that we spend on that, and put it in the form of neighborhood charities so that we could go to work helping people who need help. On my walk across, uh, New Hampshire I came to a young couple from Nashua who had been down to the welfare office, who were encouraged to separate in order to get higher welfare benefits. Now, if we would go to work at home, helping people who need help, spending the same amount of money, and if we would add to that, a tax credit of up to $500 so we could give our money directly to the Boy's Club or the Girl's Club or the Salvation Army, then we could help every single person who needs help. What the Republican Congress needs is an agenda-setting Republican President to interpret and explain what they're doing, and who can stand up there with Bill Clinton, and when he makes these comments, when he starts believing the words that come out of his mouth even though they're not true, could turn around to him and say what the last Republican governor who was elected President said to Jimmy Carter, "There you go again, Mr. President." Brown: Thank you very much, Governor Alexander. Mr. Buchanan. Buchanan: Well, let me address that this way. I do believe that the Republicans have lost a historic opportunity because they lost the sense of vision in Washington. They got bogged down in the budget battle with C.B.O. numbers or O.M.B. numbers, nobody could understand it. And they didn't stay on a high level, and they didn't talk about a vision and a philosophy of Republicans versus Democrats. And on that level we can win this battle every time. But, you know, it's not simply Al Gore that's calling us extremists. My friend Bob Dole here, friend of thirty years, has an attack ad on me calling me an extremist. As Lamar said earlier, Bob Dole is a better man than the campaign his folks are running. He says in that ad that Pat Buchanan wants to give away, or..ah..wanted to give away nuclear weapons to our Asian allies. Bob, that's not true... Dole: That's what you said; I didn't say that... Buchanan: It's not true, and your folks know it's not true. And my understanding is now you're phone banking the same way you did Steve Forbes, telling folks Pat Buchanan said this. Bob, it's not true. Pat Buchanan's not an extremist. Those are the cuss words of the establishment. I'm surprised you'd be usin' them against a fellow Republican. And let me say this, Bob, if I'm an extremist, why are you pirating my ideas and parroting my rhetoric? Where'd you get that idea for the cultural war for the soul of America, my friend? Where'd you get these other ideas about corporate greed? Listen, I welcome the fact that you're coming my way, Bob, but I don't think you can call us an extremist when you've become a pretty good echo of Pat Buchanan. Brown: Thank you Mr. Buchanan. Senator Dole. Dole: Well, I appreciate that endorsement and uh, we've been talking about uh, corporate welfare and many of Mr. Forbes advertises, I guess, way back since 1981 when we closed some of those big leap, loop holes that big corporations, ah, Safe Harbor Leasing and other things. But, let me address the question, I guess that's not without precedent. Let me address the question. I'm very proud of the Republican Congress. For the first time in forty years we had an opportunity to make change, and we've made changes, but there's one thing that stands in the way. There's one barrier named Bill Clinton, President Bill Clinton. He talks left and governs right, or talks right and governs left; which ever it is. He, he's never the same. One day he's this way, and one day he's the next day. We need to remove that obstacle. I think we've done an outstanding job. We, we've passed the first balanced budget in the generation, we sent it to the President, and he vetoed it. We passed welfare reform with an overwhelming vote that every governor I know of and every ex-governor, except Lamar Alexander, is for, and he vetoed that. We passed tax cuts for families with children, a five hundred dollar tax cut, and he vetoed that. We passed farm legislation, and he vetoed that. One after another, after another, after another, President Clinton vetoed it. Now how do we change it? We've got the initiative, we've got the right program, as I said in my opening statement, we're just one election away, one election away from history of getting all these things done, or being on the way done just one year from now. Now, let me say finally, you know, we're not perfect; we haven't had this opportunity for forty years. We're gonna pick up Senate seats and House seats in the Congress in 1996 if we have the right nominee; if that nominee is Bob Dole. Brown: Thank you Senator. Congressman Dornan, you have one minute for rebuttal. Dornan: Thank you. Uh, if Reagan were here, I guess he's say, "There you go again," jumping on one or the other. I'm glad Bob brought it back to uh, to Clinton. I'm the only person here from the House of Commons, the people's house, the House of Representatives. I signed the Contract of American. I spoke on the floor, and helped pass every part of it, including no U.S. troops under foreign command which all of you get standing ovations for out on the [inaudible]. I passed more laws that Clinton had to sign in the year of '95 than everybody else put together here because we haven't gotten to Dick Lugar's agriculture bill, and Bob missed the great balance the budget uh, uh, strategy by one vote, unfortunately, a good Republican. Let me tell you folks something. Phil Gramm said yesterday what my reason was for not being here enough to get higher in the polls, he said he's going back to his work in the Senate. I never left my work in the House. Bob may have kept Phil from being a chairman, but I'm a chairman of an intelligence committee, and you're looking at the chairman of military personnel, and later in this debate, I'll tell you about ten amendments by Dornan that Clinton was forced to sign. Brown: Thank you Congressman. Steve Forbes, one minute for rebuttal. Forbes: Well, I think it's very clear that first we do need a Republican president, and we do need a common agenda. But part of the problem, too, in Washington is they've confused means and ends. Balancing a budget is a means to an end, and the Republicans have for the moment, but only for the moment, lost the high moral ground. They should have been bolder, and not bound by polls. They should have had vision, starting with the tax code. It is a cesspool of special interests. It is legalized corruption. They should have attacked it. I think with a flat tax. They should have proposed a much more radical tax cut to take the pressure on two income families. Two incomes in a family can't do the job that one income could in previous generations, and they could've gone a long way to helping that with a substantial tax cut. They also didn't put enough emphasis on medical savings accounts, they got bogged down again in the swamp of trying to cut benefits and raise co-pays and things like that. With medical savings accounts they could've given the American people who are on Medicare more coverage, more control at less cost. Why they didn't make that the center piece, I don't know. But, when I'm president, we will have a common agenda, a bold agenda. Brown: Thank you very much. Mr. Keyes, you have one minute. Keyes: I think what's clear is that the secret of the 1994 election was the fact that Republicans were operating in an environment where the Repub...the public overwhelmingly rejected the moral culture of the Clinton administration and the democrat control Congress. The Jocelyn Elders, the gays in the military, the corruption rife in the Congress, made people realize that the moral standards and values represented by the Democrats were inadequate for the future. It was that contrast between Republicans and Democrats that elected an overwhelmingly pro-life, moral conservative uh, freshman class for the Republicans. But, we've lost that. They started grobbling over the money and grappling over the money, and lost sight of the fact that the real crisis we face is a crisis of moral vision and moral standards. And that the choice is not just less government, more government, less money, more money. It's a choice between big government and the strength of our families, the strength of our hearts, the strength of our spirit of self-reliance as a self-governing people. When we start putting welfare back under the control of churches instead of bureaucrats, when we put s, ka, schools back under the control of parents instead of educrats, and when we finally get ourselves back under control based on our reverence for God almighty as mandated in our Declaration principles. Then I think we'll have a vision that will move the hearts of the country. Brown: Thank you. Senator Lugar. Lugar: I believe Republicans have maintained them, the high ground for moral values, and clearly for balancing the budget, and I think there's still great opportunities for that to occur with Republican leadership in the Congress working with the President. But, I think we did mismanage perceptions on the environment, on education, on the need for a safety net for Americans who are very vulnerable, the [inaudible], and the helpless. As Republicans we'd better speak out quickly, that we're for the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, that we believe in a safety net for all Americans and we believe very firmly that we're going to have to do a great deal in education at a time when so many Americans are being laid off and so many other Americans need re-education and real boosts. Not only the young, but the non-traditional students all the way through. We've got to speak out on those things. It's not enough to balance the budget and to say we're the most conservative. We've got to be the most forward-looking, the most statesman-like, and that will take some re-gearing of management. Brown: Mr. Taylor, your rebuttal. Taylor: Well, number one, I think the '94 elections showed that the American public are, uh, fed up with politicians. They elected an awful lot of them that weren't politicians, but when you get to Washington, things just get messed up. And the reason being is, personally I think they've uh, they've lost focus on what we've got to do in this country. To balance the budget, the only one that can really balance the budget is the President of the United States because he's got 3 million civilians that work for him, he's got one and a half million men and women under the military that work for him. No one in Congress, no one Senator has the authority hire and fire on that side. But what else we have to do is we got to look at jobs in this country, and that's a big frustration in America. I'm the only man up here who's ever created em, and I'm probably the only man up here who really understands what's wrong with our trade. Our trade, we've got to have so that it is a fair trade. We restrict, if they restrict us going into their country, we restrict them. You can't put tariffs or duties; that just hurts the working, but you can restrict it. Bring the jobs back here. That's what we have to do. Brown: All right, thank you very much Mr. Taylor. Heath: Karen will now ask a question beginning with Mr. Dornan. Brown: Four years ago the number one issue in the New Hampshire presidential primary was the economy. Unemployment was high, real estate was depressed, and the state still had not recovered from a local banking crisis. Four years later, the economy is growing, unemployment is low, interest rates are low, the stock market is soaring, and inflation is under control. All of this is coming under President Bill Clinton's watch. Aren't we better off economically than we were four years ago? And, if so, why do we need a change in the White House? Congressman Dornan. Dornan: Well, a two-part question. All of this is in spite of Clinton and Clinton in the White House. I serve in the Congress, and I watch not a single Republican in the House or the Senate vote for the most massive tax increase in the history of civilization, since the Pharaohs ran a slave system, and it destroyed a lot of democrats, uh, in 1994. We would be doing so much better now if it weren't for Clinton in the White House, that we'd be an example to the whole world. Things are on borrowed time. We have a $5 trillion debt. I believe that there are already the kind of people in the White....in the House of Representatives, the 73 freshmen, the 40 or so sophomores that are left from uh, a tough election in '92. We are winning the victories that these people talk about. Aren't you gentlemen wired to C-Span? Don't you watch the quality of debate from the freshmen to some of the old, bull elephants? We are winning the day, and when we take the White House back and sink up the House with the White House with the Senate, you watch this country truly grow and then for my ten grandchildren and all of our children and your beautiful Moira that I met today, Steve, you watch us begin to roll back that debt which will unfortunately reach $6 trillion before we even start to turn it around. This is the Republican moment, and I don't know what these people are watching in politics, but I feel like a fighter in the arena, and I'm proud of my record. Heath: Thank you Mr. Dornan. Mr. Forbes, please answer Karen's question. Forbes: Well, this recovery has been the slowest in the last fifty years, it has been very sluggish, it is nothing to boast about. America has the capability of doing far, far better. As a matter of fact, we're sort of like a patient with walking pneumonia, we're out of bed, but we're not very well. All you have to do is go to families. Look at two income families who ask that question, why two incomes in a family can't seem to do the job that one income could in previous generations. Why do so many young people feel that they won't have the opportunities to get ahead the way their parents and grandparents did. So, this economy could do better. It is burdened by taxes. It is burdened by excessive regulation. And, they didn't reduce taxes, they didn't reduce regulations, they haven't returned more control to the people, so the American economy is faltering. They haven't done enough to reduce trade barriers, or where they have they haven't lived up to the spirit of that agreement by getting into higher taxes and devaluation's which wreck countries around the world. So, the Clinton administration had an extraordinary opportunity to liberate the American people by reducing the tax burden, replacing the corrupt tax code, by reducing the burden on small businesses. Because it's small businesses is where the jobs are created. In the 1980's we created 18 and a half million new jobs, including a record number of high pay jobs. Fourteen million came from new businesses. So, America can grow, America can grow much, much faster than it is today. And that's the core of my campaign. We must get these shackles off our legs, these fifty pound cinder blocks off our legs and get America moving again. Clinton can't do it. Heath: Thank you Mr. Forbes. Mr. Keyes. Keyes: I think it's clear that Bill Clinton should be defeated because you're absolutely right, the money issues are not the real issues. Folks can go on quibbling, they can say this, they can say that, but the American people, as usual, struggling even under the burdens of oppressive taxation and over-regulation are moving this economy along. That's not Bill Clinton's doing, but we shouldn't run it down. The real problem with Bill Clinton is that he represents the anti-moral, anti-family administration in the history of this country, that he has under his watch seen our children increasing in their drug use, increasing in their violence, our schools coming under the shadow of increasing moral degeneracy and he has promoted it with his appointment, with his viewpoints, with his support of the women's conference that represented a wholesale assault on the values needed to sustain the American family. If we fight this election on money grounds, it's very likely that we will lose. But, if we fight it on the real grounds, the grounds of the assault on American's moral foundation represented by Bill Clinton and his anti-family, anti-moral policies, then we will bring before the American people the real choice, the real crisis, the real opportunity to lay again strong foundations for the twenty-first century that reach into our deep traditions, our reverence for God, our discipline and responsibility before God in the use of our freedom. That's what Bill Clinton doesn't understand, it's what he has forgotten, it's what we Republicans must bring back to the forefront of American consciousness. So, we restore the real heart of this country; which is the beating heart of our moral discipline and our moral responsibility. Two things that Bill Clinton seems to know nothing about. Heath: Thank you Mr. Keyes. Senator Lugar, you'll have a moment to, one minute to respond. Lugar: Well, in fairness to President Clinton, long before he came into office American family income was flat. We now know for the last twenty years the average family has gained no money when discounted for inflation. We, we know the wage rates have been flat for five years likewise, productivity in our economy. Uh, we know in essence that we have had low growth, so low the social security trust fund will go bankrupt in the next century because it was predicated on three and a half to four percent real growth, and Medi-care will go bankrupt much before that, and we're trying to reform that as Republicans. But the problem is that President Clinton never saw th, those problems. He still doesn't see those problems. He may get lucky. He may be able to slide through 1996 with one percent growth of the economy or five-tenths of a percent, but he might not be lucky. We might have a recession, and there is nothing in this administration's program that would prevent recession and massive unemployment even during this campaign debate. That is the tragedy of the Clinton administration. Heath: Senator, Senator Lugar thank you. Mr. Taylor, you have a minute. Taylor: Well, it's hard for me to believe that everything's rolling real fine when you've got interest rates up at 8%, and you go over to Japan, they're at 2%. You, you're gonna have to build more base. Uh, you go around this state, and yes, you're right, you've got employment back up, but you replaced high paying manufacturing jobs with $7-$8 jobs. You can't survive on that. We've got a minimum wage that's $4.25. That's fine for 14-18, but after 18, you better move it to 7, and you better get $10-$20 hour jobs here. And the way you, the reason you can't is when they talk about the small business guy, he can't pay more because what happens it is the whole market is open to the foreigners, and they'll just drop it in and run em out of business. And, but you can't compete over there. We can't sell tires down in Mexico because they put a 20% duty on it. It's crazy. The same with China. You've got to wake up. It's fine, the economy's going great in Washington; look at the lobbyists, look at all the firms. You know, we've got to get some practicality. And, you know, you look at the tax structure. The first thing you got to do is get some jobs and cut Washington. Heath: Thank you Mr. Taylor. Mr. Alexander. Alexander: Let's put this in the, in the real world. While President Clinton is up there in Washington saying the economy is getting better, at the Burger King in Windham where I stopped on my walk across New Hampshire, two of the women who work there's husbands lost their job in the last month. They don't think the economy's so good. And there are a lot of people driving to work in America every day uh, worried about having a job when they get there because of down-sizing, world competition, and the computer age. Your choice is which one of us has the most capacity to create good new jobs in the future? I would suggest that I've got some experience the others don't have. I'm the only governor in the race, and I helped our state going, go from being one of the poorest to the fastest growing in family incomes by focusing on job growth and education. And then I did something that I think every politician ought to be sentenced to do. I helped to start a company under the rules I set while I was in office. I would change federal job training programs into work scholarships. That's one new idea to help people go from one job that they lose to the next job, and our new tax system ought to make it possible for pensions and for health care to follow you from one job to the next. Heath: Thank you Mr. Alexander. Mr. Buchanan, one minute. Buchanan: All right, no one's got to tell me how bad it was up here in New Hampshire in 1991 and 92, because I came up here to protest the economic policies of my own administration which were responsible for what was going on here. And I know how it was because I went through Laconia. There weren't houses for sale, they had auction signs in front of houses all the way up to the north country. I remember being at a cafeteria in Nashua, and a woman came up to me and smiled and said, "Pat, I'm gonna vote for you," then she broke down crying and she said, "I'm losing my job, and they're taking my children. What am I going to do?" So, there are economic problems then, and there are problems now, but the new problems are different. And let me tell you what they are. There is the economic insecurity of the middle class and the falling wages of working class Americans. And for the life of me I cannot understand why my colleagues will not recognize that when you cut trade deals that force Americans to compete with people making $1 an hour, and $.25 an hour in China, and $.75 an hour in Singapore, wages are gonna go down, and they're goin' down. And for heaven's sakes, stand with me and do something to put a stop to it and end what's going on. Heath: Thank you Mr. Buchanan. Senator Dole. Dole: Well, we shouldn't play on people's fears. We ought to play on their hopes and aspirations. And I, too, remember what it was like up here, and remember how much it's increased despite Bill Clinton. Despite the biggest tax in, increase in the history of America - $265 billion, despite vetoing welfare reform and tax credits for families with children and a balanced budget. But, in the interim, now, there are about six hundred thousand people working in New Hampshire. There's been a growth in that, uh, about 51,000 over the past few years, so they've made a lot of progress. The unemployment rate's about 3.3%, we've got about 1,000 companies in New Hampshire who export, export! They couldn't do that if they had Pat Buchanan's theory - he'd build a wall around America, you couldn't export anything. There are people like Cabletron, Polivac, Lockheed, creates about 35,000 jobs in New Hampshire, so all this high tech, all these things happening in New Hampshire and New England, on the plus side. And New Hampshire's on the move primarily because of an outstanding governor, and the legislature working together. Not because of Bill Clinton, because he, again, was an impediment. Brown: Thank you very much Senator. Jack will ask the next question, and the first person to answer will be Senator Lugar. Heath: Senator, perhaps more than any other single issue the people watching you tonight at home, I don't want to speak for them, but I think if their, had one concern it would be if they lose their job tomorrow, what are their chances of getting as good if not a better job the next day, and as this economy changes world-wide and in New Hampshire, companies have to adapt, and we see all these mergers going on. Many New Hampshire companies are benefiting from expanding global markets, world-wide exporting. Some of you support the NAFTA and trade agreements such as GATT. Some of you do not. Please form an answer where you stand on NAFTA and GATT and how companies can grow. And if you're for it, explain why. If you're against it, why, as to what pertains to New Hampshire companies and jobs. Lugar: I strongly favor NAFTA and GATT. I strongly favor any opportunity to knock down export barriers because that is the primary way we will gain new jobs in our country, and the primary way we are gaining new jobs now. The facts are very clear that American strengths, diplomatically, and politically, and militarily has got to be combined with our strength economically to knock down those barriers. I'll make no mistake about it, there has been a net gain in jobs in our country; a net gain in income. There have been specific losses in some industries, and specific jobs have been lost here in New Hampshire, as well as in my home state of Indiana. But we have got to take a look at the future of our country in terms of all of us. And that means we are low cost producers again and again. We are the most ingenious people in the world. Where we have free competition, we will succeed. If we are not powerful economically and militarily, and we do not have a strong foreign policy, we will not succeed. We will lose jobs if we go protectionist and isolationist. We will gain jobs if we take leadership in the world. As a businessman, I exported, I created jobs, I know how to do it, and I speak to small business very strongly in this country. And to farmers, who this year exported more pork than we imported for the first time in 43 years. Why? Because we battered down the doors, and GATT and NAFTA did the job for farmers, for meat packers, for those who wanted more jobs. Brown: Thank you Senator. Mr. Taylor, you have a minute-thirty to respond. Taylor: Well, number one, NAFTA and GATT are a joke if you've traded world-wide and no disrespect to Senator Lugar, but he's been a senator for twenty-five years and a mayor before then, so I don't know when he was tradin' overseas. But that's the problem in Washington - they're out of touch. Here's what it is - the U.S., our market is the world's largest market. All right? You turn around and we're losing it, folks. You cannot take farm tires and sell them into Mexico. It all sounds great, free trade, but they don't read their own agreements. Number one, it says, seven years, ten years, twenty years before they open the markets. What do the senators and all the congressmen think the people are going to do when they lose their jobs next week? Because our own government will help me close all of our plants today, fifteen of them in this country, and move them to China. No duties to send the tires back, but can we send tires today over there? No. Can you send wheels? No. Right here in New Hampshire, Timberland, they make shoes, maybe someone's got a pair on, they sell for $110 here. You go over to Europe, $250. The company's not making that profit - they slap it on. You wanna talk about pork? Well, I, let's go to Europe. It sells for about $.65 a pound versus $.50 out in Iowa. Our farmers can beat anybody in the world, but is the markets all open to 'em? No. Only opens up when they want it. It's the same with everything. You have the market, you've got to learn, you're the big dog and they want to trade here, and if they won't open their markets, restrict 'em. We'll build the stuff here, and that's what we've got to do if you want to get jobs. Brown: Thank you Mr. Taylor. Mr. Alexander, you have one minute, thirty seconds. Alexander: Thank you. I favor the trade agreements, and let me tell you how I learned my lesson. I became governor of one of the poorest states. We had to get our family incomes up. The way we did it was to join the world. We recruited international investment, and we got busy selling our soybeans and our cotton and our corn and our Jack Daniels and our country music, and now we're ready to sell our Saturn cars around the world. Of course we were losing jobs, but I found out very early that if all I did was fly down to Memphis and get in the newspaper trying to persuade International Harvester not to close, they were going to close anyway, and I wasn't going to be much of a governor. So, I kept my focus on the job spigot, not the job drain. We also need a president who's prepared to say to Japan, for example, that if we're ready to sell our Saturns in Tokyo, the ones that are made in Tennessee, then you'd better let us run around in your market just like we let your Toyota sellers run around in our market. But we can never raise our standard of living by protectionism, by building a wall around the country. That's not putting America first. That's putting America last, that's a lack of confidence. That's not a rising, shining America. We need lower taxes, we need less regulations, we need a focus on university research for technology, we need better schools. That's the way to have the kind of future that we need. Brown: Thank you Mr. Alexander. Mr. Buchanan, you have one minute for rebuttal. Buchanan: All right. Sure, NAFTA was really a wonderful deal for America. Two years after we negotiated and signed it, our trade surplus is gone, we've got a $15 billion trade deficit with Mexico, 300,000 jobs have gone south, the Florida winter tomato industry is on it's back, illegal immigration is soaring into this country, Mexico is the prime source of narcotics and drugs, and my good friend, Senator Dole negotiated a $50 billion bail-out with Bill Clinton for the regime that brought this all about. Why? Because Mexico needed the money to pay back Citibank, Chase Manhattan, and Goldman Sacks. Now, I plead guilty, Bob, to wanting to protect American workers making ten bucks an hour in South Carolina textile mills from having to compete with Mexicans making a buck an hour. That's just not fair. That is un-American. But Bob, when Citibank, Chase Manhattan, and Goldman Sacks got into trouble, you turned into a protectionist with Bill Clinton, and Mr. Reuben and Mr. Greenspan, and all of you got together and bailed out that government. Why didn't you let those fellows test the magic of the marketplace like you want American workers to do? Brown: Thank you. Senator Dole, you have a minute. Dole: Let, let me say that first of all the problem is not with NAFTA and GATT, I supported. The problem is with President Clinton. He's been less than aggressive in, in effect to be an aggressive trade policy. He's got anti-dumping provisions, anti-substitute provisions. We have provisions of law called Section 301 where you can take action to protect American workers. He hasn't done it. He hasn't done it, time after time after time. As far as the Mexican bail-out is concerned, and of course this is a position ah, Pat Buchanan was a free trader not too many years ago, he used to write about it, I used to read his columns, but he's changed his mind. We ship about, uh, $3 billion in exports per month to Mexico. It creates a lot of jobs in America. Now, if we didn't have the Mexican, the so-called Mexican bail-out was recommended by the Chairman of the Fed., Alan Greenspan and others, because had we not done that, there would be millions and millions of Mexicans coming across the border, would increase our costs for health care, education, and everything else. You talk about an il, illegal immigration flood, this would've been a flood. It's gonna steady off, it's gonna give a little time to work. But, if I'm the President of the United States, I'll use the weapons Congress gave me to make certain we get a fair deal in Mexico and the European countries. Brown: Thank you Senator. We'll now hear from the Congressman from California. Dornan: Three of us who weren't uh, ditching most of the final debates were in Derry last night - Alan, Dick Lugar, and myself. And a veteran in a wheelchair said, "Congressman, we, uh, we don't have it as good as the people in Mexico." And I pointed out to him that I voted against GATT because of the World Trade Organization. I also voted against it because it was after the November 8th election of 94, and 36 defeated members of Congress, big taxers and spenders like Danny Rostenkowsky (sp?) of Chicago were getting to vote on a World Trade Organization. I told the veteran last night, "The Mexican president who went to Harvard and was a free trader, Salinas, is in shameful exile in Mexico because his brother, Raul, is in president, uh, in prison for having tried to allegedly to ah, kill the number one front-runner in the presidential election. Mexico's in sad shape. I voted for NAFTA as a free trader, hoping that we could reach out and treat Mexico the way we treat Canada, as friendly North Americans. The problem is the country is corrupt under one party rule, and the jury is still out on the NAFTA vote. Everybody here made sense. Brown: Thank you Congressman. Mr. Forbes. Forbes: It is essential for America to work to reduce trade barriers. We are now the most competitive nation in the world. We tried high tariffs in the past, we tried isolation, I, is, ism in the past, and we got a great depression as the result. America, because it's competitive, must reduce, not only reduce trade barriers with their neighbors, but with countries like Japan, as well. The problem with NAFTA, which I supported, was not reducing trade barriers, it was the fact that the Clinton administration and the Mexican government, neither have lived up to the spirit of that agreement. They put in a massive devaluation a little over a year ago with the express purpose of making it harder for our products to enter Mexico, and easier for Mexican products to enter into the United States. That is wrong. That is not free trade. Because America's competitive, I'm gonna, when I'm president, we're gonna start trade negotiations with countries like Japan for a free trade agreement. Everyone says, gee, that's not possible. Well, it took five years, six years to do one in Canada. It may take ten or twelve years in Japan, but when we reduce these barriers, America creates jobs and high paying jobs. Mr. Forbes: It is essential for America to work to reduce trade barriers. We are now the most competitive nation in the world. We tried high tariffs in the past. We tried isolationism in the past. We got a great depression as the result. America because its competitive, must reduce not only reduce trade barriers with its neighbors, but with countries like Japan as well. The problem with NAFTA, which I supported, was not reducing trade barriers. It was the fact that the Clinton Administration and the Mexican government, neither have lived up to the spirit of that agreement. They put in a massive devaluation a little over a year ago, with the expressed purpose of making it harder for our products to enter Mexico, easier for Mexican products to enter into the United States. That is wrong. That is not free trade. Because America is competitive, I'm goin', when I'm President, I'm going to start trade negotiations with countries like Japan for a free trade agreement. Everyone says, "Gee, that's not possible." Well, it took five, six years to do one in Canada. It may take ten or twelve years in Japan. But, when we produce these barriers, America creates jobs and high paying jobs. Speaker: Mr. Keyes Mr. Keyes: You know, I think its pretty obvious that NAFTA has proven to be a raw deal and I think that its pretty obvious, as well, that the GATT and the World Trade Organization were a basic surrender of America sovereignty, giving control over our borders for trade purposes to a bunch of unelected foreigners where we only had one vote in determining and defending America's interests. Ah, I think that we have to talk about free trade in terms of whether that free trade is fair to the American worker. And whether we are in fact having the kind of leadership that vigorously pursues the access to foreign market that we need to create jobs in this country. And I don't think we have had that kind of leadership, not with Japan, and not with others. But I also want to caution against the rhetoric that I'm listening to ..Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Dole and others, beaten up on the corporation, talking as if the government is going to guarantee everybody a job with the trade policies and this policy and that policy. They sound like a bunch of Socialists, not a bunch of Republicans. And I'm getting a little tired of it. I think we need to got back to the understanding that Republicans and conservatives stand for free market, stand for looking to the world strongly to open those markets to America and that we are not in favor of those agreements that actually represent international socialism anymore then workman's [inaudible] socialism. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Keyes. I'm surprised none of you jumped in there. I want to thank you. Carol will now ask a question with a 1:30 response beginning with Mr. Buchanan. Carol: Now, the social security trust fund will have a surplus of 525 billion dollars at the end of 1996. Because of changing demographics by the year 2029, its reserves will be depleted and it will be paying out more than what it takes in. Some suggest raising the retirement age to 70 or 72. Still, others suggest a means test or an affluence test. And still others suggest privatizing the system. Many younger workers who are paying into the system have little or no confidence they will ever see a return on their investment. What do you say to workers in their twenties and thirties? How to you propose to revamp the system? Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Buchanan: Quite simply, sure, got a minute and a half? [inaudible] Speaker: Yes. Mr. Buchanan: Quite simply I don't think I'm gonna to need to take that time because I might devote it to something else. Quite simply you're gonna have in 1997, if you have a Republican President, a Republican Senate, a Republican House, we're gonna to have to sit down together and we're gonna have to make that system solve it. Many of the ideas you've got will be right on the table. You know I'm not going to go into which ones its going to come down to, but we will have to do it, we have an obligation to do it. Let me take up the issue mentioned by Senator Dole. Senator Dole said if we hadn't bailed out of Mexico with 50 billion dollars, why, all these immigrants would come screaming across the border. Sen. Dole: It's going to be repaid too Pat, I [inaudible] it's gonna be repaid. Mr. Buchanan: Lots of luck Bob. Sen. Dole: We're not gonna lose one cent, we took care of that [inaudible]. Mr. Buchanan: Bob, you're not gonna get a dime of that money back. Let me give my answer here. Bob said all these illegal aliens were going to come across our border. They wouldn't come across the border if Pat Buchanan were President of the United States. I would have a security fence across all those areas of mass transit into this country. We would stop illegal immigration cold because that is a constitutional duty of the President of the United States; to protect the borders of America, the states of America from foreign invasion. And that's what's taking place with one, two, three million people walking across our borders every year. Some of them going into crime. Some of them going on welfare. Most of them coming for work. Our immigration laws are being violated and either the Congress of the Untied States or the President of the United States are faithfully executing the laws of the United States, and when we get there they will be faithfully executed and illegal immigration into this country at that southern border will be stopped cold. You have my word. Speaker: Mr. Buchanan, thank you. Senator Dole, you have a minute-thirty. Sen. Dole: The question was social security? Speaker: Yeah. Sen. Dole: Just wanted to check. I remember in 1983 when social security was about to be bankrupt. Had Ronald Reagan in the White House, Republican, Tip O'Neil, Democratic Speaker. They appointed a commission. I was proud to be on that commission of such diverse [inaudible] Democratic Congressman from Florida to the chair. The champion of senior citizens. We rescued social security from bankruptcy. It's gonna be in good shape when you say maybe 20, 10, maybe 20, probably it's about 2020. You say 2020 [inaudible] will run out of money. We're going to have to go back and address it again. We're going to have to go back and address it, maybe, maybe take a look at the age. You're living longer, a lot of good things are ahead. We've got better medicine, all these things are happening. People are much better off as far as health is concerned for a long, long time. We also need to look at some alternatives, whether its individual retirement accounts or other means. Let younger people invest, so they can, ya know, have something to supplement their social security. There are a lot of things we can do just within 1983. There is only one member here that was on that commission that rescued social security and that's Bob Dole. Let me say a thing: Pat's really got carried away tonight, I don't know what's happened to ya. Bad day or something? Mr. Buchanan: Well I know you were on that commission. Sen. Dole: Ya. Mr. Buchanan: You raised social security taxes more than... Sen. Dole: No, it was... Mr. Buchanan: ...any tax increase in American history. Sen. Dole: That's right, becuase we saved social security and 37 million Americans are getting, getting their, getting their checks every month. But Pat's off on this isolationist kick. Build a fence around America. Now, let's face it, the thing we got to do in Mexico is to get this NAFTA thing or get a good, strong President, use weapons Congress gave him and prove the economy of Mexico. Those people will stay home. If they don't, we do have a reasonability. Bob Dole will have that responsibility in 1997 and if not we ought to supplement or compensate the states who have to pick up the slack on Medicaid, health care, and other th, uh, education, other costs they incur becuase of illegals. Speaker: Thank you, Senator. Representative Dornan, you have a minute, thirty as well. Rep. Dornan: Good citizens of New Hampshire, this is what it's like in the Republican [inaudible]. Now we're on track, we're on the issues, we're fine tuning, and we're arguing back and forth on substance. I represent a fifty-four percent Hispanic-American district. It's 10% Asian, it's 1% African-American and it's democrat by 11%. I must be doing something right. Here is the problem with the electric third rail social security. I hope George Stephanopolous is listening. Stop the vicious scare rhetoric tearing up the senior citizens in this country and ruining their golden years. There's plenty of money for the next couple of decades. It's after that when my children who straddle the Baby Boom generation and the excellent generation, and I repeat Sally, and I have ten more coming up to fill in that, we must begin. I do, you, you suggested to add a year every two or three years to our retirement age. There is no reason why we shouldn't start retiring at uh, 77, eventually, maybe in the middle of next century. Thanks to uh, the Republicans in the House and in the Senate, we didn't let them destroy the best health system in all of history in the world today extending our lives. There are ways to fix it, but the problem is out there, twenty-thirty years and we can fix it. Particularly if the American voters will give us four years for the first time in sixty- eight years with one continuity of House, Senate and the White House. Speaker: Thank you, Mr. Dornan. Mr. Forbes, you'll have one minute. Mr. Forbes: Thank you very much. That 1983 rescue of the social security system, Senator, was very typical of the way Washington solves problems. They raise taxes, they raise taxes and they cut benefits. We need to do it a new way. Turn the problem into an opportunity, which is the core of my campaign. We must keep our promises to those that are on the system and those who are going to go on the system in the next 15 years in terms of benefits. But we know and younger Americans know, the system is gonna go 'kaput' by the time they retire. So why not, while we still have time, do something unusual, twenty years ahead of the time before we crash, and that is have a new system for younger people, where a portion of their payroll tax, instead of going to subside the national debt in Washington, would instead go into their own individual savings for retirement account. This way it takes it out of the hands of the Washington politicians. The money is invested in the real American economy, which makes America stronger and younger people will have a genuine retirement instead of a bankrupt system today. Speaker: Thank you, Mr. Keyes one minute. Mr. Keyes: Well I've always said that the key to social security is fairly simple. Keep the promises we've made, so that those people who in good faith, pay into the system receive the benenfits that they feel they're entitled. B, But stop making promises we can't keep. The new generation's coming along and we know we will not be able to sustain in terms of the benefits they will be expecting. Open the system up to alternatives that allow them to invest in the private sector. We'll get a better answer. But I do kinda wish people would stop pretending that the social security system was some how resolved, the problem resolved. What they did in the 1980s was to issue license for this huge I.O.U., this mythological social security trust fund. That is an I.O.U. signed by the tax payers of today to be paid by the tax payers of tomorrow from a worker base that won't be large enough to sustain the payment. I think it's unconscienciable that we have politicians who claim that that was a solution. It was sure typical, take the burden, make sure your political butt is safe, and then shipped it off to the future cause you won't be around to have to answer for it. That is unconscienciable, and I think to call that a solution is just fooling the American people and misrepresenting the truth Mr. Dole. Sen. Dole: President Reagan felt, I was happy to work with President Reagan. Speaker: Thank you ah, Mr. Keyes. Thank, thank you Mr. Keyes. We'll move on to Senator Lugar. You have one minute. Sen. Lugar: Well the solution in 1983 ah, would have worked if we had had three and a half to four percent real growth in the economy. That was our experience with the first three quarters of the century, it has not been our experience since. The basic way to secure the problem is to get growth back to three and a, and a half, four percent. I was surprised yesterday that President Clinton's accounts were applauded. [Inaudible] 2.3 percent growth is the nat, but the golden years have come. Well, what the fact is the golden years are bankrupting social security. Everytime the growth gets to 2.5 percent the Fed. hits the panic button and interest rests are raised. Obviously, growth is the best answer. The second good answer is what Steve Forbes mentioned. We've got to give young people a chance to put a part of their money into I.R. rates, self direct. And finally we shall have to raise the retirement age if in fact we're all going to grow older. Medical science keeps us alive. As a practical matter, we will have to do that for many Americans in the next century. Speaker: Thank you, Senator. Mr. Taylor you have one minute. Mr. Taylor: Well, it's not that complicated. Take all the Congressman, take the President, take the Senators, and take all the federal government workers and stick them on social security. Knock 'em off their pension, stick 'em on social security and then do like Steve Forbes said, the same thing with the youngers, set up a separate. Because you know if all Congressman and Senators and the President and bureaucrats are on it, you won't have to worry about social security. A Candidate: I'm on social security. Mr. Taylor: And uh, well you should retire then. Let a job from some young person. Number two, we gotta get the jobs back. When you listen to all this talk about NAFTA and GATT. And I'll say that Governor uh, Al, Alexander down there, and number one I've got a plant for Tenneseee, 500 employees and raise taxes an awful lot. And those plants that came in there. Number one, they only came in because you see, we restricted. It wasn't open, they would have never come. They were restricted to sell in the United States. Harley Davidson wouldn't be here today if we didn't restrict the Japanese from flooding our markets, restrict 'em, no duties, no tariffs, restrict 'em. Now, Harleys rule the world and Honda and Kawasaki have their plants here. That's how you get trade. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Taylor. Mr. Alexander. Mr. Alexander: Mr. Taylor, I assume you have your plants in Tennessee because its such a good place to have them because you have the fifth lowest taxes of any state in the country. Mr. Taylor: No, I've got something to add. Mr. Alexander: The real issue here, the real issue here is which one of us would you trust as President dealing with the two issues we've been discussing. Now here's what I would do about social security. I'd lead us through a discussion about retirement savings and social security. You have to clear the deck because it effects everyone. Our objectives would be three. Number one, to make sure that everyone gets what they are already entitled. Number w, two, that we begin to look at new options, especially for newer and younger members of, of, of the retirement plan so they can have their own savings accounts or whatever other options there might be. And three, to make sure that it's [inaudible]. Here's what I would do about illegal immigration. Within the first six months that I'm President, I would ask the Joint Chiefs to recommend a new branch of the Armed Services to control the borders, both for illegal drugs and for illegal immigration. We have to control the borders. And one reason we must do it is our failure to do so poisons our attitude towards legal immigrants. Legal immigrants who are here, playing by the rules, paying taxes just like you and I do, have a right to be treated with respect and differently then people who are illegal here. Speaker: Thank you very much Mr. Alexander. Jack will ask the next question. Mr. Forbes you will be the first to answer. Jack: Mr. Forbes, if you were to see a Washington where the name calling and the price of politics in public life was getting so steep the respect of people like Bill Bradley or Senator Bill Cohen are saying its not worth it and going home to their families or business. The New Hampshire people have been bombarded in recent months with negative paid political ads. Yes, political advertising is part of a campaign success or failure. Not all of you are guilty of engaging in this, but I would like each of you to answer this question. Please justify your own ad campaigns, please comment on the negativity that New Hampshire is seeing, and why haven't you all done paid ads that talk about positive issues, such as job creation, how you'd cut back crime, where you stand on gun control. Mr. Forbes? Mr. Forbes: When I began this campaign, I did something unusual in American politics. And that is I went directly to issues on the flat tax to get America growing again, term limits, lower interest rates, four and a half percent mortgages, medical savings accounts, and new social security for younger people, system for younger people, and parental control of education. I also thought it was legitimate to discuss my opponents who promised one thing before an election then do something the opposite after the election. For example, in 1988, Senator Dole said he saw no need to raise taxes, yet two years later he was leading the biggest tax increase, one of the biggest tax increases in American history. That I thought was a legitimate discussion for debate. Now, you see Lamar Alexander, he's now engaging in ads distorting my position and calling me a Wall Street insider. Well, as a Wall Street insider, many of us were impressed when Hillary Clinton turned one thousand dollars into one hundred thousand dollars. But, I was really astonished when I learned that as Governor, Governor Alexander turned one dollar into six hundred and twenty thousand dollars. So, when he says ABC, that Alexander beats Clinton, what he meant was not Bill Clinton, but Hillary Clinton. I thought that discussing where people say one thing and then do another, ethically, and the taxes and spending was legitimate. But I made a mistake in Iowa, I spent too much time discussing my opponents, not enough time, not enough time on my issues of growth and opportunity. But I have learned I've withdrawn all those ads, [inaudible] others do 'em, I won't do it again. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Forbes. Mr. Keyes, you have one minute thirty seconds. Mr. Keyes: Well, you know I, I wasn't guilty of any negative advertising in Iowa, but that's at least partly because I wasn't guilty of any advertising. [Laughter] I did manage to achieve ah, seven and a half percent of the vote on the strength of strong grass root support, for which I spent twelve dollars a vote compared to I understand was it 4,000, Steve, or 400,000? I forget but it's a lot of money, you got to admit. And I think a lot of what's going on, the negative advertising, the saturation of commercials, all of this stuff is due to the fact that we really have folks who don't have that much substance to offer the American people and instead are trying to manipulate their perceptions with slick ad campaigns and so forth and so on. All made up of course. The consultants to the polling, they do the focus groups, they figure out what the hot button is and write out a commercial. Does it represent your heart? Does it represent your real knowledge, your experience? Who knows, but you pay for it and off you go. That kind of store bought politician is exactly the reason we have the problems we have today. People who are not speaking from their hearts, but instead are speaking from the scripts prepared for them by what people can buy. I think it's time we decided we don't want the best President that money can buy. But in fact, we want the best President that in our judgment can address the issues, see clearly what our real priorities ought to be and address those priorities, in particular that relate to the things that are really happening to our children, in our schools, in our neighborhoods, on our streets. I don't see that from these money [inaudible] fellows I am running with right now, because if I saw it, they would talk more about family, less about money, more about morals, and less about the dollar, that in fact, are being wasted on programs in Washington that have helped to destroy the moral fabric and families of this country. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Keyes. Senator Lugar. Sen. Lugar: Alan Keyes is right, that there's a fraternity of campaign consultants who advise people running for President as well as a governor or a state-wide for senator, to strike first and to throw the mud and throw it fast. And with the mud splatters it's impossible to so-called, to find the issues and the candidates they're running against. We've all had that kind of advice. My own judgment is that bad advice, that candidates who use negative advertising demean their opponents and may hinder them, but they also demean themselves. This campaign is already so demeaning, the political process in this country, that Americans wonder what kind of a party we have and what kind of people inspire the Presidency. Not only has it been more negative advertising, but the money invested in one state in Iowa was world class and that will continue here in New Hampshire if New Hampshire people don't say very clearly, "Cut it out". I pledge not to use negative advertising. I have not done so in this campaign. I have not done so in Senate campaigns. I won big, with two-thirds of the vote in Indiana the last two times because I appeal to Independents and to Democrats. I said I want to unify the state and now I want to unify the country. You don't do that with vicious polarization that negative advertising creates. So I say again a vote for Dick Lugar is a vote for clean campaigning, a vote to end negative campaigning. It's important to cast that vote now. Speaker: Thank you very much Senator. Mr. Taylor you have one minute for rebuttal. Mr. Taylor: Yeah, don't put those terrorist ads on either, you're gonna scare the kids. Number ah, number one, I haven't done any negative ads. I went and said, "Hey, you want to balance the budget? You can balance the budget by cutting one-third. Just start at the top, you cut one-third of the bureaucrats at a hundred and forty-three thousand dollar a year salary. There's three thousand, knock it down to two, bring it down. Number two, is I talked about jobs in the trade. As I'm the only on up here whose really done it internationally. Number three was taxes, two percent, ten percent, seventeen percent. I did like Steve's mind on the ABC's, but he forget one thing. Hillary and Lamar would not pay any taxes under his flat tax program because it would be capitol gains. At least under the Taylor, there's seventeen percent, they would pay seventeen percent and everybody's got to pay taxes. The ads, you know, only in the political race can someone tell something about a politician and then tells what they did later, it becomes negative. It's kind of crazy, but um, I'm not a politician so I'm not into it so we'll just leave it right there and you got some free time. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Taylor. Mr. Alexander you have one minute. Mr. Alexander: Well, I'm glad to be getting so ah, so much attention. The reason I did well in Iowa was because I kept on the high road, my television ads were positive, about what I'm for, the future, and people got sick of Senator Dole and Mr. Forbes slammin' each other. And they pretty well persuaded a lot of Iowans that they were right in what they were saying about each other and a lot of them voted for me. Uh, as far as Mr. Forbes goes, he knows what a capital gain is, I was proud of that. The reason everyone knows about that is I've disclosed my tax returns. Since 1978, even when I'm in private life. Steve, why don't you disclose your tax returns as well? If your tax cutting agenda is our agenda then we need to know what taxes you pay. And if we're not careful we're going to spend all of out time here talking about each other. Mr. Forbes: You as Governor, have invested 20 million dollars in various scams. You have gotten 1.9 million dollars returned for it. Mr. Alexander: Steve. Mr. Forbes: 1.9 million dollars. Speaker: Mr. Alexander you may procede. Mr. Alexander: Thank you very much. Steve, since 1978, I've released all of my tax returns to the public. Your main agenda is tax returns. You say your that your tax plan will cut taxes for most people. What does it do to your taxes? And if you're going to be in public life, you'll, you'll need to let us know about that. One of my ads... Speaker: [inaudible] Governor. Mr. Alexander: ...not negative, is about conservation. I think we need to do a much better job as champion of the great... Speaker: Thank, thank you Mr. Alexander. Mr. Alexander: ...American outdoors and I'd like to have a chance to talk about it. Speaker: Mr. Buchanan, you have a minute. Mr. Buchanan: Alright, what we've demonstrated in this campaign is how a well run campaign that deals only positively with issues, doesn't have a lot of money, can carry this country. In the great state of Alaska Steve, I think you spent 400,000. We spent about 60 to 80 thousand, we won the state of Alaska. In Iowa, Bob Dole outspent me five to one, and Steve about eight to one. Bob started with something like a fifty-five to five lead over me, by the end of the night, on Caucus night it was three points. This campaign is on fire because we don't care about doing television attack ads. We got a vision and an agenda we know that a slew of attack ads and negative ads is no substitute for an agenda for America. Ideas, dealing with immigration, dealing with tax reform, dealing with bringin' the jobs back to America. That's what we got and I think that really, a vision of America is what is missing from many of these campaigns. When they use attack ads, there's a hollowness at the core of the campaign. There's no thought, there's no heart. It's just attack, attack, attack. And I think, quite frankly, that that's what this, a couple of these campaigns right now. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Buchanan. Senator Dole. Sen. Dole: Well, we do have a right of self-defense in America. And I stood by from October twenty-third when Steve Forbes started hammering me until January twelvefh, almost three months I took negative, negative, millions and millions of dollars worth of negative ads. They didn't even use a good picture of me. So Steve, I brought some pictures. Next time you run one, use this picture, it's better of me and my wife [inaudible] and that's my little dog Liter in this picture, he's the one on the right. So, I know all about negative ads [inaudible], if you're going to use negative ads... Mr. Forbes: Senator, no pretty picture can get around what you did on taxes Sen. Dole: Yea, right, I, I, I know, I know you're problem. You got a lot of money. You want to buy this election, but this election's not for sale. You hammered my positive rating from eighty to thirteen. You now have it down to fifty-four. That's what you did with negative ads. Nobody else has been the victim of negative ads up here except... Speaker: Thank you. Sen. Dole: ...Bob Dole. But, we're going to be very, very positive. Speaker: Senator Dole thank you. Sen. Dole: We're going to be on the offense because we've got the ideas for America... Speaker: Congressman Dornan, you have a minute. Mr. Dornan: Thank you. Well, the Senator gave me my opportunity. Feel free on camera three to zoom in on Molly Una Dornan. Molly-o is number ten. And I'm in the arena as a [now wispering] politician, a Washington insider [back to normal voice level] to try to serve the history of my country to try to make this world better than the world was given to me. My dad was wounded three times in World War I and my mother read nothing but politics and biographies and raised me maybe not to be the good business man my father was, you remind me of him Morry. He was an honest, hard charging business man, but he raised his sons to try and affect history a little more from the inside and there is nothing wrong with that. I have a solution. Now you can't pass a law for this but we'd all have to take a promise that every word in our ads is spoken by us. I don't think my pal Bob would call my friend Pat an extremist, if he had to do his own narration on camera. Let's all narrate everything we say. And don't go to far Dick, there are comparison ads. And I want to go after Clinton. And I'm afraid if you take that attitude he'll eat you for lunch. Speaker: Thank You, Congressman Dornan. Speaker: In order to get in our last question we're going to now say that the direct answer will be a minute and the rebuttal will be a minute so we can get in our last question. Access to health care is a major concern for millions of middle-class Americans. There are many individuals and families without health insurance. Many who are underinsured, who are ineligible for Medicaid and Medicare. Where does the responsibility lie for insuring these forgotten members of the middle class and how should their health care coverage be funded? We will start with Mr. Taylor. Mr. Taylor: Well, first thing that you should do is you should exempt the whole medical field for malpractice. I mean ah, we can set up for people who have a problem, get ah, compensated. Take the lawyers out of it. I know that's hard for Congress to do with so many of them in there. But, that's the first thing. Number two, is you got to bring the administration down ah, all the costs of the uh, layers that we have put in there from the government regulations. Number three, we got to look at the drug companies. I mean, we can have drugs in the US that sell for thirty dollars and they sell for seven in Mexico. That's wrong. We've got to bring it back and um, get it back so that it's in a managed situation. For gosh sakes, we hear all the talk about closing the ah, law, or the medical schools because we have too many doctors. If they're going to close anything, close the law schools. It's quite obvious that we have too many lawyers and that would help us out pretty good. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Taylor. Senator Lugar you have one minute. Sen. Lugar: [Inaudible] legislation that provides the affordability of coverage from person, from the person who has a job now to a job that ah, he or she might take. Ah, that would take care of a great number of people and we ought to, in the same legislation, provide for so-called pre-existing conditions, so the people will get the insurance, that uh, want to buy it. Twenty-five million Americans come into the insured situation under those terms. While reforming Medicaid, we ought to make certain that a safety net is provided for all low income Americans. It offers a remarkable opportunity for something virtually closed to universal coverage. Those things the Congress can do this year. I propose that we act swiftly. Speaker: Thank you Senator Lugar. Next to answer. One minute, Mr. Alexander. Mr. Alexander: Thank you Mr. [inaudible]. I have two ideas. One for Medicare, um, make the decisions outside Washington in the private sector, give providers more flexibility, interfere less with the doctor patient relationship, and turn us back into consumers of medical care, not just people who get these third party payments. Here's the second idea for Medicaid. My state, after I left office, got control of all the Medicaid spending. They immediately extended health care to four or five hundred thousand more people. Ninety four percent of Tennessians now have Medicaid coverage. That means they have health insurance. If the state governments can do that much better job with the same amount of money, then what are we waiting for? Why don't we move the decision making and the money out of Washington, back to us, and let us extend health care coverage to people who genuinely need it. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Alexander. Pat Buchanan, one minute. Mr. Buchanan: Let me talk about the private sector where people are losing their health care because big companies like AT&T are lopping off workers at forty thousand, one fell swoop, and these folks go out into the private market and they don't carry their health care with 'em. We gotta get those good payin' jobs back into the United States. Stop exporting them abroad because most Americans get their health care and health insurance through the company they work for and we got to get those good payin' jobs here. How do you do it? Combination of Ronald Reagan's tax cuts, tax rate cuts, get tax rates on investment saving and income down to the lowest level in the Western industrial world. That will cause America to become the enterprise zone of the Western world. But, there's a second component we got to think about now. And that's these trade deals, we're shippin' those jobs overseas, we're causing companies to move 'em overseas. We need trade polices Steve, that are rooted in the ideas of all four Presidents on Mt. Rushmore. And they believed, when necessary, in using tariffs to protect the standard of living of American workers and to keep Americans factories here and to making America the most independent, powerful, manufacturing, and industrial power in the world. You know Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, even Calvin Coolidge, one of our heroes, he believed in those kinds of policies. Speaker: That's time. Mr. Buchanan: You marry those two together... Speaker: That's time. Mr. Buchanan: ...and America, the eagle will soar. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Buchanan. Senator Dole, one minute. Sen. Dole: I think Pat is right. I think the Reagan tax cut, which I had the honor of [inaudible] through he Senate and [inaudible] through the Congress was a great idea in 1981. I think we need a... Speaker: It's nice to see you two agree. Sen. Dole: Alright, well. [Mr. Buchanan laughing] And I think we need a President to be more aggressive on trade policies. Trade agreements aren't bad if you have a President aggressive and use the weapons Congress give them. I've got a copy of the Tenth Amendment right here. We need to send Medicaid back to states, back to Governor Merill, back to the other states and they'll take care of a lot of these people. And, finally, we need to do what somebody else suggested. We have legislation pending now on the Senate, it's gonna be taken up between April third, I think, and Memorial Day, or April fifteenth and Memorial Day, which will, affordability is going to be provided for if you can, you're not going to lose your insurance if you change jobs, gonna take care of pre-existing condizitio, conditions and gonna have what we call "economy to scale" because businesses can go together There are probably fifteen provisions we all agree on and we believe this is a step in the right direction. But, finally, we need to give tax credits to families with children, tax credits to working families so they can better provide for themselves, better provide for health care. Thank you. Speaker: Thank you Senator. Mr. Dornan, one minute. Mr. Dornan: Ah, I, I ask dealer's choice here because it's been answered pretty well. Bob pulled out an excerpt from the ah, amendments to our great Constitution number ten. But, I've got the whole Constitution here, and this is the kind of thing that I think is fair comparison. Bob, I give you article one, section eight it's the Congress's right to raise and support armies, provide and maintain a navy, make rules for the government, provide for calling forward the militia, to provide for organizing army and disciplining. Bob, b, uh, Bosnia is unconstituitonal. You stood of have, should have had [inaudible] with me. Newt and you sold out to Clinton and you shouldn't have done that. That young Donald Duke [inaudible] there were only forty-nine guys on the ground, Bob. You should have stood with me and stopped... Sen. Dole: Since none of us have been there. [Inaudible] Mr. Dornan: ...them from going there. Well what about air lift, sea lift, air power, sea power, all the hospitals, and a hundred percent of the intelligence. Join me on that. Please, it's unconstitutional. Somalia, Bosina, and even Reagan in Lebanon. The Congress has the power to endanger our young men and women and send them in harms way. Not any President of either party. Speaker: Thank you, Mr.Dornan. Mr. Forbes you have one minute. ****************************************************** EDITING STOPPED HERE ****************************************************** Mr. Forbes: Thank you very much. We can start have medical savings accounts with Medicare, as a model for the private sector to give people more coverage. Under Medicare, each beneficiary will have fifteen hundred to two thousand dollars a year for routine expenses. If they're blesses with good health, they get to keep the money. The second part of it is, above the three thousand dollar level they have full, one-hundred percent, catastrophic, coverage. So, with medical saving accounts, they want have to buy medigap insurance. no more ...pays on part B, and no more high deductibles on part A. So beneficiaries would have better coverage, more control, and less cost.. That would be a revolution. We tried a variation medical savings accounts in the private sectors of Forbes magazine. Expenses went down, people did not lose coverage, and no one's benefits were stripped and no one was forced to ...... care. Why no have medical savings accounts with credits and other means for all the private sectors. Then we can find out who is truly not covered and then we can have the states put in high risk .... for those that fall between the cracks. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Forbes. Mr. Keyes, you have one minute. Mr. Keyes: Honestly, I think all of these ideas are .... For years I advocated medical savings accounts, we need to address the issues of ......uh and the availability of insurance for pre-existing conditions. We need to ...... if we don't want a government dominated health care sector., but we want one that is regulated by real powerment of consumers, but by a responsible role as ...relationship betwenn price and cost. I do have to make a comment though about Senator Dole talking about how he's going to stand...the company who...trade agreement. I still wonder how come they didn't insist that Mr.Clinton negotiate a descent trade deal on the GATT and the world trade organization, but instead with newly elected Congress right behind you. Instead of saying 'let's wait a minute' and exam this badly negotiate world trade organization agreement that accepted terms that Ronald Reagan and George Bush both had objected. You had you're opportunity and you...... and you blew it. And now you're telling us I wasn't tough in the Senate, but I will be tough in the White House. Why on earth should we believe you? Sen. Dole: George Bush supported that agreement, he knew that, he was there for the signing...... Mr. Keyes: he didn't support the idea that we'd have one man, one vote determine who would sit on those panels. He didn't support the idea that we'd accept the first majority vote ... in the international system on an issue of importance to the United States. That's a surrender of our sovereignty and .. and Republican Presidents had fought against that in ...accepted it as..............shouldn't have. Speaker; We must move on to the closing statements. You each have forty-five seconds. Mr. Taylor you will begin. Mr. Taylor: Well, the first think I'd like to say is Senator Dole, he's been a champion, a good old war horse for the Republican party. He's taken all the blows.... You've heard all the politicians speak ...but they're not listening. If you want to balance the budget and you want to get jobs in this country. We can do it. What we must do is balance that budget, we do it in eighteen months, which cut a third of your assets at the top, reorganize the government the functions serve you, but we can turn around and bring the jobs back, if you take China and Japan and you make them open their markets and if they don't...restrict....because that is the only one you're going to create millions and millions of jobs. They're all fine men up here, a little lost on the trade issue.... Number two, we have to...for our children Speaker: Thank you Mr. Taylor, Senator Lugar Sen. Lugar :President Clinton is vulnerable because of foreign policy difficulties, the economy is in bad shape and has not been growing because he and Mrs. Clinton have great legal vulnerability. On actions taken when he was Governor, he and the first lady of Arkansas on actions taken in the White House. The Republican candidate for President has the best chance to win the election. If somebody who has experience in foreign policy and speaks of those issues constantly. And the best plan for the economy, the end of the eternal revenue service, the income tax. And who has trust of the American people as a straight shooter, as a truth teller. I believe, I am that candidate. I believe I could make the strongest race. I ask for your support. Speaker: Thank you Senator Lugar. Mr. Keyes, you have forty-five seconds Mr. Keyes: Well, I think we're exactly like a family where the child is on drugs and the other one is out engaging in promiscuous sex, another one has committed suicide, and all we want to think about is where we're going to get that next raise from and how we're going to get the next promotion. Our families are fallin apart, our moral condition is appalling, yet all we have here is money obsessed leaders who think they'll solve our problems with a little more tinkering with the jobs, and the taxes, and the money. In your hearts, you know that's not true and this campaign offers a moral priority that is the right one for America. We must restore the moral and material foundations of the marriage based families. We must restore our allegiance to the principles of the declarations to say that of freedom comes from God and must be constraint by our responsibilities to respect his existence and authority. If we can return to that moral foundation. We'll find right answers to our economical problems. We'll find right answers to our social problems because we'll stand on the strong ground of American principles that unite us all together moving into this 21st century. Speaker: Thank you, Mr. Keyes. Mr. Forbes, your close. Mr. Forbes: Thank you very much. America has the potential for the greatest economic boom and spiritual renewal in our history. The question is how do we remove the barriers that stand in our way of fulfilling our promise as a people and as a nation. Since the beginning of my campaign, I've been discussing directly issues, that will remove those barriers, take it away from government, return it to directly to the people. The world my opponents live in is a world of process, promises, and politics. The world I live in is the world of people, payroll and performance. In their world you adopt a position and you slide there. In the real world, you have to take a stand and deliver. That is what I'll do as President, return it to the people, get America moving again, and when we do..America's achievements will astound the world and us. We can move and make America that shining city on the hill. Thank you very much. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Forbes. Mr. Dornan. Mr. Dornan: Steve, GOP should stand for growth opportunity and pool. Stay on that message, it's Reagan's message. My battle cried when I came up here a year ago next Monday, with then nine grandkids, all my in-laws, and daughters and son-in-laws, and my five grown kids. I used the battlecry since 1984 in political comeback: faith, family and freedom. I add to that fidelity into some...fidelity to freedom.....fidelity to family. Clinton broke his oath to the people of Arkansas, it's called White Water. And it's multi-level corruption. He broke his faith to his wife. He broke his faith to his country...three times ..... What will he do to us in the second term. Gentlemen, keep your eye on the ball. The target is Clinton. God bless all of you...proud. We're all trying to be politicians Speaker: Thank you Senator Dornan. Senator Dole you have close Sen. Dole: Thank you very much..I've been shot at a lot tonight but I've been in combat before with many men from New Hampshire in the tenth mountain division and of course the motto in the state up here is 'live free or die.' This is a serious moment.....serious business in .... this defining moment . I'm prepared. I've had the experience, which is given me the judgment. You're looking for a mainstream conservative answers and ideas as we go into the next century. You're .....about your children and your grandchildren, about your job and about your business, about your community and about your state, about your nation. Who do you want standing in the White House making those decisions for you...somebody with experience, somebody who's been prepared, somebody with judgment, someone who's served this country, somebody who knows a little bit about sacrifice. and those that made America great. Those are the qualities we look for in the President of the United States. ....moral leadership all the things we've talked about that we haven't had lately. Vote for Bob Dole, it'll be a better America, as a result of it. Thank you very much. Speaker: Mr. Buchanan Mr. Buchanan: I'm on the verge of breaking out of New Hampshire and ....the nomination. A sure sign of it this week and today was a savage attack when my co-chair, Larry Pratt..... the gun owners of America. Larry stood by me when nobody else did back in 1992. And I'm goin' stand by him. I'm going to tell the folks out there, there's spirit because Larry Pratt is a devoured Christian being attacked because he supports me. Being attacked because he's supported Second Amendment rights his whole life. And that's why they're going after me. I would urge the gun owners of New Hampshire and America to stand with Larry Pratt and to stand with me. You know, Jack Kennedy said at the end of his campaign: I know there is a God and I know he .. some justice. He sees the storming coming and I know his hand is in it. But if there is a place apart from me, I believe I am ready, I believe I am ready. Speaker: Thank you Mr. Buchanan. Mr. Alexander, your close. Mr. Alexander: I'm grateful to the people of New Hampshire for this primary. I'll never forget talking about schools with the Barkers in Concord or the young couple in Nashua about welfare or the women in Windam about jobs. This election is about their lives and our future. Choice would to be between Senator Dole and me. Senator Dole is our most respected legislative engineer, but we need a visionary architect. We someone who can stand up there with Bill Clinton and paint a brighter picture of the future based on our principles then he can. It's time we bring ourselves to say to Senator Dole, Bob, we respect you but you're not the man to have in that debate with Mr. Clinton and not he man to be the first President of the next century. It's time for new leadership. It's time to move on. I would like to be that new leader and lead us into the next century asking less from Washington and more from ourselves Speaker: Thank you Lamar, and thank you gentlemen. It has been an informative and entertaining ninety minutes of debate. We want to also thank our viewers and we want to encourage you to be a part of the process by getting out next Tuesday and voting. Speaker: Thank you, Karen. Thank you all and on behalf of Heins communication WMUR TV at CNN, I want to thank all of you for watching..want to thank our director Scott..... technical things behind the scenes that made this possible. And finally I'd liked to thank the New Hampshire Presidential Primary itself for making this event possible