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Up front me. I want you to know that I've been a democrat all my life and I just not changed over to Republican. I was a democrat too. All my life, bless you. We're equal to two vote. I changed to thank you. I got sick and

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tired of the CDC. And well, thank you very much. And that the spark we're striking now in California will kindle a beacon light but striking east and west and south and north will pierce the gloom of years with light and hope for those who will come

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after us. And that light is shining now with increasing vigor with every passing hour from the Redwood country of the north to the great desert which lies lonely along our southern borders. The torch is lighted and it will not be stuffed out. The man who bears

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it is California's next Governor Ronald Reagan. I recommend and introduce him to you only writing negative things about him instead of the positive things that he'd been saying. And of course, now with the day's admission that he knows that what he's been saying hasn't been positive,

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maybe he made a mistake and that maybe he should have talked about the positive things all along. Well, I think perhaps one of his big mistakes has grown out of a kind of arrogance that takes place when an administration grows old and tired in government, an

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arrogance that makes someone have a contempt for the intelligence of the people. And I don't think he's been able to hide that. The big question now is what can he talk about for the next three weeks? All he has are a few programs lifted from Republican

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governors who preceded him and a whole batch of unkempt promises. Now to those of you, however, who may think that things are going to get pretty dull and you're going to miss that smear of the day. Let me cheer you up. The governor may decide to

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take the high road, but he still got a few fellows around like Mr Warren and Mr Coat who I'm sure will be racing down the low road lately. I've been having a little trouble with some of those misquotes with regard to the governor's water program and

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I want you to make it very understand very clearly that this is the way I hear about it. It is the governor's water program. It's the governor's dams and it's the governor's canals and the governor's reservoirs and it almost makes you think when he leaves office,

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he's going to take his water with him. But, and you know, all this time, judging by the way he's gotten on the hotline to Washington for the answer to every problem. I've really suspected that he thought the largest body of water near to California was the

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Potomac River. But anyway, in this misquoting, let me just talk a little bit informally to you. And then I have another idea I have charged and will continue to charge even though the governor insists that the university situation should not be an issue with this campaign.

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It is an issue. It is an issue precisely because this governor for the first time in the history of the university has injected partisan politics into the running of that university. He has interfered with the administering of the university and he has interfered, I believe in

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an idea of sweeping something under the rug because an election was imminent. It was an election year. Now we have a rule five in the university system that was formulated by the faculty in 1934. It defines academic freedom. It spells out all those things with which

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you're in agreement first that I don't believe as I said to a few of you earlier that we should have a governor who lectures the people, he should listen to them. My idea of a creative society is a government in which we recognize that the solution

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to our problems comes not from Washington or not from any bureau or agency on high. It comes from the abilities of our people and I would seek the answer to the problems that confront us from the people. I believe that we need a complete reform in

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the system of financing our public education. I, I do believe that we should bring the state back up to the fifth, the right of the public school teacher to strike. Well, now having been president of a union and led my union in one of the only

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general strikes it ever had and having been an officer of a union for more than 20 years, you must recognize that I believe in collective bargaining. I believe in the inalienable right of a man to strike. But now I'm going to double cross you and tell

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you that I think there are certain areas that do not lend themselves to industrialization. This is Kwav Pepperdine College, Los Angeles. No, I, when all of us think back on the teachers in our lives and what they've meant to us down through the years, I know

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that if I had to look back and picture some of those teachers out in the picket line or the schools closed because they chose to strike, I doubt if they'd have the same memory and the same influence they've had. You are a profession and I think

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you're entitled to a professional association. And as such, I think you're entitled to sit down in a dignified way, discuss your problems and work out the best of your ability and common sense, negotiating with those who are administrators and in charge of the common grievances and

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the problems with regard to your profession. But uh no, I don't want to see the day when teachers are organized and strike. So let me, let me just say, I have a great belief that the issues of this campaign cross party lines. I don't think we're

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trying for a narrow partisan victory. I believe there must be just millions of fair minded patriotic democrats in this state who are just as concerned as anyone else, deeply concerned about the problems, the cost of government, the crime, this educational problem. And I think they want

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a change, a change that will be a change of philosophy also that they want to see an administration that won't be bound in by partisan politics that will seek out the best of the people that we have in our state for the administrative appointments that will

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not be making those appointments on the basis of political reward or as favoritism or to defeated political candidates. But we'll be seeking the best that we can get from our campuses, from our industries, from the ranks of our professional people to bring modern practices to the

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government, to have a state government that will open the door to all the innovations and the new ideas that can do so much in all the problems, but particularly in this one that concerns you with this problem of education. Now, I know that the governor is

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terribly concerned because I've never held office. But I learned once working for a large corporation, I saw them on a number of occasions with a difficult problem, assigned someone who had no experience with that problem whatsoever. And I finally asked the head man, why? And he

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said, well, you know, we've discovered that sometimes it's good to appoint a man who hasn't found out already all the things you can't do. Uh Now, I honestly believe that I've had some experience. I served as a trustee of my own college, but I've served for

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more than 20 years as an officer and six times president of a National Union. I served in the Industry Council for our Industry here and was twice president. And in these 10 years, this was a group that represented more than 30 unions and the management and

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the ownership of our studios. It meant dealing with the United States Congress and legislative committees, the state government with White House conferences regarding tax matters, censorship matters, legislation of all kinds. I've had a certain amount of my own business experience and I'm on the board of

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directors of some business concerns. This is the experience I bring. But I've noticed that the governor perhaps is mellowing a little bit on this idea of my experience because just recently, he had a young senator from Massachusetts come out to help him. And uh if memory

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serves me correctly, this young senator never held office before he became a senator. As a matter of fact, he never held a job. Yeah, but at any rate, I am most proud to have you associated in this campaign. I am deeply grateful to you for what

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you're doing. And I want to become completely honest with you and tell you that if you continue and if you intend to support me, don't do it with any idea that I think I'm capable of going to Sacramento and running this state by myself. I have

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no such intention. I don't think anyone can. But as I have said to so many people in this state, no support me and vote for me. If you believe in yourself. If you believe as I do that, there isn't anything that we can't accomplish in the

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State of California with a state government that will recognize that our true power lies with the people, a state government that will turn to the people in every area where they have are the best informed on the problems and the issues and ask for their help.

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Ask for their wisdom and their thinking and yes, ask them to contribute some of their time and their effort to serving their state and their community. In short, a creative society in which government says, tell us if, can we help or tell us if you want

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us to get out of your way in this way? I do believe we can start a Prairie fire. And perhaps we here can be number one in more than just numbers of people. We can be number one in teaching the other 49 states that government is

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of and by as well as for the people and that we can control our own destiny, make our own plans, find the answers to our problems without giving up our hard won freedom to some kind of an intellectual elite sitting in a distant capital who has

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decided to make all the decisions for us. Thank you very much. This is Kwav Pepperdine College, Los Angeles. No.