dole: thank you very much, jim. let me first give you a sports update. cardinals, 1, the zero, early on. i want to thank you and i want to thank everybody here tonight. i want to give a special thanks to my wife elizabeth, my daughter robin for their love and support, and thank the people who are listening and watching all over america. in 20 days, you will help decide who will lead this country into the next century. it's an awesome responsibility. and you must ask yourself, do you know enough about the candidates? you should know as much as possible about each of us. sometimes the views have been distorted. there's been millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising spent distorting my views, but i hope tonight you will get a better feel of who bob dole is and what he's all about. and i think first you should -- i should understand that the question on your mind is do i understand your problem? would i understand it if it occurred to me, and i might just say i'm from a large family. i got lots of relatives and they're good, average, middle-class, hardworking americans. they l