nation that, in a little more than 100 days, the reagan-meese- deaver-nofziger-poindexter-north -weinberger-watt-gorsuch-lavellekman-haig-bork-noriega- george bush will be over. [applause] [cheers] you know, tonight, i feel a little like i did when i played basketball in the 8th grade. i thought i looked real cute in my uniform. and then, i heard a boy yell from the bleachers, "make that basket, bird legs." [laughter] and my greatest fear is that same guy is somewhere out there in the audience tonight, and he's going to cut me down to size, because where i grew up, there really wasn't much tolerance for self-importance, people who put on airs. i was born during the depression in a little community just outside waco, and i grew up listening to franklin roosevelt on the radio. [applause] well, it was back then that i came to understand the small truths and the hardships that bind neighbors together. those were real people with real problems, and they had real dreams about getting out of the depression. i can remember summer nights when we'd put down what we called "the baptist pallet," and we listened to the grow