State of the Union Page #2

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On a clear day

you could see him for

a couple of hundred miles.

Yeah,

you sure could.

After he passed,

my father slapped me

right across the face.

When I asked him

what that was for, he said,

"Just so you'll never forget

the day you saw the President

of the United States."

Well, Mr. Conover,

I've listened to some pretty

tall reasons around here

why I could

run for president.

Self-made man,

friend of labor,

dark horse and all that stuff.

All very flattering,

I might add.

But, could I ask you,

a professional politician,

to give me one good reason

why me, Grant Matthews,

should run for the biggest

and the best job in the world

when there are

10,000 other men...

Wait a minute.

Let's understand each other.

I'm not telling you

you should be President.

I was under the impression

that Kay Thorndyke

brought you down here

to sell me on the idea,

not for me to sell you.

Now let's not get childish,

nobody's trying to

sell anybody anything.

Kay, the man

doesn't want the job,

and hundreds of others do.

We're wasting our time.

That's right, Kay.

He's right.

We're wasting his time.

I'm not interested

in politics or politicians.

And I don't

like airplanes.

That makes us even.

Although I could get

to like you, Mr. Conover.

Mr. Matthews,

it's no skin off my nose,

but just for my private files,

you made a speech in Cleveland

that hit the front pages

all over the country.

Even the New York Times

with that stuff about,

"Either we pull together

or get pulled apart."

Every Republican leader

wishes he'd made it.

So?

I'm trying to get it

through my lame brain,

if you have

no interest in politics,

why did you make that speech?

Oh, now, wait a minute.

I can be interested

in the country

without being interested

in politics.

That'll surprise Jim Conover.

I don't care

who it surprises.

Don't get the idea that

I'm not interested in

what's going on.

I like this country,

Mr. Conover.

It's been darn good to me.

I started with a screwdriver

and a monkey wrench

and two years of high school,

and built the

Matthews Aircraft.

Did you ever fly an airplane?

Oh, no, you don't like

airplanes, do you?

You better not

elect me President then,

because I'd make it a law

for every politician

to spend at least

100 hours in the air.

This year, most of us are

up in the air all the time.

Well, the next time

you're up there, Mr. Conover,

look down.

Look down on Pittsburgh,

for example, what do you see?

Smoke.

That's right, smoke.

From the steel mills.

Miles and miles of

steel mills.

But you see

something else, too,

don't you?

Farms, factories, lumber,

mines, railroads, business,

management, labor.

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