'Gettysburg Address': Trump unveils first-100-days agenda as POTUS

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Trump prepares for Gettysburg address unveiling 'first 100 days' agenda – and his aides say Hillary is just 'waiting out the clock'

• Trump aides preview 'first 100 days' agenda speech with press conference call but offer zero specifics
• Speech will come Saturday morning at 11:00 EDT in Gettysburg, PA
• One aide says the Civil War battlefield site is appropriate because 'Gettysburg was the moment when the war turned'
• Another compared Trump's agenda to the 1994 'Contract with America' that helped Republicans win the House of Representatives in 1994
• Expected themes include immigration, regulatory reform, tax cuts and border security
• But campaign staff promised some 'new material'

Daily Mail
by David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com In Philadelphia
10/21/2016

Excerpt:

Donald Trump will plant a flag on hallowed ground Saturday morning by laying out near the Gettysburg National Battlefield what he would do in his first 100 days as President of the United States.

The Civil War location, a senior campaign aide told reporters on a Friday night conference call, has great significance: 'Gettysburg was the moment when the war turned.'

'Gettysburg was the moment when the war turned,' a senior campaign aide said Friday night when asked why the team chose the Civil War town for his policy address

The Republican nominee's campaign said he will unveil a list of at least 10 major policy proposals, in teleprompter-driven remarks designed to reinforce his image as a can-do executive with laser-focused goals.

Democrat Hillary Clinton, the aide snarked, can't articulate her policy goals because her donors haven't yet told her what to think.

'Secretary Clinton has no core,' the aide charged, quoting a Democratic aide in a hacked email recently released by WikiLeaks.

'Her policies are determined by the checks that are given to her, and nothing else. And of course no one actually disagrees with that. Everyone understands that she's a special-interest-driven candidate.'

The aide described Saturday's event, added to the calendar on Friday afternoon, as 'our chance to lay out a positive vision for the country, from Mr. Trump, about what he's going to do in his first 100 days in office, and how he's going to go about doing it.
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The original, 19th November 1863 "Gettysburg Address", by Former President Abraham Lincoln

Wikipedia: "Gettysburg Address": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address

Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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Donald Trump Delivers Remarks in Gettysburg, PA 10/22/16

Note: Donald Trump begins speaking at about the 1:36:00 mark in the video

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Trump's 'Gettysburg address' makes closing argument for choosing him and unveils first-100-days agenda as he promises 'the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime'

• 'First 100 days' agenda speech formalized his mainstay political pledges with promises of legislation and executive orders
• Called it a 'Contract with the American Voter,' modeling it after the 1994 Republican 'Contract with America'
• Trump touted 'the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime' and made his final substantive pitch to frame the campaign's last two weeks
• Told an audience of about 300 invited guests that he will 'drain the swamp' in Washington
• Borrowed a line from Abraham Lincoln's 1863 speech, saying he would replace D.C. elites 'with a new government of, by and for the people.'
• A Trump aide said the Civil War battlefield site is appropriate because 'Gettysburg was the moment when the war turned'
• The candidate briefly visited the site of the famed Civil War battle after his speech

Daily Mail
by David Martosko, Us Political Editor For Dailymail.com In Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
10/22/2016

Excerpts:

Donald Trump planted a flag on hallowed ground Saturday morning by laying out near the Gettysburg National Battlefield what he would do in his first 100 days as President of the United States.

Touting 'the kind of change that only arrives once in a lifetime,' Trump told an audience of about 300 invited guests that he will 'drain the swamp' in Washington, replacing the current government 'with a new government of, by and for the people.'

The symbolism factor was high, with a campaign aide telling reporters Friday night that the Civil War battle in Gettysburg memorialized by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 'was the moment when the war turned.'

The Republican nominee left the podium and made a beeline in his motorcade for the National Military Park – the battlefield memorial – spending about as much time there as it took Lincoln to speak his 272 words.

Trump's own war – a two-front clash against both Hillary Clinton and the mass media – will come to a climax on November 8 when most Americans will choose a leader for the next four years.

'Gettysburg was the moment when the war turned,' a senior campaign aide said Friday night in a hopeful comparison with this year's presidential election

'It is a contract between myself and the American voter, and begins with restoring honesty, accountability and change to Washington,' Trump said.

Included are six anti-corruption pledges, seven actions related to jobs and trade and five on immigration and the 'rule of law.' He ended his contract with a list of 10 bills he said he would try to quickly shepherd through Congress.

Aides promised the Republican nominee would put more meat on the bare bones of some of his mainstay pledges, but little in the speech broke new ground.

Instead, Trump formalized his signature pledges by announcing a legislative package that he said he would help shepherd through Congress.

He also reiterated a laundry list of executive actions that he has sketched out in speeches stretching back more than a year.

The small crowd gathered in a hotel ballroom was a far cry from the 10,000 rowdy fans he typically draws, but they brought moments of enthusiasm.

The audience rose to their feet and chanted 'Trump! Trump! Trump!' as he entered. One man shouted: 'We love you!'

And in a sign of how deeply the GOP's most negative campaign slogan has taken root, half the crowd chanted 'Lock her up!' at the first mention of Hillary Clinton's name.

Trump reinforced his improbable but now undeniable populist bona fides, casting Clinton as the embodiment of a corrupt political establishment that's willing to throw the middle class under bus the day after Americans vote.

'Hillary Clinton is running against all of the American people, and all of the American voters,' he said.
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TRUMP'S ANTI-CORRUPTION TO-DO LIST

1. Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress

2. Hiring freeze on federal employees to reduce the workforce through attrition

3. Requirement to eliminate two federal regulations for every new one

4. Five-year-ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists

5. Lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign governments

6. Complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections
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