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- Four years starts now,
four years starts now, four years starts now.
Four years starts now.
(footsteps plodding)
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- Short, sweet, to the point, less than two minutes,
then the whole thing's a sound bite.
- Yeah. - I think he's mastered
the art of not wearing out his welcome.
- I'll, uh, I'll speak then introduce you.
- Well, you know there's two senators.
There's only one governor.
- Then, we'll do it together.
- Hey, uh.
(footsteps plodding)
Um, congratulations to the both of you.
Montana's a better place today than it was yesterday.
I mean that.
Would you allow me the honor
of introducing you to your constituents?
- The honor's ours, Jamie.
(door clattering)
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Well, that was very big of him.
I know how much your office meant to him.
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- He's not doing it for you.
He's doing it to get on the stage.
- (laughs) Aren't we all, Beth?
- Let's go.
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(hands clapping)
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(hands thudding)
- Wow, wow (laughs).
Well, the future of Montana is here.
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The future of Montana is today.
The future of Montana is a fifth-generation rancher
whose family moved here six years
before Montana became a state.
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It is fitting that a founding member of this state
a century later now leads it.
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And defending you in Washington is
another fifth-generation rancher
who served Montana in the House of Representatives
and two terms as your governor.
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Allow me the honor of introducing your next governor,
John Dutton, and U.S. Senator Lynelle Perry.
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- Well, the open bar was (laughing) my daughter's idea.
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I can see it worked.
(audience laughing)
(laughing) We have a lot of work to do
and a lot of work to undo.
And the question we all have to answer,
the one that I will look to every day is,
what will Montana look like in 100 years?
Much of that is dictated by the way the world sees us today.
Right now, we are seen as the rich man's plaything.
We are New York's novelty and California's toy.
(crowd grumbling)
Not anymore.
- [Spectator] No, sir. - [Spectator] No.
- [Spectator] That's right.
- You've elected me to be a steward of this state,
of its land and its people,
and that's exactly what I will be.
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Well, the environmentalists, they just love to debate
what's Montana's most valuable resource.
Is it the water?
Is it the wolves?
Is it the trees?
The answer's actually pretty simple.
It's you,
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the farmers and ranchers who live
with the land not on it.
Protecting you now is how Montana still looks like Montana
when none of us here tonight are here to see it.
(audience cheering)
Thank you.
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- How do you follow that?
I don't know. (audience laughing)
Uh, ditto, the wars that Montana faces here at home,
those will be my wars in Washington.
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