With former Gov. Terry Branstad’s recent return to politics after a decade out of office, Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson decided to take a trip down memory lane. The veteran reporter went into her archives and found the audio from Branstad’s last campaign kickoff event back in 1994.

In a speech delivered on the farm where he grew up, Branstad promised to create 300,000 new jobs, grow median household income to more than $40,000, and to see population growth all of Iowa’s 99 counties, all by the year 2000.

From Henderson’s report:

None of those goals were accomplished by the turn of the century. Branstad left office in January of 1999 and by then the state was a little less than halfway to his job creation goal. Just 52 of Iowa’s 99 counties saw population growth during Branstad’s last term in office. But Iowa nearly reached Branstad’s third goal. Median household income in Iowa was just under $40,000 by 1999.

Henderson posted the audio from Branstad’s 1994 campaign kick-off here.