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1 PAG 2 : :( o i';j c:) c ADDRSS OF : :) TH HOORABL ::: c:) o :::: o L ::;)W :) :;") )( a:;) o HUBRT H HUMPHRY :::,;, bo, o "/, MO O 1? o c:::: :: c::::2 ;;; :) :I: L ::t: : Vice President of the United States Z" to the,; o :) xn YOUG DMOCRATS o of ;;;, :) o c a: :: i :) 1? _ C'O 1? c ;; Ariona, Colorado :;( :(1 :) OM and O c:j e Mexico Hilton Hotel, Albqerqe, e Mexico September 1, 1966

2 PAG ) L SATOR ADRSO: I kno yo'd all like to have a thirty or forty minte speech I old like to take yor thoghts frther than that Last night Senator Montoya '::! Iii c:) "" 8 :2: ;l:_ :2: :: c::j:) ::: ::l c:) i o ::;: o L ::;)W c::j:) o c':1 n,; )( a:: ::: introdced the chief speaker in a brilliant and lovely speech Yo're going to hear him no All I can do is say he is a grand person, this man hom I have been associated ith sixteen years in the Senate, the man that I have atched day by day, :2: : "! "" MO Z c:::::: O l) o J:W s:::::::a Z c::j:) "" J: J: ",; XV c::j:) o " c::j:) o L : :::: i c::j:) l) 1), :2: "" ViLL ;l:l O c::j:) OM and his conscience gros and his contribtion gros also Hbert Hmphrey VIC PRSIDT: Thank yo, my friend Senator Anderson, Miss Smith, my old partner over here Fabian Chave Fabian has been orking the precincts I asked here he as this morning and they said, "Well, he has all the votes in this room There ere to or three in the lobby that he had missed last night" I as a little orried that he might be campaigning in Colorado and Ariona, except in e Mexico, bt I gather that he's rather selective I'm very pleased that Mrs Hmphrey and or son Doglas and myself have this privilege and opportnity to be in this beatifl State of e Mexico and to be at this occasion here yong Democrats from three states, is that right, from e Mexico, Ariona and Colorado, have joined together for prposes of talking abot the ftre and abot or party hich is synonomos, by the ay Democratic Party

3 PAG 4 : 8 : :;; )(,;,, J:, x o :e 3: i'j ;:e 3: :: a W;;:J ::o ;;:JW :: o ::: : '()?, MO """" "" O oo o"" J: J: "" )(V o o cl ;a ;{ l?o, OM O "" in the ftre is jst a different ay of spelling it Jst keep that in mind We had a great evening last night We are going to have a very fll day today After I leave yo no e ill do some television and then later on p to the Job Corps Center and then p to Los Alamos and back to Santa Fe And then on Monday morning p into Utah here e'll spend the day in Salt Lake City in that immediate area and then Monday, late afternoon and night back to Washington and be qite bsy next eek Well, I am here to say, I gess, a fe ords to yo I oght to start ot again doing hat I did last night, bt Mrs Anderson, or dear friend Henrietta, said, "I don't ant yo to brag on Clinton anymore He's getting ot of hand " I'm jst not ging to praise this great man anymore I said so mch abot Joe Montoya last night that Della came to my room afterards and said, 11 He ill be beyond control for at least a month" So I'm not going to say anything more that's complimentary abot this indstrios, this extremely able, this competent, this fighting United States Senator from e Mexico And Connie Morris and Polly Walker have both protested that e ere too kind and considerate to Tom and to John, and so I'm not going to say anything that's complimentary abot to of the most able and competent and most progressive members of

4 PAG 5 c) the Congress of the United States than I said last night Bt I can tell yo that I'm here becase I like it Yesterday as a onderfl day for s We ere in o?:: c:: )( :f :f! :) ::;) o c) o W ::;) ::;)W :) C') vi 1:::)() )( oo ::: o ::: :;( '() "" :f : c:: "?,_, ( MC Z c::::,; O {) o :: c:::::l ( :) :: ::,; 2 XV :) o "" :) O :i I :) c:: {) {) o 4:, :f ca, :;( :f ::1 :) :! O M O Ioa talking to or farm friends ot there at the ational Ploing Contest and I had the good fortne of speaking to a hge adience There ere 14, people on the gronds and abot 4,, they estimated, right here e ere doing the speaking And I didn't try to dramatie anything All I told them as the trth I jst told them that e ere thankfl to American agricltre for its great achievements and e kne that American agricltre old not be nmindfl of the friendship that had been extended and the helpflness that had been extended by the Democratic administrations, the KennedyJohnson and the JohnsonHmphrey administrations, and the farmers, they appladed I think that as a good idea they heard a trth o, to yo, to yo I ant to talk abot the yesterdays, I ant to talk abot tomorro There really isn't anything e can do abot the yesterdays There isn't mch that e can do abot or inheritance And as a contry, e've inherited many onderfl and great achievements, accomplishment and e've also inherited some problems We've inherited, for example, in or cities the problems of the slm, the ghetto, and hen I speak of the

5 ,AG 6 C:1 8 8 :f )( :,; :f Cl ;;;; ::,; i Cl :( 8 8 :f_ : :::: 5 :::;)W, :::: g, : o "! MC " " Z :: o,_ :: o )(V) o, a: eo, OM O slm, I do not speak only of the physical deterioration of the core of the city, the center, I speak also of the deprivation, of the denial of opportnity, yes, of the deterioration and the erosion of the hman being in that broken don slum of the city I have called this "Slmism," and I ant the yong people of America, in particlar, to become as orried and concerned and motivated abot "slmism" as e have become abot other "isms" Commnism, tolitarianism, becase all of these "isms " destroy character, destroy the meaning of individality, deny hman dignity People that are compelled to circmstances beyond their control to live in an environment that denies them the chance for a rich and fll life, those people have been the victims of a tyranny It may be the tyranny of poverty or of discrimination or of bigotry or intolerance of the tyranny of ill health or the bad habit of indolence, bt it is a tyranny and it's jst as tyrannical, jst as despotic, jst as destrctive of freedom and hman dignity as any form of tolitarianism This is not to say that one is more evil than another It's to say that e have a job to face p to both challenges, at home and abroad Bt the "ism" that gnas at the heart of America at home, the malignancy in or body

6 ,AG 7 )( politic, the rot of or ation is "slmism" and that slm can be in a city or in rral America It can be here people : live in the hills and reservations or it can be in the c:;)! : 3: i'j 3: a) :: c:;) :: ::o _ ;:;, a) c':) )( a::,; ;:;, o "/, 1:::::, steaming asphalt jngles of or great metropolitan areas There's jst as mch pain and poverty in rral America as there is in rban America and e are set on the ( corse of doing something abot it That's the important :: o MC "" _ on c::,; o o " c::::2 LZ _ :I: a) :I:,; o _ X a) o a) O : ( I :;;_ ::: a) ' oo o, ::( ViU::: a) 8 OM O c:::s thing I kno that many of s become impatient and I kno ho easy it is to get p and say that e oght to pt all of or resorces into jst this battle on the domestic front, bt this is one orld and it's a smaller orld every day and every part of it is interrelated and inseparable There are no neat compartments for foreign policy and domestic policy There's no ay yo can have domestic tranqility ithot international secrity or vice versa and hat e do at home ill condition hat e do abroad And hat e do abroad ill also condition hat e do at home This nation of hich yo are a leader and a member and a citien is a orld leader nation, and leadership, my yong friends, is not a lxry It is a brden The cold responsibility is not the cloak of comfort It calls pon yo to exercise self discipline and leadership And it's a onderfl thing for s to go arond and

7 PAG 8 speak of or great land as a leading contry in the orld, the leader of the free orld, bt once that yo have proclaimed that and it is a fact, and e can't deny it, e :::) 1j ::1: 1j _ ::1: ::1: a ::J c:;:) :::: o )( o a,; :: Goo? : :t bo :? MC, O Z c:::::: o c:::::::1 a :I: :I:,; o X V a o ;; a : : ::, i oo a, ::1: :::::1 C'O a '""t:::j maybe didn't plan it that ay, e maybe didn ' t aspire to it, bt it fell into or hands and e are the leader, the leading nation of the free orld And ith that role comes the brdens and the dties of responsibility and this means that e have to take a big look at all of the orld and not jst parts of it And fortnately e are big enogh to do it and e're rich enogh to do it and strong enogh to do it I onder ho many in this room realie that last year the United States of America prodced abot forty eight per cent of the total gross national prodct of the entire orld Of the hole orld are less than to hndred million people While e represent abot five to six per cent of the orld poplation, e have thirtysix per cent of the income Mch has been given nto s and mch is expected of s I give yo this little sermon, so to speak, becase I don ' t an t to see any ne isolationism gro in or contry I don ' t ant to see America jst pll into itself and be inard I ant s to reach otard This orld needs s and e need the orld in hich e live We canno t isolate orself from it Bt having said that, let me tell yo that the strengtl

8 PAG 9 c) that e need for this orld leadership responsibility mst come : from ithin and that's hy e need everybody We cannot afford to have onesixth or onefifth, hatever figre yo may se, o c:: 1;j l: l;_ l: _ : a:::l ::JZ c) ; ::o ::l W::J o _ ::J W a:::l ('/,), )( a ::J o ::: :(,; " :, c:: '!, ( MO _ Z :::) Cl o :r: s::::: o Z _ :: ( a:::l i,; _ 2 X V a:::l o ;;;, a:::l o I :( :: i CIO a:::l Cl c;l c:: _ (, l: l: l!l a:::l OM c:s of or fello Americans ot of the main stream of American life We cannot afford to have to Americas ithin one America I ant yo to remember and it's sort of rhetorical and sometimes it may seem a bit sentimental, bt remember every boy and girl and yo yorselves ere taght to repeat and yo did, and yo still do on most occasions, "One ation nder God, indivisible, ith liberty and jstice for all " It didn't say to nations It said one And it didn't say liberty and jstice for some, bt for all o, yo either mean it or yo don't And I old say that the most condemning ords of Scriptre are these, "Woe nto ye hypocrites" and hypocracy is bad enogh as a perso:1al trait, bt as a national characteristic is nforgiveable and it is corrosive and destrctive Bt, thank goodness, e are not hypocrites We recognie it in or midst that e have the needy, the deprived, those that have not been given a fair break in life, those that have not only not been given, bt the opportnity has not been there for them And at the time of or greatest ealth and greatest poer, e have compassion for the needy and the eak and e are determined to open the gates

9 PG 1 c) bo,_ :t :;; )(,; 4; Cl ;;; 4; :: i Cl :: o :: :::: 5g :( :::;)1&1 ::: :;:g, : '()? MO O Z o :r o )(V o, :( " o cl ClO, v:: OM O of opportnity to every single American, to every person ithot any regard to here he lives, his ethnic backgrond, his race, his origin, his religion or ho he spells his last name At long last, it is one citienship At long last, it is one America And no e're trying to make sre that in or contryside, in or cities, that there's not another America, a different America for the poor than there is for the elltodo, and the middle income and those of edcation We're trying to pgrade the hole qality of American life and are e doing it? I think e are Some people say not fast enogh We ill be restless That's yor task and yo ill be, anyay The Democratic Party is a party of ferment, of ideas adaptable to change, that's hat distingishes this party in the main from its opposition We do reach ot, e do sometimes reach ot even frther than the pblic is illing to do, bt that is the part of edcation that a political party oght to engage in If yo're going to try to secondgess everybody to stay more poplar, yo're going to miss most of the ansers, and yo can't forget it I onder if yo realie that one of the characteristics of the Johnson administration, President Johnson's first job hen he left that little teacher's college as to become a

10 PAG 11 teacher His first pay check as abot $55 and he gave it to the stdents to by recreation eqipment and books for the,_ 8 c) a)! ::,_ ::: ::l c),_ W::;) ",_ o ::;)W a: o a) ::: Gr bo _ ;,, : :I,_?,_ MO, O " Z c::::: C) o :r c:::::2 ;;; a) :r " :: ;,_ " XV a),_ o, a) o I : ::: eo a) o C),,_ little MexicanAmerican stdents don in a little contry school It jst so happens that the leadership of yor Government are former teachers The President of the United States, I'm a refgee from a classroom, having been a professor of political science and a teacher in history and political economy Mike Mansfield, a former professor in history and political science, University of Montana, Carl Albert, a Rhodes scholar, a former teacher and professor I think I cold go don throgh the line and sho yo that many of the ' ::1 people in this Government of yors today are dedicated to the ca v;ll a) OM O 'l::::l hole idea of edcation, not jst edcation in its formal sense, bt edcation that opens p ne vistas of opportnity, and hat have e done? In three years, e have more than dobled the Federal investment in edcation in the United States from 4 billion dollars to 13/1 billion dollars In three years, e have more than dobled the investment in health, in the United States, from 43 billion dollars to 15 billion dollars and hen I hear, for example, as I have heard some say, that e oght to spend as mch at least pon or poor and or cities as e do pon the ar in Viet am, let me testify to yo that e spend more, far more

11 PAG 12 X c;:),_ The total investment in programs relating to rban development and rent spplements, Social Secrity, Medicare, elementary and secondary edcation, higher edcation, these :1: c:,_ 1:i :) c;:) :1: : _ : :: W;: :: o :: _ ) :) ('/,) ::W :: X o,; ;;( c: : :,?, O M O "", Z Cl o " c::;) :r c:::::: o Z X :) if n, X V :) o, ;;; :) o :i ;;( :: CIO :) o Cl, c: :1: :;( :!: coo :) OM c::l O programs, Appalachia, the War on Poverty, the Office of conomic Opportnity, they total p to be far more than that hich e are spending in hat appears to be a far aay place and hat yor Government believes to be a necessary act of national secrity and international responsibility We have to allocate or resorces and e are going to contine to allocate those resorces to pgrade the qality of life in America, to strengthen this nation becase this nation is only as strong as its people What e ant yo to do as yong Democrats and men and omen that ill occpy positions of leadership at yor local level, yor State hoses and in the Federal Government and yor bsinesses and the professions and in religion and edcation, e ant yo to be thinking abot hat more shold e be doing, not ho mch more money alone shold be spent Many people start ot, and I have listened to the t e stimony and they start ot and say, 11 \vell, hat e need for or cities is fifty billion dollars " Yo may need fifty billion dollars, bt for hat? Money alone does not cre the problem of the city What is the plan of action? What is the battle plan? What is the command strctre, if yo please?

12 PAG 13 Who is in on it? Where are the plans to be designed? I heard one man testify that hat e needed as to hndred and fifty c) c:: 3:i'j billion dollars for or cities Well, any figre yo can :1 pick ot, bt maybe hat yo need to do is take a look at! :1 3: Cl:) c) W :: o o ' )( ::W O ::::l o Cl:) ;:, :r,) bo c::,; :;(,; :1 :?, Z O o " ::) J: c::::j «_ l: Cl:) J: ',; o X V Cl:) o, ;;; Cl:) o I :a :;( :: oo Cl:) co, c:: :1, :1 Cl:) O M O yor on State Constittion, maybe yor on State la, maybe yor on State political instittion Are these instittions p here yo live at the level here yo live? Are they in tne ith the realities of the economy? Are they in step ith hat's happening in America? Is yor tax base adeqate? Becase, remember this, that good government in the United States does not mean jst a generos Federal Government Most people are affected by local and State Government I as a Mayor of a city of over a half million people and most everything that happened to those people in that city in terms of la as la of the City ordinance or the Conty Commissioners or the State legislatre and its Stattes The Federal Government, yes, has its prime responsibilities today in the field of foreign policy and ational secrity and large grants and aids To hom? To State and Local government And or task is to make State and Local Government effective orking partners that can carry their fair share of the load becase no central government in Washington can design a plan for living for yo in e Mexico, Ariona and Colorado, and no central Government shold be permitted to do so It's rong

13 P"G 14 ;:,_! ::l :;; )(,;,; C) :\ ::,; ;;; i C) :( :! 8 1;j ::: W:::J g ; :::JW g a::, ;;: "" MO o" Z :: :: o )(I) 5l,, ;;( O a:, ii v; i:i: OM O What e ant is hat e call creative Federalism in hich the Federal Government spplements, in hich the Federal Government, yes, can help establish standards, in hich the Federal Government can indeed inject ne resorces into the main, into the pipeline of the Governmental strctre bt hat e need are plans that are locally inspired, locally initiated, locally administered, locally motivated that fit the niqe pattern of yor State and yor commnity Srely yo don't think e Mexico is identical to e York Srely yo can't think that Ariona has the same identical problems and cltral patterns as Minnesota The United States is a mosaic As John Kennedy once said, "We seek to make the orld safe for diversity" We're not asking for nanimity It's the beaty of America that comes from its cltral differences, that comes from its different rate of groth and from its heritage and its backgrond And that's hat I mean hen I say that e need yong people in Government today that look ahead to their commnity o, if yo are going to bild a better America, yo are not going to bil it far aay Yo are going to bild it here yo live It's in yor ton that yo're going to have geed schools or bad schools It's in yor City and yor Conty and yor State that yo're going to have good health programs or

14 PAG 15 c::: bo 8 ::1: vi ::1: vi 1) :c 1) 8 ::1: W:l: :: :Z W: g :OW """ g { : '(),,? "" Z o" J: J: o t;; o o a: t:o g;: {, Viii: OM O bad health programs It's in yor ton and yor City that yo are going to have good hosing or bad hosing Yor Federal Government ith all of its tremendos poers, ith all its great resorces, cannot bild all those hoses and sholdn't, bt yor Federal Government can help yo ith yor plans to get this contry moving once again and e are moving And be of good cheer, I've been in this Congress bsiness no sixteen years, as Clinton Anderson said, and I ant yo to kno that many of the hopes and dreams that I had as a Senator,foght for and lost many a fight, have all come into being I've heard people say, "What happened to the liberal program, " becase I'm a political liberal and many times my friends, in the case of liberalism, ill say, "Well, hat's happened to liberalsm?" I said, "Well, I'll tell yo hat's happened, e passed it, e enacted it o, to be a liberal doesn't mean that yo have to alays enjoy defeat To be a progressive doesn't mean that yot alays have to aspire to something that yo can't attain Thi is a progressive administration It is a constrctive, libera, practical, progressive administration Jst think of hat's happened in the field of Civil Rights; think of hat's happened in the field of health; think of hat Senator Clinton Anderson singlehandedly almost, in th Congress of the United States, did ith Medicare

15 PAG 16 Wold yo have believed, old yo have believed, ;: c) s::::: X ;: c::l:) ::: ::l c),,; ::: o :::: :::o ::;)W c::l:) o :;:),;, b() s::::: X ::;),; ::: "" : "1 MO,, Z c:::;) Cl o" J: s::::::1 ;;;, J: c::l:) i!: ",; XV c::l:) o ;;; "" c::l:) o : "" :::: i c::l:) Cl s::::: CO o, : ii)u:: c::l:) OM "t::::l five years ago, any of yo, that today yo old have a Medicare Program that inclded hospitaliation, nrsing horne care and medical care for those persons nder Social Secrity? Why, my dear friends, some of s, hy, e ere literally rn ot of Congress for the thoght of it I remember hat I as called I don't ant to repeat it here The very first bill I ever voted on hen I carne to the Senate as Federal Aid to dcation and yo had to choose p sides They tried to kill it either ith Chrch or State very other bill they sed to try to kill ith racism, anything that as going to do anything for the poor people, they'd say, "Well, e kno hat yo are trying to do, integrate," and there old be a filibster More social legislation died on the cross of racism and Federal Aid to dcation died on the isse of the cross of religion What have e done no? We 've passed fantastic programs of aid to edcation for the stdent, rio matter here yo go to school, for books, for teachers, for facilities to improve the edcation Over a billion dollars this year of ne federal fnds going into the school districts that are poor and deprived, for yongsters that are poor and deprived And that's jst the beginning We have Job Corps Centers,

16 PAG 17 Project Head Start, Upard Bond I as telling some of or friends here in an informal breakfast this morning, jst think : 8 c:,;:) ( 3:1;5 CJ:) :l: :l: :l: 3: : ::l c:,;:) oc o W :::;) :::: Ooc " :::: :::;) W o CJ:) :::: en t:::lo,; : l: :!, ( M g ",; O " Z c:::::::: (,) o :x: c::::l CJ:) l: " l:,; o _ )( VJ, CJ:) o CJ:) o a: : :: i eo CJ:) c _ C), :l: :( :l:::l v;: CJ:) OM O "t:::: of one thing, e have 2, yong people ot of or great high schools of America this year that ere potential school dropots in their senior year, identified as sch, ere restless, ere nrly stdents doing poorly They have been lifted ot and sent to the niversities this smmer Bt hat has happened is beyond hman imagination Many of these stdents today that ere problem stdents only for or five months ago, many of them that ere considered to be failres for or five months ago are today getting scholarships at Harvard and Princeton and MIT, and University of California, and most likely the University of e Mexico and other places Thosands of them, they trned ot to be great Well, no, some people say, "Well, that's not mch There's a lot of people in the United States and yo only took 2," I am here to tell yo that's 2, more than anybody else ever toched It's a beginning And the critics offer yo nothing except criticism The JohnsonHmphrey administration is not trying to be poplar We're trying to be right I ant to say to yo good yong friends to lend yor active minds to ho e can do the job better Don't figre

17 P;tG 18 : o,_ c) ( ;) a : ::l c) e W::: o ::::: o L ;) ::::lw «: o :::: :;, ;,; l::::lil : : '! ( M O O L Z c:::: C) o :I: c:::::2, :I: ;) L ( :I:,; o 2 )(VI, ;) o VI ;) o I : a : :: i c: O ;) a C) VIZ O ::1 ( v: ;) OM c::::j the cost tag Figre ot the method, the formla Then e'll ork on the cost tag We don't do everything overnight I alays tease Mrs Hmphrey abot this, yo kno If she'd ever told me ho mch or hose in Minnesota as going to cost the first time, I old never have let her dig the hole in the grond ot there Bt she trapped me into it As one of my friends says, his hose is a series of patios enclosed It's the beginnings that cont, the beginnings What do yo think? Franklin Roosevelt, srely great, ill be listed in or history as one of the trly great men of all times Franklin Roosevelt, the great liberal, the great progressor, hat do yo think as his liberal program for minimm age? We are going to have a dollar sixty an hor, yo kno, next year; 1968, a dollar forty, 1967 Tenty cents an hor, that's a great liberal program Tenty cents is here e started Social Secrity Yo think e had the coverage that e have today of almost a hndred million people hen e started? We had tenty million And hat ere the benefits? They ere so small that I hate to tell yo, nless somebody, the Repblicans may say e ere fooling the people Bt e made the start and e made a lot of starts and e're going to make more We're going to make the starts in or cities to get open spaces and to have living

18 PAG 19 space and e're going to have or edcational system attned to the needs of the time and e're going to make starts in c:) :I! c:: 1;'j :I! :I! C1:) ::: c:) ::: :: o o! C1:) )( ::;)W ::;) o ::: ater poltion control and air poltion control We have made advance in the field of science and technology and all of this adds to the betterment of life o, one final ord Don't rn aay from the togh,; ('/,) ones And I have a feeling that sometime e find it easier ::( 1:::;:) ;;: c::? MO to protest than e do to find it possible to bild and to " vi O! \!) Z o ::W c:::::a ;;;: CLZ, ::, )(V) C1:),, o ;;; C1:) o " "" a: :a I C1:), :: " vi ::::: i CO C1:) o \!) co c::,, :I! :I! v;y: C1:) OM O c::j create and to stick ith it Dissent, of corse! This party has been bilt on it very man in the free society has a right to be heard, bt that doesn't necessarily mean that yo have to take his ideas seriosly offers It depends on hat he very person has the right to protest, the right of dissent is a precios right of free people, bt also ith that dissent comes an obligation to present an alternative and not to rn aay from reality Yo can protest that e're not doing enogh in or cities Yo can protest that e haven't made a far enogh advance in the field of Civil Rights, bt hat is yor program? So e mst come p ith programs, and e are doing it, demonstration cities, open hosing, fair jries, poltion control, rent spplements, metropolitanide planning We have many alternatives that are coming forth,

19 PAG 2 bt the togh problems are international, international,_ And for every problem that yor contry faces, other contries have them tenfold o 3:1:1 :) Z3: :: :: o ::::: o lo ::JW :) Gr! 1::::) o,; ;:, : o "! (,_ O ",, Z" c::: Cl o :I: c::::l oz :) " " ( :I: :I:,; : X I :) o ;;;, :) o cl :::::: i I :) Cl CIO o, " ::1 ( ;LL :) OM O c:::s I Oh, I kno that e carry heavy brdens and e make mistakes, and I kno that many people are eary of the fact that e have to do so mch internationally and have to become so involved, bt I ask yo this morning to take a look at the problems that the Soviet Union has and take a look at ors I ask yo to take a look at the problems that they're having in Commnist China and take a look at ors And all I can say is I thank God that I live here and that I belong to the American society, becase or problems are minimal, pls the fact e have resorces ith hich to do something abot the problems; and I ant to remind yo once again, for those that feel that someho or another the enemy alays seems to have th ansers, and I've heard so many times, "Oh, l'ook the ay the Commnists do it, look hat they've done in Africa, look hat they've done in Asia" What have they done in Africa? Failed That's hat they have done ot one single African contry gone Commnist, not one A billion people gained their freedom in the last tenty years and seventy ne nations came into being, as I said to some of yo last night, and not one Commnist The ave of the ftre? Oh, no! The backash of th

20 PAG 21 :, c) l' l' _ ::f c:::l:) :Z c) "" : o ::::: Oa :W ' )( : o c:::l:) : :rl vi ::f ;;: bo, "/, ( MO, ' ::::) c:::& c:::l:) ' "", O Z" I) o ::: ( :I: :I:,; ' )(I) a) 2 o a) o : ( I : i 1) a) I), l' ' l' C'C ( v: a) OM c::::s samp, that's all There's no ave of the ftre here There's a yearning of people for freedom and independence that's jst bilt in them, and e're aiding that yearning, bt once in a hile e have to face p to the hard facts of violence jst as e have to face p to it in or cities and to pt it don, and e have to face p to it internationally And I think ( yong Americans oght to nderstand this more than anybody else There as another generation that didn't nderstand it Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke in Chicago in 1937 and said to the American people hen Hitler as riding high, 11 We mst qarantine the aggressor, 11 a famos speech And the pblic in America said no, and the demagoges attacked him and they said, 11 He seeks to lead s into ar to intervene He's trying He's an internationalist" And even brave Franklin Roosevelt retreated nder that avalanche Only for months before Pearl Harbor, Selective Service as saved by one vote in the Hose of Representatives The American people almost trned their back on political reality My fello Americans, it's never been easy to stand p to the hard facts of international life, it's mch easier to rite a check from a rich contry, it' s mch easier to send foreign aid from a rich contry, it's mch easier to give speeches from a rich contry and a loqacios contry

21 Bt sooner or later there comes a time hen banditry has to be met, hen aggression has to be faced, and the facts of international aggression are here and the people that oght to :) : c:: ::1: ::1:! _ c::j:) :::: W::;) :) a: ::: o _ ::;)W c::j:) :/) bo Oa: G::;) o,; c:: :::: :, : M o? ",; O "" _ Z c:::;:) o" ::W c::2 ;;;; oz _ ::: c::j:) : ' c::j:) :::,; o o )(V ' c::j:) a: I :::: i c::j:) oo c:: ', ;; ;:1: :;( :::::1 ViLL c::j:) 8 M c:::::j O recognie it are the yong, becase if aggression goes ncheckd it goes nleashed; and if aggression becomes a pattern of international condct, here does it stop? Where? And if e can accomodate orselves to aggression and let it go nchecked, hat abot eak nations, hat do yo think of the little nations? There are one hndred little nations in this orld and their stake in international life is being tested right no, becase if an otside aggressive force can che p a little, eak nation any time it ants to, then there is no safety for any little eak nation; and jst as yo and I kno that the tre test of jstice in a free society is not so mch hat yo do for the majority bt the protection of the rights of the minority and the eak So, in the international scene the tre test of international statesmanship is not so mch hat yo do amongst the sper poers bt hat is done to make life possible for the little ones, the eak ones, the fragile ones, those ho ar seeking to make their ay as a ne nation So e face the terrible problem in Soth Viet am And I only ant to conclde no by saying that yor government prses every hope of peace, yo srely oght to

22 PAG 23 kno, and yo oght to carry the message to yor fello Americans that yor President and yor Vice President and yor Senators and yor ambassadors ant peace as mch or more as o c::::l c:,_ :) l: l: l: :3 W :::;) c::::l i o o :::;)W a:: :) o Cl? vi t:::::)() :::: vi ::! o l: ; c:?, MO " Z c:::;) c:::l O C) o J: J: :) ' J:,; XV, :) o ;;; :) o I :i c ::! ::, eo :) o C), c: l: ' l:::l O :), c::s anybody in this orld; and the roadblock to peace, my fello Americans, is not in Washington, it's in Hanoi and Peking It isn't e ho've trned don an offer The roadblock to peace is not in Arthr Goldberg or Lyndon Johnson or Dean Rsk, it happens to be in Mao and Ho Chi Minh and LoJi, and I think yo oght to kno it This does not mean that e need to agree on every tactic and strategy that e se, bt let s make it crystal clear that this nation has contribted more to the case of peace than any nation on the face of the earth We've contribted since World War To, 169, casalties : since World War To, e've contribted one hndred tenty billion dollars in grants and loans; e've contribted billions of dollars in food and health and edcation over and above hat I've mentioned; e've kept the United ations alive hen others old kill it We are prepared as of this morning to go any place, any here, any time, to meet ith anybody to seek an honorable peace, bt e are not prepared to let the aggressor satisfy his insatiable appetite ith one contry and then seek another in the name of peace, becase to do so is a frad, to do so old be immoral, to do so old be

23 , '"G 2 4 irresponsible Poer and leadership impose responsibility ;:,_ and dty and if e're not p to it, ho is? If e can't help the eak, ho can? If e cannot resist the aggressor, ho ill? 1tio c:) If e are nilling to abide by standards of international t::: 1tj!, a) c:) W::: ::::lw o :::: ::: Oa: " )( a: a) :/,),; O t::: " c:::: :::: o :;( :,?, M O,,; Z "" o " :: c::::l ;;; _ :I: a) :I:,; : o _ 2 )(V, a) o, a) o : I :;( :: oo a) o t::: " a:, ' :;( a) O M O, c:::l condct, ho do yo expect to do so? And this is hat yong people mst think abot, not jst the easy things, bt the togh ones, and I am of the opinion that it is better for this nation to face p soon to the challanges that appear momentarily to be ithin or control than to have to face p to the possibility of a nclear cataclysm and catastrophe later on don the road And hen the aggressor finds ot that the price of aggression is too high, he may start to live peaceflly It is or hope and prayer that the militant forces of Asian Commnism may become as restrained and as reasonably responsible as some of the former militant forces of ropean Commnism This is not to say that Commnism and Commnists old not like to dominate this orld It is to say that the Soviet Union has learned to nderstand poer and has learned to nderstand that it cold be destroyed, and that its leaders at long last have come to nderstand that there is no victory in nclear ar Hopeflly and prayerflly e seek that same nderstandihg in China, and in other areas of the orld, and if e stand or

24 '"G 25 grond no and at the same time if e relentlessly prse the case of a jst peace throgh negotiation and throgh diplomacy, I think that e can have a orld peace and a orld,_ 3:1:5 c) x o! ":3: :) :::: c) oxi ::: o W::;) _ ::::W :) ::) Oox )( :::: a,; :::: "/, bo : o ( M,,,; Z" c::;) Cl o :c c::::: a; oz :c ( :) :c,; _ )(V) :) o ;;;, :) :;( ::: i :) Cl eo, :( 8 :) OM c::::s O that fits ithin the aims and the objectives and the ideals of the Charter of the United ations Good lck to yo, carry forth and do yor good job

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