With good physical and mental health our senior citizens can derive meaning and joy from their golden years.

May the spirit of Christopher Columbus abide with us today, as we honor the contributions of all our citizens who have ever called Italy their homeland.

I believe that we can meet our responsibilities in this area more satisfactorily than we have.

Our top military and diplomatic leaders tried first to prevent the buildup and then to reduce it - and Chiang at one time agreed to a reduction, despite what Mr. Herter calls' his 'almost pathological interest' in keeping the islands.

I know something about the difficulty of landing men on these exposed islands and then keeping them supplied.

Are we going to vote Democratic?

The aged of this Nation deserve to spend their retirement years with proper recognition and respect for the contributions they have made to the American economy.

I do not believe in big government - but I believe in effective government - in a government which meets its appropriate responsibilities, and meets them effectively.

Should I become your President, I will take whatever steps are necessary to defend our security and to maintain the cause of world freedom - but I will not risk American lives and a nuclear war by permitting any other nation to drag us…

If we are going to live by these high words we are going to have to live it every day.

Therefore, I must say that I think we waste an awful lot of time talking about things that really are not the issues.

Our top military and diplomatic leaders tried first to prevent the buildup and then to reduce it.

But Mr. Nixon disagrees with the views I have just quoted.

As I said in my speech, the balance of payments, as all of you know, on exports, was in our favor in the last 12 months.

This is the unfinished business that we have.

For it was in the new world of Columbus that man began his first rebellion against control by ancient empires.

Just as the Democratic Party has benefited from the contributions of business leaders, so has the business community benefited from the contributions of the Democratic Party.

Columbus Day commemorates modern man's greatest achievement in pressing forward the frontiers of the world.