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This is the most important subject that we have.

This can and should be accomplished as completely as possible through private enterprise, using both private financing and private construction.

Under this policy families in moderate circumstances are being priced out of the market for decent homes.

It is an unfortunate fact that this country pays a majority of its teachers less than $4,500 a year.

But I can promise you that if I am elected we shall proceed ahead, and I think we shall not only endure, but prevail.

I am delighted that you have accepted my invitation to become a member of our National Committee of Business and Professional Men for the campaign.

A recent Senate report concludes that during the sixties we must produce a minimum of 16 million new homes just to keep pace with our growing housing needs.

I am delighted that we have here tonight our friends from Brazil.

Formation of this committee dramatizes the willingness of farm people to work together to help us carry out our pledge to take positive action to raise farm prices and incomes.

I have called this challenge the New Frontier.

This is the most important election, I think, certainly since 1932.

It is time, in short, for a Democratic program - and in 1960 we are going to put it into action.

I think that the decline in farm income, which is so sharp, makes this the No.1 domestic problem.

I don't think in the 1960's that this world can exist half slave and half free.

I ask your help in this election.

It must raise the farmer's income so that he can again become a full partner in American prosperity - and receive the decent income which his contribution to American strength so richly deserves.

It must reduce the total cost of the price-support and storage programs.