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I think we'll all feel a lot safer with him in the White House.

This is a grave menace to the United States, as well as a body blow to our continuing efforts toward effective arms control.

Our superiority in weapons was unquestioned.

It takes strength, careful planning, holding to principle — yes, and determination and courage as well — to keep American boys out of war.

It is clear from what I have reported tonight that America urgently needs new leadership for tomorrow.

Such were the dreams that crimped our national defense program.

I charge the opposition with creating a security gap for America.

The Eisenhower position was that prudent firmness under-girds peace, but timidity, impulsiveness, and indecision lead toward war.

In fact the U.S. has not had a balanced budget since the last full fiscal year of the Eisenhower Administration.

The continuing process of dollar debauchery is today robbing our citizens of their wealth and aggrandizing the power of Washington.

In recent years Americans have often believed the promises and exchanged their own wealth and freedom for bureaucratic solutions to their problems.

Walt Whitman once called our history an open road.

The average American is losing money.

It is time now to reopen the American way—return to the open road, where free men master change rather than passively await it.

If I am elected I pledge that I will adopt this approach redressing the present imbalances without increasing unemployment or controls.

The present Administration has raised the Federal government's share of the average worker's paycheck not only by the recent ten percent surcharge, but also by another estimated 11 percent through the hidden tax of inflation.