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What we want is a better life for our children than we have for ourselves.

And as Vice President, I had the special job of helping to keep the business of the Government going forward as smoothly as possible.

I want the opportunity to work in that cause.

My opponent says he's going to spend more, and that's right. But it isn't his money; it's your money he's going to spend.

I say America can move forward without taking from the people more in prices and taxes than we are taking at the present time, and I think that's what you want, and that's the choice that we give you in this campaign.

In this tremendously important part of the world, which, along with the other newly emerging areas, holds the key to the future struggle of freedom against Communist imperialism, Pat and I took every possible opportunity to get out and…

I can tell you we have problems in this country, problems that we will solve.

We will work to stop tests and get an agreement, yes; but we will never agree to anything unless we are sure they are going to keep the bargain because that's how America has got into trouble in the past, and we are not going to make that…

My friends, the President was right; Senator Kennedy was wrong, in 1955, and the proof of it is we've kept the peace without surrender.

No criticism of this Nation, as I told the delegates, can be permitted to obscure the fact that America is the strongest power in the world - militarily, economically, ideologically - and that we have the resources and the stamina and the…

And then we come here today and see what is really - and I say this advisedly, because I have seen rallies all over America - one of the greatest rallies of this whole campaign, and we thank you for it, right here in Parkersburg, W. Va.

We are strong, why? Not because we want to use our strength to conquer the world, but because we want to use our strength to free the world so that everybody can be free, so that everybody can live in peace and freedom.

One, advocated by the New Deal, is Government control regulating our lives.

Since 1952, my campaigning - either for myself or for other party candidate - has taken me roughly 135,000 miles into every part of the country.

This country has always been filled with a great spirit, a spirit of conquering new frontiers, a spirit in which we are always moving into the future, never satisfied with either the past or the present.

When we first met in Moscow, he said to me, 'Mr. Vice President, you are ahead of us now economically, but we're moving faster than you are.