Our prestige has rapidly declined.

Indiana has not voted Democratic in a presidential election since 1936.

This country can afford that waste no longer.

Nineteen billion dollars worth of foods is wasting in storage at a time when millions of Americans are without an adequate diet.

Today almost 4 million Americans are out of work and another 3 million must struggle to maintain a decent standard of living on part-time work and half-full pay envelopes.

During the war between the Spartans and the Persians, and after 300 Spartans were wiped out at Thermopylae, they carved a sign in the rock which said, 'Passerby, tell Sparta we fell faithful to her service.'

Indiana is not a separate State.

For the Mr. Nixon who can look upon your distress - and say all is well - is the same Mr. Nixon who, in the past 8 years, has led the fight against every Democratic measure designed to increase the welfare of the American people.

We are wasting our great river valleys, such as the Wabash, if we fail to utilize their potential, to develop their resources and to purify their water.

I say that Mr. Nixon has looked, but he has not seen.

These are the rapidly growing islands of poverty in the midst of a rich and abundant America - islands which have been growing in number and expanding in size under the leadership of a Republican Party which is indifferent to the urgent…

We need a government that knows how to govern - and history shows that this means a Democratic government.

This is one of the great turning points in our history.

For this is not a record of economy or efficiency.

This country will not maintain its freedom, this country will not maintain its commitments around the world, unless we have a strong and vigorous economy, able to maintain our commitments, able to build, able to move.

I don't believe that the American people in 1960, in these dangerous years of our days, are going to elect a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

We ask your help in this Campaign.

Now, in an election year, the Republicans are pretending that their token bill will provide more help than the Democratic bill.