Our Government owes the American people a full explanation of this situation and an explanation of what is being done to keep Russia from establishing a new satellite, this time in the heart of Africa.

That requires only one kind of defense policy - a policy summed up in one word - first.

Any program, to be successful, must be developed by and have the full support of the growers themselves.

Farmers throughout the Nation are putting aside their differences in a common determination to prevent 4 more years of falling prices and shrinking incomes.

For peace is our deepest aspiration.

This is a great country, but I think it can be greater.

I believe the American people elect a President to act.

It is time for a program which sees in America's farms the true source of American strength - not a source of difficulty.

We must not allow our NATO bases to become an unwitting instrument of such an effort, which is being carried on in defiance of the United Nations, of world opinion, and of the hopes of all of those who wish for peace.

First, of course, we must make immediate and fruitful use of surpluses we now have - through an expanded food-for-peace program to halt famine and malnutrition abroad - and through an increased food surplus distribution program for the…

Only the President speaks for the United States.

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels.

I want to make a statement on one matter.

I think the most important issue, and it is not political in the partisan sense, but it is the issue which concerns us all, is how we can live on the same globe with the Communists, both possessing hydrogen capacity which could destroy us…

It must protect growers of other crops from destructive competition through diversion of former wheat acreage.

I would think it would be a matter of serious concern because it could well lead to a blockade by the East Germans of the entrance into West Berlin.

I think the Western States are important.

I feel committed to the platform and would do my best, if elected, to implement it.