Events and facts have given ominous portent of what is to come

It is a contest between all those who look to the past, between all those who wish to stand still, and those who wish to move ahead.

I look not to the past, but to the future.

The question is: Is America thinking in terms of the future?

The next 10 years, in short, will be a decade of opportunity.

For this will be a wholly different nation in 1970 with wholly different needs, and we must begin now to meet those needs.

And today, when Mr. Nixon tells us all is well, when he tells us we never had it so good, when he wants us to be satisfied with the record of the last 8 years, you and I look to the future - we look at 1970, when the rest of the world thinks we will be far behind - and we are not satisfied.

We know enough about the USIA survey of our prestige overseas to know that one of the key questions related not to how we stood in 1960 compared to the Soviets, but who would be ahead in 1970.

For all this means we are not doing the job; we are not meeting our responsibilities to the future; we are not assuring American leadership in the decade ahead.

The next 5 years are going to be decisive years in the life of our country.

The question we have to ask ourselves is: What kind of children, what kind of future men and women, are we raising in our new American homes?

But if you share the view that I hold very vigorously, that this country is going to have to do better in the future, that we have responsibilities to meet not only to ourselves but to the cause of freedom, that we are anxious to make sure that in the future people decide that these days were great days in the life of our country, that we must move forward, we must stimulate our growth, we must hold out an image to the world of a vigorous, dynamic society, if we are going to continue to lead the free world - I believe that is the choice.

We cannot predict what new problems will come across our desks in the next 4 years.

Forward, and that is what this country must do, that is the direction it must take, that is the direction it will take November 8, when we make an affirmative decision.

I believe in 1960 the American people are going to move forward again.

The great issue of our time is whether the world of the future will be a free world or a slave world.

I think that the Democratic Party can continue to function if it looks not only to the past, but to the future, and if it looks to all sections of the United States for support.

I come among you asking hard work for the future.