The big issue that we want to talk about tonight is whether we will stay on this path of peace.
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I am touched this afternoon to be here with one of my wisest counselors, one of my best friends, our beloved Carl Vinson.
I know the deep interest that each of you have taken.
I am happy that it seems to be on the way to a favorable solution.
I hope after that kind of bragging and introduction, I hope she will be mine the last week of the campaign.
The first thing that we must do for our future, and for the world's future, is to keep the peace, and that is what I have really come here to Chattanooga to talk to you about today.
They tell me--I asked Nancy Gore this afternoon--someone told me that I was running about 55-45 down here in Tennessee.
I came here to meet you, to look at you, to speak with you, to discuss some of our problems.
I don't want to see the bipartisan foreign policy of this country go down the drain.
Tennessee needs him in the Senate and the Nation needs him in the Senate.
I want a government that will encourage business instead of harass it, but I don't want a business government.
We have no unkind words to say about anyone.
We are going to keep our guard up, but our hand out.
We have more power than all the nations put together.
Our responsibilities in this regard are clear: