I want to express my thanks to all of you for having been kind enough to invite, on this great day in this city, the President of the United States.

I do not believe that in this most critical and dangerous period in the life of our country that Presidents, or anyone else, should confine themselves to ceremonial occasions.

This country had a recession in 1958; it had a recession in '60.

We have formed a Disarmament Agency.

When I became President of the United States in January 1961, this State had one of the largest numbers of unemployed in the whole country, nearly 500,000 people.

So I come today not as a candidate for office, but as one who, after 21 months as President, recognizes how important it is that this great country of ours be dynamic and progressive, and I ask your help in giving us men who believe in…

I want to express my great appreciation to all of you for your generous invitation to come here today.

This job of building freedom around the world begins here in this State and in this country.

Education, medical care for the aged, job opportunities, equal rights--those are the things that this country stands for, and we can get those things only if we elect men who believe in them.

And I'm confident that the people of this State will elect Democratic Congressmen and elect Joe Clark again to speak for Pennsylvania and the country in the United States Senate.

A strong, free world begins here in this State, begins here in the United States, and we cannot have a strong United States if we sit still.