We can't waste that talent.

I come here tonight as the Democratic standard bearer for the office of the Presidency in the United States, and I come here to Michigan and ask your help.

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

One of the things we have to do is make our children the best educated children in the world.

I think we should say with the same confidence that his children will be free.

But I am a Democrat every day of the year, and I run as a Democrat, and I run in the succession of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.

I come here to Michigan and ask your support in the election of November 8.

I want to make it very clear that there are sharp differences between Mr. Nixon and myself.

Twenty years ago this city of Detroit was known as the arsenal of democracy.

It is raining on Vice President Nixon today, and we don't mind the rain.

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.

And I say that today our children's schools are not good enough.

Prestige affects our ability to influence these nations, to strengthen the forces of freedom within them.

Only the President of the United States speaks for California and Illinois and Massachusetts, and he speaks for more than the United States.

We know there is a God, and we know He hates injustice, and we see the storm coming.

I don't think if we continue on our present basis that we will be the leaders of the free world.

Possibly he is so uninformed on world affairs that he did not know our prestige had declined.

Secondly, how can we maintain the peace and maintain our own security around the world and strengthen freedom?

I ask your help in this campaign.

I speak in the Senate for Massachusetts.

First, can we in this country maintain full employment, build a stronger and more vital society, that demonstrates that freedom and productivity go hand in hand together?

I want you to join me in serving this country and moving this country forward.

Let me say that Mr. Nixon and I have one thing in common and that is that he just campaigns in Republican districts.

I think your presence here, whether you are Republican or Democrat, whether you wish to click with Dick or whether you wish to move this country forward.

The office of the Presidency is key, and whoever may be the next President, whether it is Mr. Nixon or myself, will be faced with greater responsibilities and greater burdens.