no one dared challenge our power, even the most rabid partisan could make no issue of our defense, and that is what we seek, an America so strong that defense is not an issue, but a matter of pride to all Americans.

The fundamental problem of our time is the critical situation which has been created by the steady erosion of American power relative to that of the Communists in recent years.

The Communists have a strategy for world conquest and that strategy rests in the future, as it has in the past, on the use of every weapon of economic and ideological conflict to win the allegiance of the uncommitted nations of the world…

The Democratic Party has brought social and economic progress to our country.

In addition, I believe we must take further steps to encourage day care programs that will protect our children and provide them with the basis for a full life in later years.

This is cause for serious national concern.

Certainly the child welfare program and other services established under the Social Security Act should be expanded.

The suggestion of a program of research, financing and development to serve the children of working mothers and of parents who for one reason and another cannot provide adequate care during the day deserves our full support.

This is a serious dispute, which involves the lives and the fortune of everyone here.

Anybody who aspires to the Presidency of the United States must have the objectivity and detachment to listen to and evaluate every responsible point of view.

So those are the basic matters which separate us, and it is to your good judgment, your sense of responsibility, your concern for your country, your identification with the cause of freedom, that we entrust this decision on November 8.

I come here all the way from Massachusetts, 1,500 miles away, and ask your support in this campaign.

The development of a relatively small hydrogen warhead has made missiles the key to future military power.

That is not the Presidency for which I run.

In the long run, the most effective antidote for inflation is increased productivity and greater production.

I believe that this is a time of danger and of opportunity.

You have my pledge that I will do all in my power to live up to the faith and trust you place in me by your action.

The Democratic Party is no more the party of labor than it is the party of business.

Certainly this is not the time for an increase in tax rates.

Communism in Latin America is on the decline.

Our tax system requires reform.

Mr. Nixon and I disagree very basically on the position of the United States, on what must be done to increase our security, and what must be done to maintain the peace.

Without adequate day time care during their most formative years the children of the Nation risk permanent damage to their emotional and moral character.

It is my firm belief that we can build a stronger and healthier America to work toward our goal of peace with justice throughout the world.

It is a great country, but I believe it must be greater, and it is a powerful country, but I believe it must be more powerful, and I believe that our responsibility in the 1960's is to restore to the world the image of America as a society…