John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I believe we must meet our commitment to uh - Formosa

Creation of an executive board of the nationwide Educators for Kennedy Committee was announced today by Senator John F. Kennedy.

I have consistently, throughout this campaign, made clear my recognition of the value and importance of the oil-depletion allowance.

At the present time, with exploration and development declining, it is essential that there be a careful review of this entire problem to insure that policy regarding depletion is adequate to safeguard our future energy needs.

I realize its purpose and value are to provide a rate of exploration, development, and production adequate to our national security and the requirements of our economy.

So I come to Harlem today to ask you to join us, to register this week, to vote, to stand for progress, to move, to go forward, until the United States achieves this great goal of practicing what it preaches.

I intend to see that not a single American dies on those islands.

I want to make it clear that all this is important, not only to ourselves, but all those who look to us in the cause of freedom.

I believe it is important that the President of the United States personify the ideals of our society, speak out on this, associate ourselves with the great fight for equality.

We should not fear the 20th century, for this worldwide revolution which we see all around us is part of the original American Revolution.

He boasts that he is a 'risk taker' abroad and a conservative at home.

But Mr. Nixon disagrees with the views I have just quoted.

I draw it around Formosa and the Pescadores - the area essential to our security.

Our top military and diplomatic leaders tried first to prevent the buildup and then to reduce it.

If we carry out this program for Africa with vigor and imagination, then I believe that we can begin to reverse the disastrous errors and neglect of the past 8 years - we can begin to rebuild the cause of freedom in Africa - and we can…

Therefore, I must say that I think we waste an awful lot of time talking about things that really are not the issues.

We want to move forward ourselves.

If we are going to live by these high words we are going to have to live it every day.

But Mr. Nixon is not interested in policies of caution in world affairs.

Should I become your President, I will take whatever steps are necessary to defend our security and to maintain the cause of world freedom - but I will not risk American lives and a nuclear war by permitting any other nation to drag us…

I do not believe in big government - but I believe in effective government - in a government which meets its appropriate responsibilities, and meets them effectively.

I am pleased to note that the program for housing for the elderly which was so vigorously opposed by the Republicans is about to begin its first pilot project.

The aged of this Nation deserve to spend their retirement years with proper recognition and respect for the contributions they have made to the American economy.

Are we going to vote Democratic?

Mr. Nixon says that the people who live on those islands 'are not too important.'