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

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

Columbus Day commemorates modern man's greatest achievement in pressing forward the frontiers of the world.

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

I regard this statement as a major document setting forth my objectives and program in this important new field.

I do not intend to let Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Communists decide whether our troops shall fight on those islands.

I believe that if we meet our responsibilities - if we extend the hand of friendship - if we live up to the ideals of our own revolution - then the course of the African revolution in the next decade will be toward democracy and freedom…

Our top military and diplomatic leaders tried first to prevent the buildup and then to reduce it - and Chiang at one time agreed to a reduction, despite what Mr. Herter calls' his 'almost pathological interest' in keeping the islands.

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

And in the most remote bushlands of central Africa there are children named Thomas Jefferson and George Washington - but there are none named Lenin or Stalin or Trotsky.

Our balance-of-payments position must be recognized in framing our domestic economic policies.

With good physical and mental health our senior citizens can derive meaning and joy from their golden years.

I know something about the difficulty of landing men on these exposed islands and then keeping them supplied.

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.

We want to move forward ourselves.

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…

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

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 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.

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.

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…

May the spirit of Christopher Columbus abide with us today, as we honor the contributions of all our citizens who have ever called Italy their homeland.

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