John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I come here today and ask your help in a tough fight here in Indiana.

Young people have suddenly become very important in the world.

Today, I ask you the young men and women of America to join with us, as pioneers of a New Frontier, to establish a new concept of opportunity.

This country can afford that waste no longer.

The Democratic Party believes in government - but it believes that government must be responsible, economical and prudently run.

During the war between the Spartans and the Persians, and after 300 Spartans were wiped out at Thermopylae, they carved a sign in the rock which said, 'Passerby, tell Sparta we fell faithful to her service.'

This is one of the great turning points in our history.

For the Mr. Nixon who can look upon your distress - and say all is well - is the same Mr. Nixon who, in the past 8 years, has led the fight against every Democratic measure designed to increase the welfare of the American people.

For this is not a record of economy or efficiency.

We are wasting our great river valleys, such as the Wabash, if we fail to utilize their potential, to develop their resources and to purify their water.

Our prestige has rapidly declined.

I say that Mr. Nixon has looked, but he has not seen.

Nineteen billion dollars worth of foods is wasting in storage at a time when millions of Americans are without an adequate diet.

I am not impressed by those who say they can stand up to Khrushchev when Mr. Castro has successfully defied them from 90 miles away.

It is truly time for a change.

We need a government that knows how to govern - and history shows that this means a Democratic government.

That is why I have pledged that if elected President I will sign a bill to bring help to areas like Evansville, to rebuild the economies of our distressed areas, so that a strong and growing America can serve its own people, and serve the…

This rich and abundant land is known as the Valley of Opportunity.

When it comes to our economy, he sees no evil, hears no evil, speaks no evil.

And in fiscal year 1959 the Republicans ran up the highest peacetime deficit in our Nation's history.

Today almost 4 million Americans are out of work and another 3 million must struggle to maintain a decent standard of living on part-time work and half-full pay envelopes.

Indiana has not voted Democratic in a presidential election since 1936.

These are the rapidly growing islands of poverty in the midst of a rich and abundant America - islands which have been growing in number and expanding in size under the leadership of a Republican Party which is indifferent to the urgent…

Indiana is not a separate State.

Twice the Democratic Congress has passed legislation designed to help communities like Evansville - areas of chronic labor surplus.