Taking a leaf out of the Vice President's book, my wife comes from New York, and, therefore, I would say that New York produces the most beautiful women.

I don't believe that anyone can live in Indiana and in the United States and feel that the tide is moving in our favor in this State and around the country.

This country must go forward again.

My own judgment is that after 8 years of the Republicans that the Democrats can begin to move this country ahead.

I ask your support, and I can assure you – I can assure you that if we are successful we will begin to give this country the kind of leadership which I think it needs, if it is not only to survive, but also to prevail.

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

Indiana is not a separate State.

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…

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.

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

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…

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

It is truly time for a change.

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.

Our prestige has rapidly declined.

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.

For this is not a record of economy or efficiency.

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.

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

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 country can afford that waste no longer.

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

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

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

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