It cannot be done overnight by a new administration.

I think it should move with us.

To rebuild American prestige now will not be easy.

The hard, tough question for the next decade, for this or any other group of Americans, regardless of their party, is whether we or the Communist world can best demonstrate the vitality of our system.

It is time for a fresh and imaginative program to resolve the problems of our Nation's timber industry - and to meet the desperate housing needs of millions of Americans.

A recent Senate report concludes that during the sixties we must produce a minimum of 16 million new homes just to keep pace with our growing housing needs.

It is an unfortunate fact that this country pays a majority of its teachers less than $4,500 a year.

But I can promise you that if I am elected we shall proceed ahead, and I think we shall not only endure, but prevail.

I would hope that it might be possible for some agreement to be entered into by the Soviet Union and the United States and other countries who are interested in space, and all countries are.

All builders and businessmen in the construction industry join me, I know, in seeking 'a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family.'

This can and should be accomplished as completely as possible through private enterprise, using both private financing and private construction.

Certainly a Democratic administration will provide leadership and direction toward this end at the Cabinet level, so that there may be a coordinated approach toward all decisions affecting the urban and metropolitan problems which so…

This is a great country, but I believe it can be a greater country, and I think it is our responsibility to join in that great effort.

I think we can do this job.

At our present rate of urban renewal it will take over 50 years to wipe out the substandard dwellings already in existence - and at the end of that time we will have even more substandard dwellings than we have now.

We will greatly expand our current efforts to apply modern science and technology to both the discovery of new uses for wood and the development of more efficient methods of timber production and cultivation.

I come and run for the office of the Presidency because I like America, but I think it can do better, and that is what we should dedicate ourselves to.

This is an important election because it comes at a most important time in the life of our country.

A free society is the most difficult of all kinds of government to maintain, and it can only be done if we have the best educated and the best trained citizens.

I run for the office of the Presidency saying that this is a great State and a great country, but I also say that it can be a greater country.

I am delighted that we have here tonight our friends from Brazil.

It is time for a program which encourages the construction of decent homes for all Americans - rather than a program which retreats from growth and progress.

In 1961 we will reverse these policies which waste and destroy our abundant wealth of timber - and return to an imaginative and adequate program of forest management.

It is time, in short, for a Democratic program - and we have such a program - and in 1961 we are going to put it into action.

The next President of the United States will face problems unlike those any President ever faced before.