First, that we provide 15,000 to 25,000 national scholarships for our brightest and most talented boys and girls, who will return that investment many times over in their useful life to our country.

I come here to New Jersey tonight to ask your help, not only for my own candidacy, and that of Senator Johnson, but because I believe the positions we have taken in this campaign as they affect the security of the United States are in the…

We see the storm coming, and we know His hand is in it. But if He has a place and a part for me, I believe that we are ready.

This is a campaign that must be won if we are going to move this country ahead.

And I do not believe that any candidate for office who runs in 1960 on a constant program of reassurance, of pallid promises, of vague charges and innuendoes and personal abuse is meeting his responsibilities to the great Republic.

I want to see us build here in this country a strong and vital and progressive society that will serve as an inspiration to all those people who desire to follow the road that we have followed.

As Maine goes, so goes Vermont, and I hope so goes the Nation.

My name is Kennedy and I have come to ask your support.

Two, I do not believe that this administration has attracted to Washington men and women of sufficient intellectual curiosity, foresight, vitality, and energy and we will send the best talent we can get to represent us around the world.

Better the occasional faults of a government living in the spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

I come to this county which is not celebrated as one of the strongest Democratic counties north of the Mason-Dixon line and ask your support on November 8.