The office of the Presidency is key, and whoever may be the next President, whether it is Mr. Nixon or myself, will be faced with greater responsibilities and greater burdens.

Only the President of the United States can speak for this country.

I want to thank all of you who came out today.

I campaign for the Presidency with a full recognition that that office will bear more responsibility than it has in the last 100 years since the administration of Lincoln.

But prestige is important.

I don't believe that the United States is meeting its responsibilities to itself and to those around the world who look to it for leadership.

Unless we grow more, unless we employ fiscal and monetary policies that stimulate employment, we are going to have a recession in the winter of 1961.

I think it is time to trust the American people - to face up to the facts - and to decide what we must do.

This is a great country and I have unlimited confidence in it, and I have served it for 18 years.

I run for the office of the Presidency after 14 years in the Congress with full recognition of the responsibilities of that office.

The question we have to ask ourselves is: What kind of children, what kind of future men and women, are we raising in our new American homes?