Democratic Party recognizes this challenge and is dedicated to the creation of a climate in which the later years can be productive, dignified, and satisfying.

We can give older citizens a new sense of usefulness by encouraging them to engage in such needed activities as homemaker services, practical nursing, and Senior center leadership.

We seek in our party today to serve the United States, to move it forward, and rain or shine, good times or bad, this country is going to move in the sixties

We must increase the provision for rehabilitation and training of the physically and mentally handicapped.

Steps should be taken to insure and protect an income to our senior citizens which will permit them to maintain a decent independent standard of living.

Whenever it rains, the Republicans go inside, but we stay outside and fight

Something short of our best is not good enough.

We must make available a program of medical insurance based on the proven social security system.

I believe that if we can get a good vote out on November 8, now that we have them registered - I cannot believe in 1960, with all of the problems that this country faces at home and abroad, that the American people are going to do anything…

I believe we stand on the side of the future.

This year social Security is 25 years old and perhaps never since its enactment have the challenges and needs and the opportunities in this field been so crucial and as far reaching as they are today.