Farmers throughout the Nation are putting aside their differences in a common determination to prevent 4 more years of falling prices and shrinking incomes.

It is time for a program which views the farmer as a great national asset - not an unwanted burden on the taxpayer.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

But it is an unfortunate fact that we can prepare for peace only by preparing for war.

I feel committed to the platform and would do my best, if elected, to implement it.

I think the Western States are important.

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels.

Only the President speaks for the United States.

We must not allow our NATO bases to become an unwitting instrument of such an effort, which is being carried on in defiance of the United Nations, of world opinion, and of the hopes of all of those who wish for peace.

It is time for a program which sees in America's farms the true source of American strength - not a source of difficulty.

I believe the American people elect a President to act.