The office of the Presidency carries with it the authority and influence to explore and work out solutions within the framework of our foreign trade policies for the problems peculiar to our textile and apparel industry.

I assure you that in a new Democratic administration there will be far better representation, on the basis of merit, of persons of all our racial groups, including particularly those who in the past have been excluded on the basis of…

This means that appointments must be made on the basis of merit.

Once again the Democratic Congress has acted to relieve farmers of some of the pressures resulting from increasing costs and falling prices.

A Democratic administration will guarantee that this will be but the first in a long - and long overdue - series of measures to be enacted into law which will give American farmers what they have not had in recent years: prices and income…

It is no longer possible to depend upon makeshift policies and piecemeal remedies to solve the problems which the industry faces.

As the guardian of our constitutional rights, the Federal judiciary must have at all levels the best possible judges.

I agree with the conclusions of the Pastore committee that sweeping changes in our foreign trade policies are not necessary.

President Truman led the way in appointing the first Negro lifetime Federal judge and the first Negro on the court of appeals.

I would, of course, be delighted to discuss with you and with industry leaders the import problems of the textile industry and the development of constructive methods for showing the growth and prosperity of the industry in the future.

Senator John F. Kennedy today announced the appointment of eight leading medical men as an advisory committee to Representative Aime J. Forand.