These other Republicans refused to accept or work for the $1.25 minimum Senate bill or the much milder minimum wage legislation endorsed by President Eisenhower which was contained in the Prouty amendment.

Who can do the job best?

But we were unwilling to take a bill which provided only token improvements in the law.

Yes; I would hope we would secure the best talent we could get, and I say particularly in the responsible positions involving national security, without regard to party.

But, we have just begun to fight.

The Democrats have traditionally held that the officials who man our key posts in defense and foreign policy should be selected for their superior ability, whatever their party affiliation may be.

I intend to take this fight to the American people.

It is with regret that I must announce the failure of the House and Senate conferees to agree upon a reasonable minimum wage improvement program.

The Republicans tells us that we are dreamers, and that we are making impossible promises and misleading the American people.

Today I would prefer to confine what I have to say and the discussion afterward to this one subject.

This is a time for boldness and energy.