In any case, we are here today to ask your help.

I want to express my thanks and appreciation to Ed Muskie, my friend and colleague in the U.S. Senate, and I am delighted that I have had a chance to come here in this State on the opening day of a long campaign.

Its fulfillment will require effort and sacrifice and dedication.

The Federal Government cannot do for us what we must do for ourselves, but it can, with more progressive leadership, set the atmosphere in which our economy can be revitalized.

By building New England we build America.

Such a program is not a program for New England - it is a program for America.

Second, we must reverse the serious decline in New England's textile industry.

If we are to put these human resources to work - if we are to give New Englanders the chance to revive their economy and restore their prosperity - then we need vigorous leadership and understanding, coupled with an effective, workable program for action.

I spoke in accepting the nomination in Los Angeles of the new frontier that is coming into our country.

Finally, New England shares in the urgent economic needs of the entire Nation - the need to provide a decent life for our older citizens and a decent education for our young.

But we do have our own resources - human resources - the skill and experience and determination of our people.