NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I believe those watching this debate tonight in the United States of America need to take a very clear-eyed…”

“I believe those watching this debate tonight in the United States of America need to take a very clear-eyed, sober-minded approach to providing for our common defense and to understand that we are vulnerable to intercontinental ballistic missile attack. This is not scare tactics. This is something, believe me, we wish were otherwise, but we need to take steps today to ensure that we provide for the common defense and that we do not always look to that legitimate role of the Federal Government, providing for that defense, as the place where all the job cuts and the reductions come to reinvent government as some would state it.”