As a matter of fact, I know of no State in the Union that supplies better public servants than the State of Minnesota.

But our future doesn't depend on that and that is not the strength of our future.

I am very fond of your Senators and your entire congressional delegation in Washington.

You have great quality but you need better quantity.

But that is the road we are going to take.

Minnesota believes in growing opportunities for all Americans.

It is the first step toward the greatness that is within our grasp.

But we are going to wipe out poverty and we are going to reach full employment.

But we will not let the record of the last few years lull us into confidence or complacency or contentment.

They will not be faced easily and painlessly and without risk.

It is the kind of people like you who have made the sacrifice to come out here and spend this evening listening to speeches and to reach down in your pocket and pay the fare that supports one of the two great parties in America that are…

And the almost 3 billion people in the rest of the world who have never known the pleasure and prosperity that is ours, who have never shared the freedom that belongs to us--they watch our every move to see which direction our life will…

This year you and all the American people are going to choose 4 more years of progress.

I am proud and inspired and stimulated that there is a Ford in my future.

We stand at the edge of the greatest era in the life of any nation.

He asked you then to make a choice for progress.

This is the kind of America that we are going to build.

This Nation, this people, this generation, has man's first chance to create a Great Society.

But what is finally going to determine the winner of that race is not the quantity of our people but the quality of our citizens; not the measure of our acres, but the type of system of government that we have.

In 1960, in this city, John Fitzgerald Kennedy began his campaign for President.

I have expressed my concern and determination to save our countrysides.

Only about 2 1/2 percent have some degree of permanent protection.

I have directed Secretary Udall to prepare a plan for a redwoods national park and to have it ready for presentation to the Congress next January.

The redwoods are one of Nature's masterpieces in North America--and in the world.

Many of the standing redwood forests are in jeopardy from flooding and fire and plans for highway construction.