I call upon you, here and now, to begin this hour to start fighting in order to save it.
The fact is that wages are higher, employment is higher, profits are higher, and the economy is stronger than at any time in American histor...
And they are just as wrong in 1964 as they were in 1938.
We will not return to declining employment at home and declining prestige abroad.
I remember in 1938 voting for a 25-cent an hour minimum wage bill.
That has been the 30-year-old goal of this progressive union.
Our strides toward that future will come from the unity that was forged in the struggles of the past.
And I have no doubt what the steelworkers will do about it.
This year, for the first time, we have broken the barrier of 70 million jobs, and right now we are creating additional new jobs at the rate ...
We will never return to economic stagnation and national drift.
Next year we are going to cut excise taxes.