I am very pleased today to be joined by your most distinguished Mayor, Jerry Cavanagh; by your Governor, George Romney; by your very able Senator, Phil Hart; and by your junior Senator, Senator Griffin.

Two years ago I said that all Americans are entitled to clean water, pure air, parks and open country.

Your happy smiles make us feel at home again in the great industrial metropolis that is admired and envied the world over.

But even this will not be enough.

I hope the day is near when war is only an ugly memory.

We know that America is on the march.

We must pass it in the other House as well.

What is best for my country is best for me.

So when they ask about my political philosophy I say: I am a free man, first. I am an American, second. I am a public servant, third. And I am a Democrat, fourth--in that order.

I believe just as firmly as I believe anything in the world that historians will say of us in the years to come: The Americans by their courage and faith, by their love of liberty and freedom, preserved liberty and freedom and opened the…

This enemy has discovered what so many others have discovered in the wars America has fought, that the air of liberty breeds the best soldier.

We must not ever succumb to the temptation of buying price stability at the expense of stopping growth.

Deep forces for real peace are at work tonight.

We are not going to varnish the rough facts.

We will not stop the economy in its tracks; we will not put men and machines out of work again.

We want the killing to stop and the people of Vietnam to make their own future in peace.

In civil rights legislation and in the truth-in-packaging bill, he has been my strong right arm.

And I don't need to tell you the name of that law.