I have done everything I know how to do to treat all Americans equally and alike and fair.

We never want to go back to the farm-led and farm-fed depression days.

I am proud to be standing here only a few blocks from the War Memorial Plaza which honors men who sacrificed for freedom.

I could promise you only that I would do my dead level best.

But prosperity is worthless unless we keep the peace.

Today we have 20 million people living in decency and dignity off their social security checks.

We have stood firm with the Communists in the Tonkin Gulf and at Guantanamo.

No part of that policy has meant more to the good people of America than social security.

America is moving.

So realize that you have one of the most priceless privileges that human beings anywhere have.

I have been spoken to by but one woman since I have been here, and should not have been by her if she could have avoided it.

And I hope that every mother in this crowd, every citizen of America, every student here today will listen in on the television next week when I talk to you on the accomplishments of the first year of the nuclear test ban treaty.

So long as Lyndon Johnson is your President, I will continue to nurture and to strengthen that hope.

And so do I.

Four years ago we promised to get America moving again.

We don't hate, we don't fear, we don't doubt.

If you will give us the mandate, if you, by your vote, will give us your approval, we will go back to that Capital City on the Potomac and we will take the programs that were started by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and carried on by Harry S…

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