If we are successful, our objective will be to rebuild our country, to strengthen our country, and strengthen its position around the world, to strengthen its defenses, to rebuild the economy of this United States. The Democratic Party does not run on a program in this election which will give any satisfaction at all to Mr. And it is my responsibility as the standard bearer for the Democratic Party in this election to speak the truth, to say what we think. They are impressed by our vitality as a free society. They are impressed by the determination of the American people. Khrushchev is not impressed by words, nor is Mr. We settle in the next 6 weeks, we make a decision in the coming days, which way this country will move, not from now to January, but for the next 4 years, and possibly the next 8 years, and I will not miss a single occasion to see what is on my side, and that is that this is a great country, but it can be a greater country it is a powerful country, but it can be a more powerful country. But I am concerned about the future of our country, and I think it would be far more hazardous and far more dangerous for any American who is concerned about the future of our country, to stay still, to say nothing, to keep his peace. And so does every American here, Republican or Democrat. I did not need to be reminded of that yesterday.
Nixon suggested that during the time that the United Nations was in session that we should diminish our campaign, that we should support the President, that we should rally around the United States. I think to be an American in the 1960's will be a responsible and difficult and hazardous occupation. Senator Johnson and I do not run for President and Vice President promising that if we are elected life will be easy. I run for the Office of the Presidency in a difficult and dangerous time in the life of our country. And it was North Carolina and Tennessee that produced and brought to fruition Andrew Jackson, who built the Democratic Party. I think it is most appropriate that we should begin in this community with visitors from three States, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, because it was Virginia which produced Thomas Jefferson who founded the Democratic Party.
But we are here today because we begin in Tennessee today a campaign for the Office of the Presidency in this State, and we ask your support. President Hoover initiated on the occasion of his visit the slogan "Two chickens for every pot," and it is no accident that no presidential candidate has ever dared come back to this community since. Governor Ellington, Senator Gore, Members of the Congress, visitors from three States, ladies and gentlemen, it is my understanding that the last candidate for the Presidency to visit this community in a presidential year was Herbert Hoover in 1928.
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