Senator KENNEDY. Thank you. Here is Paul Douglas,
a great Democrat, and here is the next United States Senator and the present
Senator. And Otto Kerner, the candidate for Governor on the Democratic
ticket, and your own Mel Price, the candidate who will be elected. I am
a candidate for the office of the Presidency, and the Presidency is a key
office. If the people's interest is going to be protected, the President
of the United States must stand for that protection. It is the President
of the United States that can set the goals for the country in housing,
minimum wage, social security, unemployment compensation, and in equality
of rights for all Americans, regardless of their race or color. I stand
in direct succession to Truman and Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, who advanced
the right of all Americans to participate equally in our society. I can
assure you that if I am successful on this occasion, the same spirit will
move us, the same spirit forward. We ask your help in this Campaign.
[Applause.]