Senator KENNEDY. Thank you very much, ladies
and gentlemen. My name is Kennedy. I am here running in Indiana, and I
just wanted to stop here and ask your help in this campaign. I think that
this is a difflcult and important election. I think the fight in this State
is going to be close and hard fought. I have come here today and asked
your help. I don't believe that anyone can live in Indiana and in the United
States and feel that the tide is moving in our favor in this State and
around the country. The economy now, with over 4 million people out of
work, with corn in these fields selling for 95 and 93 or 92 cents, the
economy with the steel mills down across the country using only 50 percent
of capacity, I don't believe we need a diagram to know that the economy
of this country is not moving to the fullest. I am sure that any merchant
in this town would agree with that. We had a recession in 1958 and 1954.
You cannot possibly afford in the United States, at this serious time,
with all the responsibilities pressing upon us around the world, we cannot
afford to have our economy moving slowly. This economy of the United States,
on it depends our strength and the strength of the free world, and I believe
that the fiscal and economic and legislative policies followed by this
administration have contributed to this slowdown, on the farm, in the towns,
and in the cities. I come here today and ask your help in this campaign.
[Applause.]
I think there are very real issues in this
campaign that divide the parties. Though I know that Indiana has not gone
Democratic in any Presidential election, I think, since 1936, I believe
that the United States and Indiana will move mto the Democratic column
in November, and I come here today and ask your help. [Applause.]