Senator KENNEDY. I want to express my thanks
to Tyler, and I hope that he is going to be elected the Congressman from
this district, and I want to also say it is a pleasure to be here with
Otto Kerner, who is going to be the Governor of the State of Illinois.
[Applause.] And Senator Paul Douglas, who is going to continue to represent
Illinois and the Nation in the United States Senate. [Applause.] You met
my sister, Eunice. [Applause.]
Let me say that Mr. Nixon and I have one thing
in common and that is that he just campaigns in Republican districts. I
looked at his schedule in Pennsylvania, and he goes where all the Republicans
live. That is what we are going to do; we are campaigning where the Republicans
live. [Response.] I can't believe that any Democrats live in Lake Zurich
- do they? Or Barrington, or Milldale? What about West Dundee? [Response
from the audience.] Well, we are going to take the Democratic message out
to West Dundee and Libertyville, because this election ought to be won
in these areas surrounding the great cities, the suburbs, suburbia, or
whatever you may call it, people who make an independent judgment on what
is best for their State, their families, their country, the cause of freedom.
Those are the issues they must decide upon. Where can they get a government,
a President, a Congress, which will be responsible, progressive, which
will strength the United States, strengthen our influence around the world,
strike a blow for the cause of freedom, build this country until it is
stronger? That is the issue in this campaign and I think it ought to be
heard not merely in the great Democratic cities, but out in Dundee and
all the rest. So that is where we are going today. Thank you very much.
[Applause.]