1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,880 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Show. Arguably Ronald Reagan's most famous speech 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: he ever delivered arguably was delivered before he was ever president. 3 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:16,000 Speaker 1: It was in nineteen sixty four. He was campaigning for 4 00:00:16,040 --> 00:00:19,079 Speaker 1: Barry Goldwater, who of course would lose to Lyndon Johnson 5 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: that year, and the speech was entitled a Time for Choosing. 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,080 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan was at that point mostly known as a 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: former actor. He would go on to be great governor 8 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:39,040 Speaker 1: of State of California and presidential candidate and then of 9 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:42,319 Speaker 1: course president, the leader of the Conservative movement, the man 10 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: who uttered de phrase make America Great Again in nineteen 11 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:50,319 Speaker 1: eighty October twenty seventh, nineteen sixty four. This is a 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:55,720 Speaker 1: defining moment in what would become an incredible political career. 13 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: He'd done so many other things before, and it really 14 00:01:01,720 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: highlights his ideological shift from a Hollywood actor and a 15 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 1: Democrat and confirmed Democrat, to not only a staunch conservative Republican, 16 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: but the man who would become the leader of the 17 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:21,479 Speaker 1: conservative movement in America. He warns against government control which 18 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:26,440 Speaker 1: was encroaching upon individual freedoms. This is a timeless speech 19 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: and he argues still true today. Expanding federal programs and 20 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: bureaucracies risked undermining personal individual liberties and the concept that 21 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 1: is core to our being and that is self reliance. 22 00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 1: Don't feed the bears, They'll grow dependent on it and 23 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: won't be able to take care of themselves. This is 24 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan, a time for choosing enjoy. 25 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 2: The following pre recorded political program is sponsored by TV 26 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 2: for Goldwater Miller on behalf of Very Goldwater, Republican candidate 27 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: for President of the United States. Ladies and gentlemen, we 28 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:05,480 Speaker 2: take pride in presenting a thoughtful address by Ronald Reagan. 29 00:02:05,960 --> 00:02:17,840 Speaker 3: Mister Reagan, thank you, thank you very much, thank you, 30 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,720 Speaker 3: and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike 31 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:26,080 Speaker 3: most television programs, the performer hasn't been provided with a script. 32 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to 33 00:02:28,400 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 3: choose my own words and discuss my own ideas regarding 34 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 3: the choice that we face in the next few weeks. 35 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 3: I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. 36 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 3: I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I 37 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 3: believe that the issues confronting as cross party lines. Now 38 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:48,920 Speaker 3: one side in this campaign has been telling us that 39 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:51,919 Speaker 3: the issues of this election are the maintenance of peace 40 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 3: and prosperity. The line has been used, We've never had 41 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,480 Speaker 3: it so good. But I have an uncomfortable feeling that 42 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,200 Speaker 3: this prosperity isn't something on which we can base our 43 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:03,320 Speaker 3: hopes for the future. No nation in history has ever 44 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 3: survived a tax burden that reached a third of its 45 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 3: national income. Today, thirty seven cents out of every dollar 46 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 3: earned in this country is the tax collector's share, and 47 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 3: yet our government continues to spend seventeen million dollars a 48 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 3: day more than the government takes in. We haven't balanced 49 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 3: our budget twenty eight out of the last thirty four years. 50 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,959 Speaker 3: We've raised our debt limit three times in the last 51 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,400 Speaker 3: twelve months, and now our national debt is one and 52 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,640 Speaker 3: a half times bigger than all the combined debts of 53 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 3: all the nations of the world. We have fifteen billion 54 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 3: dollars in gold in our treasury. We don't own an 55 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:41,119 Speaker 3: ounce four hundred dollars. Claims are twenty seven point three 56 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 3: billion dollars, and we've just had announced that the dollar 57 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 3: of nineteen thirty nine will now purchase forty five cents 58 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,240 Speaker 3: in its total value. As for the peace that we 59 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:55,520 Speaker 3: would preserve, I wonder who among us would like to 60 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: approach the wife or mother whose husband or son has 61 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 3: died in South beat Nam, and asked them if they 62 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 3: think this is a peace that should be maintained indefinitely, 63 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 3: Do they mean peace or do they mean we just 64 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 3: want to be left in peace? There can be no 65 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,760 Speaker 3: real peace while one American is dying some place in 66 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:16,480 Speaker 3: the world. For the rest of us, we're at war 67 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 3: with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind 68 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,440 Speaker 3: in his long climb from the swamp to the stars. 69 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 3: And it's been said, if we lose that war, and 70 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:26,719 Speaker 3: in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, 71 00:04:27,279 --> 00:04:29,920 Speaker 3: history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who 72 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,599 Speaker 3: had the most to lose did the least to prevent 73 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 3: its happening. Well, I think it's time we ask ourselves 74 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 3: if we still know the freedoms that were intended for 75 00:04:38,279 --> 00:04:41,320 Speaker 3: us by the Founding Fathers. Not too long ago, two 76 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:43,919 Speaker 3: friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a 77 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 3: business man who had escaped from Castro, And in the 78 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 3: midst of his story, one of my friends turned to 79 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:50,440 Speaker 3: the other and said, we don't know how lucky we are, 80 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 3: And the Cuban stopped and said, how lucky you are. 81 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 3: I had some place to escape to, And in that 82 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 3: sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose 83 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 3: freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is 84 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,440 Speaker 3: the last stand on earth. And this idea that government 85 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:08,600 Speaker 3: is beholden to the people, that it has no other 86 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:11,880 Speaker 3: source of power except the sovereign people, is still the 87 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 3: newest and the most unique idea in all the long 88 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,719 Speaker 3: history of man's relation to man. This is the issue 89 00:05:17,720 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 3: of this election, whether we believe in our capacity for 90 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:24,080 Speaker 3: self government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and 91 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 3: confess that a little intellectual elite in a far distant 92 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,039 Speaker 3: capital can plan our lives for us better than we 93 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,600 Speaker 3: can plan them ourselves. You and I are told increasingly 94 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 3: we have to choose between a left or right. Well, 95 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,160 Speaker 3: I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as 96 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 3: a left or right. There is only an up or 97 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:48,039 Speaker 3: down man's old age dream, the ultimate an individual freedom 98 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 3: consistent with law and order, or down to the ant 99 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:56,480 Speaker 3: heap of fatalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity their humanitarian motives, 100 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 3: those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked 101 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 3: on this downward course. In this vote, harvesting time. They 102 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 3: used terms like the great society, or as we were 103 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,280 Speaker 3: told a few days ago by the President, we must 104 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,719 Speaker 3: accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. 105 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,480 Speaker 3: But they've been a little more explicit in the past 106 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 3: and among themselves, and all of the things I now 107 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 3: will quote have appeared in print. These are not republican accusations. 108 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 3: For example, they have voices that say the Cold War 109 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 3: will end through our acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism. 110 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,919 Speaker 3: Another voice says the profit motive has become outmoded. It 111 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,719 Speaker 3: must be replaced by the incentives of the welfare state, 112 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 3: or our traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of 113 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,279 Speaker 3: solving the complex problems of the twentieth century. Senator Fulbright 114 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,360 Speaker 3: has said at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded. 115 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 3: He referred to the President as our moral teacher and 116 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:55,200 Speaker 3: our leader, and he says he is hobbled in his 117 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,760 Speaker 3: task by the restrictions of power imposed on him by 118 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 3: this antiquated docus. He must be freed so that he 119 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,400 Speaker 3: can do for us what he knows is best. And 120 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 3: Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as 121 00:07:11,360 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 3: meeting the material needs of the masses through the full 122 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 3: power of centralized government. Well, I, for one, resented when 123 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 3: a representative of the people refers to you and me, 124 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 3: the free men and women of this country, as the masses. 125 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 3: This is a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. 126 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 3: But beyond that, the full power of centralized government. This 127 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 3: was the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. 128 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 3: They knew that governments don't control things. A government can't 129 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 3: control the economy without controlling people, and they know when 130 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,360 Speaker 3: a government sets out to do that, it must use 131 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:49,040 Speaker 3: force and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, 132 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,520 Speaker 3: those Founding fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government 133 00:07:53,600 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 3: does nothing as well or as economically as the private 134 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 3: sector of the economy. Now we have no better example 135 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 3: of this than government's involvement of the farm economy over 136 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,920 Speaker 3: the last thirty years. Since nineteen fifty five, the cost 137 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 3: of this program is nearly doubled. One fourth of farming 138 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 3: in America is responsible for eighty five percent of the 139 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 3: farm surplus. Three fourths of farming is out on the 140 00:08:16,400 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 3: free market and has known a twenty one percent increase 141 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:22,280 Speaker 3: in the per capita consumption of all its produce. You 142 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 3: see that one fourth of farming that's regulated and controlled 143 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 3: by the federal government. In the last three years, we've 144 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 3: spent forty three dollars in the feed grain program for 145 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,199 Speaker 3: every dollar bushel of corn we don't grow. Senator Humphrey 146 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 3: last week charged that Burry Goldwater as president, would seek 147 00:08:38,559 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 3: to eliminate farmers. He should do his homework a little better, 148 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 3: because he'll find out that we've had a decline of 149 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:47,760 Speaker 3: five million in the farm population under these government programs. 150 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,160 Speaker 3: He'll also find that the Democratic administration has sought to 151 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 3: get from Congress extension of the farm program to include 152 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 3: that three forth that is now free. He'll find that 153 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,240 Speaker 3: they've also asked for the right to improve is in 154 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 3: farmers who wouldn't keep books as prescribed by the federal government. 155 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 3: The Secretary of Agriculture asked for the right to seize 156 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:12,080 Speaker 3: farms through condemnation and resell them to other individuals. And 157 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 3: contained in that same program was a provision that would 158 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:18,400 Speaker 3: have allowed the federal government to remove two million farmers 159 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,719 Speaker 3: from the soil. At the same time, there's been an 160 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 3: increase in the Department of agriculture employees. There's now one 161 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:28,680 Speaker 3: for every thirty farms in the United States. And still 162 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:31,400 Speaker 3: they can't tell us how sixty six shiploads of grain 163 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 3: headed for Austria disappeared without a trace, and Billy Solastus 164 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:47,960 Speaker 3: never left shore. Every responsible farmer and farm organization has 165 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:51,440 Speaker 3: repeatedly asked the government to free the farm economy. But 166 00:09:51,559 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 3: how who are farmers to know what's best for them? 167 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:57,840 Speaker 3: The wheat farmers voted against a wheat program. The government 168 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,320 Speaker 3: passed it anyway. Now the price of bread good up. 169 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 3: The price a week to the farmer goes down. Meanwhile, 170 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,559 Speaker 3: back in the city, under urban renewal, the assault on 171 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 3: freedom carries on private property rights so deluded that public 172 00:10:11,440 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 3: interest is almost anything a few government planners decide it 173 00:10:14,240 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 3: should be in a program that takes from the needy 174 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 3: and gives to the greedy. We see such spectacles as 175 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 3: in Cleveland, Ohio, a million and a half dollar building 176 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,320 Speaker 3: completed only three years ago must be destroyed to make 177 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 3: way for what government officials call a more compatible use 178 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:32,120 Speaker 3: of the land. The President tells us he's now going 179 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 3: to start building public housing units in the thousands, where 180 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 3: heretofore we've only built them in the hundreds, but FHA 181 00:10:38,559 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 3: and the Veterans Administration tell us they have one hundred 182 00:10:41,679 --> 00:10:45,560 Speaker 3: and twenty thousand housing units they've taken back through mortgage foreclosure. 183 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,839 Speaker 3: For three decades, we've sought to solve the problems of 184 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 3: unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, 185 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,640 Speaker 3: the more the planner's plan. The latest is the Area 186 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 3: Redevelopment Agency. They've just declared Rice County, Kansas a depressed area. 187 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 3: Rice County, Kansas has two hundred oil wells and the 188 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 3: fourteen thousand people there have over thirty million dollars on 189 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 3: deposit in personal savings in their banks. When the government 190 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:21,920 Speaker 3: tells you you're depressed, lie down and be depressed. We 191 00:11:22,040 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 3: have so many people who can't see a fat man 192 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 3: standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion 193 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 3: the fat man got that way by taking advantage of 194 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 3: the fin one. So they're going to solve all the 195 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:36,079 Speaker 3: problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, 196 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:40,400 Speaker 3: if government planning and welfare had the answer, and they've 197 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 3: had almost thirty years of it, shouldn't we expect government 198 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 3: to read the score to us Once in a while, 199 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,760 Speaker 3: shouldn't they be telling us about the decline each year 200 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:51,679 Speaker 3: in the number of people needing help, the reduction in 201 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 3: the need for public housing. But the reverse is true. 202 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,559 Speaker 3: Each year the need grows greater, the program grows greater. 203 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 3: We were told for years ago that seventeen million people 204 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:05,199 Speaker 3: went to bed hungry each night. Well, that was probably true, 205 00:12:05,360 --> 00:12:08,760 Speaker 3: they were all on a diet. But now we're told 206 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 3: that nine point three million families in this country are 207 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,720 Speaker 3: poverty stricken on the basis of earning less than three 208 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 3: thousand dollars a year. Welfare spending ten times greater than 209 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 3: it was in the dark depths of the depression. We're 210 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,440 Speaker 3: spending forty five billion dollars on welfare. Now, do a 211 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 3: little arithmetic and you'll find that if we divided the 212 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,800 Speaker 3: forty five billion dollars up equally among those nine million 213 00:12:29,840 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 3: poor families, we'd be able to give each family forty 214 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 3: six hundred dollars a year, and this, added to their 215 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:48,240 Speaker 3: present income, should eliminate poverty. Direct aid to the poor, however, 216 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,959 Speaker 3: is only running about six hundred dollars per family. It 217 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:55,880 Speaker 3: would seem that someplace there must be some overhead. Now, 218 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:02,360 Speaker 3: so now we decay war on poverty, or you too 219 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 3: can be a Bobby Baker. Now do they honestly expect 220 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 3: us to believe that if we add one billion dollars 221 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 3: to the forty five billion, we're spending one more program 222 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:16,080 Speaker 3: to the thirty odd we have. And remember, this new 223 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 3: program doesn't replace any it just duplicates existing programs. Do 224 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:25,079 Speaker 3: they believe that poverty is suddenly going to disappear by magic? Well, 225 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:27,360 Speaker 3: in all fairness, I should explain, there is one part 226 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 3: of the new program that isn't duplicated. This is the 227 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:33,760 Speaker 3: youth feature. We are now going to solve the dropout problem, 228 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:38,959 Speaker 3: juvenile delinquency by reinstituting something like the old CCC camps, 229 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 3: and we're going to put our young people in these camps. 230 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,560 Speaker 3: But again, we do some arithmetic and we find that 231 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,160 Speaker 3: we're going to spend each year just on room and 232 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 3: board for each young person we help forty seven hundred 233 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 3: dollars a year. We can send them to Harvard for 234 00:13:54,400 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 3: twenty seven hundred. Course, don't get me wrong, I'm not 235 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:14,959 Speaker 3: suggesting Harvard is the answer to juvenile delinquency, But seriously, 236 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,959 Speaker 3: what are we doing to those we seek to help? 237 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 3: Not too long ago, a judge called me here in 238 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:23,520 Speaker 3: Los Angeles. He told me that a young woman who'd 239 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 3: come before him for a divorce she had six children, 240 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,280 Speaker 3: was pregnant with her seven. Under his questioning, she revealed 241 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,480 Speaker 3: her husband was a laborer earning two hundred and fifty 242 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:33,960 Speaker 3: dollars a month. She wanted the divorce to get an 243 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 3: eighty dollar raise. She's eligible for three hundred and thirty 244 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,640 Speaker 3: dollars a month and the Aid to Dependent Children program. 245 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 3: She got the idea from two women in her neighborhood 246 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 3: who'd already done that very thing. Yet, any time you 247 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:47,480 Speaker 3: and I question the schemes of the do gooders were 248 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 3: denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say, we're 249 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,320 Speaker 3: always against things, we're never for anything. Well, the trouble 250 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 3: with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant. It's 251 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,880 Speaker 3: just that they know so much that isn't so. Now, 252 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,600 Speaker 3: we're for a provision the destitution should not follow unemployment 253 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 3: by reason of old age, and to that end, we've 254 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 3: accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem. 255 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 3: But we're against those entrusted with this program when they 256 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 3: practiced deception regarding its fiscal shortcomings, when they charge that 257 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 3: any criticism of the program means that we want to 258 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 3: end payments to those people who depend on them for 259 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:33,400 Speaker 3: a livelihood. They've called it insurance to us in a 260 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 3: hundred million pieces of literature, But then they appeared before 261 00:15:36,880 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 3: the Supreme Court and they testified it was a welfare program. 262 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,400 Speaker 3: They only used the term insurance to sell it to 263 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 3: the people, and they said social security dues are a 264 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 3: tax for the general use of the government, and the 265 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:52,760 Speaker 3: government has used that tax. There is no fund because 266 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 3: Robert Buyers, the actuarial head, appeared before a congressional committee 267 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 3: and admitted that social Security as of this more is 268 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 3: two hundred and ninety eight billion dollars in the hole. 269 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,560 Speaker 3: But he said there should be no cause for worry 270 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,320 Speaker 3: because as long as they had the powered to tax, 271 00:16:09,800 --> 00:16:12,520 Speaker 3: they could always take away from the people whatever they 272 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 3: needed to bail them out of trouble. And they're doing 273 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 3: just that. A young man twenty one years of age, 274 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 3: working at an average salary, his social Security contribution would 275 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:25,840 Speaker 3: in the open market buy him an insurance policy that 276 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 3: would guarantee two hundred and twenty dollars a month. At 277 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 3: age sixty five, The government promises one hundred and twenty seven, 278 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 3: he could live it up until he's thirty one and 279 00:16:34,680 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 3: then take out a policy that would pay more than 280 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,520 Speaker 3: Social Security. Now, are we so lacking in business sense 281 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 3: that we can't put this program on a sound basis 282 00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:46,880 Speaker 3: so that people who do require those payments will find 283 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,960 Speaker 3: they can get them when they're due. That the cupboard 284 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:54,360 Speaker 3: isn't bare Bury Goldwater thinks we can. At the same time, 285 00:16:54,840 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 3: can't we introduce voluntary features that would permit a citizen 286 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 3: who can do better on his own to be excused 287 00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,119 Speaker 3: upon presentation of evidence that he had made provision for 288 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 3: the non earning years. Should we not allow a widow 289 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 3: with children to work and not lose the benefits supposedly 290 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 3: paid for by her deceased husband. Shouldn't you and I 291 00:17:13,240 --> 00:17:15,760 Speaker 3: be allowed to declare who our beneficiaries will be under 292 00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 3: this program, which we cannot do. I think we're fore 293 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 3: telling our senior citizens that no one in this country 294 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 3: should be denied medical care because of a lack of funds. 295 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 3: But I think we're against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, 296 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,400 Speaker 3: into a compulsory government program, especially when we have such 297 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 3: examples as was announced last week when France admitted that 298 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 3: their Medicare program is now bankrupt. They've come to the 299 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 3: end of the road. In addition, was Barry Goldwater so 300 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 3: irresponsible when he suggested that our government give up its 301 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:49,679 Speaker 3: program of deliberate planned inflation so that when you do 302 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:53,000 Speaker 3: get your Social Security pension, a dollar will buy a 303 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:57,160 Speaker 3: dollar's worth and not forty five cents worth. I think 304 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:00,240 Speaker 3: we're for an international organization where the nations of the 305 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 3: world can seek peace. But I think we're against subordinating 306 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,240 Speaker 3: American interest to an organization that has become so structurally 307 00:18:07,359 --> 00:18:11,680 Speaker 3: unsound that today you can muster a two thirds vote 308 00:18:11,840 --> 00:18:14,280 Speaker 3: on the floor of the General Assembly among nations that 309 00:18:14,359 --> 00:18:17,919 Speaker 3: represent less than ten percent of the world's population. I 310 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:21,679 Speaker 3: think we're against the hypocrisy of assailing our allies because 311 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:24,199 Speaker 3: here and there they cling to a colony, while we 312 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 3: engage in a conspiracy of silence and never open our 313 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 3: mouths about the millions of people enslaved in the Soviet 314 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:44,719 Speaker 3: colonies in the satellite nations. I think we're foriding our 315 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 3: allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations 316 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,600 Speaker 3: which share in our fundamental beliefs. But we're against doling 317 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,159 Speaker 3: out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, 318 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:58,720 Speaker 3: all over the world. We set out to help nineteen countries. 319 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:01,719 Speaker 3: We're helping one hundred, and we've spent one hundred and 320 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,920 Speaker 3: forty six billion dollars with that money. We've bought a 321 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:08,399 Speaker 3: two million dollar yacht for highly Selassie. We bought dress 322 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 3: suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. 323 00:19:13,359 --> 00:19:15,720 Speaker 3: We bought one thousand TV sets for a place where 324 00:19:15,720 --> 00:19:20,199 Speaker 3: they have no electricity. In the last six years, fifty 325 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 3: two nations have bought seven billion dollars worth of our gold, 326 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,480 Speaker 3: and all fifty two are receiving foreign aid from this country. 327 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 3: No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size, so government programs, 328 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,960 Speaker 3: once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the 329 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 3: nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth. 330 00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 3: Federal employees Federal employees number two and a half million, 331 00:19:49,480 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 3: and federal, state, and local one out of six of 332 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 3: the nation's workforce employed by government. These proliferating bureaus, with 333 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 3: their thousands of regulations, have cost us many of our 334 00:19:59,119 --> 00:20:02,760 Speaker 3: constitutional sins safeguards. How many of us realize that today 335 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:05,719 Speaker 3: federal agents can invade a man's property without a warrant, 336 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 3: They can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let 337 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,639 Speaker 3: alone a trial by jury, and they can seize and 338 00:20:11,680 --> 00:20:14,119 Speaker 3: sell his property at auction to enforce the payment of 339 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,919 Speaker 3: that fine. In Chico County, Arkansas, James Weir overplanted his 340 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:21,320 Speaker 3: rice allotment. The government obtained a seventeen thousand dollars judgment, 341 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,879 Speaker 3: and a US marshal sold his nine hundred and sixty 342 00:20:24,920 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 3: acre farm at auction. The government said it was necessary 343 00:20:28,119 --> 00:20:30,840 Speaker 3: as a warning to others to make the system work. 344 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,480 Speaker 3: Last February nineteenth, at the University of Minnesota, Norman Thomas, 345 00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 3: six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, 346 00:20:45,640 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 3: said if Burry Goldwater became president, he would stop the 347 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,680 Speaker 3: advance of socialism in the United States. I think that's 348 00:20:52,720 --> 00:21:08,160 Speaker 3: exactly what he will do. But as a former Democrat, 349 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 3: I can tell you Norman Thomas isn't the only man 350 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,480 Speaker 3: who has drawn this parallel to socialism with the present administration, 351 00:21:15,359 --> 00:21:19,280 Speaker 3: because back in nineteen thirty six, mister Democrat himself, Al Smith, 352 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:22,600 Speaker 3: a great American, came before the American people and charged 353 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,879 Speaker 3: that the leadership of his party was taking the party 354 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 3: of Jefferson Jackson and Cleveland down the road under the 355 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,840 Speaker 3: banners of Marx, Lennon and Stalin. And he walked away 356 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,720 Speaker 3: from his party, and he never returned till the day 357 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 3: he died. Because to this day the leadership of that 358 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 3: party has been taking that party, that honorable party, down 359 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,639 Speaker 3: the road in the image of the Labor Socialist Party 360 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:46,919 Speaker 3: of England. Now, it doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of 361 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,359 Speaker 3: private property or business to impose socialism on a people. 362 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 3: What does it mean whether you hold the deed to 363 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 3: the or the title to your business or property. If 364 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:58,760 Speaker 3: the government holds the power of life and death over 365 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 3: that business or property, and such machinery already exists, the 366 00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,199 Speaker 3: government can find some charge to bring against any concern 367 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,800 Speaker 3: he chooses to prosecute. Every business man has his own 368 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 3: tale of harassment. Somewhere, a perversion has taken place. Our natural, 369 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 3: unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government, 370 00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 3: and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to 371 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 3: slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment. 372 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 3: Our democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issues. They 373 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,040 Speaker 3: want to make you and I believe that this is 374 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 3: a contest between two men that were to choose just 375 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,639 Speaker 3: between two personalities. Well, what of this man that they 376 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:40,800 Speaker 3: would destroy? And in destroying they would destroy that which 377 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:43,360 Speaker 3: he represents, the ideas that you and I hold dear? 378 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,640 Speaker 3: Is he the brash and shallow and trigger happy man 379 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,399 Speaker 3: they say he is. Well, I've been privileged to know 380 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 3: him when I knew him long before he ever dreamed 381 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:55,840 Speaker 3: of trying for high office. And I can tell you personally, 382 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 3: I've never known a man in my life I believe 383 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:13,960 Speaker 3: so incapable of doing a dishonest for dishonorable. This is 384 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 3: a man who, in his own business, before he entered politics, 385 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 3: instituted a profit sharing plan before unions had ever thought 386 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 3: of it. He put in health and medical insurance for 387 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 3: all his employees. He took fifty percent of the profits 388 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 3: before taxes, and set up a retirement program, a pension 389 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:32,240 Speaker 3: plan for all his employees. He sent monthly checks for 390 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:34,359 Speaker 3: life to an employee who was ill and couldn't work. 391 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 3: He provides nursing care for the children of mothers who 392 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 3: work in the stores. When Mexico was ravaged by the 393 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 3: floods in the Rio Grande, he climbed in his airplane 394 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:48,200 Speaker 3: and flew medicine and supplies down there. An XGI told 395 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,640 Speaker 3: me how he met him. It was the week before 396 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,280 Speaker 3: Christmas during the Korean War, and he was at the 397 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,600 Speaker 3: Los Angeles Airport trying to get a ride home to 398 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:59,320 Speaker 3: Arizona for Christmas. And he said that a lot of 399 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 3: servicemen and no seats available in the plains. And then 400 00:24:02,960 --> 00:24:04,960 Speaker 3: a voice came over the loud speaker and said, any 401 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,040 Speaker 3: men in uniform wanting a ride to Arizona, go to 402 00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:11,240 Speaker 3: runway such and such, and they went down there. There 403 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,560 Speaker 3: was a fellow named Barry Goldwater sitting in his plane 404 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,640 Speaker 3: every day in those weeks before Christmas. All day long, 405 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:19,240 Speaker 3: he'd load up the plane, fly it to Arizona, fly 406 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:21,680 Speaker 3: them to their homes, fly back over to get another load. 407 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,080 Speaker 3: During the hectic, split second timing of a campaign, this 408 00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 3: is a man who took time out to sit beside 409 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 3: an old friend who was dying of cancer. His campaign 410 00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:35,280 Speaker 3: managers were understandably impatient, but he said, there aren't many 411 00:24:35,359 --> 00:24:38,040 Speaker 3: left to care what happens to her. I'd like her 412 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 3: to know I care. This is a man who said 413 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,200 Speaker 3: to his nineteen year old son, there is no foundation 414 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,199 Speaker 3: like the rock of honesty and fairness. And when you 415 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:49,639 Speaker 3: begin to build your life on that rock, with the 416 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,600 Speaker 3: cement of the faith in God that you have, then 417 00:24:53,160 --> 00:24:56,200 Speaker 3: you have a real start. This is not a man 418 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,119 Speaker 3: who could carelessly send other people's sons to war. That 419 00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 3: is the issue of this campaign that makes all the 420 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 3: other problems I've discussed academic unless we realize we're in 421 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 3: a war that must be won. Those who would trade 422 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,560 Speaker 3: our freedom for the soup kitchen of the welfare state 423 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,080 Speaker 3: have told us they have a utopian solution of peace 424 00:25:15,119 --> 00:25:18,600 Speaker 3: without victory. They call their policy accommodation, and they say, 425 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,680 Speaker 3: if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation with the enemy, 426 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 3: he'll forget his evil ways and learn to love us. 427 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:29,080 Speaker 3: All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. They say, 428 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,720 Speaker 3: we offer simple answers to complex problems. But perhaps there 429 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 3: is a simple answer, not an easy answer, but simple. 430 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:38,719 Speaker 3: If you and I have the courage to tell our 431 00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,320 Speaker 3: elected officials that we want our national policy based on 432 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 3: what we know in our hearts is morally right, we 433 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 3: cannot but by our security, our freedom from the threat 434 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 3: of the bomb, by committing an immorality so great as 435 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,399 Speaker 3: saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind the 436 00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 3: iron curtain. Give up your dreams of freedom, because to 437 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,439 Speaker 3: save our own skins, we are willing to make a 438 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 3: deal with your slave masters. Alexander Hamilton said, a nation 439 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 3: which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a 440 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 3: master and deserves one. Now let's set the record straight. 441 00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:15,680 Speaker 3: There's no argument over the choice between peace and war. 442 00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 3: But there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace, 443 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:23,440 Speaker 3: and you can have it in the next second surrender. Admittedly, 444 00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,679 Speaker 3: there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, 445 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,879 Speaker 3: but every lesson of history tells us that the greater 446 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 3: risk lies in appeasement. And this is the specter our 447 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,480 Speaker 3: well meaning liberal friends refuse to face that their policy 448 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 3: of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between 449 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,679 Speaker 3: peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we 450 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:47,960 Speaker 3: continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we 451 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 3: have to face the final demand, the ultimatum. And what 452 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 3: then when the Kita Kruzchef has told his people he 453 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:57,640 Speaker 3: knows what our answer will be. He has told them 454 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,640 Speaker 3: that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, 455 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:03,480 Speaker 3: and some day when the time comes to deliver the 456 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 3: final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that 457 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 3: time we will have been weakened from within, spiritually, morally, 458 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 3: and economically. He believes this because from our side he's 459 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 3: heard voices pleading for peace at any price, or better 460 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,200 Speaker 3: red than dead, or, as one commentator put it, he'd 461 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:22,200 Speaker 3: rather live on his knees than die on his feet. 462 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,280 Speaker 3: And therein lies the road to war, because those voices 463 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 3: don't speak for the rest of us. You and I 464 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 3: know and do not believe that life is so dear 465 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,639 Speaker 3: and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the 466 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:37,040 Speaker 3: price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is 467 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,000 Speaker 3: worth dying for? When did this begin just in the 468 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 3: face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the 469 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 3: children of Israel to live in slavery under the Pharaohs? 470 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 3: Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at 471 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,639 Speaker 3: Conquered Bridge have thrown down their guns and refuse to 472 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,879 Speaker 3: fire the shot heard round the world? The martyrs of 473 00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,280 Speaker 3: history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave 474 00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,199 Speaker 3: their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't 475 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,160 Speaker 3: die in vain. Where then, is the road to peace. Well, 476 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 3: it's a simple answer. After all, you and I have 477 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,280 Speaker 3: the courage to say to our enemies there is a 478 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,000 Speaker 3: price we will not pay. There is a point beyond 479 00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:32,240 Speaker 3: which they must not advance. And this this is the 480 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 3: meaning in the phrase of Bury gold Water piece through strength. 481 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,760 Speaker 3: Winston Churchill said the destiny of man is not measured 482 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,560 Speaker 3: by material computations. When great forces around the move in 483 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:46,640 Speaker 3: the world, we learn we're spirits, not animals. And he 484 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 3: said there's something going on in time and space and 485 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,959 Speaker 3: beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, 486 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:56,200 Speaker 3: spells duty. You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. 487 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 3: We'll preserve for our children this the last best hope 488 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,520 Speaker 3: of men on earth, or we'll sentence them to take 489 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 3: the last step into a thousand years of darkness. We 490 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 3: will heap in mind and remember that very Goldwater has 491 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 3: faith in us. He has faith that you and I 492 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,520 Speaker 3: have the ability and the dignity and the right to 493 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,040 Speaker 3: make our own decisions and determine our own destiny. 494 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 4: Thank you very much, Thank you, Ronnie for the s 495 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 4: very stirring speech. 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