1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:06,080 Speaker 1: The Michael Barry Shoe. 2 00:00:06,240 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 2: Welcome to Words to Live By, a podcast series hosted 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 2: by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute. Each week, 4 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 2: we will share some of the wit and wisdom of 5 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:21,959 Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan in essence Words to Live By, and the 6 00:00:22,040 --> 00:00:25,200 Speaker 2: content is made up of radio addresses and speeches he 7 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:31,159 Speaker 2: delivered from the nineteen sixties through the nineteen eighties. In 8 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:35,960 Speaker 2: this week's podcast, we present Ronald Reagan's famous A Time 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 2: for Choosing speech, delivered on October twenty seventh, nineteen sixty four. 10 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:45,080 Speaker 2: Writing about that speech in his book Speaking My Mind, 11 00:00:45,440 --> 00:00:49,040 Speaker 2: Ronald Reagan said, in nineteen sixty four, I became co 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,519 Speaker 2: chairman of Californians for Barry Goldwater. I went up and 13 00:00:52,560 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 2: down the state with a campaign speech I'd written that 14 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 2: wasn't too different in tone and message from my ge presentations. 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: The speech seemed to go over very well. One night, 16 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,360 Speaker 2: a few weeks before the election, I addressed a fundraiser 17 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,760 Speaker 2: at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles. When the evening 18 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,679 Speaker 2: was over, a delegation of high powered Republicans waited for me, 19 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,400 Speaker 2: and they asked me whether I would deliver that same 20 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 2: speech on nationwide TV if they raised the money to 21 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,880 Speaker 2: buy the time. I said yes, and suggested that instead 22 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 2: of having me in a studio alone, they bring in 23 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,440 Speaker 2: an audience to get a little better feel. They readily agreed. 24 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: Everyone thought I'd done well, but still you don't always 25 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 2: know about these things. When a Barry's staff called to 26 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 2: let me know that the switchboard was still lit up 27 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 2: from the calls pledging money to his campaign, I then 28 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:50,120 Speaker 2: slept peacefully. The speech raised eight million dollars and soon 29 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 2: changed my entire life. I didn't put a title on it. 30 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 2: It later became known as a time for choosing. 31 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 3: Thank you very much, thank you, and good evening. The 32 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 3: sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the 33 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,000 Speaker 3: performer hasn't been provided with a script. 34 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 1: As a matter of. 35 00:02:16,080 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 3: Fact, I have been permitted to choose my own words 36 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 3: and discuss my own ideas regarding the choice that we 37 00:02:22,520 --> 00:02:25,399 Speaker 3: face in the next few weeks. I have spent most 38 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 3: of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen 39 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 3: fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues 40 00:02:31,639 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 3: confronting as cross party lines. Now One side in this 41 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 3: campaign has been telling us that the issues of this 42 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,160 Speaker 3: election are the maintenance of peace and prosperity. The line 43 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:44,920 Speaker 3: has been used, We've never had it so good. But 44 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,959 Speaker 3: I have an uncomfortable feeling that this prosperity isn't something 45 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Speaker 3: on which we can base our hopes for the future. 46 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,519 Speaker 3: No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden 47 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 3: that reached a third of its national income. Today, thirty 48 00:02:57,200 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 3: seven cents out of every dollar earned in this country 49 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,679 Speaker 3: is the tax collector share. And yet our government continues 50 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: to spend seventeen million dollars a day more than the 51 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 3: government takes in. We haven't balanced our budget twenty eight 52 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 3: out of the last thirty four years. 53 00:03:11,240 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: We've raised our. 54 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:15,240 Speaker 3: Debt limit three times in the last twelve months, and 55 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 3: now our national debt is one and a half times 56 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 3: bigger than all the combined debts of all the nations 57 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,600 Speaker 3: of the world. We have fifteen billion dollars in gold 58 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,280 Speaker 3: in our treasury. We don't own an ounce four hundred dollars. 59 00:03:28,320 --> 00:03:31,920 Speaker 3: Claims are twenty seven point three billion dollars, and we've 60 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,560 Speaker 3: just had announced that the dollar of nineteen thirty nine 61 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 3: will now purchase forty five cents in its total value. 62 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 3: As for the peace that we would preserve, I wonder 63 00:03:43,240 --> 00:03:45,640 Speaker 3: who among us would like to approach the wife or 64 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 3: mother whose husband or son has died in South Vietnam, 65 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 3: and asked them if they think this is a piece 66 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:55,360 Speaker 3: that should be maintained indefinitely, Do they mean peace or 67 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,400 Speaker 3: do they mean we just want to be left in peace? 68 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,360 Speaker 3: There can be no real peace while one American is 69 00:04:01,480 --> 00:04:03,800 Speaker 3: dying some place in the world. For the rest of us, 70 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,880 Speaker 3: we're at war with the most dangerous enemy that has 71 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:09,560 Speaker 3: ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp 72 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 3: to the stars. And it's been said, if we lose 73 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:14,680 Speaker 3: that war, and in so doing lose this way of 74 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 3: freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment 75 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 3: that those who had the most to lose did the 76 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 3: least to prevent its happening. Well, I think it's time 77 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,160 Speaker 3: we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that 78 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,279 Speaker 3: were intended for us by the Founding Fathers. 79 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,600 Speaker 1: Not too long ago, two friends of. 80 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 3: Mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a business man 81 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:35,919 Speaker 3: who had escaped from Castro, And in the midst of 82 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:37,600 Speaker 3: his story, one of my friends turned to the other 83 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 3: and said, we don't know how lucky we are, And 84 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 3: the Cuban stopped and said, how lucky you are. I 85 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,960 Speaker 3: had some place to escape to, And in that sentence 86 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,080 Speaker 3: he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, 87 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:52,239 Speaker 3: there's no place to escape to. This is the last 88 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 3: stand on earth. And this idea that government is beholden 89 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:57,800 Speaker 3: to the people, that it has no other source of 90 00:04:57,880 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 3: power except the sovereign people, is still the newest and 91 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,560 Speaker 3: the most unique idea in all the long history of 92 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 3: man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election, 93 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,600 Speaker 3: whether we believe in our capacity for self government or 94 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 3: whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a 95 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 3: little intellectual elite in a far distant capital can plan 96 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,040 Speaker 3: our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. 97 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 3: You and I are told increasingly we have to choose 98 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,600 Speaker 3: between a left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest 99 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 3: there is no such thing as a left or right. 100 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 3: There's only an up or down man's old age dream, 101 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 3: the ultimate an individual freedom consistent with law and order, 102 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:42,640 Speaker 3: or down to the ant heap of fatalitarianism. And regardless 103 00:05:42,680 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 3: of their sincerity their humanitarian motives, those who would trade 104 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 3: our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course. 105 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 3: In this vote, harvesting time. They use terms like the 106 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,600 Speaker 3: great society, or as we were told a few days 107 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 3: ago by the President, we must accept a greater government 108 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,520 Speaker 3: activity in the affairs of the people. But they've been 109 00:06:02,560 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 3: a little more explicit in the past and among themselves, 110 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 3: and all of the things I now will quote have 111 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 3: appeared in print. These are not republican accusations. For example, 112 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:14,920 Speaker 3: they have voices that say the Cold War will end 113 00:06:14,960 --> 00:06:19,400 Speaker 3: through our acceptance of a not undemocratic socialism. Another voice 114 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 3: says the profit motive has become outmoted. It must be 115 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,680 Speaker 3: replaced by the incentives of the welfare state, or our 116 00:06:25,760 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 3: traditional system of individual freedom is incapable of solving the 117 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,039 Speaker 3: complex problems of the twentieth century. Senator Fulbright has said 118 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,040 Speaker 3: at Stanford University that the Constitution is outmoded. 119 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:39,360 Speaker 1: He referred to the. 120 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:42,599 Speaker 3: President as our moral teacher and our leader, and he 121 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,360 Speaker 3: says he is hobbled in his task by the restrictions 122 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 3: of power imposed on him by this antiquated document. He 123 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 3: must be freed so that he can do for us 124 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:56,719 Speaker 3: what he knows is best. And Senator Clark of Pennsylvania, 125 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 3: another articulate spokesman, defines liberalism as meeting the material needs 126 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:05,160 Speaker 3: of the masses through the full power of centralized government. 127 00:07:05,880 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: Well, I, for one, resented when a representative of. 128 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 3: The people refers to you and me, the free men 129 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 3: and women of this country, as the masses. This is 130 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 3: a term we haven't applied to ourselves in America. But 131 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 3: beyond that, the full power of centralized government. This was 132 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,000 Speaker 3: the very thing the Founding Fathers sought to minimize. They 133 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 3: knew that governments don't control things. A government can't control 134 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,560 Speaker 3: the economy without controlling people, and they know when a 135 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 3: government sets out to do that, it must use force 136 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: and coercion to achieve its purpose. They also knew, those 137 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 3: Founding fathers, that outside of its legitimate functions, government does 138 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 3: nothing as well or as economically as the private sector 139 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:46,760 Speaker 3: of the economy. 140 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: Now we have no better. 141 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 3: Example of this than government's involvement of the farm economy 142 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 3: over the last thirty years. Since nineteen fifty five, the 143 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 3: cost of this program is nearly doubled. One fourth of 144 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 3: farming in America is responsible for eighty five percent of 145 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 3: the farm surplus. 146 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: Three fourths of farming. 147 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 3: Is out on the free market and has known a 148 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:09,440 Speaker 3: twenty one percent increase in the per capita consumption of 149 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,440 Speaker 3: all its produce. You see that one fourth of farming 150 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,160 Speaker 3: that's regulated and controlled by the federal government. In the 151 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,880 Speaker 3: last three years, we've spent forty three dollars in the 152 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:21,640 Speaker 3: feed grain program for every dollar bushel of corn we 153 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:26,000 Speaker 3: don't grow. Senator Humphrey last week charged that Burry Goldwater 154 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 3: as president, would seek to eliminate farmers. He should do 155 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 3: his homework a little better, because he'll find out that 156 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 3: we've had a decline of five million in the farm 157 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,880 Speaker 3: population under these government programs. He'll also find that the 158 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 3: Democratic administration has sought to get from Congress extension of 159 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,960 Speaker 3: the farm program to include that three forth that is 160 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 3: now free. He'll find that they've also asked for the 161 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,040 Speaker 3: right to imprison farmers who wouldn't keep books as prescribed 162 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:54,440 Speaker 3: by the federal government. The Secretary of Agriculture asked for 163 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,959 Speaker 3: the right to seize farms through condemnation and resell them 164 00:08:58,960 --> 00:09:02,839 Speaker 3: to other individuals. And contained in that same program was 165 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 3: a provision that would have allowed the federal government to 166 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 3: remove two million farmers from the soil. At the same time, 167 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,520 Speaker 3: there's been an increase in the Department of agriculture employees. 168 00:09:12,559 --> 00:09:15,840 Speaker 3: There's now one for every thirty farms in the United States, 169 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,559 Speaker 3: and still they can't tell us how sixty six shiploads 170 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 3: of grain headed for Austria disappeared without a trace, and 171 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 3: Billy Solstice never left shore. Every responsible farmer and farm 172 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,319 Speaker 3: organization has repeatedly asked the government to free the farm economy. 173 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 3: But how who are farmers to know what's best for them? 174 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:46,360 Speaker 3: The wheat farmers voted against a wheat program. The government 175 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:48,800 Speaker 3: passed it anyway. Now the price of bread goes up, 176 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 3: the price of wheat to the farmer goes down. Meanwhile, 177 00:09:51,840 --> 00:09:55,080 Speaker 3: back in the city under urban renewal, the assault on 178 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 3: freedom carries on private property rights so deluded that publican 179 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:03,000 Speaker 3: is almost anything a few government planners decide it should 180 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:05,640 Speaker 3: be in a program that takes from the needy and 181 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 3: gives to the greedy. We see such spectacles as in Cleveland, Ohio. 182 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:12,199 Speaker 3: A million and a half dollar building completed only three 183 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 3: years ago must be destroyed to make way for what 184 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:18,280 Speaker 3: government officials call a more compatible use of the land. 185 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:21,400 Speaker 3: The President tells us he's now going to start building 186 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:23,280 Speaker 3: public housing units in the thousands. 187 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,000 Speaker 1: We're Heretofore, we've only built them in. 188 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 3: The hundreds, but FHA and the Veterans Administration tell us 189 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:32,160 Speaker 3: they have one hundred and twenty thousand housing units they've 190 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 3: taken back through mortgage foreclosure. For three decades, we've sought 191 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:39,400 Speaker 3: to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and 192 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 3: the more the plans fail, the more the planner's plan. 193 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,679 Speaker 3: The latest is the Area Redevelopment Agency. They've just declared 194 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,640 Speaker 3: Rice County, Kansas a depressed area. Rice County, Kansas has 195 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,560 Speaker 3: two hundred oil wells and the fourteen thousand people there 196 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 3: have over thirty million dollars on deposit in personal savings 197 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:06,079 Speaker 3: in their banks. When the government tells you you're depressed, 198 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,959 Speaker 3: lie down and be depressed. We have so many people 199 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 3: who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin 200 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,440 Speaker 3: one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got 201 00:11:14,480 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 3: that way by taking advantage of the thin one. 202 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:17,839 Speaker 1: So they're going to. 203 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 3: Solve all the problems of human misery through government and 204 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:25,760 Speaker 3: government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had 205 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,800 Speaker 3: the answer, and they've had almost thirty years of it, 206 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 3: shouldn't we expect government to read the score to us 207 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,520 Speaker 3: Once in a while, shouldn't they be telling us about 208 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 3: the decline each year in the number of people needing help, 209 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 3: the reduction in the need for public housing. But the 210 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 3: reverse is true. Each year the need grows greater, the 211 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,880 Speaker 3: program grows greater. We were told four years ago that 212 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:50,920 Speaker 3: seventeen million people went to bed hungry each night. Well, 213 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,280 Speaker 3: that was probably true, they were all on a diet. 214 00:11:54,720 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 3: But now we're told that nine point three million families 215 00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 3: in this country are poverty stricken on the basis of 216 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 3: earning less than three thousand dollars a year. Welfare spending 217 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 3: ten times greater than it was in the dark depths 218 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:11,000 Speaker 3: of the depression. We're spending forty five billion dollars on welfare. Now, 219 00:12:11,040 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 3: do a little arithmetic and you'll find that if we 220 00:12:13,160 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 3: divided the forty five billion dollars up equally among those 221 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,839 Speaker 3: nine million poor families, we'd be able to give each 222 00:12:18,880 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 3: family forty six hundred dollars a year, and this, added 223 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:34,280 Speaker 3: to their present income, should eliminate poverty. Direct aid to 224 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 3: the poor, however, is only running about six hundred dollars 225 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:39,560 Speaker 3: per family. It would seem that someplace there must be 226 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 3: some overhead. Now, so now we declare war on poverty, 227 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:52,440 Speaker 3: or you too can be a Bobby Baker. Now do 228 00:12:52,520 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 3: they honestly expect us to believe that if we add 229 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 3: one billion dollars to the forty five billion, we're spending 230 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 3: one more program to the thirty odd we have. And remember, 231 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 3: this new program doesn't replace any it just duplicates existing programs. 232 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 3: Do they believe that poverty is suddenly going to disappear 233 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:13,480 Speaker 3: by magic? Well, in all fairness, I should explain, there 234 00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:16,640 Speaker 3: is one part of the new program that isn't duplicated. 235 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,480 Speaker 3: This is the youth feature. We're now going to solve 236 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:24,240 Speaker 3: the dropout problem, juvenile delinquency by reinstituting something like the 237 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 3: old CCC camps, and we're going to put our young 238 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:28,520 Speaker 3: people in these camps. 239 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:30,839 Speaker 1: But again, we do some arithmetic and we. 240 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 3: Find that we're going to spend each year just on 241 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:36,559 Speaker 3: room and board for each young person we help forty 242 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 3: seven hundred dollars a year. 243 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:40,240 Speaker 1: We can send. 244 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 3: Them to Harvard for twenty seven hundred. Of course, don't 245 00:13:51,240 --> 00:13:54,200 Speaker 3: get me wrong, I'm not suggesting Harvard is the answer 246 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:59,160 Speaker 3: to juvenile delinquency. 247 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,199 Speaker 1: But seriously, what are we doing to those we seek 248 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: to help? Not too long ago, a judge called me 249 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:08,040 Speaker 1: here in Los Angeles. 250 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 3: He told me that a young woman who'd come before 251 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 3: him for a divorce she had six children, was pregnant 252 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:16,480 Speaker 3: with her seven. Under his questioning, she revealed her husband 253 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:18,839 Speaker 3: was a laborer earning two hundred and fifty dollars a month. 254 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:21,520 Speaker 3: She wanted the divorce to get an eighty dollar raise. 255 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 3: She's eligible for three hundred and thirty dollars a month 256 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,240 Speaker 3: and the aid the Defended Children program. She got the 257 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,640 Speaker 3: idea from two women in her neighborhood who'd already done 258 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 3: that very thing. Yet, any time you and I questioned 259 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 3: the schemes of the do gooders were denounced as being 260 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 3: against their humanitarian goal. They say, we're always against things, 261 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:42,560 Speaker 3: we're never for anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal 262 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 3: friends is not that they're ignorant. It's just that they 263 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:55,480 Speaker 3: know so much that isn't so. Now, we're for a 264 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:58,840 Speaker 3: provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of 265 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 3: old age, and to that end, we've accepted Social Security 266 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 3: as a step toward meeting the problem. But we're against 267 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:09,560 Speaker 3: those entrusted with this program when they practiced deception regarding 268 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 3: its fiscal shortcomings, when they charged that any criticism of 269 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,360 Speaker 3: the program means that we want to end payments to 270 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,480 Speaker 3: those people who depend on them for a livelihood. They've 271 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 3: called it insurance to us in one hundred million pieces 272 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 3: of literature. But then they appeared before the Supreme Court 273 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 3: and they testified it was a welfare program. 274 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: They only used the term insurance. 275 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 3: To sell it to the people, and they said social 276 00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:34,560 Speaker 3: security dues are a tax for the general use of 277 00:15:34,560 --> 00:15:37,480 Speaker 3: the government, and the government has used that tax. There 278 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 3: is no fund because Robert Buyers, the actuarial head, appeared 279 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 3: before a congressional committee and admitted that social Security as 280 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,240 Speaker 3: of this moment is two hundred and ninety eight billion 281 00:15:49,320 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 3: dollars in the whole. But he said there should be 282 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,800 Speaker 3: no cause for worry because as long as they had 283 00:15:54,840 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 3: the power to tax, they could always take away from 284 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,480 Speaker 3: the people whatever they needed to bail them out of trouble, 285 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:04,320 Speaker 3: and they're doing just that. A young man twenty one 286 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 3: years of age, working at an average salary, his social 287 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 3: Security contribution would in the open market buy him an 288 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 3: insurance policy that would guarantee two hundred and twenty dollars 289 00:16:14,360 --> 00:16:14,760 Speaker 3: a month. 290 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 1: At age sixty five. 291 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 3: The government promises one hundred and twenty seven, he could 292 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:21,560 Speaker 3: live it up until he's thirty one and then take 293 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 3: out a policy that would pay more than Social Security. Now, 294 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:27,600 Speaker 3: are we so lacking in business sense that we can't 295 00:16:27,640 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 3: put this program on a sound basis so that people 296 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:34,360 Speaker 3: who do require those payments will find they can get 297 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:38,040 Speaker 3: them when they're due. That the cupboard isn't bare. Barry 298 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 3: Goldwater thinks we can. At the same time, can't we 299 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 3: introduce voluntary features that would permit a citizen who can 300 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 3: do better on his own to be excused upon presentation 301 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:50,760 Speaker 3: of evidence that he had made provision for the. 302 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:51,600 Speaker 1: Non earning years. 303 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 3: Should we not allow a widow with children to work 304 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:57,640 Speaker 3: and not lose the benefits supposedly paid for by her 305 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 3: deceased husband. Shouldn't you and I be allowed now to 306 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:03,000 Speaker 3: declare who our beneficiaries will be under this program, which 307 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 3: we cannot do. I think we're fore telling our senior 308 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 3: citizens that no one in this country should be denied 309 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 3: medical care because of a lack of funds. But I 310 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 3: think we're against forcing all citizens, regardless of need, into 311 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 3: a compulsory government program, especially when we have such examples 312 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 3: as was announced last week when France admitted that their 313 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:24,720 Speaker 3: Medicare program is now bankrupt. 314 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:25,920 Speaker 1: They've come to the end of the road. 315 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 3: In addition, was Barry Goldwater so irresponsible when he suggested 316 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:33,959 Speaker 3: that our government give up its program of deliberate planned 317 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 3: inflation so that when you do get your Social security pension, 318 00:17:38,359 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 3: a dollar will buy a dollar's worth and not forty 319 00:17:40,800 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 3: five cents worth. 320 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: I think we're for. 321 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,040 Speaker 3: An international organization where the. 322 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:49,439 Speaker 1: Nations of the world can seek peace. But I think we're. 323 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 3: Against subordinating American interest to an organization that has become 324 00:17:52,840 --> 00:17:57,120 Speaker 3: so structurally unsound that today you can muster a two 325 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 3: thirds vote on the floor of the General Assembly amide 326 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:03,360 Speaker 3: nations that represent less than ten percent of the world's population. 327 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,280 Speaker 3: I think we're against the hypocrisy of assailing our allies 328 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 3: because here and there they cling to a colony, while 329 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 3: we engage in a conspiracy of silence and never open 330 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 3: our mouths about the millions of people enslaved in the 331 00:18:15,880 --> 00:18:30,920 Speaker 3: Soviet colonies in the satellite nations. I think we're foriding 332 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:33,960 Speaker 3: our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those 333 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:36,200 Speaker 3: nations which share in our fundamental beliefs. 334 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: But we're against doling out money government to government. 335 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:43,040 Speaker 3: Creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We 336 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 3: set out to help nineteen countries. We're helping one hundred 337 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 3: and seven. We've spent one hundred and forty six billion 338 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 3: dollars with that money. 339 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:53,639 Speaker 1: We've bought a two million dollar yacht for highly Selassie. 340 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 3: We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for 341 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:01,600 Speaker 3: Kenya government officials. What a thousand TV sets for a 342 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:06,119 Speaker 3: place where they have no electricity. In the last six years, 343 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 3: fifty two nations have bought seven billion dollars worth of 344 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:12,040 Speaker 3: our gold, and all fifty two are receiving foreign aid 345 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:17,119 Speaker 3: from this country. No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size, 346 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:21,760 Speaker 3: so government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government 347 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:24,040 Speaker 3: bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever 348 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:33,760 Speaker 3: see on this earth. Federal employees Federal employees number two 349 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 3: and a half million, and federal, state, and local one 350 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,360 Speaker 3: out of six of the nation's workforce employed by government. 351 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,359 Speaker 3: These proliferating bureaus, with their thousands of regulations, have cost 352 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 3: us many of our constitutional safeguards. How many of us 353 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,840 Speaker 3: realize that today federal agents can invade a man's property 354 00:19:50,880 --> 00:19:53,879 Speaker 3: without a warrant, They can impose a fine without a 355 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 3: formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury, and they 356 00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,439 Speaker 3: can seize and sell his property at auction to enforce 357 00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 3: the payment of the fine. In Chico County, Arkansas, James 358 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:06,000 Speaker 3: Weir overplanted his rice allotment. The government obtained a seventeen 359 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 3: thousand dollars judgment, and a US marshal sold his nine 360 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 3: hundred and sixty acre farm at auction. The government said 361 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:15,800 Speaker 3: it was necessary as a warning to others to make 362 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 3: the system work. Last February nineteenth, at the University of Minnesota, 363 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,800 Speaker 3: Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist 364 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 3: Party ticket, said if Barry Goldwater became president, he would 365 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:38,000 Speaker 3: stop the advance of socialism in the United States. I 366 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:53,159 Speaker 3: think that's exactly what he will do. But as a 367 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:55,639 Speaker 3: former Democrat, I can tell you Norman Thomas isn't the 368 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,879 Speaker 3: only man who has drawn this parallel to socialism with 369 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:03,480 Speaker 3: the present administer, because back in nineteen thirty six, mister 370 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 3: Democrat himself, Al Smith, a great American, came before the 371 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 3: American people and charged that the leadership of his party 372 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,560 Speaker 3: was taking the party of Jefferson, Jackson and Cleveland down 373 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:15,360 Speaker 3: the road under the banners of Marx, Lennon and Stalin. 374 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 3: And he walked away from his party, and he never 375 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 3: returned till the day he died. Because to this day 376 00:21:20,960 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 3: the leadership of that party has been taking that party, 377 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 3: that honorable party down the road in the image of 378 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 3: the Labor Socialist Party of England. 379 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:30,680 Speaker 1: Now, it doesn't. 380 00:21:30,359 --> 00:21:34,439 Speaker 3: Require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to 381 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,520 Speaker 3: impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether 382 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,440 Speaker 3: you hold the deed to or the title to your 383 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,040 Speaker 3: business or property. If the government holds the power of 384 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 3: life and death over that business or property, and such 385 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 3: machinery already exists, the government can find some charge to 386 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 3: bring against any concern it chooses to prosecute. Every business 387 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:57,560 Speaker 3: man has his own tale of harassment. Somewhere a perversion 388 00:21:57,640 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 3: has taken place. Still, unalienable rights are now considered to 389 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 3: be a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been 390 00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 3: so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as 391 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:09,480 Speaker 3: it is at this moment. 392 00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,880 Speaker 1: Our democratic opponents seem unwilling to debate these issues. 393 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 3: They want to make you and I believe that this 394 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,439 Speaker 3: is a contest between two men that were to choose 395 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,199 Speaker 3: just between two personalities. Well, what of this man that 396 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:26,159 Speaker 3: they would destroy? And in destroying they would destroy that 397 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 3: which he represents, the ideas that you. 398 00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:29,000 Speaker 1: And I hold dear? 399 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,320 Speaker 3: Is he the brash and shallow and trigger happy man 400 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,080 Speaker 3: they say he is. Well, I've been privileged to know 401 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 3: him when I knew him long before he ever dreamed 402 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 3: of trying for high office. And I can tell you personally, 403 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 3: I've never known a man in my life I believed 404 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 3: so incapable of doing a dishonest or dishonorable thing. 405 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,480 Speaker 1: This is a man who, in. 406 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,439 Speaker 3: His own business before he entered politics, instituted a profit 407 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:06,399 Speaker 3: sharing plan before unions had ever thought of it. He 408 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,119 Speaker 3: put in health and medical insurance for all his employees. 409 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:12,520 Speaker 3: He took fifty percent of the profits before taxes, and 410 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 3: set up a retirement program, a pension plan for all 411 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 3: his employees. He sent monthly checks for life to an 412 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:21,720 Speaker 3: employee was ill and couldn't work. He provides nursing care 413 00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,800 Speaker 3: for the children of mothers who work in the stores. 414 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:28,200 Speaker 3: When Mexico was ravaged by the floods in the Rio Grande, 415 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,520 Speaker 3: he climbed in his airplane and flew medicine and supplies 416 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 3: down there. 417 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: An EXGI told me how he met him. 418 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 3: It was the week before Christmas during the Korean War, 419 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,359 Speaker 3: and he was at the Los Angeles Airport trying to 420 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 3: get a ride home to Arizona for Christmas. And he 421 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:45,960 Speaker 3: said that a lot of service men there and no 422 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:49,120 Speaker 3: seats available on the planes. And then a voice came 423 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 3: over the loud speaker and said, any men in uniform 424 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 3: wanting a ride to Arizona, go to runway such and such, 425 00:23:55,359 --> 00:23:57,480 Speaker 3: and they went down there. There was a fellow named 426 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 3: Barry Goldwater sitting in his plane every day in those 427 00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:03,520 Speaker 3: weeks before Christmas. All day long, he'd load up the plane, 428 00:24:03,560 --> 00:24:06,160 Speaker 3: fly at Arizona, fly them to their homes, fly back 429 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:10,280 Speaker 3: over to get another load. During the hectic, split second 430 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 3: timing of a campaign, this is a man who took 431 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 3: time out to sit beside an old friend who is 432 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 3: dying of cancer. His campaign managers were understandably impatient, but 433 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 3: he said, there aren't many left to care what happens 434 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,640 Speaker 3: to her. I'd like her to know I care. This 435 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 3: is a man who said to his nineteen year old son, 436 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 3: there is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness. 437 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 3: And when you begin to build your life on that rock, 438 00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 3: with the cement of the faith in God that you have, 439 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 3: then you have a real stunt. This is not a 440 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 3: man who could carelessly send other people's sons to war. 441 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 1: And that is the issue of. 442 00:24:46,560 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 3: This campaign that makes all the other problems I've discussed 443 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 3: academic unless we realize we're in a war. 444 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:53,800 Speaker 1: That must be won. 445 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,080 Speaker 3: Those who would trade our freedom for the soup kitchen 446 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 3: of the welfare state have told us they have a 447 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:03,000 Speaker 3: utopian solution of peace without victory. They call their policy accommodation, 448 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,440 Speaker 3: and they say, if we'll only avoid any direct confrontation 449 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 3: with the enemy, he'll forget his evil ways and learn 450 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,360 Speaker 3: to love us. All who oppose them are indicted as warmongers. 451 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 3: They say, we offer simple answers to complex problems. Well, 452 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 3: perhaps there is a simple answer, not an easy answer, 453 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,800 Speaker 3: but simple. If you and I have the courage to 454 00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 3: tell our elected officials that we want our national policy 455 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,880 Speaker 3: based on what we know in our hearts is morally right, 456 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:33,439 Speaker 3: we cannot but by our security, our freedom from the 457 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 3: threat of the bomb, by committing an immorality so great 458 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 3: as saying to a billion human beings now enslaved behind 459 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 3: the iron curtain. Give up your dreams of freedom, because 460 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,760 Speaker 3: to save our own skins, we are willing to make 461 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:50,440 Speaker 3: a deal with your slave masters. Alexander Hamilton said, a 462 00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,879 Speaker 3: nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for 463 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,960 Speaker 3: a master and deserves one. Now let's set the record straight. 464 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,120 Speaker 3: There's no argument over the choice between peace and war. 465 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 3: But there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace, 466 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 3: and you can have it in the next second surrender. Admittedly, 467 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:11,080 Speaker 3: there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, 468 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:14,280 Speaker 3: but every lesson of history tells us that the greater 469 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:17,360 Speaker 3: risk lies in appeasement. And this is the specter our 470 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,840 Speaker 3: well meaning liberal friends refuse to face that their policy 471 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,320 Speaker 3: of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between 472 00:26:25,359 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 3: peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we 473 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 3: continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we 474 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 3: have to face the final demand, the ultimatum. And what 475 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 3: then When the Kida Kruzchef has told his people he 476 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 3: knows what our answer will be. He has told them 477 00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 3: that we are retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, 478 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 3: and some day when the time comes to deliver the 479 00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:52,199 Speaker 3: final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that 480 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,879 Speaker 3: time we will have been weakened from within, spiritually, morally, 481 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,360 Speaker 3: and economically. He believes this because from our side he's 482 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,800 Speaker 3: heard voices pleading for peace at any price or better 483 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 3: read than dead, or, as one commentator put it, he'd 484 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:07,520 Speaker 3: rather live on his knees than die on his feet. 485 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 1: And therein lies. 486 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 3: The road to war, because those voices don't speak. 487 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:13,200 Speaker 1: For the rest of us. 488 00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 3: You and I know and do not believe that life 489 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 3: is so dear and peace so sweet as to be 490 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:21,760 Speaker 3: purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing 491 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 3: in life is worth dying for? When did this begin 492 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,880 Speaker 3: just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses 493 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,080 Speaker 3: have told the children of Israel to live in slavery 494 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,800 Speaker 3: under the Pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should 495 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 3: the patriots at Conquered Bridge have thrown down their guns 496 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,520 Speaker 3: and refuse to fire the shot heard round the world? 497 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,760 Speaker 3: The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored 498 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 3: dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of 499 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 3: the Nazis didn't die in vain. 500 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,720 Speaker 1: Where then, is the road to peace. Oh, it's a 501 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:52,439 Speaker 1: simple answer. 502 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,320 Speaker 3: After all, you and I have the courage to say 503 00:27:56,320 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 3: to our enemies there is a price we will not pay. 504 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:02,159 Speaker 3: There is a point be beyond which they must not advance. 505 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: And this is. 506 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 3: The meaning in the phrase of Bury gold Water, peace 507 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:24,399 Speaker 3: through strength. Winston Churchill said, the destiny of man is 508 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,560 Speaker 3: not measured by material computations. 509 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:28,440 Speaker 1: When great forces. 510 00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 3: Around the move in the world, we learn we're spirits, 511 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 3: not animals. And he said there's something going on in 512 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,480 Speaker 3: time and space and beyond time and space, which, whether 513 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,880 Speaker 3: we like it or not, spells duty. You and I 514 00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:44,040 Speaker 3: have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children 515 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 3: this the last best hope of men on earth, or 516 00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,440 Speaker 3: we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand. 517 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: Years of darkness. 518 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,600 Speaker 3: We will heep in mind and remember that Bury Goldwater 519 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:56,959 Speaker 3: has faith in us. 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