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Show Demo Administration Has Accomplished Much All Democrats should remind the voters that, despite des-pite the monolithic Republican obstruction, the President and Congress have rolled up an impressive record of accomplishments ac-complishments since January 20, 1961. (Continued on Page Four) Bureau Opens Nonrninera! Filing For Public Lands in West States L (Continued from Page One) Congress has passed bills for area redevelopment, for higher minimum wages, for better housing, for programs pro-grams to combat crime and delinquency and to curb water pollution. No Congress since the Thirties has done more to combat a Republican recession and restore prosperity than this one. And now we have the highest industrial production in the nation's history. Our working men and women are earning $27 billion more a year. Gross farm income has also increased $2 billion over what it was in the last Republican year. And economic indicators for July point upward. The Executive Branch has also been active and productive. pro-ductive. These efforts are reflected overseas as well as at home. Despite the dire Republican predictions in the campaign cam-paign of 1960, war has not come to the troubled land of Laos. Mr. Khrushchev has not taken over West Berlin. Mr. Castro has not taken over Latin America. The Republicans laughed at the Peace Corps but the people in far off huts and villages have not laughed as ' J. X they have seen American idealism at work. The Peace! Corps is a success. Republicans jeered at our efforts in space as wasteful waste-ful and useless, but the world now hails our striking successes suc-cesses as symbols of American know-how. We have a long-term foreign program, strengthening strengthen-ing those nations willing to help themselves to achieve peace and freedom. Our expanded Food for Peace program is providing school lunches and daily bread for the hungry and needy of many lands. The Kennedy Administration knows that until all arms are abolished, in order to preserve the peace, we must prepare for war the war we must deter. So we have strengthened the missile power and the air power and the manpower of our armed forces. And what do the Republicans say about these accomplishments? ac-complishments? Oon Monday, the say they are socialistic. On Tuesday they say they are dictatorship and regimentation regimen-tation of our citizenry. On Wednesday they say they are not enough. On Thursday they say we are going too fast. On Friday they say we lack the will to win the struggle against Communism. On Saturday they say we are spending too much on our space program and on conventional conven-tional defense facilities for brush-fire warfare. And on , Sunday Republican Chairman Miller goes on television and says his party may have to look under a rock to find its next Presidential candidate. |