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Show TODAY'S a EDITORIAL f We Have Moved Thanks to Democrats The record of these months of new American purpose pur-pose is clear: We have made our beginning. We are moving forward once again. We are accomplishing things once more, and we are going to continue the job. During these new months of Democratic stewardship not just Democrats but all Americans have moved forward. for-ward. We have moved to help wipe out the pockets of distress, poverty, and despair which have dotted the (Continued on Page Four) We Have Moved Thanks to Democrats (Continued from Page One) economic geography of the nation. We have moved to help jobless Americans men and women out of work through no fault of their own, Americans who wan to work. We have moved to help these fellow citizens find new skills, new jobs, new hope for themselves and their families. We have taken action, and we are pursuing" additional addi-tional programs, to help the youth of our country to ' help your young Americans get a decent education to prepare themselves for the tasks they will face to help them find jobs, dignity, and futures for jthemselves and their own growing families. We work today to help our older people in retirement retire-ment live in the dignity and serenity they have earned. We work to help them live without fear of destitution and dependency brought on by the crushing costs of illness. We have taken long-needed action for the American worker higher minimum wages increased unemployment unemploy-ment benefits expanded Social Security coverage. We have taken action to meet the growing problems of housing for Americans for moderate and low income families, for veterans and for the elderly. We have taken action, and we vigorously pursue still further action, to help American farmers gain their equitable share for their contribution to the nation. We work for new expansion, new productivity, new markets for the nation's business and industrial community. com-munity. We work for the full opportunity of all Americans to make the best of their talents, to exercise their full and equal rights as Americans, to live in decency and dignity and freedom. Vitality and stalemate do not get along together. Our country today moves ahead on new roads to peace. We arm while we must; we increase our forces on the I alert to issure the peace. But we move forward today I from the deadly balance of terror the nuclear stalemate ( that through too many perilous years gave us the sole alternatives of holocaust or surrender. Today we have new alternatives. We modernize and diversify our defense forces, both in nuclear and conventional con-ventional fields, to cope with brushfire and other critical situations. We do away with obsolescent methods and bases. We reorganize and reorient our combat units not just to meet change with change, but to keep the initiative. in-itiative. In our strength and national self respect America does no t fear to negotiate to seek the avenues to a free and peaceful world where the weapons of war need never be used, where men may join together at last to conquer their common enemies of poverty, disease and ignorance. (From a recent address by Vice President Lyndon j B. Johnson). |