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2,892
I've talked to them and I've listened.
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2,893
And I've seen at first hand, in a very vivid way, the deep hurt that's come to this country in the aftermath of Vietnam and Cambodia, Chile, and Pakistan, and Angola, and Watergate, CIA revelations.
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2,896
I believe I know what this country ought to be.
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2,897
I've uh - been one who's loved my nation as many Americans do, and I believe that there's no limit placed on what we can be in the future, if we can harness the tremendous resources - militarily, economically, and the stature of our people, the meaning of the Constitution, in the future.
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2,898
Every time we've made a serious mistake in foreign affairs, it's been because the American people have been excluded from the process.
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2,900
And I'm not gonna exclude the American people from that process in the future, as Mr. Ford and Kissinger have done.
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2,903
So these are the ways that we can restore the strength of our country, and they don't require long experience in foreign policy.
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2,905
But my background, my experience, my knowledge of the people of this country, my commitment to our principles that don't change - those are the best bases to correct the horrible mistakes of this administration and restore our own country to a position of leadership in the world.
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2,909
In many instances we've made agreements, like in Vietnam, uh - that have uh - been revealed later on to our uh - embarrassment.
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2,911
The American people don't know what those commitments are.
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2,912
We've seen uh - in the past the destruction of elected governments, like in Chile, and the strong support of military dictatorship there.
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2,917
Dean Acheson, George Marshall were strong secretaries of uh - state - excuse me - state.
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2,918
But he also made sure that there was a bipartisan support.
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2,920
This is a responsibility of the president.
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2,929
Now as far as meeting with the Congress is concerned, during the twenty-four months that I've been the president of the United States I have averaged better than one meeting a month with responsible groups or committees of the Congress - both House and Senate.
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2,930
The secretary of state has appeared in the several years that he's been the secretary before eighty different uh - committee hearings in the House and in the Senate.
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2,944
And let me cite several examples.
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2,945
Shortly after I became president in uh - December of 1974, I met with uh - General Secretary Brezhnev in Vladivostok and we agreed to a mutual cap on the ballistic missile launchers at a ceiling of twenty-four hundred - which means that the Soviet Union, if that becomes a permanent agreement, will have to make a reduction in their launchers that they now have or plan to have.
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2,947
It seems to me that we can go from there to uh - the uh - grain sales.
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2,948
The grain sales have been a benefit to American agriculture.
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2,951
If we turn to Helsinki - I'm glad you raised it, Mr. uh - Frankel.
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2,952
In the case of Helsinki, thirty-five nations signed an agreement, including the secretary of state for the Vatican - I can't under any circumstances believe that the - His Holiness, the Pope would agree by signing that agreement that the thirty-five nations have turned over to the Warsaw Pact nations the domination of the - Eastern Europe.
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2,962
I don't believe that the Rumanians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union.
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2,964
Each of those countries is independent, autonomous: it has its own territorial integrity and the United States does not concede that those countries are under the domination of the Soviet Union.
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2,967
(chuckle) Well, in the first place, I'm not criticizing His Holiness the Pope.
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2,969
The uh - fact is that secrecy has surrounded the decisions made by the Ford administration.
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2,973
And I would like to see Mr. Ford convince the Polish-Americans and the Czech-Americans and the Hungarian-Americans in this country that those countries don't live under the domination and supervision of the Soviet Union behind the Iron - uh - Curtain.
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2,974
We also have seen Mr. Ford exclude himself from access to the public.
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2,977
He's also shown a weakness in yielding to pressure.
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2,984
That's not the way to run our foreign policy, including international trade.
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2,992
For instance, if the Arab countries ever again declare an embargo against our nation on oil I would consider that not a military but an economic declaration of war, and I would respond instantly and in kind.
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2,996
When this Republican administration came into office we were shipping about $1 billion worth of arms overseas, now ten to twelve billion dollars worth of arms overseas to countries that quite often use these weapons to fight each other.
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2,997
The shift in emphasis has been very disturbing to me, speaking about the Middle East.
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2,998
Under the last Democratic administration 60 percent of all weapons that went into the Middle East were for Israel.
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3,003
We still have no comprehensive energy policy in this country.
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3,005
When we are weak at home economically - high unemployment, high inflation, a confused government, a wasteful defense establishment, this encourages the kind of pressure that's been put on us successfully.
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3,008
These are the weaknesses that I see, and I believe it's not just a matter of idealism.
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3,009
It's a matter of being tough.
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3,010
It's a matter of being strong.
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3,014
And the shipment of Spruance-class destroyers to Iran are much more highly sophisticated than the Spruance-class destroyers that are present being delivered to our own Navy.
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3,020
And I would make sure that the uh - Saudis understood this ahead of time so there would be no doubt in their mind.
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3,021
I think under those circumstances they would refrain from pushing us to our knees as they did in 1973 with their previous oil embargo.
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3,026
I believe that Governor Carter doesn't realize the need and necessity for arms sales to Iran.
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3,033
In 1973 when there was an oil embargo, Iran did not participate.
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3,035
I believe that it's in our interest and in the interest of Israel and Iran, and Saudi Arabia, for the United States to sell arms to those countries.
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3,036
It's for their security as well as ours.
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3,044
It doesn't uh - make a determination as to how uh - that relationship should be achieved in relationship to our current uhh - diplomatic recognition and obligations to the Taiwanese Government.
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3,045
The Shanghai Communique, does say that the differences between the People's Republic on the one hand and Taiwan on the other shall be settled by peaceful means.
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3,048
We feel that there must be a continued obligation to the people, the some nineteen or twenty million people in Taiwan.
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3,052
I do not believe that we, the United States, should sell, give or otherwise transfer military hardware to the People's Republic of China, or any other Communist nation, such as the Soviet Union and the like.
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3,055
As a matter of fact, during this current year uh we are shipping Iran, or have contracted to ship to Iran, about seven and a half billion dollars worth of arms and also to Saudi Arabia, about seven and a half billion dollars worth of arms.
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3,059
There ought to be a clear, unequivocal commitment without change to Israel.
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3,060
In the Far East I think we need to continue to be uh - strong and uh - I would certainly uh - pursue the uh - normalization of uh - relationships with the People's Republic of China.
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3,067
Well, always in the past we've had an ability to have a strong defense and also have - to have a strong uh - domestic economy, and also to be strong in our reputation and influence within the community of nations.
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3,068
These uh - characteristics of our country have been endangered under Mr. Ford.
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3,069
We're no longer respected in a showdown vote in the United Nations or in - in any other international council we're lucky to get 20 percent of the other nations to vote with us.
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3,074
The worst inflation since the Great Depression.
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3,076
We have a higher unemployment rate in this country than Great Britain, and West Germany.
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3,077
Our unemployment rate is twice as high as it is in Italy; it's three or four times as high as it is - as it is in Japan.
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3,078
And that terrible circumstance in this country is exported overseas.
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3,080
And when we're weak at home - weaker than all our allies - that weakness weakens the whole free world.
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3,081
So strong economy is very important.
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3,091
But I can guarantee it will not come if Gerald Ford is reelected and this present policy is continued; it will come if I'm elected.
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3,095
Well let me say very quickly that under President Johnson, in spite of the massive investment in the Vietnam War, he turned over a balanced budget to Mr. Nixon.
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3,096
The unemployment rate was less than 4 percent.
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3,097
The inflation rate under Kennedy and Johnson was about 2 percent - one-third what it is under this administration.
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3,101
They must go hand in hand, but the security of this nation has got to come first.
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3,103
Let me say very categorically you cannot maintain the security of the United States with the kind of defense budget cuts that Governor Carter has indicated.
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3,104
In 1975 he wanted to cut the budget $15 billion.
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3,105
He's now down to a figure of five to seven billion dollars.
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3,113
I was the first United States president to visit Japan.
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3,115
You can go around the world - and let me take Israel for example.
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3,126
As I indicated earlier, we did agree on a twenty-four-hundred limitation on uh - uh - launchers of ballistic missiles.
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3,136
So it's the obligation of the president to do just that, and I intend to do so.
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3,146
He's been in office two years, and there has been absolutely no progress made toward a new SALT agreement.
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3,149
As a nuclear engineer myself, I know the limitations and capabilities of atomic power.
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3,152
I advocated last May in a speech at the United Nations that we move immediately as a nation to declare a complete moratorium on the testing of all nuclear devices, both weapons and peaceful devices; that we not ship any more atomic fuel to a country that refuses to comply with strict controls over the waste which can be reprocessed into explosives.
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3,153
I've also advocated that we stop the sale by Germany and France of - processing plants for Pakistan and Brazil.
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3,154
Mr. Ford hasn't moved on this.
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3,155
We also need to provide an adequate supply of enriched uranium.
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3,156
Mr. Ford, again, under pressure from the atomic energy lobby, has insisted that this reprocessing or rather re-en- enrichment be done by private industry and not by the existing uh - government uh - plants.
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3,158
We now have five nations that have atomic bombs that we know about.
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3,168
I think we got to stay that way and continue to increase our capabilities to meet any potential threat.
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3,172
We've got five-hundred thousand more Americans unemployed today than we had three months ago.
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3,180
Governor Carter uh - brags about the unemployment during Democratic administrations and condemns the unemployment at the present time.
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3,182
Now let me correct one other comment that uh - Governor Carter has made.
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3,186
The foreign policy of the United States meets the highest standards of morality.
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3,187
What is more moral than peace, and the United States is at peace today?
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3,188
What is more moral in foreign policy than for the administration to take the lead in the World Food Conference in Rome in 1974 when the United States committed six million metric tons of food - over 60 percent of the food committed for the disadvantaged and underdeveloped nations of the world?
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3,189
The Ford administration wants to eradicate hunger and disease in our underdeveloped countries throughout the world.
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3,204
And the initiatives that we took in southern Africa are the best examples of what this administration is doing and will continue to do in the next four years.
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3,208
And I believe that we used our skill.
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3,210
He has done a superb job in getting the prime minister of South Africa, Mr. Vorster, to agree that the time had come for a solution to the problem of Rhodesia.
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3,224
On the north they have North Korea with five hundred thousand well-trained, well-equipped troops - they are supported by the People's Republic of China; they are supported by the Soviet Union.
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3,230
This is an - a typical example, maybe of many others, where this administration overthrew an elected government and helped to establish a military dictatorship.
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3,231
This has not been an ancient history story.
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3,232
Last year under Mr. Ford, of all the Food for Peace that went to South America, 85 percent went to the military dictatorship in Chile.
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3,236
While the secretary of state's in one country, there are almost a hundred and fifty others that are wondering what we're gonna do next, what will be the next secret agreement.
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3,238
Another thing that concerned me was what Mr. Ford said about unemployment, that - insinuating that under Johnson and Kennedy that unemployment could only be held down when this country is at war.
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3,240
Karl Marx was the grandfather of Communism.
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