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2,892
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I've talked to them and I've listened.
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2,893
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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
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I believe I know what this country ought to be.
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2,897
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The American people don't know what those commitments are.
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2,912
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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
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Dean Acheson, George Marshall were strong secretaries of uh - state - excuse me - state.
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2,918
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But he also made sure that there was a bipartisan support.
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2,920
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This is a responsibility of the president.
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2,929
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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
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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
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And let me cite several examples.
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2,945
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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
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It seems to me that we can go from there to uh - the uh - grain sales.
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2,948
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The grain sales have been a benefit to American agriculture.
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2,951
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If we turn to Helsinki - I'm glad you raised it, Mr. uh - Frankel.
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2,952
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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
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I don't believe that the Rumanians consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union.
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2,964
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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
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(chuckle) Well, in the first place, I'm not criticizing His Holiness the Pope.
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2,969
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The uh - fact is that secrecy has surrounded the decisions made by the Ford administration.
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2,973
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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
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We also have seen Mr. Ford exclude himself from access to the public.
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2,977
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He's also shown a weakness in yielding to pressure.
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2,984
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That's not the way to run our foreign policy, including international trade.
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2,992
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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
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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
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The shift in emphasis has been very disturbing to me, speaking about the Middle East.
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2,998
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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
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We still have no comprehensive energy policy in this country.
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3,005
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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
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These are the weaknesses that I see, and I believe it's not just a matter of idealism.
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3,009
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It's a matter of being tough.
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3,010
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It's a matter of being strong.
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3,014
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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
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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
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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
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I believe that Governor Carter doesn't realize the need and necessity for arms sales to Iran.
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3,033
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In 1973 when there was an oil embargo, Iran did not participate.
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3,035
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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
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It's for their security as well as ours.
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3,044
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There ought to be a clear, unequivocal commitment without change to Israel.
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3,060
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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
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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
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These uh - characteristics of our country have been endangered under Mr. Ford.
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3,069
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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
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The worst inflation since the Great Depression.
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3,076
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We have a higher unemployment rate in this country than Great Britain, and West Germany.
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3,077
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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
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And that terrible circumstance in this country is exported overseas.
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3,080
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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
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So strong economy is very important.
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3,091
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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
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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
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The unemployment rate was less than 4 percent.
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3,097
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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
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They must go hand in hand, but the security of this nation has got to come first.
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3,103
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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
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In 1975 he wanted to cut the budget $15 billion.
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3,105
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He's now down to a figure of five to seven billion dollars.
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3,113
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I was the first United States president to visit Japan.
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3,115
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You can go around the world - and let me take Israel for example.
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3,126
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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
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So it's the obligation of the president to do just that, and I intend to do so.
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3,146
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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
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As a nuclear engineer myself, I know the limitations and capabilities of atomic power.
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3,152
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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
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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
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Mr. Ford hasn't moved on this.
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3,155
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We also need to provide an adequate supply of enriched uranium.
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3,156
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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
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We now have five nations that have atomic bombs that we know about.
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3,168
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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
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We've got five-hundred thousand more Americans unemployed today than we had three months ago.
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3,180
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Governor Carter uh - brags about the unemployment during Democratic administrations and condemns the unemployment at the present time.
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3,182
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Now let me correct one other comment that uh - Governor Carter has made.
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3,186
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The foreign policy of the United States meets the highest standards of morality.
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3,187
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What is more moral than peace, and the United States is at peace today?
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3,188
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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
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The Ford administration wants to eradicate hunger and disease in our underdeveloped countries throughout the world.
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3,204
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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
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And I believe that we used our skill.
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3,210
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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
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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
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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
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This has not been an ancient history story.
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3,232
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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
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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
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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
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Karl Marx was the grandfather of Communism.
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