Mr. Nixon has further accused Kennedy of “a despicable,

Mr. Nixon has further accused Kennedy of “a despicable, win-at-any-price effort to convince America it is about to suffer a recession.” However, 3.4 million unemployed people and their families feel the recession is already here. A few statistics supply further evidence. ’Gross national product was downi$2 billion in the last three months; the index of industrial production has dropped from 111 to 107 in nine months; steel production has been barely over 50% of capacity ; and new claims for unemployment benefits have recently been 50.090 to 125.000 above the average of the past three years. Senator Kennedy believes it is these facts and not his words which have been running America down.

While Nixon and Lodge have emphasized votes in the United Nations and talking tough to the Russians, Kennedy and Johnson have stressed the actual course of world events from the first Sputnik through the U2 debacle, the Paris summit failure, the Japanese humiliation, and most recently the Cuban crisis.

Vice President Nivon has now announced that, if elected, he will immediately send Mr. Lodge to Geneva to resume disarmament negotiations and he himself will try to visit all the Eastern European countries to “carry the message of freedom into the Communist world.” Senator Kennedy has replied that the first task of the next President should be to strengthen America rather than to tour the Communist world.

Senator Kennedy and the Democratic Party have presented a program designed to do at home and abroad those things which must be done if we as a nation are to provide a better future for our citizens at home and an appealing example of freedom and democracy to the citizens of the world. The issue before us is whether or not our country can afford to do what it should be doing in defense, inToreign affairs, in education, in programs for the aging, in medical care in housing and in the development of our natural resources.