Friday, October 25, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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On the campaign trail
Nixon warns about 'survival gap' by 1970
With Nixon Motorcade in Pennsylvania (UPI)-Richard M. Nixon said Thursday the administrations of President Johnson and the late John F. Kennedy led the United States into a "gravely serious security gap."
Unless current defense policies are checked, the GOP presidential candidate said in Reading, Pa., America will fall farther behind Russia in military strength and by 1970 or 1971 find itself in a "survival gap" it cannot overcome.
Nixon contrasted this state of affairs with what he said was the U.S. security position when he as vice president and Dwight Eisenhower as President departed in 1960.
"When we left the government, America was still at peace, and not one American boy had been killed or wounded on any battlefield in eight years," he stated.
"Moreover, our nation was the acknowledged leader of the free world. Our superiority in weapons was unquestioned."
Nixon said the United States was "hopelessly bogged down in a quicksand war" in Vietnam.
In his security speech, Nixon painted a grim picture of American defenses. He said in the eight
years Democrats have held power in Washington:
A 50 per cent advantage over Russia in the number of landbased intercontinental ballistic missiles has slipped to an advantage that is only "marginal."
A numerical advantage over Russia in bombers has dropped 30 per cent to a situation in which the Russians are now 50 per cent ahead.
A 500 per cent advantage in nuclear submarines is down four-fifths "and each year shrinks still more."
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LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Hubert Humphrey, portraying himself as a peace candidate for President, tried to rally support Thursday for a wide variety of Southern California voters.
He spoke before a gathering of clergymen at St. Paul's Episcopal Church and this appearance was followed by a public rally in the Los Angeles garment district.
In his talk to the clergymen, Humphrey stressed the theme of peace.
"We must end the war in Vietnam," he said. "But even as
we seek peace in Vietnam, we must look beyond to another urgent matter.
"We must stop the deadly race in strategic arms before it halts humanity. For 20 years, I have tried to place limits on the momentum of the arms race."
In remarks prepared for a labor group at Shrine Auditorium, Humphrey said:
"They say Humphrey wants to give a black man a job. He wants to give a Mexican-American a job. And it will be your job—that's what they say.
"Yes, I want to give a black man a job, I want everybody in this country to have a job—and with a booming Democratic economy, everyone will have a job."
The vice president made repeated referenced to his Republican opponent, Richard M. Nixon, during his Southern California tour.
He said he himself led the fight to end the testing of nuclear weapons "while Mr. Nixon
called the nuclear test ban treaty a 'cruel hoax' and 'catastrophic nonsense.' "
Wallace-
NEW YORK (UPI)—Presidential candidate George C. Wallace pledged last night he would never send American troops into combat with "less than the full support of all available resources."
Wallace spoke under maximum security conditions in a much-heralded rally at Madison Square Garden.
Wallace used the garden rally as a platform to deliver the third in a series of policy speeches this week. The other two were on farm and labor policy. The theme of Wallace's Thursday night speech was strongly military.
"American troops will never be committed with less than the full support of all available resources," Wallace said in his prepared speech.
"We will provide our services the best obtainable weapons, equipment, machines and munitions." Wallace said.
Wallace criticized policies of former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and said he would eliminate from the Defense Department "those who have been responsible for the rancor, ill will and mistrust which has existed between the civilian and military members of this vital agency."
Kennedy appeals to voters not to give Wallace support
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Observing that polls indicate "as many as 15 million Americans" may be considering voting for the third party candidate,
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (UPI)—Sen. Edward M. Kennedy appealed to Americans yesterday in the names of his assassinated brothers not to vote for George C. Wallace for president on Nov. 5. He said Wallace "is in league" with extremists.
The last of the Kennedy brothers said a heavy Wallace vote in the coming election could create "a permanent party of division and hate" on the American political scene.
Statue of Moses due in one year
Kennedv said:
The statue of Moses, designed for the front of the Kansas School of Religion, will not be put in place for another year, said William J. Moore, dean of the School of Religion.
The eight-foot statue, donated by Mrs. Harry Miller, Tonganoxie, is in honor of her husband.
He explained the statue's designer, Elden Tefft, professor of design, planned the project in bronze would take approximately two years.
"To those who lean toward Wallace, and especially to those among them who voted for President Kennedy and who supported Robert Kennedy, I want to say that nothing could be further from the principles of these men."
Contrasting Wallace to his late brothers, the Massachusetts senator commented:
Kennedy said that in selecting retired Air Force Gen. Curtis E. LeMay as his running mate, Wallace proposes to put in the vice presidency a man who has "shown himself to be completely insensitive to the grave risks involved in the use of nuclear weapons."
"Robert Kennedy stood for reconciliation among the races. George Wallace stands for division and suppression.
"President Kennedy upheld the Constitution and the laws of the United States. George Wallace defied them. President Kennedy defended America against the extremists. George Wallace is in league with them.
"So it is not enough that Wallace's movement be defeated. It must be repudiated—for the health of our country and our future as a nation."
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