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Airport Rally, Dallas, Texas, October 22, 1968 FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY PM's October 22, 1968 # 5 REMARKS VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT H. HUMPHREY AIRPORT RALLY DALLAS, TEXAS October 22, 1968 I say we can win this election ••• and I've come to Texas to prove it. Texas is great Democrat country. I am proud to have the support of two great Texas Democrats Governor John Connally and Senator Ralph Yarborough. We have won a lot ofbattles together in the past ••• and with your help we Democrats are going to win this one. And I am deeply proud to have another great Texas Democrat in my corner. You know who I am talking about -- Lyndon Baines Johnson -- a for it • • • and achieved it. * * * There ar.e two weeks left in this campaign. It's time we focused on the central issue: Who can the American people trust to lead this country for the next four years. Can we trust each other as people? My Republican opponent has made two decisions in this campaign which speak directly to this crucial issue of trust. First, he decided who shouh.l be his vice presidential running mate -- the man who would be a heart-beat from the Presidency itself in this nuclear age. And Mr. Nixon chose Spiro T. Agnew -- a so-called "Urban Expert" who says "when you've seen one slum you've seen them all" ••• a man who says he can't wait to try out his "new-found expertise" in foreign policy. Page 2 I think my Republican 9pponent played fast and loose with the security of this nation. Mr. Nixon then made a second decision. He decided to say nothing else for the rest of the campaign. He's been on vacation -- and I say the White House is no place for a vacationer. What'll he do? ••• turn off the hot line two days a week while he rests up? He has refused to speak out on any vital issues. He has refused to debate -- even though I offered to buy time on national television. He has stayed in the shadows -- stayed off the issues -- and relied instead on a massive advertising campaign, staged TV shows, balloons and confetti. I say this is no way to run for President. The people ••• to trust you ••• have to know where you stand. I tell you where I stand: M y Presidency will be an Open Pl.-ea.;d P-n..: y • and Active Presidency: •-a Presidency that overcomes the gap between Americans living in cities and towns, and government in far-o££ Washington; --A Presidency that enables each American to feel that he is an important part of the democratic process ••• despite our bigness; --A Presidency responsive to the people • • • not just at the end of a long chain of bureaucracy ••. but directly. For the real strength of America is not in Washington. It is in the people ••• in what they can do for themselves. There is a lot your federal government~ do -- not to you, but with you. Congressman Earle Cabell, when he was Mayor or Dallas, demonstrated how a progressive city can work with the federal government to clean up slums. Page 3 Your transportation facilities ••• your first-class highways and expressways ••• your airport and your plans for an even more modern one -- are a product of that kind of federal-local partnership. Yes, it has cost half a billion federal dollars. I say it was worth it. is And I say the Trinity River Development Project/worth the investment, too. I am for it. It Will mean more jobs ••• more prosperity ••• more gr~h for our private economy ! •• more opportunity. Now the Republicans are a gainst that sort of thing. They call it government spending. I call it an investment -- an investment that will be repaid both in dollars and in human dignity and new strength for America. And that is thf>' cl Hfe1·euce hE'!twcen mysp}f and Mr. Nixon. and I want to invest directly in the people of this country. Mr. Nixon prefers to let things "trickle down" from whatever profits his fdends in big business are able to make. And let me tell you: Under the last Republican Administration -- the one M r. Nixon was a part of -- they didn't make many. The economy was stagnant. Unemployment was up. Jobs were down. Profits were down. And this nation's needs were ignored. M r. Nixon does not believe he can trust anyone but his close little g roup of Republican managers. I trust the people. And they can trust me: Page 4 divisions --to heal the hatreds and ~l:rb.$ among us; --to reaffirm the basic decency of spirit which lies within us as people. --to reassert this nation's moral leadership in a world that desparately seeks that leadership. --to tell a new generation that what we have is good ••• that it is worth saving • • • that the dream of their parents is IJitill a worthy dream. I do not have a massive advertising budget. I do not have a multi-million dollar TV blitz. I only have you • • • • millions of people against millions of dollars. Let's break through M r. Nixon's smokescreen. And let's b1·eak thrv ngh to a. N e w D::~y fnr thf'l Ame1·ican people. I asl, your help . # # # # # #20 REMARKS OF HUBERT H. HUMPHREY 1 LOVE FIELD I DALLAS I TEXAS october 22, 1968 VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY: Thank you. (Cries of "We want Humphrey.") Thank you. Thank yo11. By the way, if you think you want Humphrey, let me tell you, T-·. umphrey wants you. (Applause.) Governor, thank :r ror your welcome once again. Thank you, Senator, all the members . - J. :~e congressional delegation that are here with us today. I r-:· ·· :;Jc> rticularly honored to be in the area, the congressional distr i~t of Earle Cabell and Gra~am Purcell, nice to see my old friend, H~ary Gensales, who is always here with me, always helping me, and, Henry, you know what they say, they say siempre con Homphrey. Is that all right? Arriba, okay? And I am very honored once again to have the privilege of being in the company of and having the generous support of Jim Wright, the great congressman over in Fort Worth. (Applause.) We are so happy with Bob Poage and Olin Teague, with Ray Ho!::e!:t~ .:l.li'.l th~ 0th~ 1"S w.hw [AlT.:·.;; -:d:!. YJ<;;-2 1 ~ ~Ju.ck.i~l'j •.,:i tL ·e,~ ,. f:l':Q J.i:ay } just take a moment to thank. the band, that wonderful band, that just played the Minnesota Rouser (applause) , the Bishop College band. I want to tell them something. I wish that band had been u~ in Minnesota last wee~e ~:J , because the Dallas Cowboys took the Minnesota Vikings (applause) , you took the Minnesota Vikings 20 t:o 7. Now listen, you owe me something. (Laughter). Having defeated us on the football field, I want you to defeat the Republicans by the same score. (Applause.) Well, we have much to talk about here today. By the way, Texas has been mighty good to me today, we have had a great turnout of peGple. I agree with ralph Yarborough, this is one of the finest and one of the largest airport rallies that I have ever seen, and besides that it is one with great enthusiasm. (Sound of plane.) That is just an0ther Democrat coming in wanting to get in o ~ the meeting here. There are quite a few of them coming in. Those are some that the Republicans drove away a while ago. They are former Republicans and now they decided to fly safely and they are going Democratic all the way. (Applause.) Ladies and gentlemen, we have got a great fight on our hanes . I remember when there was once a Democrat who was called the Happy Warrior, and I want you to know that from here on out that for these two weeks that are left in this campaign, that we are going to carry out a campaign of vigor, of vitality, of enthusiasm, of spirit that is going to sweep away these Republican cobwebs, and we are going to send Mr. Nixon back to his law practice up in New York. (Applause.) All over America, all over this country, people are rallying to our banner. I wish you could have been with me just yesterday in New York City, last we~k up in Connecticut, out in Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Ohio; wherever we have been, the crowds get a little bigger, the enthusiasm is a little more, the attention is a little better, the polls get a little better, but let me tell you -- (applause) -- let me tell you the best Pole of them all. He is a fellow by the rame of Ed Muskie, my running mate . (Ap{Dlause • ) You know, the Republican candidate has made two decisions that you ought to be interested in. The first decision that he made was who would be his running mate,and may I say that is the mos t vital decision that any man makes when he seeks the office of 2 presidency, and he decided to take on a man as his running mate who I believe does not compare with the quality of the man that is on the Democratic ticket. (Applause.) The second decision of the Republican candidate was that he just wasn't going to talk. He was going to have parades, he was going to have parties, he was going to have sort of setup interviews.
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