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WALLACE THE APOSTLE OF HA~E AND RACISH, IIDMPHREY SAYS

Knoxville, Tenn., October 1 -- Vice President Humphrey described George Wallace today as "the apostle of hate and racism."

At the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, he told his audience that he was

there to ''Talk candidly about a problem, an issue, and this man."

' ''There is more at stake here than the Presidency," the Vice President said.

'~at is-at stake is the greatest political system on earth and the social fabric of the nation we love."

The problem, Mr. Humphrey said, is that the hundreds of thousands of young Negroer

in our cities "who were both out of school and out of work" seven years ago have

come of age "and the dynamite has begun to explode."

The reaction has been one of fear and protest in this "year of rage," he said,

that "is putting our political system to its most severe test in modern times."

The issue is absolutely clear: radical extremists of the left and right seek

destruction of the entire American system, Mr. Humphrey said. The left follo\vs the

totally unacceptable solution of violent protest in which dissent becomes disorder.

On the right, "they seek the · simple solution of violent repression which .. preaches

. 4iere.q~ect ·for out: eourts and some of our laws," and appeals to "the darkest fears

and deepest suspicions of our people," he said.

Crime ~7111 not be stopped by humber stickers or a "four-point program" which

includes thinly veiled invitations to self-appointed vigilante action disguised as

something called "national coordinating center--whatever that means," Mr. Humphrey said.

As Governor of Alabama, Wallace presided over a state with the highest murder

rate in the u.s.; which ranked fourth in aggravated assault; and he used the courts

as his personal fief, Mr. Humphrey said.

In Alabama, Mr. Humphrey said, housewives pay the highest sales tax in the

country--six cents on the dollar; wages are third lowest in the nation; and less

is sper~ per pupil except in two other states.

''We must be one nation, not two," Mrr. HumphrP.y said. "Once we start down the

road to apartheid, we· shall find there is no turning back."

The text of the speech is attached. PAGE TWO

Instead, you have found a soci::!ty that has exd•Jded 29 million of its members

from its affluence, that has gone to war, that has murdered your heroes, John F.

Kennedy and Robert F. Kenaedy and Martin Luther King and some of you have found an

educational system that was overburdened, undermanned, and out of date.

The result--and it is not exclusively an American phenomenon--has been student protest--sometimes peaceable and sometimes violent--sometimes reasonable and sometime~

senseless--and almost always inexplicable to your elders.

To sum up the problem, the frustrations of the poor, of the young, and of those who oppose the war have created a year of rage and that year of rage is putting ou~ political system to its most severe test in modern times.

Second, the issue.

There are forces in this land striving to divide and embitter our people. They a~e demag0gues who preach hate and fear and division. They are radical extremists of tl,c left and the right.

And let the issue be absolutely clearx their objective is nothing less than the destru~t~on of our political system--the institutions of ;democratic government--and the political processes '"hich America has developed to govern this nation.

On the extreme left are those who chant and disrupt meetings and threaten to disrupt tte election. They would deny to others the free speech they demand. They have seized upon the. legitimate grievances of students and capitalized the unease over the war to mount an attack upon the entire American system. Theirs is the simple-- and totally unacceptable--solution of violent protest.

Freedom of speech, of assembly, of dissent are among the most sacred liberties we p_ossess--and I will defend them in this year of rage as I have defended them all my life.

~ But disorder is not dissent. Indeed, disorder, especially organized disorder, is the enemy of dissent.

And destruction is not debate. Indeed, the violence of destruction can only silence the vitality of debate.

I reject the extremism of the left and I call upon the American people to reject them.

On the extreme right are those who preach disrespect for our courts and for some of our laws and who. appeal to the darkest fears and deepest suspicions of our people. They seek the simple solution of violent repression.

But bumper stickers will net stop crime, and the way to support your police is to give them higher s~laries, better t~ain~nc, and better equipment. PAGE THREE

Neither l-Jill crime be stopped by a "four-point program" which includes thinly

veiled invitation to self-appointed vigilante action, disguised as something called

a "national coordinating center·-~vhatever that means.

To be honest, crime will never be ended--it never has been--but it can be con­

trolled by the sure, swift, and fair administration of justice.

That's the way I fought criree and lawlessness when I was mayor of Minneapolis.

And I propose to folaow the same course as President of the United States.

It will not be ~topped or curtailed by a political plunger who is gambling

everything on a campaign of organized hate~ ( And this brings me to the man: George Wallace.

It is said that George Wallace is "gaining in respectability" in the North.

But he is not ga~ning in respectability among those down here who know him best.

He stand~, and he has always stood, as the apoetle of hate and racism.

Today some of his political managers and even some of his Presidential electors

are drawn from the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens' Councils, the

John Birch Society, the rmed Min~temen, or groups dedicated to the promotion of anti-Semitism.

Electors pledged to Wallace in a number of states, both North and South, are

drawn frequently from the leadership of white citizens councils and the Birch

Society. His Georgia state chairman and pl~dged elector was formerly national

president of the White Citiznes Councils. And more than half a doze·n other Hallace

electors have held executive committee or other important positions "b the Whf.te

Citizens Councils.

· Recently we have heard that the Wallace candidacy may create a political

stalemate. If it does, it is to these electors that all the people of the United

States must look to express their political choice. And that is one reason

why I say the political system is in danger today.

But }k. Wallace says he is for law and order •

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Those who yearn for 1aw and order ") would do well to remember that

Ge~rge Wallace was Governor of Alabama--the state with the hightst murder rate in the United States.

They would do well to note that Alabama ranks fourth among all the states in aggravated assault.

Wallace could not maintain order in his own state--where he had the

power--but now he promises to maintain order in every city and state-- where he will not have the power.

When he was Governor of Alabama, he gave the American people other lessons in law and order.

He decided which courts suited him--and disobeyed the rest.

He decided which judges he liked--and he vilified the rest.

He decided \11hich laws he preferred--and he defied the rest.

Now he proposes teaching the Wallace method to the whole country.

Today Hallace says he is the friend of the working man. Let's look at his record as Governor of Alabama:

--Alabama housewives pay the highest sales tax in the country--six cents on the dollar;

--wages for the workingman in Alabama were the third lo~11est in the nation.

--in education, only t\110 states spend less per pupil than Alabama;

--and it has one of the lowest workmen's compensation systems of any state in the union.

And these are the accomplishments--This is the record--Mr. Wallace wants to bring to Washington. I!

But worst of all--worse than the collapse of law and order in Alabama:

worse than his anti'liberal economic policies--worst of all is his conduct in this campaign.

He has deliberately embarked on a campaign to embitter and divide

the American people. He has sought to inflame fear, frustration, and prejudice. He has sought to bring this nation to the brink of broad scale civil disorder.

America today has many problems--grave problems of do~estic policy and foreign policy-but they won't be solved by a candidate who can think of nothing better to do than to threaten to run down people with a car. In the American system anybody--even George Corley Hallace--has the

·right to run for President. But let's be absolutely clear about how he's

g.,ing about it.

He says he will announce a platform any day now. He may even get

around to picking a fellow-extremist for his vice president--a man t.rho would

stand in line to succeed him. And the election in only five weeks away.

Ordinarily his incredible campaign would be a laughing matter--but ndt

in this year :of .. q1ge;; r I He has attacked the courts: in the name oflaw and order.

He has applauded those \>Jho would undermine the independent judiciary_

--the ultimate guardian of the liberties of all of us.

He has joined the ugly campaign against Mr. Justice Fortas-- a

campaign unmatches since the first Jew, Mr. Justice Brandeis, was appointed

to the high court in 1916.

He has sought to stir the darkest fears and prejudices harbored

by the few and the frustration and anger felt by the many.

He pretends to be the friend of the workingman but he is the creature

of the most reactionary underground forces in American life.

He does not speak for millions of decent S0utherners and Northerners

who reject bigotry and hate, who despise the extfemists of both right and

left, and who believe in progress and education and justice and a better

life for all.

I say to you solemnly--In the 1930's the reactionary forces of Germany

thought they had found a man to speak for them, and a few years later, helped

by and economic depression, that man had destroyed not only his creators

but German democracy, the European bafance of power, the world political

system: and the result was the carnage of ~vorld War II.

You say these things could never happen in America. I devoutly pray

that you are right. But I know from deep personal experience we are closer

to this possibility than I would have ever believed possible.

I knot-1 that my Republican opponent---.;.1hile opposing the Wallace

candidacy--has within his ranks many persons who make precisely the same

appeal--who have led the reactionary, extremist forces in America for the

attacks at this very moment . past two decades and who continue these . ,

And I know that in his sreeches my Republican opponent appeals to

the same fears ••. the same pass..:..:>n::, •• t~e s:or-e frustrations t.rhich can unleash B'AGE SIX

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in this country a torrent of unreasoning hate and repression.

And, finally, I know that if my Republican opponent is elected and a

Republican economic recession results, the dark anger stirred by the third-

·party candidate may become an overwhelming force in American life.

Today--above all else--good men have the moral obligation to speak

out--forthrightly and clearly--about these dangers to our Democratic

institutions.

If in this campaign I make no other contribution to America's national

life than to expose this threat--personified in George Wallace and expressed

in his odious appeal to rage--! will rest content on November 6.

He will not be elected. But what he stands for must ·be repudiated.

Overwhelmingly.

In this campaign Senator Muskie and I offer only a reasoned and

forthright accounting of where we--the American people--find ourselves

today--and where we must move in the months and years ahead.

America has been greatly blessed--and of us much will be required.

We carry the heavy--yet the sacred--burden of proving to a doubting world--

a frightened world--that free men do possess the wit, the wisdom and the

courage to govern themselves.

ThU;:d--for just one moment--the terrible blow to liberty that would

be sustained around this globe if Democracy failed in the United States-- (_ the source and inspiration for millions of our fellow human beings. -- This is perhaps the hour of our greatest testing as a free people.

We must be one nation, not t\-10,

Once we staz:t down the road to apartheid, '"e shall find there is no I!! turning back.

The elite spartans of ancient Greece put down a minority, the

helots--only to discover that they had fastened upon themselves a repressive

and vicious police state.

Throughout history this pattern has been repeated again and again.

We must not permit this to become our fate.

We will find the solution not in repression but in justice.

Violence cannot be tolerated. But neither can injustice.

I offer you no easy solutions. In this year of rage--in this deadly

danger abroad and at home--there are none.

I offer you no hiding place. There is non2. PAGE SEVEN

But I offer you this--my ·credo--the words of Nathan Hale:

"I am only one but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.

And what I can do, that I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the

grace of God, I shall do."

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(_ - -- )/- 1 • . l - rh ADDRESS BY VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT H. HUMPHREY University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee Tuesday, Oct9ber 1, 1968

VICE PRESIDENT HUNPHREY: Thank you, Governor Ellington. Thank you very much, ~Governor of this great State of Tennessee; Senator Albert Gore -- I tell you, Albert, you sure do have friends here. And rightly so. There is no finer member of the u. s. Senate than the man that you have in Senator Albert Gore.

Gary Crawford, you may be an inexperienced master of ceremonies, but you sure did bring an audience. I want to co.ngratulate you. You must be very popular.

I had thought sometimes in the past that if things didn't work out well in this very precarious political year -- elective office is always a little uncertain, and it seems a littl~ more uncertain than I would like it at the present moment ·-- I have thought on other occasions that I might want to apply as presi­ dent of a college. Then I sa\'T what happened some places and I have thought that politics looked a little safer. But when I heard the ovation that Dr. Holt received here tonight, I say that is a great honor for any man. (Applause)

I sure wish I could claim you as a relative, Dr. Holt. Any kind of political association that I can get with you tonight, I will gladly accept, no matter how mirior it may be.

I thought you might like to know how I got here. It is a combi­ nation of clearance through Dr. Weaver and Chris ~'lhi ttle. (Applause)

Ye~, indeed. I told them I wanted to drop by for a visit and then I shm.;ed them the manuscript when I , got in and they can't stop me. I am going to talk, no matter what. (Applause)

To these very wonderful singers, on behalf of your country to­ night, may I thank you. You have truly been the best voice of Ariterica as you have traveled throughout the wheel free world bringing your wonderful songs so that people could know not only of Tennessee, but could kno\'T of America. And I \'Tant you to knmv that I like Dixie, too. You can sing it any time you \'Tant to sing it. (Applause)

After all, I am a Southerner. I \-las born in South Dakota. I live in Southwest Washington. And I attended the University of Minnesota and lived on the southeast side. How more southern can you get?

And besides that, I graduated from Louisiana State University and I want to tell you those Tennessee volunteers beat us in the last game. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.

To Coach Doug Dickey and his team over here on my right and your left, I want to say congratulations on your most recent victory. I don't believe that you have a game this year with Minnesota. I trust not. He are not doing too well. .. 2 I had to say . the la~t weekend that I was the O. J. Simpson of the political circuit. Of course, you haven't touched that fellow yet from the University of Southern California. But he is something. But I know what you did this last weekend .and I have to be very, very general in my remarks because I · may get to Memphis. .· So I have to be careful.

But Coach Dickey, we . are proud . of you. vle are proud of the Volunteers, and I am very proud that today the lovely Miss Uni­ versity of Tennessee presented me with one of those big orange jackets and I wore it out ·here at the airport. I was goi~g to do it tonight bu~ Dr. Weaver said I couldn't both speak and wear the jacket; I had to make a choice • . (Applause)

He is a good man, I tell you. It is sort of like being a vice president. You catch all of the trouble, have none of the author­ ity. (Applause) .

Well, by the way, you are really getting fancy down these . parts. _I understand you have a rug that covers the football field now. I want to thank you for buying it from the r1innesota I·1ining Company. We need the business.

Well, I come here tonight on serious business and I am truly honored, truly honored by the quality and the quantity of this great audience. There is no better place to say it like it is, speak your heart, to lay it on the line, to speak up, than on ·a university campus. A great university should be the citadel of freedom. A great university should be the place where we can think aloud, talk aloud, where we can be civilized human beings, where we can have debate and discussion and dialogue and dissent and ~There we can also make decisions. (Applause) - ~ •• ~~ -: -~ .- -~-

Anyway, I am short of confetti and balloons tonight. I can't indulge in it.

I come to a border state. I have come to a state that is part South, part North, but above all, it is all American. And I have come here to talk straight -- first about a problem, second about an issue, thirdly about a man. And I might even add an extra man in before I am th rough. And I want to talk to you from my heart and from my mind.

I don't ask that you agree with me. It isn't important that you agree with me. What is important is that we start to think to­ gether -- not that I should tell you \vhat to think but rather that you think and that you come to your own decisions.(Applause)

Now, this problem, this issue and this man are of the deepest concern to me and every American in this election campaign. I have come to this, one of the greatest universities of this l,and, as so well described by Governor Ellington, to appeal not to

--- -- ·-·------··--· ) . ' __ - · ·' passion but to your reason, to appeal not to fear but 'to your ho'pes. The {)roblem is .the frustration, the anger, and the . fear that so many of ou·r people feel today. And I think that synthesizes it pretty well: the frustration, the anger, and ·the fear. ~he issue is the preservation of our democratic processes, . the preseivation of our democratic syste~ of government, and the man is the former governor of the- State of Alaba~a, Geoige Wallace. (Boos and yeas)

~nd I expected just that, because what I have to say, what I have to say may not be popular and I have been told 101 times that this is not the place to say it. But I think it is and I will tell you why, because I think you want to hear it. (Applause)

Might I say that I think that every one of us is entitled to our _time to speak, and as I will say again and again from every platform across this country, that American politics has entered a new dimension, · that the old politics of razzle­ dazzle circus gimmicks is over, that what the American people deserve today is the politics of participation, the pol1tics, if you please, where the different candidates are invited to stand on the same platform on the same night before the same audience and talk about this to you. (Applause)

I have been trying to smoke one out for some time. I have been offering every opportunity. I am willing to debate in the Fifth Avenue apartment or the N~1 or the University of Ten­ nessee or my home in Waverly or on some street corner. But I haven't been able to get ~rr. Nixon out yet. He says no, he is not going to go into any of that kid stuff, as he calls it.

Kid stuff~ . I want to tell you something, dear friends, he is hiding out under _the bushes. But some · of you may be out either grouse hunting or partridge hunting. I am an old pheasant hunter and let me tell you, I have kicked many a pheasant out from under a bush and I can hit even a moving target if I can ever get him ·out. (Applause)

So recognizing the pitfall that I face tonight, recognizing that wha~ I have to say may not be plea~ant to some, but recognizing that lots· of things are not pleasant to any of us, I speak because there is more at stake here tnoght than the presidency in this election. What is at stake is the · greatest political system on the earth and the · social fabric ·of the nation that we love. And ~- will say the same things in. the South that I say in the North, because I have been priviieged to be educated i~ the Ncirth and the South, to ha~e lived at the head waters of -the Mississippi ~nd at the Delta~ to have graduated from the University of Minnesota and the University of Louisiana.· And · I make the same kind of presen­ tation to both areas of Anerica because they are American and you can't _have t\-10 messages for America. (Applause)

Now, first, the problem. Seven years ago, a respected educator, James Bryant Conant, warned us that the social dynamite in our cities was the hundreds of thousands of young Negroes who \>~ ere both out of school and out of \vork. That 4 warning came to us in the 1950s, even though nothing was done about it then. Today, that generation has come ·of age and the dynamite that Dr. Conant talked about has begun to explode; the anger and the frustration of billions has erupted in violence in city after city, and the reactiori to the explosion has been fear -- fear of white suburbanites who see their homes threatened; fear of the white working men who see their jobs threatened; fear of millions, black and white, \·lho instinctively fear violence, very understand­ ably. And to this has been added another frustration, the frustration of a tragic lingering, costly, far-off war.

Last night I expressed my own views on that war and need not repeat them here, except to say . -- and need not repeat them here excep~ to say, as I said to the nation last night, that if I am elected President and the war by that time has not ended, the first priority of the Humphrey-Nuskie administration will be to bring that war to an honorable conclusion. (Applause)

I want to see the men and the resources that are presently in that struggle brought back to America so that we can meet our problems here at home. (Applause)

But I think we all agree, whether we bear a sign or whether we do it quietly, that there is no doubt that this war has caused great frustration and concern, particularly among young Americans, and indeed, many Americans. And there are many young Americans that themselves feel left out. They feel that somehow or another, things are not geared to their lives. They feel at odds with their elders and they feel victimized by a 't•lOrld that they never made.

Yours is the generation that 't•las born at the end of the great depression, ·at ~·7 orld Har II. You \olere supposed to be the ch}.ldren . of hope 1 hope that . at ··least": Amer~~ans - could : grow up in the pursuit of happiness -- free of hunger, free of fear; ·· and free of 'tvar. Instead, you have found a society that has excluded for whatever reason over 20 million of its members and many of its real benefits of the prosperity of this nation, that has gone to war twice since World War II, _ that has murdered John F. Kennedy, and Nartin Luther King • . And so you have found an educational system that has been over­ burdened, undermanned, and all too often even out of date. (Applause)

The result, and it is not exclusively an American phenomenon, has been student protest -- sometimes peaceable, as it should be; sometimes violent as it ought not to be; sometimes reason­ able, sometimes senseless, and almost always .. inexplicable to your elders.

There is groping today all over the world for people to have · an individual identity. The bigness of power, of government, the bigness of the whole world, the bigness of busines$ and labor, the bigness of the universe, the computer itself has tended to depersonalize life. And much of what \ole see today in terms of restlessness and ferment is but an outreach, it is but a crying outpour, for some identity, as some student once had an IBM card on him that said "Don't fold or mutilate; I'm ·a person." And I feel this is . par~ of our trouble.

So to sum it up, the frustrations of the poor, of the young, of those who oppose the war have created a year of anxiety, and a year of anxiety is putting our political system to the most severe test in modern times.

Now, that is the way I see it. Yet let me put it also another way, that "YTe · have made more changes in the past decade and many of them for. the good than in the preceding 100 years.· .The' amazing ne-.;vs of our time is that our political structure and our social structure has been able to survive it.

Now, . what i~ the second issue? There are forces in this land striving to divide our people and embitter our people. They ~re demagogues who preach hate, who preach fear, who preach separatism, who preach division. They are radical extremists of the right or of the left, with shirts or without shirts, \'lhi te, black, or red. And let the issue be absolutely clear, their objective is nothing less than the ultimate destruction of our political system, the institutions of democratic gov­ ernment, and the political processes which America has developed through its own experiences to govern this nation.

tlmv, on the extreme left are those "YTho chant, sometimes dis­ rupt meetings, threaten to disrupt an election, threaten to disrupt an inaugural. They would deny to others the free speech that they demand for themselves. They have seized · -­ (Applause)

This very, very small group, and it is small, have seized upon the legitimate grievances of students and they have capi­ talized on the unease over the war to mount an attack on the entire American system. Theirs is the simple and totally un­ acceptable solution of our problems by violent protest. Freedom of sreech, freedom of assembly, _ or dissent -- these are among the most sacred liberties that '\ve possess. · And I want it clear from this platform that I have throughout my life and I will throughout the remainin~ days of ·my life defend those precious freedoms, the right to be different, .the right to dissent, the right to speak, the right to assemble, the right to freedom of conscience without the interference of government or without. the interference of any militant mobilized, organized self-righteous minority. (Applause)

But let me make it clear, disorder is not dissent. Indeed, disorder, especially highly organized disorder, is the enemy of dissent. So fre~ men, free people, people of democratic faith and persuasion, people who believe in individual liberty, should have as their standard in a democracy dissent, yes; disorder, no. And it ought to be just that si5ple. (Applause)

I reject, therefore, as you gather, the extremism of the left or "YTherever they call the~si:Hves, and I call upon the American people to reject with equal fervor the extremism of the right and call upon the people to reject that, too.

And now a word about that kind of extremism. (Applause) 6 .

The right, the extieme right, are· those who preach disrespect for our courts and some of our laws and who appeal to the darkest fears and passions and the deepest suspicions of our people. I saw a sign when I came into this city that said "Impeach Earl Warren." You don't need to. He is going to ·retire.

Ladies and gentlemen, these people seek simple solutions. Sometimes the simple solutions result in violent repression --bumper stick ers that. say "Back your police." But bumper stickers will not stop crime and lawlessness. If you really want to . suppor.t . your. police,. and I ,_ tnink. they desefVe it, the way to do it is to pay them higher salaries, rec~uit better people, give them better equipment. (Applause)

Let's face it, the average police officer of this country gets two-thirds of a living wage. Yet you ask him to protect ·your home -~ - ·:. You ask. hirir. to . take • care ::of uhe .safety -~ of your comnlunity; you understaff his force. You give him i~adequate training. You give him inadequate equipment. You \vouldn' t think of putting an army in the field like that unless you we~e contemplating being called before a committee of the Congress and having Senator Albert Gore interrogate you. Let me tell you, that is some experi ence.

But crime will not be stopped by a simple four-point program that has been enunciated, which includes thinly veiled invi­ tation to self-appointed vigilante action, disguised as some­ thing called a national coordinating center, whatever that means. To be honest, and we ought to be honest with each other , about these things, all crime may never be ended. It never has . been. But we need to wage war on it. It can be controlled and it can be controlled a lot better by sure, swift, and fair administration of justice • . I had the privilege of fighting crime as the mayor of a great city, the City of !vlinneapolis, for two terms as mayor. And may I say I fought it and fought it successfully with young _people like are in this room. Young men and women in my government, they were 21, 22, 23 years of age. Yes, they called it Humphrey's Diaper Brigade, but .we sure did clean up a _lot of things around that town, I tell you.

And I propose when · I am .the President of these United States to follow the very same program I follm·1ed there, by speaking up for law observance, by backing my police officers, by giv­ ing them the better pay and better conditions that they de­ serve, but above all, but above all, not wanting my city to be known for its police department, but I 'i7anted my city to be known for its university,for its schools, for its hospitals, for its jobs, for its homes. (Applause)

So let me say that crime will not be stopped or even curtailed by a political plunger who _is gambling everything on a cam­ paign of organized fear and hate. And this brings me very candidly to the candidacy of Hr. Wallace.

It is said that George Wallace is gaining in strength and respectab ility in the North. But he is not gaining in 7

respectability among those down here who · know him best. And I think that is true. (Applause)

He stands, as he has always stood, as the apostle o~ the poli­ tics of fear, and I regret to say, the politics of racism. · Today, some of his political managers and even some of his presidential electors are drawn from the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens Councils, the John Birch Society, · the Armed Ninute Men, and groups dedidated to the promostion · of anti-Semitism -- electors pledged to ~val lace in a number of states both North and South are frequently drawn from these very groups.

Recently we have heard that the Wallace candidate may create a political stalemate -- throw the election into the House of Representatives. Well, if it does, it will .be these electors that all of the people of the United States will need to look to to ex~ress their political choice~ What a sad ~ay, and that is one reason why I say that the political system _may well be in:·. dariger - today::. . -.: ~- · i:. ~(. : 7 ...._· ~ .. ·~ ~ :)~~i J.:i(::_~ :_ :,~_ .~. t< _·

No~, Mr. Wallace says he is for law and order, and I intend to come to grips \vith each of these candidates. They are not going to get by with generalities with ·this man. They are not going to get by with platitudes or even with bitter attack. Those who yearn for law and ordei -- and I do -- if you mean law and. order for everybody, law protection for everybody, . black and \vhite, rich and poor -- well, they would do well to remember that George ~val lace was governor of Alabama, the state t.vi th the highest murder rate in the United States, and they would do well to note that Alabama ranges fourth among all the states in aggravated assault.

Now, Mr. Hallace couJd not maintain order in his own state, but as governor he possesses police power where he has the power. · Now he promises to maintain order in· every city and state where he will have no power. I wonder what he has in mind. (Applause)

. Let's put it on the line, my fellow students, and I am learn­ ing, too. And believe me, I am learning a harder way than you are learning. · This is a rough~ tough battle. Let's lay it on the line; . The police power in the United States is not in the Federal Government. And thank God. ~le don't want it there.

The Cons~itution and the Tenth Amendment preserves the police power to the state and I am unalterably opposed to a national police system. And I thought that Hr. Nallace and l•1r. Nixon were for states' rights. (Applause) That is what I thought.

Then I think I should make it clear what office I am running for. I am running for President, not sheriff. (Applause)

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Now, another \-lord about Hr. Nallace. He · gave the American people other lessons in law and order. Quite a nice lesson, too. He decided which courts suited him and disobeyed the rest. You try it sometime and see "Ylhat happens to you. ·

· He decided \·lhich judges he liked and vilified the rest. You try it.

He. decided which .laws he preferred and he defined ~he rest. ·Now he proposes teaching the Wallace me~hod to the whole country and he thinks you v1ill have law a·nd order. It is ridiculous. It is utterly ridiculous. (Applause)

Now, let's see another dimension of this political problem. Today Hr. Wallace says he is a friend of the working man, and mind you, there are some \'lOrking men who believe it. So if there are any of them in· this hall tonight, I want to talk to you, because I spent a lifetime being your friend and sbme­ times, may I say, not gaining too many friends by doing it. I am no johnny-come-lately, you know, for the issue of civil rights, working with organi2ed labor -- (Applause) I : baVe r bee~thro~~h the refiner's:· firev · I have had the lash of the reactionaries on my back. There is plenty of scar tissue there. And I intend to talk and say what's on my mind.

Alabama house-v1ives under this friend of the working man paid the highest sales tax in the nation, six cents to the dollar, no matter hmv poor you are, the most repressive tax there is. The wages for a working man in Alabama were the third lowest in the nation. ~vhat a friend of the working man he turned .out to be. (Applause)

And in education, only two-- states in this Union spent less than Alabama, and it has one _of the lowest working men's compensation systems of any state in the Union.

Ladies and gentlemen, Alabama deserves better. I can under­ stand \vhy they don't \'lant him in Montgomery, but I don't want him in vlashington, either. (Applause)

Now,· we keep getting Mr. Nixon to talk like this, but he is going to play it cool. He thinks that some of those Wallace votes are going to come over to him. I know they are not going to come to me and I am going to talk about it as the truth is.

Mr. Nixon, since you and Mr. Wallace are competing basically for the same votes, why don't you have a little argument for a change instead of all these pleasantries? ~·lhy don't you get right down to cases and argue the case before the American people? Or do I have to do it for both of you? I guess so. (Applause)

But, now let's have a "Ylord about the campaign itself. Not enough to bring the program of law and order to ~vashington, either by direction or indirection. It is bad enough to have that antiliberal economic policy. I suppose that one didn'~ bother the Republican candidate too much. It is rather close 9

to the same philosophy. But ·let's talk about the conduct of the campaign.

- Mr. Wallace has deliberately embarked on the campaign to divide the Anerican people and to embitter some~ He has sought to inflame fear, frustration, and he plays on preju­ dice. And he has sought to bring this nation inadvertently · or by direction to the bringing of broad scale social and civil disorder. America has too many problems, grave prob- ·lems of domestic and foreign policy. But they won't be solved by a candidate who can think of nothing better to do than if somebody should lie down in front of his car to run over them. (Applause) •, I xnmv that it makes a good news story. I know the feelings that a person has when he is set upon. No man in this country today has had to face more protesters, has had to face more indignities, has had to go through more humilitation than I have had these last four years, including my wife. We have ~o::.~. gone through every trial. Ihave had them lie down in front of my car. I have had people spit on us. I have had them use obscenity that is beyond human description, in the presence of my wife. But I have never recommended running ... over anybody, just to neal' it and get over it. (Applause)

You cannot have a President that indulges, you cannot have a President that make~ decisions in anger. And you cannot have a President that uses all of the words of passion and all of the words of e motion to arouse a people to make deci­ sions that could be catastrophically dangerous. This is serious business we are involved in. The nuclear age, where one erratic act can obliterate mankind, where one erratic act can stir up a mad disorder in this country, that can take the lives of hundreds. We need somebody to help, not some­ body to cut~ somebody to reconcile,not ~omebody to agitate; somebody to bind up the wounds, not somebody to use the mace. We . need_ somebody in this. count+Y- to inspire_·America, :· not· to make it angry. (Applause)

And what about_ the campaign? Well, he says he will announce a platform anyway. That is ve~y nice. He may even get around to picking a fellow extremist for his vice president any day. The man Hho stands in line second to succeed him, -- and may I say, whatever you may think of the three prin­ ciples in this campaign, myself, the Republican nominee, and the third party candidate, I will tell you one think you can be sure of, that the man that is the vice presidential nominee on the Democratic ticket, who is but a heartbeat away from the man who would be President in the Democratic Party, should we w1n, :.- . that man is totally worthy of your confidence and trust. He is a great American. (Applause)

I won't say anything about the others. I will just let you judge on ours.

Ordinarily, this incredible campaign would be a laughing matter, but it can't be in this year of rage and frustration. The third party candidate ha attacked the courts in the name of law and order. He has supported those who would undermine 10

the independent judi~iary, the ultimate guardians of our liberties. He has joined the ugly campaign against Jus­ tice Fortas, a campaign unmatched since the first Jew, Hr. Justice Brandeis, was first appointed to the high Court. in 1916. He sought to stir up the dark prejudices (in people's minds) •

He pretends to be the friend of the working man, but he is .. . the creature of the most reactionary underground forces in American life. And he does not speak for the millions and millions of decent Southerners and Northerners who reject bigotry and hate. (Applause)

And he does not speak for those who believe in progress -and edu cation and justice and a better life for all. And he does not speak for those \-lho resist, and rightly so, the rabid, violent extremisms -- left, right, up or down.

So I say to you solemnly tonight, these are troubled. days. In the 1930s the reactionary forces of Germany thought they had found a man to speak for them. And a few years later, helped by an economic depression, that man destroyed not only his creators but the German Democracy, the European balance of pmver, the world political system. And we were bathed in the blood of ~·lorld ~lar II.

You say these things can never happen in America? It can't happen here? I devoutly hope and pray thatyou are right. But I have never seen a time in America when we were at a more critical juncture in oui history since the War between the States. And I know from my personal experience, and we are closer to these possibilities of tragedy than I would ever have believed possible.

That is why I come here tonight. That is why I speak so firmly. I don't like to -talk like this, but it must be done.

I know that my Republican opponent, . why he does oppose the Wallace candidacy and he surely is no racist -- (Applause)

That was a very encouraging minority. I thank you very, very much.

He has within his ranks experience that makes precisely the same appeal. - You will notice that peopl~ that don't like me have quit. Hell, sometimes a fellow is known better by the enemies he makes than the friends he has.

I repeat that my Republican opponent, while opposing the Wallace candidacy and surely no racist, has within his ranks people who make precisely the same appeal, who~ve led the reactionary extremist forces in America for the past bvo decades and who continue the~e attacks at this very moment. And I know that in his speeches, my Republican opponent appeals to the same fears, the same passions, the same frustrations which, regret­ fully, could unleash in this country a torrent of unreasoning hate and opposition.

And I knmv that if my Republican opponent is elected and the -· ' Republican economic recession results, which it generally does, the dark anger stirred by the third party candidate may become the overwhelming force in American life. I saw today as I landed at the airport, when I had on that big orange country jacket -- gentlemen, that was a nice jacket too, let me say -- I saw as I got off my plane, the Republican Truth Squad plane came in. And I want to tell you, it was something to behold. A play on words, to be sure~ It is kind of a floating joke, you know, that is going around. So I \vent over to say hello to my dear friends. I · think if you will take just a moment -- you have been kind enough, it is war~ here and all that, but I want to talk about that. They are going to be'here and they are go1ng to have a press conference. They are good men. I like them.

As a matter of fact, I went over and had a fine visit with them. There is just one thing wrong with them, their poli~ tics, that is all. They got a little over to that side~

They say they will tell the truth. I hope they will tell this audience the truth. I hope they will tell that they refused to vote for federal aid for education for a uni­ versity like this.

I hope they will tell you the truth~ I hope they will tell you the trufh that they refused to vote for federal aid to elementary and secondary educationfor the children of this land. Every one of those bills was either killed on the basis of race, religion or states' rights. Finally we got a President who said, Hhat about the children? And we started to appropriate Federal funds, billions of dollars of it, so that today there is a better educational structure in America by far than there ever was before.

I hope they will tell you that every Federal aid to education program ever advanced in the Congress was killed by Republi­ can votes. I hope they \vill tell you that truth. (Applause)

And I hope for the old ones that aren't here tonight, and there aren't as many, but I would say .to you young folks v1hen you go home and see your giandparents that you will tell them it was the Republican Party that voted to ki.ll Hedicare and it v1as the Democratic Party that made it a lavl, and that Hr. Nixon said it won't work. And I hope they will tell you the truth, that Mr. Nixon said the Peace Corps was a haven for draft dodgers.

Yes, I want them to tell you the truth. And when they do, you '"ill krtmv the truth and you will vote right. (Applause)

And I hope that they will tell you the truth about this recent conversion of the new Nixon~ who spent 20 years of his life trying to kill the VA. (Applause)

And noH that it is a going proposition, · and novJ that the people of the Tennessee Valley support it almost to a man and a woman, he comes out boldly; for~hrightly, courageously, and says I think it· will \vork and I am for it. (Applause) · . , 12 .

Y~s, I hope they will tell you the truth. I hope he will tell you the truth that in 1954, when ~rench colonialism was in its dying days at Dien Bien Phu and the French colonial forces \vere being defeated, that it \vas Hr. Nixon who said let's send in the Armed Forces of the United States, and it was Dwight Eisenhower who said break it off, Mr. Vice President, nobody is going at this particular time. I hope he will tell you the truth.

And I hope they vlill tell you the truth about some other things. I hope they will tell you the truth what has been happening. I hope they will tell you the tiuth that the modern model cities program, the programs for urban affairs, the programs for higher ed~ation, for elementary education, for every one of these program~ has been passed by a Demo­ cratic Administration. I want the truth and I hope \ve vlill get it this election. (Applause)

I just tossed that one in for extras. I saw that plane come in today and it just sent something up through me and I said, here they come to tell the truth. Dear friends, re­ member what the scriptures say: "Seek ye the truth", and if you seek it, you will vote Demobratic. (Applause)

Now, let me in all seriousness of a seminar conclude my re­ marks to you tonight.

Today above all else, good men, Republicans and Democrats alike, independent, and none of us have a monopoly on virtue, · even though you ·would think so when He talk, I hope that good men will feel the moral obligation to s~eak out forthrightly and clearly abo~t these dangers that I talked to you about to our Democratic institutions . If in this campaign I make no other contribution to American national life than to ex­ pose . this . threat personified . in the candidacy. .. of _the third party candidate and expressed in his appeal, and it is an odious appeal, I will rest content on November 6, win or lose. One is never sure ,.,rhat the outcome will be. But I say the year 1968 calls for frank talk. It calls for the candor, the best that a man can give.

I tried to give that to you last night. · Some people liked ~t,.some :_ didn . ' . t. · Som¢ iir--high_places. didiJ't like it., some did. But I made up my . mind a long time ago, not knm·!ing hoH this election would come out, that I wanted to be able to say on the night of that election that I have done ny · b est, that I have given of myself, that I have spoken the truth as I see it.

I don't think that the third party candidate is going to be elected. I dent even think that the second party candidate is going to be elected. (Applause)

But what _he. stands for must be repudiated and repudiated overwhelmingly , and young Americans, you who are not filled · with bitterness and hate, you who are not the children of a society that is ; hoH in its dying days of segregation -and discrimination, you stand up. There are many things to pro­ test a b out.. You- don·.•; .need to _:._ -just~- protest about Vietnam. J3

Protest about the injustice that denies a boy or a girl, black or white, because he is poor, a chance for a decent life. Protest about the filth of our slums. Protest about the injustice that is perpetrated upon millions of our people simply because of the color of their skin. Volunteer, my friends, your serv ices.

The politics of tomorrow is not the politics of the party, it is the politics of service, of giving of yourself, of s~aring of yourself, of helping the other guy. Help him stand a little stronger and you \vill stand a little taller. (Applause)

America has been greatly plessed, so blessed that it is almost beyond human comprehension. And those of us that are so richly blessed, much will be required. We carry the heavy yet the sacr_ed burden of proving to a doubting vrorld, a frightened world, a dangerous world, that free men a~d free institutions do possess the means and the vrisdom and. the courage to govern themselves. This is .our challenge. _ This is what Lincoln meant when he said we are the last best hope of earth. This is what Wilson said when he looked at the flag, "I want it not to be the flag only of the United States but the flag of hope, the flag of humanity."

People look to us. They want to know if we can m~ke it work. · We are the only real pluralistic society. We .. are the children of the immigrant, \ve . are the people of every race, creed, and color. And the question now is what are we going to do with it? ·

Think for just a moment the terrible blow to liberty that would be sustained around the entire planet if our democracy should fail. The source and the inspiration for millions of our fellow human beings. I think that this is perhaps the hour of our greatest testing as a free people.

There is going to be a great referendum in this country on human decency in this elect:lon. ~'l e cannot be two nations separate and unequal. We cannot divide black and white, rich and poor, North and South. If --v1e do, my dear friends, we will have failed not only ourselves, we will have failed the promise that is An1erica and the hope of the world.

I say to a great group -of students tonight, if you have never done anything in your life before, if you want to make a commitment, make a comm itment to help this be one nation, with one citizenship, with equal rights and equal opportunity for every living sould in this country. (Applause)

Thank you, my good friends. Thank you, thank you, thank you~ (Applause) J~~~ _,.,.,:JIJ< _: "'~~u U'Jt:- t4~·"SU I have come to the South to talk straight i~t ;,ns ra~,~~ a ~em, ~ -issue, ~--fl\111. ?f;I..McJ~ This problem, this issue, and this man are of the deepest concern to me and to every American in this election campaign.

have come to this great university to appeal not to passion but to reason. I appeal to America's hopes, not her \ f~rs. dJ...Ll-'Jl~ ~-~J /.. The problem is the frustration and anger and fear --- - that so many of our people feel. - 2 -

~ e issue is the preservation of our Democratic system of government.

Lrhe man is George Corley Wallace.

t-._what I have to say may not be popular and this may not be the place to say it.

L., But there is more at stake here than the Presidency. • •=<;;.! L What is at stake is the greatest political system on earth and the social fabric of the nation we love.

L!nd I will say the same things in the South that

I will say in the North.

J-I or the price of silence now may t~rrow be the end of our system of government and the end of our living together as a people. - 3-

L~ t . the problem. Seven years ago, a respected educator, James

Bryant Conant, warned us that the "social dynamite" in our cities was the hundreds of thousands of young Negroes in our

Today that generation has come of age-- and the

"dynamite" has begun to explode. -=- ---~ :w:ar-...... ' ( The- anger and frustration of millions has erupted in violence in city after city. C:- - - L The reaction to the explosion has been fear --fear of white suburbanites who see their homes threatened,..... fear of white workingmen who see their jobs threatened, fear of millions-- black and white-- who instinctively fear violence. - 4 -

Lro this has been added another frustration -­ frustration over a tragic far-off war.

~ Last night I expressed my own views on that war

and need not repeat them here except to say that if I am elected

President and the war has not ended, the first priority of the

Humphrey-Muskie Administration will be to bring that war to

an honorable conclusion . ..-y::a-_...... ~·~..__ L_sut there can be no doubt that the war has caused

frustration among many Americans.

-L Fi.g_aJJ_Y. many young Americans feel left out, at odds r'J with their elders, and victimized by a world they never ade. - 5-

J... Yours is the generation that was born at the end

of the great depression and World War II"Qou were the

children of hope-- hope that at last Americans could grow up ~ --. in pursuit of happiness .• Free of hunger, fear, a~d war. I ...... f ( Instead, you have found a society that has

excluded-- for whatever reason -- 29 million of its members

from its affluence~ that has gone to wa;; that has murdered

John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther Kin / an ~some of you have found an educational system that was f overburdened, undermanned, and out of date. 0 / The result -- and it is not exclusively an American

phenomenon -- has been student protest --sometimes peaceable

and sometimes violen ~ ometimes reasonable and sometimes

senseless --and almost always inexplicable to your elders. •;:: - 6 -

/.J.o sum up the problem) the frustrations of the poor, of the young, and of those who oppose the war have created a year of anxiety and that year of anxiety is putting our political system to its most severe test in modern times. ~~ --K.....t~ l.. Second, the i~e._ ~~ / There are forces in this land striving to divide " - ~ and e~r our poopl ~ hey are demagogues who preach hate and fear and divisionL They are radical extremists of the Left ~ and the Right

L And let the issue be absolutely clear: Their objective is nothing less than the destruction of our olitical s stem --the institutions of democratic government-- and the political rocesses which America has developed to govern this nation. - 7 -

L On the extreme Left are those who chant and disrupt meetings and th.reaten to disrupt the el ection• They would deny to others the free speec ~ they demand " They have seized--- upon=-- the legitimate. grievances of students and capitalized...__ ..,on the unease over the war to mount an attack upon the entire American system. a ,.... • /. Theirs is the simple, and totally unacceptable, solution---"------"' io=-:'esl \ L.t"reedom of speech, or assembly, or dissent are among the most sacred liberties we possess --and I will defend them in this year of anxiety as I have defended them all my- life. ~ ut disorder is not dissentL! ndeed, disorder, especially organized disorder, is the enemy of dissent )1.ol ' ' - 8-

/_And destruction is not debate. Indeed, the violence of destruction can only silence the vitality ~, $ L! reject the extremism of the Left and I call upon the American people to reject it

reject the extremism of the Righ ~ ~ ),_on t ~~~=~:trt~ ~.d- 1 disrespect for our courts and for some of our laws and who

way to support your police is to give them higher salaries,- better training, and better equipment ~ - 9 -

L llhit"~rim ~~y a "four-poi program" which includes thinly veiled invitation- to self-appointed vigilante action, disguised as something called ------~J a "national coordinating center"-- whatever that means.

~ To be honest~rime never be ended -- it never has been -- but it can be contro.Ued by-the sure, swift, and fair adm i ni strati ... on of justice.. -- l rhat's the way I fought crime and lawlessness when I was Mayor of Minneapolis. And I propose to follow the ~------~------· same course as President of the United States.

L It will not be stopped or curtailed by a political plunger who is gambling everything on a campaign of organi ~ ed hate. • AAnd this brings me to the man: Goorge Wallace. - 10 -

LIt is said that George Wallace is " ainin ·n s""-t

/... Ilectors plecgBd to Wallace in a number of states, both North and South, are drawn frequently from the leadership of White Citizens' Councils and the Birch Society. - ll -

LRecently , we have heard that the Wallace candidacy may create a political stalematev If it does,) it is to--- these electors that all the people of the United States must look to express their political choice .• And that is one reason why I say the ol itical system is in danger today. G .. L But Mr. wallace says he is for law and order. L rhose who yearn for law and order would do well to remember that George Wallace was Governor of Alabama -- the state with the highest murder rate in the United Sjates. -, p& - 12 -

L They oould do well to note that Alabama ranks fourth among all the states in aggravated assault.

..__.~ allace could not maintain order in his own state-- where he had the power --but now he promises to maintain order in every city and state-~ where he will not have the power. / . - . L when he was Governor of Alabama, he gave the

American people other lessons in law and order.

/ He decided which courts suited him --and disobeyed the rest. L He decided which judges he liked --and he vilified the rest.

j, He decided which laws he preferred --and he defied the rest. - 13 -

! Now he proposes teaching the Wallace Method to the who I e country. - L Today Wallace says he is the friend of the workin,g

man. Let's look at his record as Governor of Alabama: =- • J L~ - Alabama housewives pay the highest sales tax

in the country-- six cents on the dollar;

Wages for the workingman in Alabama were the

third lowest in the nation;

/ --1 n education, only two states spend less per pupil

than Alabama;

-And it has one of the lowest workmen's compensation

systems of any state in the union. - 14-

f..!nd these are the accomplishments -- this is the record --Mr. Wallace wants to bring to Washington.

L, But, worst of all -- worse than the collapse of law and order in Alabama -- worse than his anti -liberal economic policies -- oorst of all is his conduct in this campaign.

He has deliberately embarked on a campaign to embitter and divide the American peopleL.He has sought to inflame fear, frustration, and prejudice. He has sought to bring this nation to the brink of broad-scale civil disorder.

L America today has many problems --grave problems of domestic policy and foreign policy-- but they won•t be solved by a candidate who can think of nothing better to do than to threaten to run down people with a car. - 15 -

_ _. __ has the right to run for President. But let's

be absolutely clear about how he's going atx>ut it.•

/ He says he will announce a platform any day now.

L. He may even get around to picking a_ fellow-extremist for his

Vice President-- a man who would stand in line to succeed -him. And the election is only five weeks away. L ordinarily his incredible campaign would be a

/, He has atta~ ked the courts =- in the name of

law and order.

He has applauded those who would undermine the

independent judiciary-- the ultimate guardian of the liberties of- all of us. - 1 6 -

LHe has joined the ugly campaign again.st Mr. Justice

F~ s --a campaign unmatched since the first Je~ Mr. Justice

Brandeis, was appointed to the high court in 1916•

LHe has sought to stir the darkes!.,fears and prejudices harbored• by the fe and the fr~tration and-·T -anger felt by the many. LHe pretends to be the friend of the workingman, but he is the creature of the most reactionary underground forces in American life.

He does not speak for millions of decent Southerners and Northerners who reject bigotry and ha\) who despise the extremists of both Right and Left,.and who believe in progress and education and justice and a better life for all. 0 - 17 -

/.. I say to you solemnly: In the 1930's the reactionary forces of Germany thought they had found a man to speak for them, and a few years later, helped by an economic despression, that man had destroyed not only his creators but German democracy the European balance of pow~ the world political system --and the result was the carnage of World War II.

You say these things could never happen in America.

I devoutly pray that you are righi.lJu.t I know from deep personal experience we are closer to this possibility than I would have ever believed possible.

I know that my R~ublican opponent-- whil~pposing the Wallace candidacy-- has within his ranks many persons who make precisely the same appeal --who hg,ve led the reactionaryA w extremist forces in America for the past two decades and who continue these attacks at this very moment. - 18-

L And I know that in his speeches, my Republican opponent appeals to the same fears ..• the same passions ... the same frustrations which can unleash in this country a torrent of unreasoning hate and repression. •

1, And,11!11Y. I know that if my Republican opponent is elected, and a Rep ,._,.Jc:v economic recession results~ the ...... , . ;' dark anger stirred by the third-party candidate may be come

~· obligation to speak out -- forth rightly and clearly -- aoout these dangers- to our democratic institutions. 1-J..t in this campaign I make no other contribution to

America's national life than to expose this threat-- personified in George Corley Wallace and expressed in his otis s appeal --

I will rest content on November 6. - 19-

He will not be L elected0 But what ~e stands fo r._

must be repudiated. Overwhelmingly. c9

* * * *

/ 1n this campaign Senator Muskie and I offer only

a ~asone2, and f~rthright accounting of where !f --the

American people-- find ourselves today--- and where we must move in the months and years ahead. _:f.'~~~ _ A .-etl:•A4 7 ~~D - ~ America has been greatly ble~sed --and of us

much will be require~e carry the heavy-- yet the sacred--

burden of proving to a doubtin world-- a fri htened oor d --that

free men do possess the wisdom and the courage to govern themselv s., - 20-

LThink --for just one moment-- the terrible blow to liberty that would be sustained around this globe if democracy failed in the United States --the source and inspiration for millions of our fellow human beings .• • = L rhis is perhaps the hour of our greatest- testing-

find there is no turning back.

( The elite Spartans of Ancient Greece put down a minority, the Helots----- only to discover that they had fastened upon themselves a repressive and vicious police state. - 21-

Throughout history this pattern has been repeated again and again.

We must not permit this to become our fate.

We will find the solution not in repression but in justice.

'"hiolence cannot be tolerated. But neither can injustice. -... ;.: - r / _ L.J offer to you no easy solutions. In this year of rage-- in this deadly danger abroad and at home-- there are none. b ffer you ~hiding ~~~e. Th~e is none. b ut I offer you this --my credo-- the I'Klrds of wtL::!: .. Nathan Hale: "I am only one bu!J_am one.L I cannot do everything, but I can do somethin9e, And what I can do, that I ought to d~ And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do." t • # # # # Remarks of Hubert H. Humphrey , Vice Presi dent of the United States University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee October 1, 1968

For Release: WEDNESDAY AM'S (8 P.M., E.D !.'r •..z....2.CTOBER 1, 1968)

I have come to the south to t alk candidly about a problem, an issue, and

a man. This problem, this issue, and this man are of the deepest concern to me and to every American in this election campaign.

I have come to this great university to appeal not to passion but to reason. I appeal to America's hopes, not her fears.

The problem is the frustration and anger and f ear that so many of our people feel.

The i ssue is the preservation of our Democratic system of government. The man is George Corley Wallace.

What I have to say may not be popular and this may not be the place to say ·

it. But there is more at stake here than the presidency. VThat is 9. t stake is the greatest political system on earth and the socill f 3. brlc; of the n:tt i on we love.

And I will say the s ame thi ngs in the south that I will say in the north.

For the price of silence now may tomorrow be the end of our system of government and the end of our living together as a people.

First, the problem.

Seven year s ago, a r espected educator, J ames Bryant Conant, warned us that

the "soci al dynamite" in our ci t ies ,.,as t he h undreds of thousands of young Negroes i n our citi es

Today that generation has come of age -- and the dynam,ite has begun to explode.

The anger and frustrat~on of millions has erupted i~ violence in city after city. -2-

The reaction to the explosion has been fear -- fear of white suburbanites who see their homes threatened, fear of white working men who see their jobs threatened, fear of millions -- black and white -- who instinctively fear violence.

To this has been added another frustration -- frustration over a tragic, far off war.

Last night I expressed my own views on that war and need not repeat them here except to say that if I am elected president and the war has not ended, the first priority of the Humphrey-Muskie Administration will be to bring that war to an honorable conclusion.

But there c&n be no doubt that the war has caused anger and frustration among many Americans.

Finally, many young Americans feel left out, at odds with their elders, and victimized by a world they never made.

Yours is the generation that was born at the end of the great depression and World War II. You were the children of hope -- hope that at last Americans could grow up in pursuit of happiness, free of hunger, fear, and war.

Instead, you·have found a society that has excluded 29 million of its members from its affluence, that has gone to war, that has murdered your heroes, John F.

Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King and some of you have found an educational system that was overburdened, undermanned, and out of date.

The result -- and it is not exclusively an American phenomenon -- has been student protest -- sometimes peaceable and sometimes violent, sometimes reasonable and sometimes senseless -- and almost always inexplicable to your elders.

To sum up the problem, the frustrations of the poor, of the young, and of those who oppose the war have created a year of rage and that year of rage is putting our political system to its most severe test in modern times.

Second, the issue. -3-

There are forces in this land striving to divide and embitter our people.

They are demagogues who preach hate and fear and division. They are radical extremists of the left and the right.

And let the issue be absolutely clear: Their objective is nothing less than the destruction of our political system -- the institutions of democratic government -- anu the political processes which America has developed to govern this nation.

On the extreme left are those who chant and disrupt meetings and threaten to disrupt the election. They would deny to others the free speech they demand. They have seized upon the legitimate grievances of students and capitalized the unease over the war to mount an attack upon the entire American system. Theirs is the simple -- und totally unacceptable -- solution of violent protest.

Freedom of speech, of assembly, of dissent are among the most sacred liberties we possess -- and I will defend them in this year of rage as I have defended them all my life.

But disorder is not dissent. Indeed, disorder, especially organized disorder, is the enemy of dissent.

And destruction is not debate. Indeed, the violence of destruction can only silence the vitality of debate.

I reject the extremism of the l eft and I call upon the American peopl e to reject them.

Equally do I reject the extremism of the right.

On the extreme right are those who preach disrespect for our courts and for some of our l aws and who appeal to the darkest fears and deepest suspicions of our people.

They seek the simple solution of violent repression.

But bumper stickers will not stop crime, and the way to support your police is to give them higher salaries, better training, and better equipment. -4-

Neither will crime be stopped by a "four-point program" which includes a thinly veiled invitation to self-appointed vigilante action~ disguised as something called a ''National Coordinating Center" -- whatever that means.

To be honest~ crime will never be ended -- it never has been -- but it can be controlled by the sure~ swift, and fair administration of justice.

That's the way I fought crime and lawlessness when I was Mayor of

Minneapolis. And I propose to follow the same course as President of the United States.

It will not be stopped or curtailed by a political plunger who is gambling everything on a campaign of organized hate.

And this brings me to the man: George Wallace.

It is said that G€orge lvallace is "gaining in respectability" in the north.

But he is not gaining in respectability among those down here who know him best.

He stands, and he has always stood, as the apostle of hate and racism.

Today some of hi s political managers and even some of his presidential electOl'S are drawn from the rauks of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens' Councils, the

John Birch Society, the Armed Minutemen, or groups dedicated to the promotion of anti-semitism.

Electors pledged to Wa l l ace i n a number of states, both north and south, are drawn frequentl y from the leadershi p of lfhite Citizens'Councils and The Birch Society.

Hi s Georgi a State Chairman and pledged elector was formerly national president of the

Whi te Citizens' Councils. And more than half a dozen other Wallace electors have held executive committee or other important posi t i ons in The White Citizens' Councils.

Recently we have heard that the Wallace candidacy may create a political st alemate. If it does, it is to these electors that all the people of the United States must l ook to express their political choice. And that is one reason why I say the poli tical system is in danger today. -5-

But Mr. Wallace says he is for law and order.

Those who yearn for law and order would do well to remember that George

Wallace was Governor of Alabama -- the state with the highest murder rate in the United States.

They would do well to note that Alabama ranks fourth among all the states in aggravated assault.

Wallace could not maintain order in his own state -- where he had the

power -- but now he promises to maintain order in every city and state -- where he will not have the power.

When he was Governor of Alabama, he gave the American people other lessons in law and order.

He decided which courts suited him -- and disobeyed the rest.

He decided which judges he liked -- and he vilified the rest.

He decided which laws he preferred -- and he defied the rest.

Now he proposes teaching the Wallace method to the whole country.

Today Wallace says he is the f riend of the working man. Let's look at his record as Governor of Alabama;

--Alabama housewives pay the highest sales tax in the country -- six

cents on the dollar;

--Wages for the workingman in Alabama were the third lowest in the nation;

--In education, only two states spend less per pupil than Alabama;

--And it has one of the lowest workmen's compensation systems of any state in the union.

And these are the accomplishments -- this is the record -- Mr. Wallace wants to bring to Hashington.

But worst of all -- worse than the collapse of law and order in Alabama-­ worse than his anti-liberal economic policies -- worst of all is his conduct in this campaign -6-

He has deliberately embarked on a campaign to embitter and divide the

American people. He has sought to inflame fear, frustration, and prejudice. He has sought to bring this nation to the brink of broad scale civil disorder.

America today has many problems -- grave problems of domestic policy and foreign policy-- but they won't be solved by a candidate who can think of nothing better to do than to threaten to run down people with a car.

In the American system anybody -- even George Corley Wallace -- has the right to r un for president. But let's be absolutely clear about how he's going about it.

He says he will announce a platform any day now. He may even get around to picking a fellow-extremist for his vice president -- a man who would stand in line to succeed him. And the election is only five weeks away.

Ordinarily his incredible campaign would be a laughing matter -- but not in this year of rage.

He has attacked the courts -- in the name of law and order.

He has applauded those who would undermine the independent judiciary the ultimate guardian of the liberties of all of us.

He has joined the ugly campaign against Mr. Justice Fortas -- a campaign unmatched since the first jewJ Mr. Just ice BrandeisJ was appointed to the high court in 1916.

He has sought to stir t he darkest fears and prejudices harbored by the few and the frustration and anger felt by the many.

He pretends to be the friend of the working man but he is the creature of the most reactionary underground forces in American life.

He does not speak for millions of decent southerners and northerners who reject bigotry and hate, who despise the extremists of both right and left, and who believe in progress and education and justice and a better life for all.

I say to you solemnly in the 1930's the reactionary forces of Germany thought they had found a man to speak for them, and a few years later, helped by an -7- economic depression, that man had destroyed not only his creators but German democracy, the European balance of power, the world political system -- and the result was the carnage of World War II.

You say these things could never happen in America. I devoutly pray that you are right. But I know from deep personal experience we are closer to this possibility than I would have ever believed possible.

I know that my Republican opponent -- while opposing the Wallace candidacy has within his ranks many persons who make precisely the same appeal -- who have led the reactionary, extremist forces in America for the past two decades and who continue these attacks at this very moment.

And I know that in his speeches my Republican opponent appeals to the same fears ••• the same pessions ••• the same frustrations which can unleash in this country a torrent of unreasoning hate r1nd repression.

·m.d, finally, I know that if my Republican opponent is elected and a

Republican economic recession results, the dark anger stirred by the third-party candidate may become an overwhelming force in American life.

Today -- above all else -- good men have the moral obligation to speak out -­ forthrightly and clearly -- about these dangers to our democratic institutions.

If in this campaign I make no other contribution to America's national life than to expose this threat -- personified in George Corley Wallace and expressed in his odious appeal to rage -- I will rest content on November 6.

He will not be elected. But what he stands for must be repudiated overwhelmingly. # # # In this campaign Senator Muskie and I offer only a reasoned and forthright accounting of where we -- the American people -- find ourselves today -- and where we must move in the months and years ahead. -8-

America has been greatly blessed -- and of us much will be required. We carry the heavy -- yet the sacred -- burden of proving to a doubting world -- a freightened world -- that free men do possess the wit, the wisdom and the courage to govern themselves.

Think -- for just one moment -- the terrible blow to liberty that would be sustained around this globe if democracy failed in the United States -- the source and inspiration for millions of our fellow human beings.

This is perhaps the hour of our greatest testing as a free people.

\ole must be one nation, not two.

Once we start down the road to apartheid, we shall find there is no turning back.

The elite Spartans of ancient Greece put down a minority, the Helots -­ only to discover that they had fastened upon themselves a repressive and vicious police state.

Throughout history this pattern has been repeated again and again. We must not permit this to become our fate.

We will find the solution not in repression but in justice. Violence cannot be tolerated. But neither can injustice.

I offer you no easy solutions. In this year of rage -- in this deadly danger abroad and at home -- there are none.

I offer you no hiding place. There is none.

But I offer you this --my credo-- the words of Nathan Hale: "I am only one but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And what I can do, that I ought to do. And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I shall do." REMAR.!{S VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT H . HUMPHREY

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE , ENNESSEE

I rlAVE COI~ TO HE SOUTH TO TALK CANDIDLY ABOUT A PROBLEM, AN

ISSUE, AND A MAN . THIS PROBLEM, THIS ISSUE , AND THIS t1AN .4RE OF 1liE

DEEPEST GONCE N TO f."£ AND TO EVERY AI"lERI CAN I N THIS ELECT! ON

CAMPAIGN .

I HAv""E C0!1E TO THIS GREAT UNI \lERSI TY TO APPEAL NOT TO PASS! ON

BU TO REASON . I APPEAL TOAMERICA ' S HOPES, NOT HER FEARS .

HE PROBLE£VI IS HE FRUST?:ATION AJ.'JD ANGER AND FEAR THAT SO MANY

OF OUR PEOPLE FEEL .

HE ISSUE IS THE PRESERVATION OF OBR DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF

GO VERN1'1ENT •

THE fviAN IS GEORGE CORLEY HALLACE •

>frlA I HAVE TO SAY !'1AY NOT BE PO ULA AND THIS MAY NO T BE THE

PLACE TO SAY IT . BUT THERE IS MORE AT STAKE HERE THA.l\J THE PRES! DENCY .

HHAT IS AT STAKE IS THE GREATEST POLITI Cti.L SYSTEM ON EARTH AND THE

SOCIAL FABRIC OF THE NATION HE LOVE .

AND I \•JILL SAY THE SA!1E THINGS I N THE SOUTH THAT I i:JILL SAY I N

THE NO TH . FOR ,THE PRICE OF SILENCE NOvl MAY OMORROH BE TIIE END OF ·./ OUR, SYSTEM OF GOVERNI"'ENT AND THE END OF OUR LIVING TOGETHER AS A

PEOPLE .

FIRST, THE PROBLEI1 ·

SEVEN YEARS AGO , A RESPECTED EDUCATOR, JAI"JES BRYANT CONANT,

\•JA .NED US THAT THE "SOCIAL DYNAl'1I TE" IN OUR CITIES HAS THE HUNDREDS

OF HOUSANDS OF YOUNG NEGROES I N OUR CITIES \•,l}-!0 \·JERE BOTH OUT OF SCHOOL

AND OUT OF UORK .

TODAY THA GENERATION HAS COME OF AGE -- AND THE DYAMITE

HA BEGUN TO XPLODE .

THE ANGER AND FRUSTRATION OF MILLIONS HAS ERUP ED I N VIOLENCE I N CI

CITY AFTER CITY . SYSTEI'1 THAT HAS OVERBURDENED, li'NDERt•:AN!'IJ"ED , AI~D OUT OF DATE •

THE RESULT -- Ai\JD IT IS NOT EXCLUSIVELY AN A!V.IERIC.AN PHENOMENON

HAS BEEN STUDEN PROTEST SOMETI I"'.£S PEACEABLE AND SOI'1ETH1ES VIOLENT

SOMETII•iES REASONABLE AND SQ(.iETitvES SENSELESS -- Ai'JD ALMOST ALWAYS

I!'IJ"EXPLICABLE TO YOUR ELDERS .

TO SUI1 UP THE PROBLEM, THE FRUSTRA 1 ONS OF THE POOR, THEXX OF

THE YOUI-JG , AND OF HOSE \•;HO OPPOSE THE HAR HAVE CrtEATED A YEAR OF RAGE

AND THAT YEAR OF RAGE IS PUTT! NG OUR ?OLI TICAL SYSTEl'l TO ITS MOST

SE VEP..E , TE S T I N MODE N 'I l".IE S • 1 ~ECOND , THE ISSUE .

THERE ARE FORCES IN THIS LAND STRI VI 'JG TO DIVIDE AND EI>1B! TTER

OUR PEOPLE . THEY A .E DENAGOGlJES HHO PP.EACH HATE AND FEAR AND

DIVISIO'J . TB.EY ARE RAD ICAL EXTREMISTS OF THE LEFT AND THE RI~~T .

Al.'JD LET THE ISSlJE BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR: THEIR OBJECTIVE IS

NO HING LESS THAN THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM -- THE

I STITUTIONS OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT AND THE POL! TICAL PROCESSES

\ftii CH AMERICA HAS DEVELOPED TO GO\lEFu'J THIS NAT! ON •

ON THE EXT~EME LEFT ARE THOSE ~lliO CHAI~T AND DISRlJPT MEETINGS

ABD THREATEN TO DISRDYT THE ELECTION . THEY \·IOULD DENY TO OTHERS

THE FREE SPEECH THEY DElif.tAND . THEY HAVE SEIZED UPON THE LEGI TII"lATE

GRIEVANCES OF STUDENTS AND CAPITALIZED THE UNEASE 0\~R THE WAR TO

MOUNT Ai'J ATTACK UPON THE ENTIRE AMERICAN SYSTEM. THEIRS IS THE

SIMPLE -- Ai'JD TOTALLY UI'JACCEPTABLE -- SOLUTION OF VIOLENT PROTEST .

FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OF ASSE~IDLY , OF DISSENT ARE AMONG THE MOST SACRB

LIBERTIES viE POSSESS -- Al.'\JD I HILL DEFEND THEt1 IN T"rli S YEAR OF RAGE

AS I HAVE DEFENDED HE ALL MY LIFE .

BUT DISO.DE IS NOT DISSENT . I NDEED, DISORDER, ESPECIALLY

0 GANIZED DISORDER, IS THE ENE11' OF DISSENT .

AND DEST UCTION IS Nl0'1~ DEB~TE~ . IND. ~~~~D , THE VIOLENCE OF DESTRUCTION

CAi'\J ONLY SILENCE THE VITALITY OF DEBATE .

I REJEC THE EXTREl"li S.M OF THE LEFT AND I CALL UPON THE

AMERI Cfu'\J PEOPLE TO .t1EJECT THEr> • EQUALLY DO I REJECT THE EXTREivHSlVl OF THE RIGHT .

ON THE EXTREHE RIGHT ARE THOSE HHO PREACH D! S?.ESPECT FOR OUR COURTS AND FOR SOME OF ' OUR LA\·JS AND WHO APPEAL TO THE DARKEST FEARS

ru~D DEEPEST SUSPICIONS OF OUR PEOPLE .

THEY SEEK THE SIMPLE SOLUTION OF VIOLENT REPRESSION.

BUT BUMPER STICKERS i•JI LL NOT S OP C. I ME .o ANDYrlE WAY TO SUPPORT YOUR POLICE IS TO GIVE THE~M HIGHER SA~ARIES .. BETTER TRAINING .. P~D BETTER EQUIPMENT .

NEITHER HILL CRIME BE STOPPED BY A "FOUR- POINT PROGRAM" l•lHICH INCLUDES THINLY VEILED INVITATION TO SELF- APPOINTED VIGILANTE ACTION , DISGUISED AS SOMETHING CALLED A "NATIONAL COORDINATING CENTER - vJHATEil i•TrlATEVER THAT MEANS .

TO BE HONEST .. CRii"£ \!TILL NEVER BE ENDED -- IT NEVER HAS BEEN -­ BUT IT CAN BE CONTROLLED BY THE SURE .. SHIFT .. Al\iD FAIR ADMIN! STRATI ON OF JUSTICE .

HAT ' S THE HAY I FOUGHT CRI l"lE AND LAHLESSNESS HHEN I UAS MAYOR 0 i'1INNEf-iPOLIS . AND I PROPOSE TO FOLL0\·1 THE SAI"lE COURSE AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES .

IT \•JI LL BE STRICKEN

IT vl!LL NOT BE STOPPPED OR CURTAILED BY A POLITICAL PLUNGER vJHO IS GAMBLING EVERYTHI ·NG ON A CAI'1PAI GN OF ORGAN I ZED HATE • . AND THIS BRINGS ME TO THE MAN: GEORGE vJALLACE ·

IT IS SAID THAT GEORGE t•TALLACE IS .. GAINING IN P.ESPECTABILITY" IN TE THE NORTH . BUT HE IS NOT GAINING IN RESPEC'I'ABILITY AivlONG THOSE DOHN HERE wRO KNOW HIM BEST·

HE STAtDS .. AND HE HAS ALwAYS STOOD .. AS THE APOLSTLE OF HATE AND RACISM .

TODAY SOME OF HIS POLITICAL MNAAGERS AND EVEN SOME OF HIS PRES I DENT I AL ELECTORS A.tt.E DRAvJN FROM THE RA..i\iKS OF TE KU KLUX LKAN .o THE HHITE CITIZENS ' COUNCILS .. THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY .. Al'JXX THE ARMED MINU EMEN .o OR G OUPS DEDICATED TO THE PROr10TION' OF ANTI - SEf'.1ITISM . ELECTORS PLEDGED TO vJALLACE IN A NUMBER OF STATES .. BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH .. ME DRAHN FREQUENTLY FROM THE LEADERSHIP OF' iolHI TE CITIZENS COUNCILS AND THE BIRCH SOCIETY . HIS GEORGIA STATE CH:AIRVJAN AND PLEDGED ELE CTOrl \vAS FOR!1ERLY NAT! Ot "AL PP.E SIDE JT OF THE lvrli TE CITIZENS COUNCILS . AND •lORE THA.T\J HALF A DOZEN OTHER \.JALLACE ELECTORS HAVE

HELD EXECUTIVE CGr'11'1ITTEE OR OTHER II>1PORTAN POSITIONS IN THE \>JlHTE CI I t.Ji\JS COUNCILS·.

RECENTLY HE HAVE HEARD THAT THE viALLACE CANDIDACY l:.ffiY CREATE A i'OLI I CAL STALEI1A E • IF IT DOES , IT IS TO THESE ELECTORS THAT ALL THE PEOPLE OF HE UN! ED STATES MUST LOOK TO EXPRESS THEIR POLITICAL CHOICE . AND THAT IS ONE REASON '!:JHY I SAY THE POLl TICAL SYSTEM IS IN DANGER TODAY •

BUT MR · UALLACE SAYS HE IS FOR LAW AND ORDER ·

CON INUATIN OF ill\JIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE TEXT :

THOSE \VHO YEARN FOR LAH AND ORDER HOULD DO \>JELL TO REMEMBER THAT GEORGE Htl.LLACE \•lAS GOVERNOR OF ALABAIV'!A -- THE STATE HI TH THE HIGHEST r1URD!!.R RATE IN THE UNI ED STATES •

THEY HOULD DO HELL TO NOTE THAT AL.tlBA:tv:A RAi\JKS FOURTH AMONG ALL THE STATES IN AGGRAVATED ASSAULT .

\vALLACE COULD NOT I1AI NTAI N ORDER IN HIS 0 HN STATE HHERE HE HAD 'HE ?0\>JER -- BUT NOW HE ?HOMISEE TO V.!AI.NTAIN ORDER Id EVERY CITY AND STATE t•lHERE HE vJI LL NOT HAVE HE POE •

vlHEN HE -.JAS GOi.lERl'IJOR OF ALABAJ:V"J.A , HE GAVE THE Ai1ERI CAN PEOPLE OTHER LESSONS IN LAW AND O.DER .

HE DECIDED wniCH COUR' S SUITED HIM -- ~~D DISOBEYED THE REST · HE DECIDED vlHICH JuDGES HE LIKED -- ~~D HE VILIFIED THE REST · HE DECIDED HHICH LAWS HE PREFERRED -- AND HE DEFIED TrlE REST . NOW HE PROPOSES TEACHING HE VJALLACE METHOD TO THE viHOLE COUNTRY • TODAY tvALLACE SAYS HE IS THE FRIEND OF HE \•fORKING MAN • LET ' S LOOK AT HIS RECORD AS GOVERNOR OF ALABANA:

ALABA!"iA HOUSEt•ll VES PAY THE HIGHEST SALES TAX IN THE COUNTRY -- SI CENTS 0 THE DOLLAR;

-- VJAGES FOR HE WO~ f\I NGl>1AN IN .P.LABAi•lA ·iERE THE Trli RD LOvJEST IN THE NATION; -- IN EDUCATION .. ONLY \·!0 STATES SPEND LESS PER PUPIL THAN ALABAMA;

-- AND IT HAS O:vE OF THE LO ·JEST 11 •JORKi 1EN ' S COJVIPENSATI ON SYSTEMS OF ANY STATE IN THE U:-JI ON .

AND THESE ARE THE ACCOi'1PLISHiv1ENTS -- THIS IS THE P.ECORD -- MR . · VJALLACE HANTS 0 BRING TO i:JASH INGTON ·

BUT viORS T OF ALL -- 'VJORSE THAN THE COLLAPSE OF LA.~·J AND ORDER IN ALABAMA : - iJORSE THAN HIS ANTI - LIBERAL ECONOt1IC POLICIES -- HORST OF ALL IS HIS CO DUCT IN THIS CAt·1PAI GN . HE HAS DELIBERATELY EMBARKED ON A CAMPAIGN TO EMBITTER AND DIVIDE THE ~MERICAN PEOPLE . HE HAS SOUGHT TO INFLA~ill FEAR .. FRUSTRATION .. AND PREJUDICE . HE HAS SOUGHT TO BRING THIS NATION TO THE BRINK OF BROAD SCALE CIVIL DISORDER ·

Ai1E I CA. TODA HAS i'1..4NY PROBLEMS -- GRAVE PROBLENS OF DO.MESTI C POLICY A.:VD FOREIGN POLICY -- BUT THEY ~iON ' T BE SOLVED BY A CANDIDATE viHO CAN THINK OF NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAi. TO HREA.TEN TO RUN DOHN PEOPLE \•JI TH A AR •

IN THE AMERICAN SYSTEM A.J.'\JYBODY -- EVEN GEORGE COPJ..EY \•lA.LLA.CE -- HAS THE RIGHT TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT . BUT LET ' S BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR AOUB ABOUT HOVI HE ' S GOING ABOUT IT . HE SAYS HE HILL ANNOUNCE A PLA.TFORr1 ANY DAY NOW . HE MAY EVEN GET AROUND TO PICKING A FELLOv - EXTREMIST FOR H IS VICE PRESIDENT -- A MAN ~v.HO 'VJOULD S AND I N LI NE TO SUCCEED HI I'i · AI."\JD THE ELECT! ON IS ONLY FIVE \·lEEKS .A\1AY .

ORD I NARILY HIS I NCREDIBLE CA.I'~".tP.AIGN \VOULD BE A LAUGHI NG MATTER -- BUT NOT IN THIS YEA. OF AGE •

HE HAS ATTACKED THE COURTS : - IN THE NA.f•lE OF LA.'\tJ AND ORDER. HE HAS FI..PPLA.UDED THOSE \v'HO vJOULD ill'\JDERMI NE THE INDEPENDENT JUDI CIA"R THE ULTIMATE GUARDIAN OF THE LIBERTIES OF Al..L OF US . HE HAS JOINED THE UGLY CA~~AIGN AGAINST lfffi. JUSTICE FORTAS A CAr1PAI GN i.JNfllATCHED SINCE THE FIRST JEW .. MR . JUST! CE BRA..NDEI S .. HAS APPOINTED TO THE HIGH COURT I N 1916 ·

HE HAS SOUGHT TO STIR THE DARKEST FEARS AND REJUDICES HAHBORED BY THE FEH J:Ll\JD THE FRUSTRATION AND .ANGER FELT BY THE i"f.ANY .

HE PRETENDS TO BE THE FRIEND OF THE WORKHJGMA.l\J BUT HE IS THE

CREATURE OF THE MOST REACTIONARY mvDERGROUND FORCES IN AMERICfu~ LIFE .

HE DOES NOT SPEAK FOR 11ILLIONS OF DECENT SOUTHERNERS AND NORTHERNER

\.friO HEJECT BIGOTRY AND HATE., \YtiO DESPISE THE EXTREMISTS OF BOTH RIGHT AJJ

AND LEFT., AND wtiO BELIEVE IN PROGRESS fu"JD EDUCATI ONAND JUSTICE P.l\ID A

BETTER L I FE FO: ALL ·

I SAY TO YOU SOLEMNLYO IN THE 1930 ' S THE REACTIONARY FORCES

OF GE I"lANY HOUGH THEY HAD FOt.Ji\ID A !>1P..N TO SPEAK FO THEM., .A.ND A FEl•l

YEARS LATER, HELPED BY A''J ECONOMIC DEPRESS! ON , THAT JVIAN HAD DESTROYED NCJ1

NO ONLY HIS CHEATOrlS BUT GERMM'J £DEMOCRACY, THE EUROPEAN BALANCE

OF PQ\.lER , THE HORLD POL! TICAL SYSTEN : - AND THE RESULT ~vAS THE

CARNAGE OF \tJORLD HAH 2 •

YOU SAY THESE THINGS COULD NEveR HAPPEN IN AMERICA · I DEVOUTLY

PRAY THAT YOU ARE HIGHT . BUT I 1\NO\J FROM DEEP PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

\>E AHE CLOSER TO THIS POSSIBILITY THP..N I HOULD HAVE EVER BELIEVED

POSSIBLE ·

I KNO\.J TH..4T MY REPUBLICAN OPPONENT -- viRILE OPPOSING THE \.JALLACE

Cfu"JDI DACY -- HAS vI THIN HIS RA..l\JKS I'tlAJ.\JY PERSONS HHO !"LAKE PRECISELY THE

.SAME APPEAL -- 1-iHO HAVE LED THE - EACTI ONARY _, EXTREMIST FORCES IN

AI•1ERI CA FOR THE PAST THO DECADES Al D "HHO CONTHJUE THESE ATTACKS AT

THIS veRY MONENT •

A!'\JD I KI.'I10H ' HAT L-J HIS SPEECHES Hf RE?UBLICA\J OPPONENT APPEALS

0 THE SAME FEA S ... THE SA1•IE PASS! OL'JS . . THE SAivlE ?R US TRA T I ON S

\tJHICH CAN u'NLEASH IN HIS COUNTRY A TORRENT OF tJNREASONING HATE

A!.\JD REPRESS! ON .

fu'\JD , FINALLY., I KNOH THAT IF HY REPUBLICAN OPPONENT IS ELECTED

P.J.'\JD .A RE UBLI CAN ECONOr1I C RECESS I ON RESULTS., THE DARK Al.'JGER STIRRED

BY THE THIRD- PARTY CANDIDATE JVlAY BECOME Al\J OVERHHELtvll NG FORCE IN

AMERICAN LIFE .

TODAY -- ABOVE ALL ELSE -- GOOD MEN HAVE THE MORAL OBLI GAT! ON

TO SPEAK OUT -- FORTHRIGHTLY AND CLEARLY -- ABOUT THESE DP..-NGERS

TO OU. DEMOCRATIC li,STITUTIONS · IF IN THIS C~l'<1PA.I GN I f'1A.l\E NO OTHE?.. CONTRI BUT! ON TO A.l'-~RI CA. ' S

NA.TI ONAL LIFE THAN TO EXPOSE HIS THREAT -- PERSON! FlED E'J GEORGE

CO LEY 'ivA.LLACE AND EXPRESSED IN HIS ODIOUS APPEAL TO RAGE -- I

HILL REST CONTEN ON NOVEl'1B£R 6 .

HE \oii LL NOT BE ELECTED . BUT \·THAT HE STANDS FOR rt.UST BE REPUDIATED .

OVER\oiHELi"ll N GLY .

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IN THIS CAMPA! G.f\J SENP.TO r·mSKit: AI\TD I OFFER ONLY A REASONED AND

FORTHRIGHT ACCOUNTING OF \·HERE HE -- THE A.tvJERI CAN PEOPLE -- FIND

OlJRSELVES TODAY -- Al\JD l>JHERE HE rv;UST NOVE IN THE NONTHS AND YEARS

AHEAD .

AMERICA HAS BEEN GREATLY BELSSED -- AI D OF US NUCH HILL BE

REQUIRED . \•JE CARRY THE HEAVY ET THE SACRED BURDEN OF

PROVING TO A DOUBTING \

DO OSSESS THE 'VJIT .. THE vJISDOI1 Ai\JD THE COUP.AGE TO GOVERN THE!VISELVES •

THINK -- FOR JUST ONE HOL•JENT -- THE TER.-qiBLE BLO\•J TO LIBERTY THIH

WOULD BE SUSTAINED AROUND THIS GLOBE IF DEMOCRACY FAILED IN THE UNITED

STATES -- THE SOURCE AND INSPI ATION FOrt MILLIONS OF OOUR FELLO\v

FELLO\oJ HUMAN BEINGS .

THIS IS PERHAPS THE HOUR OF OUR GREATEST TESTING AS A FREE

PEOPLE .

HE MUST BE ONE NATION .. NOT TvO .

ONCE •iE START D0\1N THE ROAD TO APARTHEID .. \•lE SHA.LL FIND THERE IS

IS NO TutiNING BACK .

THE ELITE SPARTANS OF ANCIENT GREECE PUT DO\•JN A MINOR! TY .. TrlE

HELOTS -- ONLY TO DISCOVER THA THEY HAD FASTENED UPON THE~SELVES

A REPRESSIVE AND VICIOUS POLICE STATE .

THROU~rlOUTHISTORY THIS PATTERN HAS BEEN REPEATED AGAIN AND

AGAIN .

\·iE MUST NOT PERM! T THIS TO BECOI1E OUR FATE .

'HE HILL FIND HE SOLU I01J i-JO IN REPRESSION BUT IN JUSTICE .

VIOLENCE CANNO BE TOLERATED . BUT NEITHER CAl\T INJUSTICE . I OFFER YOU NO EASY SOL UTI OrJS . IN THIS YEAR OF RAGE -- IN THIS

DEADLY DANGER ABROAD AND AT HOt-'JE -- THERE A· E ' NONE • I OFFER YOU NO HIDING PLACE. THERE IS NONE •

BUT I OFFER YOU THIS -- t-1¥ CHEDO -- THE 1\TORDS OF NATH~l\i HALE: "I AM 0 ~LY ONE BUT I Af'i ONE . I CANNOT DO EVERYTHING, BUT I CAN DO SOMETHING · M~D \iliAT I CAN DO , THAT I OUGHT TO DO . AND WHAT I OUGHT TO

DO , BY THE GRACE OF GOD , I SHALL DO • "

END OF TEXT OF UN! VERSI TY OF TENNESSEE SPEECH • PLS . ADVISE .

Al\JY NE THERE?

ATT ED ALFRIED ---- FOLLOvJING ALSO GOES TO TED VA N DYK

DEI"1 FOR HR'"rl DC AT ENTION TED VAN DYK FROM DOUG BENNET HERE IS A TEXT FOR GENERAL USE IN UVA , AND FOR ONCE WHEREVER INDICATED . HE ARE NO\•l TRYING 0 ASCERTAIN THE ITINERARY P.-ND DEVELOP LOCAL REFERENCES T 0 FEDE .AL PROGRA!1S IN THE H1MEDIATE AREA. THESE --- IF HE GET THEM--- COULD BE GIVEN TO THE VP ON CARDS FOR USE AT THE APPROPRIATESTOPS HE fEAC I01 0 HE E PLOSION HAS BEE.J FEAR -- FEAR OF viHI E

SUBURBANI"ES UHO SEE THEIR HO·JES THREATENED., FEAR OF ~~lfi iT E HORKINGMEN

··JrlO SEE HE I R JOBS THREATENED ., FEAR OF .ILLI ONS -- BLACK AND HH ITE -- •iB

\•iHO I. STI--JCTIVEL FE VIOLEJCE .

0 HIS HAS BE.t.:N ADDED ANO HER F UST ATION -- FRUSTRATION OVER

A AGIC FA OFF ~A •

LAST I GHT I EXPRESSED MY 0 -TN VIE-1S ON THAT lP... AND NEED i OT EPEAT THE1•l HE E EXCEPT. 0 SAY THA IF I AM ELECTED PRE SI DE..I\JT

AND THE 1• A: HAS l OT El\JDED ., H" Fl ST P .I O,U '!. OF THE HUMPHREY- 11USKI E AD~· I

• AT! O.v A 101 G 1AI\J"Y Al~IE I CAN •

l' I "A.t.L i _, NA1 YOUr G k·= I CA. ·s Ft;EL LE 'f' OU' ., A ODDS \IJI TH THEI R

THE E1JD FO OURS IS THE GENE. A I ON THAT viAS BORrJ A THE GREAT 4 YOU w~RE THE DEPRESS! 0. AND HORLD T..vA CHILDREN OF HOPE -- OF HAPPI NESS HOPE HAT A LAS · A'1ERI CANS COULD GROl· UP IN PURSUI ,

FREE OF HUNGER, FEAR., A1\JD \•lA •

/\S EXCL UDED 29 t1I INSTEAD, OU HAVE FOUND A SOCIETY THA H.~ LLI ON

HA HAS GONE 0 F I S I:IJE MEERS FRO!'ol I S AF L UEI CE , 0 ~·iAR , THAT HAS OU. HEROES 1URDE.!".ED , JOH1 ' F . KEt1NEDY AND OBERT F · KENNEDY

A D i'-1AR I1 LUTHE.K KING AND SO 1E OF YOU HAVE FOUND A E DUCA TI 0 JAL ======--- ~l+ L(U.. «:. _ C~·- ~lO q'l.S"- ~2.;- \ Ed {\ l ~.,\ u-d (J<2 cl \} G./'1 '\)"\ J..-

U of Tennessee

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a problem, ...,.

to me and to every American

in this election campaign.

and the t civil conflict

of a hundr years ago resulted. A

[!_say you/ solemnly that is in today. between nat'

{ When the international

political sys When

at home, it signals that our domestic is in 2

~ ve come to this great University to

ap~o passion but BmM~~--~ I appeal to

America l s hopes, not her fears.

problem is the frustration and anger and fear that so many of our people feel. • p • ,....~ ~i~. - . ~ • . ~H,u~~ """"~,.,..,~~ ~ e ~ssue ' ·

t The man is George m Corley Wallace.

l What I have to say may not be popular and this may not be the place to D~llli't:t:m say it. But there is more at stake here than

greatest political system on earth and the the social fabric of

end I will system together as a people.

the problem.

ago, a respected educator, James Bryant Conant,

the 11 social dynamite 11 in our cities was the

hundreds of thousands ~ of young Negroes in our cities who were p~~ out of school and out of work.

~ Today that generation has come of age---and the dynamite has be un to explode. 3 ~ e anger and frustration of millions

violence in city after city.

)~ e reaction to the explosion white suburbanites who see their homes threatened, fear of white workingmen r I ; who see their jobs threatened, fear of millions ~•.. .. who

instinctively fear violence.

added another frustration---frustration over a

tragic faroff war ' ~ ~ . - ~ ' ' ad 3

feel left out, at odds with their elders, and they

never made. -JI

(_Yo~rs is the generation that was born at the end

Great Depression and World War II. You were t ~hildren of hope---

hope that at last Americans could grow up in pursuit of

happiness, free of hunger, fear, and war. ~stead,~ have found

a society that has excluded 2',_million~~ of its members from \.. your herx.;s ~ its affluence, that has gone to war, that has F.Kennedy

and F.Kennedy and Martin Luther Kin And some

I found an educational system that was overburdened, undermanned, and out of date.

l The result, ---and it is not exclusively an American ...... ~ phenomenon---has been student protes~sometimes..... peacea~etimes

.... -- ...... tt violentA s anetimes reasonable and sometimes senselessA and almost alwys 1\ inexplicable to your elders. 4

of the hose who oppose the

~ war have created a year of ~ rage~arax. And that year of rage m severe is putting our political system to its ~ most test in

modern times.

~ cond, the issuef.

There are forces ~ in this land striving to divide and embitter

our people. They are demagogues who preach hate and fear and division.

extremists of the left and the right.

~~~aa.mllll~m extreme left are those who chant and

disrupt meetings and threaten to disrupt the election. They would deny

to others the free speech they demand. They hav-e seized upon the N legitimate grievaces of students and capitalized the unease over the " war to mount an attack upon the entire American system. Theirs is the ·-f,J ~.c.tcu,.4H#·· simple1 solution of violent protest. Freedom of speech, of assembly, of dissent are among the most sacred liberties we possess---and I will defend them in this year of

rage as I have defended them all my life.

But disorder is not dissent • ~~ Indeed, disorder, especially

organized disorder, is the enemy of dissent.

debate. ~destruction is not Indeed, the violence of destruction can only silence the vitality of debate.

~eject the extremism of the left and I call upon the American people to reject them.

~ually do I reject the extremism of the right.

~ the extreme right are those who preach disrespect for our courts::;cndi!m:anawaacazfnM&XIEPi!wt&nm and for some of our laws and who appeal to the darkest fears and deepest suspicions of our people.

They seek the simple solution of violent repression.

l But bumper stickers will not stop crime, and the way to support your~ 6

,police is to give them higher salaries, better traiming, and better equipment.

program" which includes ~ thinly veiled invitation to*~~~~MM~~~---.~~~--~~~1!._.... ~-

action., disguised as some thing called ~

Center , whatever that means.

never be the but it can be controlled by sure, swift, and fair administration of justice.

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~will not be stopped or curtailed by a political

plunger who is gambling everythf9 on a campaign of organized hate.

~d this brings me to the man: George Wallace.

~ is said that George Wallace is "gaining in respectability" in

the North. But he is not gaining in respectability among those

down here who know him best. ===- ~wzmaai m stands, and he has always stood, as the apostle

of hate and racism.

hodav :t&i:wrp~~i:J::ie:td:&dLL<:{llllitg:&m some of his political ~~ ~ some o managers and even electors are drawn from the ranks

of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens' Coucils, the John Birch Society, tt"- the armed Minutemen, groups dedicated to the promotion of I anti-Semitism.

Electors pledged to Wallace in a number of staees, both North and

South, are drawn frequently from :SiutlNI.-.twlisclft ' the leadership and ~ of White Citizens ~-h~e~ Birch Society. His Georg~ate ""~ chairman and pledged elector formerly s national president "' 7

of the White Citizens Councils. And more than half a dozen -- other Wallace electors .&m** •xm have held executive committee or other

important positions in the White Citizens Councils.

Recently we have heard that the Wallace candidacy may create a political stalemate. If it does, it is to these electors that all the people of the United States must look to express their political choice. And that is one reason why I say the political system is in danger today. 8

Those who yearn for law and order would do well to remember that George Alabama---the state with the highest ~ ranks murder rate in the United States. among all the

states in aggravated assault.

{ Wallace could not maintain order in his own state---where he had the power---but --- now he promises to maintain order in every city and state- where he will not have the power. When he l was Gover ';;f Alabama, he gave the American people other am• ··~ lessons in law and order.

decided which courts suited him---and disobeyed the rest. decided which judges he liked---and he vilified the rest. decided which laws he prefereed---and he defied the rest.

the Wallace method to the whole country. 9

...-­ > -4-oiil!!!!"-'tftlll""' he i s the f r i e nd of tttl 1 ··.am the working man. Let's

look at his record as Governor of Alabama:

---Alabama housewives pay the highest sales tax in the country---

six the dollar;

~-wages for the workingman in Alabama were the third lowest in the nation;

~ in education, only two states spend less per pupil than Alabama;

~ -and it has one of the lowest workmens~ compensation systems of any state in the union.

these are the accomplishmets--- is is the record---Mr.Wallace

wants to bring to Washington.

-...... ~---worse than the collapse of law and

order in Alabama---worse than his anti-liberal economic policies---

worst of all is his conduct in this campaign.

{He ~as deliberately embarked on a campaign to embitter and divide

the American people. He has sought to inflame

frustration , and prejudice~...... _.__.~-.~~ He has sought to - brigg this nation to the brink of broad __ scale civil disorder. ~~~ 1~~ .. t>\i"'~~ptt;~--- America today has many problems---but . A.. they won't be solved by ~

candidat:jfwho can think of nothing better to do than

· ~to threaten to run down people with a car. In the American system anybody--even George Corley Wallace--

has the right to run for President . But let's be absolutely

clear about how he's going about it. He says he will announce a platform any day now . He may even get 10 ~ _ around to picking a fellow .. · 22 L for ~ Vice --~ ~~~~--~ succeea n1:~i:f he 'r;iere elected. And the election is only five Qll weekS

campaign would be a laughi(j matter---but not in this

year of rage.

~has attacked the ~ourts --- in the name of law and order. ~~~~~ed those who would undermine the indepeddent judiciary--- the dian of the liber~ies of all of us. --- < ""'' '%"C? ~has br-a~ joined the ugly ~ampaign ~against Mr.Justice

Fortas---a campaign unmatched since the first Jew, Mr.Justice Brandeis,

was appoi nted to the high Court in 1916,~ /

~has sought to stir the darkest fears and prejudices harbored by

the few and ~ the frustration and anger felt by the many.

~e pretends to be the friend of the workingman but he is the creature

of the most reactionary underground forces in American life.

He does not speak

for millions of decent Southerners4 who reject bigotry and hate, . ::mw:iMh esp1se / gfbi;pvm ari• Z LifiBZiJXHDISXBIRll1x:ani&DIXftll!lllll[H!'riJJ¥m.x~llXHIB:H.Ql WhO ~""E'(flie -

extremists of both right and~ ~--~, 7" believe in progress and jn · Aile

education and justice and a better life for all.

In the L say to you ~IIK'dm••~•tern solemnly:

~ 1930s the ~ reactionary had £oun6 a man to speak

,~ em and i .. a tr i he hll& ER'PYWJ!i!ll2£ j ------~~------b · ~ them, an a few y ~ an econorn1c depression,

~ that man had destroyed not on ~ is t creators ltbut German democra ~ , {ut the European balance of power , the world political system---and the res

was the carnage of World War II. 11/

You say these things could never happen in America . I

devoutely pray that you are rightf·· But I know from deep

personal experience we are closer to this nossibility than I would have ever believed possible .

xAN~ I know that my Republican opponent--while opposing the

MaxxaxNe Wallace candidacy--has within his ranks many persons who make precisely the same appeal--who have ~ led the ~~..J.f,~ reactionary, extremist forces}for the past two decades and who continue these attacks at this very moment . my Republican o ponent And I know that in his speeches -.;appeals to the same

fears .•. the same passions •.. the same frustrations which

can unleash in this country a torrent of unreasoning hate and repression.

And , finally , I know that if my Republican opponent is elected and a Republican economic recession results, the dark anger stirred by the third-party candidate may become4t an ~x*x overwhelming force in American life.

Today--above all else--good men have the moral obligation to speak out--forthrightly and clearl~--about these dangers to our democratic insitutions.

If in this campaign I make no other contribution to Ae ~ America's national life~to expose this threat--~~er personified (\. ~~ in ~eE George Corley Wallace andAhis odious appeal to rage--I will rest content on November 6.

He will not be elected. But what he stand for must be repudiated overwhelmingly.

In this campaign Senator Muskie and I offer only a reasoned and forthright accounting of where we--the American people-- find ourselves today-- and where we must move in the months and years ahead .

America has been greatly blessed--and of us much will be required. We carry the heavy--yet the sacred--burden of 12/

proving to a doubting world--a frightened t world-- that free men do possess the wit , the wisdom , and the courage to govern themselves .

Think--for just one moment- -the terrible blow to liberty that would be sustained around this globe if democracy failed in the United States--the source and ±Nx~~±ati~Nx~~x inspiration for millions of our fellow human beings . This is perhaps the hour of our greatest testing as a free people .

We must be one nation , not two . Once we start down the road to apartheid , we shall find

The elite Spartans of ancient Greece put down a minorityJ, the Helots- - only to discover that they had fastened upon themselves a repressive and vicious police state . Throughout history this pattern has been repeated again and again . this V.l e must not permit i~ to become our fate . We will find the solution not in repression but in justice . Violence cannot be tolerated . But neither can injustice. offer you Ike I~ easy solutions . In this year of rage-- ±Nt ~ in this time of deadly danger abroad and at Rim~ home--there are none .

I offer you no hiding place . There is none . But I offer you this-- my credo-- the words of Nathan Hale: "I am only one but I am one . I cannot do everything , but I can do something . And what I can do, that I ought to do . And what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I sa shall do . " RMN-UT DEM FOR HHH DC ARE U READY TO RECEIVE THETET XXX THE TEXT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPEECH? IS SOMEONE A.T THE TX MACHINE? DEM FOR HHH DC ATTENTION: ED ALFRIEND WOULD YOU ,PLEASE DEL I VER THE FOLLOWING DRAFT TO TED VAN DYK \ . .

REMARKS VICE PRESIDENT HUBERT H. HUMPHREY UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE · ~F 1 HAVE COME TO THE SOUTH TO TALK c&A1401 Ott ABOUT A PROBLEM, AN IssuE, AND A MAN.~HIS P~OBLEM, THIS IssuE, AND THis MAN ARE oF THE DEEPEST CONCERN TO ME AND TO EV£RY AMERICAN IN THIS ELECTION . ' CAMPAIGN. I HAVE COME TO THIS GREAT UNIVERSITY TO APPEAL NOT TO PASSION BUT TO REASON. I APPEAL T~MERICA•S HOPES, NOT HER FEARS. THE PROBLEM IS THE FRUSTRATION AND ANGER AND FEAR THAT SO MANY OF OUR PEOPLE FEEL. THE ISSUE IS THE PRESERVATION OF OUR DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF

I .GOVERNMENT.

THE MAN IS GEORGE CORLEY WALLAC~.

WHAT I HAVE TO SAY MAY NOT BE POPULAR AND THIS MAY NOT BE THE PLACE . TO SAY IT~BUT THERE:: MORE AT STAKE HERE THAN THE PRESIDENCY.

~AT IS AT STAKE IS THE GREATEST POLITICAL SYSTEM ON EARTH AND THE SOCIAL FABRIC OF THE NATION WE LOVE.

AND I ~ILL SAY THE SAME THINGS IN THE SOUTH THAT I WILL SAY IN

NORTH.~RICE OF SILENCE NOW MAY TOMORROW BE THE END OF {)UR SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT AND THE END OF OUR · LIVING TOGETHER AS A /

PEO~LE• FIRST, THE PROBLEM. SEVEN YEARS AGO, A RESPECTED EDUCATOR, JAMES BRYANT CONANT, .WARNED US THAT THE nsOCIAL DYNAMITE"' IN OUR CITIES WAS THK HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF- YOUNG NEGROES IN OUR CITIES WHO 'WERE BOTH OUT OF SCHOOL AND OUT OF WORK. TODAY THAT GENERATION HAS COME OF AGE -- AND THE DYAMITE HAS BEGUN TO XPLODE. THE ANGER AND FRUSTRATION OF MILLIONS HAS ERUPTED IN VIOLENCE IN C& CITY AFTER CITY. THE REACTION TO THE EXPLOSION HAS BEEN FEAR -- FEAR OF WHITE SUBURBANITES -WHO SEE THEIR HOMES THREATENED, FEAR OF WHITE WORKINGMEN WHO SEE THEIR JOBS THREATENED, FEAR OF MILLIONS -- BLACK AND WHITE WS WHO INSTINCTIVELY FEAR VIOLENCE. . . TO THIS HAS BEEN ADDED ANOTHER FRUSTRATION · -- FRUSTRATION OVER A TRAGIC FAROFF WAR. LAST NIGHT I EXPRESSED MY OWN VIEWS ON THAT WAR AND NEED NOT REPEAT THEM HERE EXCEPT TO SAY THAT IF I AM ELECTED PRESIDENT AND THE WAR HAS NOT ENDED, THE FIRST PRIORITY OF THE HUMPHREY-MUSKIE ADMINISTRATION WILL BE TO BRING THAT WAR TO AN HONORABLE CONCLUSION. I BUT THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT THAT THE WAR HAS CAUSED "1we&JiR cfh.

FROSTR~TION AMONG MANY AMERICANS.

FINALLY, MANY YOUNG AMERICANS FEEL ,LEFT OUT, AT ODDS WITH THEIR . ·ELDERS, AND VICTIMIZED BY A WORLD THEY NEVER MADE. YOURS IS THE GENERATION THAT WAS BORN AT THE END ~E GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR 11• YOU WERE THE CHILDREN OF HOPE-- HOPE THAT AT LAST AMERICANS COULD GROW UP IN ' PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS, ,...... -­ . ( FREE OF HUNGER, FEAR, AND WAR. tt- ~ ... ~1\Mo~ ~~ INSTEAD~ YOU HAVE FOUND A SOCiETY THAT HAS EXCLUDED~9 MILLION OF ITS MEMBERS FROM ITS AFFLUENCE, THAT HAS GONE TO WAR, THAT HAS MURDERED 18WR HER~ JOHN F. KENNEDY AND OBERT F. KENNEDY

AND MARTIN L.UTHER KING~AND SOME OF YOU HAVE FOUND AN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM THAT WAS OVERBURDENED, UNDERMANNED, AND OUT OF DATE. THE RESULT-- AND IT IS NOT EXCLUSIVELY AN AMERICAN PHENOMENON

HAS BEEN STUDENT PROTEST SOMETIMES PEACEABLE AND SOMETIMES VI~LENT SOMETIMES REASONABLE AND SOMETIMES SENSELESS AND -ALMOST ALWAYS

INEXPLICABLE TO YOUR ELDERS.

TO SUM UP THE PROBLEM6 THE FRUSTRATIONS OF THE POOR# THEXX OF -L - ~~~~1· THE YOUNG# AND 0~~~ )HO OPPOSE THE WAR HAVE CREATED A YEAR OF fi:•w

AND THAT YEAR OF ~8e! IS PUTTING OUR POLITICAL. SYSTEM TO ITS MOST

SEVERE TEST IN MODERN TIMES.

SECOND# THE ISSUE.

THERE ARE FORCES IN THI-S LAND STRIVING TO DIVIDE AND EMBITTER

OUR PEOPLE. THEY ARE DEMAGOGUES WHO PREACH HATE AND FEAR AND

DIVISION. THEY ARE RADICAL EXTREMISTS OF THE LEFT foND THE RIGHT.

AND LET THE ISSUE BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR: THEIR OBJECTIVE IS

NOTHING LESS THAN THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM -- THE \_ INSTITUtiONS OF ~EMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT AND THE POLITICAL PROCESSES

WH~CH AMERICA HAS DEVELOPED TO GOVERN THIS NATION.

ON THE EXTREME LEFT' ARE THOSE WHO CHANT AND DISRUPT MEETINGS

AND THREATEN TO DISRUPT THE E CTION. THEY WOULD DENY .TO OTHERS

THE FREE SPEECH THEY DEMAND. THEY HAVE SEIZED UPON THE LEGITIMATE

GRIEVANCES OF STUDENTS AND CAPITALiZED THE UNEASE OVER THE WAR TO

MOUNT AN ATTACK UPON THE ENTIRE AMERICAN SYSTEM. HEIRS IS THE

SIMPLE -- AND TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE -- SOLUTION OF VIOLENT PROTEST.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH# OF ASSEMBLY# OF" DISSENT . ARE AMONG THE MOST~~~m .,~~~ LIBERTIES WE POSSESS -- AND I WILL DEFEND THEM IN THIS YEAR OF 4A62

AS I HAVE DEFENDED THEM ALL MY LIFE.

BUT DISORDER IS NOT DISSENT. INDEED# DISORDER, ESPECIALLY

ORGANIZED DISORDER# IS THE ENEMY OF DISSENT.

AND DESTRUCTION IS NOT D~B@TE. INDEED, THE VIOLENCE OF DESTRUCTION / ' CAN ONLY _SILENCE THE VITALITY OF DEBATE.

I REJECT THE EXTREMISM OF THE LEFT AND I CALL UPON THE

AMERICAN PEOPLE TO REJECT THEM •

1 ~ .... t Y DO I REJECT THE EXJ'REMI ,SM OF" TH.E RIGHT. ON THE EXTREME RIGHT ARE THOSE WHO PREACH DISRESPECT FOR OUR COURTS AND FOR SOME OF OUR LAWS AND WHO APPEAL TO THE DARKEST FEARS AND DEEPEST SUSPICIONS OF OUR PEOPLE. THEY SEEK THE SIMPLE SOLUTION OF VIOLENT REPRESSION. BUT BUMPER STICKERS WILL NOT STOP CRIME, ANDTHE WAY TO SUPPORT YOUR POLICE IS TO GIVE THEMM HIGHER SALARIES# · BETTER TRAINING# AND BETTER EQUIPMENT.

NEITHER WILL CRIME BE STOPPED BY A "FOUR-POINT PROGRAM" WHICH INCLUDES THINLY VEILED INVITATION TO SELF-APPOINTE.D VIGILANTE ACTION , DISGUISED AS SOMETHING CALLED A "NATIONAL COORDINATING CENTER - WHATEK WHATEVER THAT MEANS. TO BE HONEST# CRIME WILL NEVER BE ENDED -- IT NEVER ·HAS BEEN -- BUT IT CAN BE CONTROLLED BY THE SURE, SWIFT, AND FAIR ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. THAT'S THE WAY I FOUGHT CRIME AND LAWLESSNESS WHEN I WAS MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS. AND I PROPOSE TO FOLLOW THE SAME COURSE AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. STRICKEN 7 IT, WILL NOT BE STOPPPED OR CURTAILED BY A POLITICAL PLUNGER

: ~ ' - WHO IS GAMBLING_ EVERYTHING ON A CAMPAIGN OF ORGANIZED HATE. AND THIS BRINGS ME TO THE MAN: GEORGE WALLACE. IT IS SAID THAT GEORGE WALLACE IS ••GAINING IN RESPECTABILITY .. IN TB lHE NORTH. BUT HE IS NOT GAINING IN RESPECTABILITY AMONG THOSE DOWN HERE WHO KNOW HIM BEST. HE STANDS, AND -HE HAS ALWAYS STOOD, AS THE APOLSTLE OF HATE AND RACISM. TODAY SOME OF HIS POLITICAL MNAAGERS AND EVEN SOME OF HIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS ARE .DRAWN FROM THE RANKS OF TE KU KLUX LKAN, THE IJIUTE CITIZENS' COUNCILS# THE JOHN · BIRCH SOCIETY, ANXX THE ARMED MINUTEMEN# OR GROUPS DEDICATED TO THE PROMOTION OF ANTI-SEMITISM. ELECTORS PLEDGED TO WALLACE IN A NUMBER OF STATES# BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH# ARE DRAWN FREQUENTLY FROM THE LEADERSHIP OF WHITE CITIZENS COUNCILS -AND THE BIRCH SOCIETY. GEORGIA STATE CHAIRMAN AND PLEDGED ELECTOR WAS FORMERLY NA NAL PRESIDENT OF THE WHIT? CITIZENS COUNCILS. ~D MORE THAN HALF A DOZEN OTHER WALLACE ELECTORS HAVE HELD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OR OTHER IMPORTANT POSITIONS IN THE WHITE CITIZENS COUNCILS. RECENTLY WE HAVE HEARD THAT THE WALLACE CANDIDACY MAY CREATE A POLITICAL STALEMATE. IF IT DOES# IT IS TO THESE ELECTORS THAT ALL· tHE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES MUST LOOK TO EXPRESS THEIR POLITICAL CHOICE. AND THAT IS ONE REASON WHY I SAY THE POLITICAL .SYSTEM IS IN CONTINUATIN Or UNIVERSITY Or TENNESSEE TEXT: THOSE WHO YEARN FOR LAW AND ORDER WOULD DO WELL TO REMEMBER THAT GEORGE WALLACE WAS GOVERNOR Or ALABAMA -- THE STATE WI.TH THE HIGHEST MURDER RATE IN ' THEUNITED STATES. THEY WOULD DO WELL TO NOTE THAT ALABAMA RANKS FOURTH AMONG ALL THE STATES IN AGGRAVATED ASSAULT. WALLACE COULD NOT MAINTAIN ORDER IN HIS OWN STATE WHERE HE HAD THE POWER -- BUT NOW HE PROMISEE TO MAINTAIN ORDER IN EVERY CITY AND STATE WHERE HE WILL NOT HAVE THE POER.

WHEN HE WAS GOVERNOR Or ALABAMA~ HE GAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OTHER LESSONS IN LAW AND ORDER.

HE DECIDED WHICH COURTS SUITED HIM -~ AND DISOBEYED THE REST. HE DECIDED WHICH JUDGES HE LIKED -- AND HE VILIFIED THE REST. HE DECIDED WHICH LAWS HE PREFERRED -- AND HE DEFIED THE REST. NOW HE PROPOSES TEACHING THE WALLACE METHOD TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY. TODAY WALLACE SAYS HE . IS THE FRIEND OF THE WORKING MAN. LET'S LOOK AT HIS RECORD AS GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA: - ALABAMA HOUSEWIVES PAY THE HIGHEST SALES TAX IN· THE COUNTRY -- SIX CENTS ON THE DOLLARJ -- WAGES FOR THE WORKINGMAN IN ALABAMA WERE THE THIRD LOWEST IN THE NATI ONJ

-- IN EDUCATION~ ONLY TWO STATES SPEND LESS PER PUPIL THAN Al..ABAMAJ -- AND IT HAS ONE OF THE LOWEST WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION SYSTEMS OF ANY STATE IN THE UNION. AND THESE ARE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS IS THE RECORD MR. WALLACE WANTS TO BRING TO WASHINGTON. BUT WORST OF ALL -- WORSE THAN THE COLLAPSE OF LAW AND ORDER IN ALABAMA :- WORSE THAN HIS ANTI-LIBERAL ECONOMIC POLICIES -- WORST OF ALL IS HIS CODUCT IN THIS CAMPAIGN.

~E HAS DELIBERATELY EMBARKED ON A CAMPAIGN TO EMBITTER AND DIVIDE

THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. HE HAS SOUGHT TO INFLAME FEAR~ FRUSTRATION~ AND PREJUDICE. HE HAS SOUGHT TO BRING THIS NATION TO THE BRINK OF BROAD SCALE CIVIL DISORDER. AMERICA TODAY HAS MANY PROBLEMS -- GRAVE PROBLEMS OF DOMESTIC POLICY AND FOREIGN POLICY -- BUT THEY WON'T BE SOLVED BY A CANDIDATE WHO CAN THINK OF NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN TO THREATEN TO RUN DOWN PEOPLE WITH A AR. IN THE AMERICAN SYSTEM ANYBODY -- EVEN GEORGE CORLEY WALLACE -- HAS THE RIGHT . TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. BUT -LET'S BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR AOUB ABOUT HOW HE'S GOING ABOUT IT. HE SAYS HE WILL ANNOUNCE A PLATFORM ANY DAY NOW. HE MAY EVEN GET AROUND TO PICKING A FELLOW-EXTREMIST FOR HIS VICE PRESIDENT -- A MAN WHO WOULD STAND IN LINE TO SUCCEED HIM. AND THE ELECTION IS ONLY FIVE WEEKS AWAY. ORDiNARILY HIS INCREDIBLE CAMPAIGN WOULD BE A LAUGHING MATTER BUT NOT IN THIS YEAR OF RAGE. HE HAS ATTACKED THE COURTS :- IN THE NAME OF LAW AND ORDER. HE HAS APPLAUDED THOSE WHO WOULD UNDERMINE THE INDEPENDENT JUDICIAl THE ULTIMATE GUARDIAN OF THE LIBERTIES OF ALL OF US. HE HAS JOINED. THE UGLY CAMPAIGN AGAINST MR. · JUSTICE FORTAS -- A CAMPAIGN UNMATCHED SINCE THE FIRST JEW# MR. JUSTICE .BRANDEIS# WAS APPOINTED TO THE HIGH COURT IN 1916· HE HAS SOUGHT TO STIR THE DARKEST FEARS AND PREJUDICES HARBORED

BY THE FEW AND THE FRUSTRATION AND ANGER FELT BY THE MANY~ HE PRETENDS TO BE THE FRIEND OF THE WORKINGMAN BUT HE IS THE

CRE~TURE OF THE MOST REACTIONARY UNDERGROUND FORCES IN AMERICAN LIFE. HE DOES . NOT SPEAK FOR MILLIONS OF DECENT SOUTHERNERS AND NORTHERNES WHO REJECT BIGOTRY AND HATE# WHO DESPISE THE ·EXTREMISTS OF BOTH RIGHT AS AND LEFT# AND WHO BELIEVE IN PROGRESS AND EDUCATIONAND JUSTICE AND A BETTER LIFE FOR ALL. I SAY TO YOU SOLEM~LY~~ IN THE 1930'S THE REACTIONARY FORCES OF GERMANY THOUGH.T THEY HAD FOUND A MAN TO SPEAK FOR THEM# AND A FEW

NOT ONLY HIS CREATORS BUT GERMAN EMOCRACY# THE EUROPEAN BALANCE OF POWER# THE WORLD POLITICAL SYSTEM'I AND THE RESULT WAS THE CARNAGE _OF WORLD WAR~ YOU SAY THESE THINGS COULD NEVER HAPPEN IN AMERICA. I DEVOUTLY PRAY THAT YOU ARE RIGHT. BUT I KfOW FROM DEEP PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WE ARE ,CLOSER TO THIS POSS.IBILITY THAN I WOULD HAVE EVER BELIEVED l KNOW THAT MY REPUBLICAN OPPONENT -- WHILE OPPOSING THE WALLACE CANDIDACY -- HAS WITHIN HIS RANKS MANY PERSONS WHO MAKE PRECISELY THE SAME APPEAL -- WHO HAVE LED THE REACTIONARY. EXTREMIST FORCES IN AMERIC'A FOR THE PAST TWO DECADES AND WHO CONTINUE THESE ATTACKS AT . THIS VERY MOMENT. I AND I KNOW THAT IN HIS SPEECHES MY REPUBLICAN OPPONENT APPEALS TO THE SAME FEARS ••• THE SAME PASSIONS ·• •• THE SAME FRUSTRATIONS WHICH CAN UNLEASH IN THIS .COUNTRY A TORRENT OF UNREASONING HATE AND REPRESSION.

AND. FINALLY# I KNOW THAT IF MY REPUBLICAN OPPONENT IS ELEC~ED · AND A REPUBLICAN ECONOMIC RECESSION RESULTS, THE DARK ANGER STIRRED BY THE THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATE MAY BECOME AN OVERWHELMING FORCE IN AMERICAN LIFE. TODAY -- ABOVE ALL ELSE GOOD MEN HAVE THE MORAL OBLIGATION TO .SPEAK OUT -- ·FORTHRIGHTLY AND CLEARLY -- ABOUT THESE DANGERS TO OUR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS. IF IN THIS CAMPAIGN I MAKE NO - OTHER CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICA'S NATIONAL LIFE THAN TO EXPOSE THIS THREAT -- PERSONIFIED IN GEORGE CORLEY WALLACE AND EXPRESSED IN .HIS ODIOUS APPEAL~ -- 1 WILL REST CONTENT ON NOVEMBER 6. '. -

I HE WILL NOT BE ELECTED. BUT WHAT HE STANDS FOR MUST BE REPUDIATED. OVERWHELMINGLY.

\ 'II # #

IN THIS CAMPAIGN SENATOR MUSKIE AND I OFFER ONLY A REASONED AND FORTHRIGHT ACCOUNTING OF WHERE WE -- THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- FIND OURSELVES TODAY -• AND WHERE WE MUST MOVE IN THE MONTHS AND YEARS AMERICA HAS BEEN GREATLY BELSSED -- AND Or US MUCH WILL BE

REQUIRED. WE CARRY THE HEAVY YET ' THE SACRED BURDEN OF

PROVING TO A DOUBTING WORLD-- A FRIGHTENED - WORLD-- THAT FREE MEN DO POSSESS 'l'rft wi)> THE WISDOM AND THE COURAGE TO GOVERN THEMSELVES. THINK -- FOR JUST ONE MOMENT -- THE TERRIBLE BLOW TO LIBERTY THAT ) WOULD BE SUSTAINED AROUND THIS GLOBE IF DEMOCRACY FAILED IN THE UNITED

STATES -- THE SOURCE AND INSPIRATION FOR MILLIONS OF OOUR FELLOW

FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS.

THIS iS PERHAPS THE HOUR Or OUR GREATEST TESTING AS A FREE

PEOPLE.

WE MUST BE ONE NATION, NOT TWO.

ONCE WE START DOWN THE ROAD TO APARTHEID, WE SHALL riND THERE IS

,IS NO TURNING BACK.

THE ELITE SPARTANS Or ANCIENT GREECE PUT DOWN A MINORITY, THE

HELOTS -- ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT THEY HAD FASTENED UPON THEMSELVES (?,

A REPRESSIVE .AND VICIOUS POLICE STATE.

THROUGH~~ISTORY THIS PATTERN HAS BEEN REPEATE; AGAIN AND AGAIN. I f . . WE MUST NOT .PERMIT THIS TO BECOME OUR FATE.

WE WILL FIND THE SOLUTION NOT IN REPRESSION BUT IN JUSTICE•

. VIOLENCE CANNOT BE TOLERATED. BUT NEI~HER CAN INJUSTI~E.

I OFFER YOU NO EASY SOLUTIONS. IN THIS YEAR Or RAGE -- IN THIS

DEADLY DANGER ABROAD AND AT HOME :-• THERE ARE NONE.

I OFFER YOU NO HIDING PLACE. THEREIS NONE.

BUT I OFFER YOU THIS -- MY CREDO -- THE WORDS Or NATHAN HALE:

"I AM ONLY ONE BUT I AM ONE. I CANNOT DO EVERYTHING, BUT I CAN bO

SOMETHIN·G. AND WHAT I CAN DO, THAT I OUGHT TO DO. AND WHAT I OUGHT TO

00, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, I SHALL Do.•• Minnesota Historical Society

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