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WHERE OUR NATION STANDS-AT HOME AND ABROAD
I
Thirty-three years ago the present Republician Leader of the U.S.
Senate came to Washington as a freshman in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
When the Congress convened in that March of 1933, the first thing
we were told in a special message on domestic matters by the President
of the United States was:
"The Government's house is not in order."
This is precisely the case today within the administration.
A mere statement of this charge is not enough: therefore, the
anatomy and morphology of the body of the so-called Great Society
will be examined factually. The calcimine will be wiped away. The
veneer and clapboard will be removed to expose the facts, or the
withholding of facts.
In 16 years of service in the House of Representatives, and now in
the 16th year of service in the U.S. Senate-7 of these years as Re-
publican Leader-I have experienced and responded to the pressures
and strains of a great depression, recovery and recession, peace, and
World War II in President Roosevelt's administration, the Korean
war in President Truman's administration, and now the Vietnam war
in President Johnson's administration.
Through most of it the morale of our great Republic was solidly
grounded upon the tough virtues of our fathers.
But today, what had appeared to be a golden glow only 2 years ago
has been broken by rolls of thunder. This can be observed as ministers
plead from the pulpit for a good society instead of a great society;
as
journalists strive to obtain truth from the Government; as plain
citizens ask one another, or themselves, "Just what's going on?"
"What gives?"
Uncertainty, queasy doubts, bewilderment, have spread across the
country; labor and business, the farmer and small businessman, even
the Federal civil service worker, all have been subjected to govern-
ment-by-arm-twisting.
Unfortunately, optimism in many instances has been succeeded by
pessimism; the stock market has lost some $120 billion since January
according to Time magazine of October 14. And grievances seem to
have deepened in many facets of our daily lives.
Anger and fear have replaced much of our laughter.
Abroad, there is jeering and sneering at our country. Our flags are
burned and spat upon. Our embassies attacked. In Vietnam the
American death toll continues to mount.
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