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    "ocrText": "-3-\n3. Workable prograis, developed through our task forces, to meet the many\nproblems the Administration is ignoring or neglecting. We refuse to\nconcede that Democrats have a monopoly on ideas for the solution of domestic or\nforeign difficulties.\n4. Wholehearted support for the President when we think he is right. Viet-Nam\npolicy in the last few weeks is the prime example. Mon and more Republicans\nhave staunchly backed the President while more and more Democrats have\nchanged their tune to favor immediate negotiation and tail-between-our-\nlegs withdrawal.\nOn the domestic scene we recall that the Congress has enacted three laws on\nCivil Rights since 1957. Progress has been made in the South because there is a\ngrowing public conscience and sense of justice.\nYet even in 1964 far too many eligible Negroes of voting age were not\nregistered to vote in eleven Southern States. For some part of the 2,800,000 who\nare unregistered, the franchise is unattainable regardless of their qualifications.\nIn some islands of resistance, the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution is still\nbeing flouted.\nThe Republican leadership insists this violation of constitutional rights must\nend prior to the 1966 election.\nThe achievement of this goal requires a new and strong Federal Voting Rights\nLaw. This legislation should\n(1) effectively and speedily end the unconstitutional denial of the\nright to vote everywhere in the United States\n(2) terminate unreasonable standards for registration and voting without\ninterfering with the reasonable requirements established by the states\n(3)\nterminate any discririnatory application of requirements for registration\nand voting\n(4) should not penalize areas which are not guilty of discrimination.\nThe Voting Rights bill which the Administration has submitted to the Congress\nfalls short of meeting these standards.\nThis bill appears to affect only the 18, possibly 20, states which have some\nkind of literacy test as a qualification for voting. It does not apply to four\nSouthern states in which are found 25 per cent of the unregistered Negroes of the\nSouth -- Arkansas, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas. It does not apply to Smith County,\nTexas, with low voter turnout among a population of 27 percent Negro. On the other\nhand, it does apply to Aroostook County, Maine, where only one per cent of the\npopulation is non-white."
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