Record copy, Address to the University of Nebraska Student Convocation, Lincoln, Nebraska

ACTUAL DRAFT FOR DELIVERY -- called in from the campaign plane AN ADDRESS BY SENATOR LYNDON B JOHNSON UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA STUDENT CONVOCATION LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, SEPT 22, 1960: FOR AUTOMATIC RELEASE AT 3 P.M. CENTRAL STANDARD TIME. "There are many ties between the Unitersity of Nebraska and Texas. As things turned out may be we should have settled for another last Saturday night in Austin. Football is a great game and whether we come from Nebraska or Texas --- whatever our Saturday loyalty may be - I am sure we agree on one things we play to win --- we don not play for a tie. "On a far larger scale. in a far more serious way-- this is the question which confronts all generationsof us today as we think about America's role in the world. "Shall we play to wint "Or shall America settle for a tie? "I am proud to say that I represent a party which is unvilling to settle for a tie. "In its platform for 1960, the Democratic Party takes this abundantly clear; Our objective is not the right to coexist in armed camps on the same planet with totalitarian ideologies'." "We beleive in our objective - the objective of all Americas 6 is and must be this; "The creation of an énduring peace in which the universal values of human dignity, truth and justice under law are finally secured for all mon, everywhere on earth. "I know of no Americans more concerned - or more directly effected than you are. When we kidta talk of the eddice of playing to win or playing for a tie, ve are talking of your world, your tomorrow, KEX your life. "Shall we play to win? "Or shall we settle for a tie? "In the contest for world leadership with the Soviet Union we cannot rely upon the old football strategy of a punt and a prayer --- not carrying the ball, just hoping for the breaks. Back in the 1920s, that was safe football. But it is neither safe football or safe national strategy in the 1960s. "When the spectators in the stands for this world contest can see matters - for unlike our football games, the spectators can choose up sides and join in the game. "In a world of 3 billion people, there are only about 180 million of us. There are 650 millions of Chinesep. There are 400 million in Indas, 80 million inhabit the Indonesian chain. In all of Asia, there are more than one billion five hundred million. In Africa there are 800 million, in Latin America there are many more. We are out. wenhered " to