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OCR Page 1 of 23Safire/Price
7th Draft
August 7, 1969
FRIDAY DOMESTIC SPEECH - DRAFT
As you know, I returned last Sunday night from a trip around
the world -- a trip that took me to eight countries in nine days.
The purpose of this trip was to help lay the basis for a lasting
peace, once the war in Vietnam is ended. In the course of it, I also
saw once again the vigorous efforts so many new nations are making
to leap the centuries into the modern world.
Here in the United States, we are more fortunate. We have
the world's most advanced industrial economy, the greatest wealth
ever known to man, and the fullest measure of freedom ever enjoyed
by any people, anywhere.
Yet we, too, have an urgent need to modernize our institutions
-- and our need is no less than theirs.
We face an urban crisis, a social crisis -- and at the same
time, a crisis of confidence in the capacity of government to do its
job.
A third of a century of centralizing power and responsibility in
Washington has produced a bureaucratic monstrosity, cumbersome,
unresponsive and ineffective.
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