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(Buchanan/Safire) JK October 13, 1970 SUGGESTED BASIC CAMPAIGN TEXT There are some who say the President should stick to "Presidential business" during an off-year election, because the tide usually runs against the party that occupies the White House. But I say there is no business more important than the business of democracy, and I am here today to urge you to send to Washington the kind of men who will speak up for your rights, act in your behalf, and fight for your convictions. The candidates of America's two great political parties are pitted against one another this fall to determine the character and direction of the Ninety-Second Congress of the United States. But in a very important sense, this is not a traditional election - - nor could it be. Because today, in America, there are two separate and distinct political and social philosophies competing for the right to deter- mine the destiny of this nation -- the destiny of our society at home, and the destiny of the Western World. These elections are another phase of the political and philosophical conflict of 1968 - a conflict between the dogmas of the old elite that dominated America in the sixties and, on the other side, a new leadership that represents the values and beliefs of a new emergent majority in American politics.