| This Is Adlai Stevenson | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1623 |
| Catalog #: | 354376 | |
| Clip Number: | 354376-3 | |
| Orginal Film: | 029-085-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:45:14 - 00:48:23 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1956 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | COMMERCIALS: Political COMMERCIALS: Public Service GOVERNMENT: United States LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA PERSONALITIES: Stevenson, Adlai Ewing | |
| Description: | CUS - Adlai Stevenson. " Thank you men for those kind words. You people in the theater can be sure that in a campaign year, I'm grateful for anything pleasant anyone will say about me. Since this is an autumn of decision, we might well at this time look at some of the problems that concern us all. First, lets talk about peace, the cold troubled peace, which we now have. Half of the world is in revolutionary fervid. The fanatical faith of communism seeks to organize mankind against us. Where the free peoples of the world have pinned to us for wisdom and leadership. All we have offered is a contradictory platter of boast and threats. I say that the first job of the new Democratic Administration will be to restore common sense to American foreign policy. Confidence to our friends and allies and vigor to our leadership in the world. This new Democratic Administration will be dedicated to establishing a workable realistic partnership between nations in which disputes are settled by conciliation not violence. And in which the weapons of death are limited and controlled. At the same time there are problems at home which cry out for our attention. I say we over look our apparel the current price inflation which has brought the cost of living to the highest point in our history. Inflation cuts the value of your dollars the value of your insurance, your government bonds, your social security. The millions who live on fixed incomes are the worst sufferers. But we are all victims because we are all consumers. Yes, I think there is much to be done. We must see to it that the small family farmer gets a fair share of the nations prosperity. We will see to it that the small business man gets the help that he needs to survive in this time of giants. We must provide security in their old age for our eldest citizens and we must face the grim fact of today 30 million Americans live in families trying to make it on $2,000 a year. We must increase the minimum wage for working men and women. We must fight sickness and disease the way we fight war. For in both cases the issues are life and death. And that my friends is what this election is all about. I say it is time to listen again to our hearts. Speak again our ideas." Presented by this theatre as a public service. | |
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