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Abraham Ribicoff - Speech Nominating George McGovern for the U.S. Presidency
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| Contributor | Craverguy |
| Post Date | , 12:am |
| Description | George McGovern is a man full of goodness. He is a man without guile. He is a whole man. And because he is a whole man, he can bring a sense of wholeness to a divided nation that so desperately needs its parts put together.
George McGovern is a man who has peace in his soul. And because George McGovern has peace in his soul, he can translate that peace to our cities, our states, the nation, and this world.
The basic problem that we face here tonight is an indivisible peace -- peace abroad and peace at home -- and here was a man, long before it was a cause that was popular to espouse, George McGovern in 1963 called attention to the great problems of Vietnam, and its significance and meaning to the United States of America -- at home, abroad -- in its relationship with all the people of the entire world.
George McGovern understood from the very depths of his being that napalm, and gas, and 500,000 Americans in the swamps of Vietnam was not the answer to the people of Vietnam or the people of the United States.
George McGovern, ladies and gentlemen, had another solution for Vietnam. I served with him in the Kennedy Administration. And there, George was in charge for President Kennedy of the Food for Peace program. And George's concept for underdeveloped countries is food; his concept is shelter, education, health, opportunity, and to bring a sense of brotherhood to submerged billions of people, wherever they may be. |
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