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[Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Auditorium (Coliseum), Indianapolis, Indiana, October 4, 1960--excerpts from end of speech]

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  • "Kennedy states that he does not believe that the current administration's experience in foreign or domestic policies justifies a renewal of its lease. He quotes Oscar Wilde, who said, "Experience is the name that you give to your mistakes." Lincoln said 100 years ago, "This nation cannot exist half slave and half free." Now the question is whether the world will exist half slave and half free, whether it will go in the direction of democracy or the direction of communism. The success of Roosevelt's and Wilson's and Truman's foreign policies resulted from their domestic policies. If citizens make the U.S. a shining example of what freedom can do, the world will begin to move in the direction of democracy. Kennedy believes that this is a most difficult time, but he has confidence in the U.S. This election is an important one. The campaign in Indiana is a tough, uphill fight. Kennedy believes that a majority of the people of Indiana are going to choose the Democratic Party. He quotes Abraham Lincoln."
  • "Kennedy thanks attendees and praises Senator Matthew E. Welsh. The standard of the Democratic Party was clearly raised in 1936 when Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes, but ... Divine Justice weighs the sins of the coldblooded and the sins of the warmhearted in a different scale." Where Roosevelt set forth an agenda for the nation, the current administration has set ceilings and limitations. Kennedy quotes a Robert E. Sherwood poem which hailed the Roosevelt administration and assailed the Republican Party. Kennedy thinks the Democrats can and must do better. He enumerates reasons why citizens cannot be satisfied with the status quo. Kennedy has confidence in the U.S. Although Nixon speaks of efficiency in government, Kennedy points to the waste resulting from the current administration's policies. Nixon purports to have figured the cost of the Democratic platform; Kennedy rejects those figures and discusses the indirect costs of Republican policies."

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  • "[Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Auditorium (Coliseum), Indianapolis, Indiana, October 4, 1960--excerpts from end of speech]"
  • "[Speech of Senator John F. Kennedy, Auditorium (Coliseum), Indianapolis, Indiana, October 4, 1960--excerpts]"

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