But I am concerned about the future of our country, and I think it would be far more hazardous and far more dangerous for any American who is concerned about the future of our country, to stay still, to say nothing, to keep his peace. And so does every American here, Republican or Democrat. I did not need to be reminded of that yesterday. Nixon suggested that during the time that the United Nations was in session that we should diminish our campaign, that we should support the President, that we should rally around the United States. I think to be an American in the 1960's will be a responsible and difficult and hazardous occupation.
Senator Johnson and I do not run for President and Vice President promising that if we are elected life will be easy. I run for the Office of the Presidency in a difficult and dangerous time in the life of our country. And it was North Carolina and Tennessee that produced and brought to fruition Andrew Jackson, who built the Democratic Party. I think it is most appropriate that we should begin in this community with visitors from three States, Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, because it was Virginia which produced Thomas Jefferson who founded the Democratic Party. But we are here today because we begin in Tennessee today a campaign for the Office of the Presidency in this State, and we ask your support. President Hoover initiated on the occasion of his visit the slogan "Two chickens for every pot," and it is no accident that no presidential candidate has ever dared come back to this community since. Governor Ellington, Senator Gore, Members of the Congress, visitors from three States, ladies and gentlemen, it is my understanding that the last candidate for the Presidency to visit this community in a presidential year was Herbert Hoover in 1928.
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