Publications; Correspondence and Drafts

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Publications; Correspondence and Drafts
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Date
1963
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plants can stream a mighty caravan of trucks ond buses,

and other farm equipment.

From our shops can come

for modern industrial production.

tractors and combines,

the machines and tools

From our farms and brimming warehouses

we can supply the food and fiber to meet the immediate challenge of cold and
hunger.

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schools and colleges and technical institutions can send forth

an army of teachers to help them acquire the basic elements of knowledge
and understanding as well as instruction in the specific skills of an industrial
society.

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April 30,

Page 11

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plants can stream a mighty caravan of

and other farm

acks and buses, tractors and to: mbines,

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for modern industrial prody¢tion.

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In fact,

the program I am proposing would stimulate the U. 5S. economy

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to create even more new wealth than the program would cost.

men and women who would be put to work fabricating these tools for peace would
spend their earnings here at home to satisfy their own family needs.

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Apr. 36, 1963

journey,

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fate build the necessary base for an economy

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other goods from us.
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at an average rate of only 2.5 percent per year.

economy has grown

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only a 2.5 percent growth rate, or an average of about $95 billion extra per year.

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employ more teachers to wipe out our educational deficits.

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not suggesting that we should attempt this peace offensive alone.

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Apr. 30, 1963

accept the challenge.
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But because the Soviet economy is already laboring and

to meet the needs of the Russian people and, at the same

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keep

pace in the arms race,

Khruschchev has no reserve of idle capacity to support

him in such a contest.

And if he has to choos

frem civilian needs or findin;
I submit that he has no choice.

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emphasis toward the satisfaction of consum

much more.

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raised high the expectations of the Soviet people with grandiloquent promise:
giant strides forward in raising their living standards.

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resources of the Soviet civilian

Any attempt out of the meagre

economy to match the peace offensive

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be headed along the road to lasting peace.

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widenedte-1>
India.

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mditures on civilian aid programs

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we contributed threugk-it $11.85 each year per person of |

On a perm capita basis we provided nearly

European countries which it r

six and a half times as mu ch assistance under the Marshall Plan as we are doing

through our foreign aid programs today.

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underdeveloped cour tries at the level of the Marshal!

program of close to $15 billion per year.

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of this propaganda when they discover, as the unfortunat
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enjoy the benefits of similar programs.

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