○  1964 republican national convention address  ○

usly resolve itself into a world of harmony, if we just don't rock the boat or irritate the forces of aggression -- and this is hogwash.

it is further the cause of republicanism to remind ourselves, and the world, that only the strong can remain free, that only the strong can keep the peace.

now, i needn't remind you, or my fellow americans regardless of party, that republicans have shouldered this hard responsibility and marched in this cause before. it was republican leadership under dwight eisenhower that kept the peace, and passed along to this administration the mightiest arsenal for defense the world has ever known. and i needn't remind you that it was the strength and the [un]believable will of the eisenhower years that kept the peace by using our strength, by using it in the formosa straits and in lebanon and by showing it courageously at all times.

it was during those republican years that the thrust of communist imperialism was blunted. it was during those years of republican leadership that this world moved closer, not to war, but closer to peace, than at any other time in the last three decades.

and i needn't remind you -- but i will -- that it's been during democratic years that our strength to deter war has stood still, and even gone into a planned decline. it has been during democratic years that we have weakly stumbled into conflict, timidly refusing to draw our own lines against aggression, deceitfully refusing to tell even our people of our full participation, and tragically, letting our finest men die on battlefields, unmarked by purpose, unmarked by pride or the prospect of victory.

yesterday, it was korea. tonight, it is vietnam. make no bones of this. don't try to swe

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