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You Campaign In Poetry. You Govern In Prose.

Most Of Us Have Achieved Levels Of Affluence And Comfort Unthought Of Two Generations Ago. We've Never Had It So Good, Most Of Us. Nor Have We Ever Complained So Bitterly About Our Problems.

The Mugger Who Is Arrested Is Back On The Street Before The Police Officer, But The Person Mugged May Not Be Back On The Street For A Long Time, If Ever.

A Shining City Is Perhaps All The President Sees From The Portico Of The White House And The Veranda Of His Ranch, Where Everyone Seems To Be Doing Well. But There's Another Part To The Shining City. In This Part Of The City There Are More Poor Than Ever, More Families In Trouble, More And More People Who Need Help But Can't Find It.

It's An Old Story; It's As Old As Our History. The Difference Between Democrats And Republicans Has Always Been Measured In Courage And Confidence. The Republicans Believe That The Wagon Train Will Not Make It To The Frontier Unless Some Of The Old, Some Of The Young, Some Of The Weak, Are Left Behind By The Side Of The Trail. The Strong, The Strong They Tell Us, Will Inherit The Land. We Democrats Believe In Something Else. We Democrats Believe That We Can Make It All The Way With The Whole Family Intact, And We Have More Than Once.