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REARKS BY
HONORABLE FARRIS BRYAN[
I RECTOR
OFF ICE OF EMERGENCY PLANN ING
BEFORE THE
DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S CLUB
IIAMI, FLOR IJA
NOVEMBER 4, 1966
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I cannot let this occasion pass without expressing the appreciation which I feel, and which I know the President feels, for the steadfastness of the people of Florida in the face of the difficulties and sacrifices which are the costs of the conflict in Vietnam. It is not surprising that you who live so close to Cuba should have a special understanding of the threat which a Communist dictatorship poses for free men, but it is none-theless gratifying that you do so.
The task in Vietnam is not a simple one -- certainly it is not an easy one. I am quite sure that no one wishes more than the President of the United States that it was not our task.
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But we cannot expect others to
onor our commitments if we do not honor them.
We cannot expect others to stand for freedom if we do not.
We cannot expect others to resist aggression if we run.
If may paraphrase the words of President Johnson: We are in Vietnam to keep aggression from succeeding.
We are there to stop one nation from taking over another nation by force.
We are there to help a people who
-do not want to have an idealogy pushed Down their throats and imposed upon them.
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We are there because somewhere, at some place, the free nations of the world must say again to the militant disciples of Communism: This far and no farther.
And those are high purposes.
What we seek in Vietnam, really, is what the American people always seek: just ice.
It simply isn't fair for a child t be crippled if we have the capacity to make him whole.
It simply isn't jU3t for an older person, whom age and misfortune has robbed, to live out his -- or her -last years in loneliness and poverty, if we have the capacity to prevent it.
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We band together as Democrats
to try to further the cause of justice in a society, an economy, a political structure, which for all their advantages, all their achievements, do permit injustice.
We do not seek justice as a product of power!
President Johnson said over and
over to the Heads of State of the AsianPacific nations whom he met that we sought not to dominate Asia, but to prove once more that might does not make right. If that were not so, the strong would always rule, and the weak be crushed; the laborer would still be on his knees; the slave would still wear his chains.
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We seek justice as a matter of right! America protects the weak from the strong, not because the weak command, but because it is right -- it is just to do so.
But what is justice?
To a ball player -- it is an hones umpire with good eyesight.
To a grape picker -- it is a fair wage and decent working conditions.
To a rebellious college student -it is a voice in the affairs of the world of which he has lately become aware.
To a Negro -- it is some yet illdefined equality voiced through a diver and often confused leadership.
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To a husband or father -- it is
ithe safety of his w if a and daughter Wherever in this land they may be.
For a child, it is health and
education.
For an older citizen, it is security in dignity.
The demand for justice takes a thousand forms. Like beauty, it seems to lie in the eyes of the beholder.
Sometimes demands for justice clash ith each other; sometimes they clash ith concepts of freedom and private
- roperty, and increasingly of late, ith sovereignty of the law.
I recognize full well that I
Save moved into an area of discussion raught with difficulty and delicacy.
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It revolves around the philosophical aspects of methods used to satisfy the constructive impulse of the American people to see that concepts of justice and law grow as rapidly as our culture, our technology, and our economy.
We have decided to bring the advantages of medical science to the diseased and disabled -- how is it to be done? In a Nation which began with a commitment that no American should be imprisoned for debt, nor without due process, nor because of excessive bail, there is gradually forming a commitment that no American shall be imprisoned because of disease if it is in the power of his fellows to free him
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We have decided to provide nursing iomes for all those whom protracted illness has robbed of the ability to master their own suffering. The competition we try to build into our society, and which is the tap root of ur strength, is not a contest of isery, but of achievement.
We cannot recoil or retreat from :he revolutionary spirit of these :imes. The values that we cherish are iot ancient forms, but eternal rights. In must not warp these rights, as they tre enlarged by an enriched society, :o fit ancient forms, but change those orms, or create new ones, to enlarge >ur rights.
How can we police our streets Fith the vigor and effectiveness that
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will insure the safety of the public without destroying the hard-earned liberties of the individual?
We have decided to live every child the opportunity to learn and to develop to his full potential -- how is it to be done? How can we achieve that kind of equality and not be bound to the lowest common denominator?
These are goals with which none can quarrel because they do but seek for everyone what everyone seeks for himself.
Somehow we must take the pragmatis of social and economic reform and fit it into the idealism of political refor
That is what the democratic Party is trying to do. We are a great force
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in America not because we walk lockstep to some overall command, but aecause we are united in high purpose. Ne are concerned not only for the secure 90 and A, but also for the One that is lost.
I am quite sure that we do not subscribe with equal vigor to all the neasures proposed in the name of the Democratic Party. In fact, I do not know of anyone within the leadership of the Party with whom I totally agree. But we are all united in the high purposes with which the Democratic Party is identified; and we are, trust and pray, united as one in [he optimism expressed by leTocqueville
I om plad to be here today to gree the ledershio -- and the beauty -- of the Jenocratic Farty of jade Couty, and to enjoy for a moment the company of so cany of my friend aopng you. I am particularly glad to be here because I have such tremendous respect for Roxy Bolton. She's one of those amazing people who asks only what she can do to help -- and my life has been richer since I met her and Commander Bolton on a naval air base in Japan.
One of the things Mrs. Bolton showj me there was an orphanage filled with little Japanese babies. It will not sum prise those of you who know her to lear that she was working in Japan, as che does in Florida, to correct some of the
-it
as he marvelled at our laboratory of liberty more than a century ago. He saw in this "land of wonders" a place where:
"No natural boundary seems
to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet
done is only what he has not yet
attempted to do."
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njustices that circumstances sometimes
reate.
This is such a wonderful land; .ife is so good; we are so rich! t is easy to fail to see the few who ave missed out on the material and political abundance most of us take 'or granted.
But for the very reason that most if us do prosper in every way, the bligation upon us to try to correct :he injustices that a dynamic and omplex society permits is especially ieavy.
I really think that's the basic lifference between the Democratic and republican parties. Republicans concentrate upon the 90 percent who
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are in the mainstream of the nation. Democrats add to that a concern for the 10 percent who have somehow missed the boat.
If you think about it, that's one of the major differences between the democratic and Republican candidates for Governor. The Republican addresses himself to the success of the successful Mayor High is concerned for the welfare of all -- 100 percent of the people of Florida.
100 percent is a high goal, and we'll never achieve it, but that's no reason to lower it. A high goal keeps you moving in the right direction.
-4-.
One conclusion about life that I
ave formed rather firmly is that for i man, for a city, for a nation, where ou are is never as important as where ou're going.
A few weeks ago, I was flying to ape Kennedy with, among others,
lalt Rostow, a distinguished scholar fho currently serves as a special dvisor to the President. The liscussion was about America's decision :o put men on the moon in the 1960's. Ir. Rostow commented that this decision (as made like most really great Amer ican lecisions: we didn't really know (here we stood in the space race is-a-vis Russians; we didn't know how fe'd get to the moon; we just settled
-5-q
on that high goal, committed ourselves to it, and set off into the unknown.
You will recall that President Kennedy announced our decision to go to the moon while speak ing at a dinner in Miami. Some of you were there. I have a film and sound record of that occasion, and thrill yet to the memory of that moment.
Because he set that high purpose, we began the expansion of our Universit system. To the sound of much controver we scraped together 25 million dollars in that first summer to get Florida's higher education moving. Because of th high purpose the people of Florida, in 1163, approved a 300 million dollar bon issue to build Florida Atlantic
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niversity, and the University of West Ilorid, and a university at Orlando, gand Junior Colleges, and to expand our existing universities. The fall-out
rom that high purpose has changed the
!story of Florida -- and that's true
heather we ever land a man on the
von or not.
I recall listening to General
ames Gavin, at a small dinner in Palm each, when he first suggested a Peace
orps. He recognized that young people
oday, as always, respond best to some
hallenge that calls for their total
vmmitment -- that sets them on a
ourney with only the stars as their uide. Today 8,543 young Americans
re experiencing hardships and lonliness,
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and fulfillment, in many countries around the world because their Nation set them that high goal.
I cannot claim youth, but one of the factors which makes my job in Washington so satisfying is that it demands so much of me. The management of strategic stockpiles valued in billions and essential to our national survival; the preparation of plans for the regulation and allocation of our human and natural resources should war come; the direction of the response of this Nation to natural disasters which strike our people; the participation in deliberations of the National Securi Council; the responsibility for the
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Leadiness and continuity of our governents should we be attacked; the role pf Ambassador for the President to the Governors of this Nation; these are large tasks and a constant challenge. Almost any day is for me a venture such as an astronaut takes -- I step off in space without really knowing where I will land -- only that I'm on the way.
Florida has had many such experiences. I am sure no one in Florida had the remotest idea that we could absorb hundreds of thousands of Cubans as they fled from Castro. But we have! And still they come. Floridians have written a shining chapter in the history of freedom.
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REMARKS BY HONORABLE FARRIS BR Y AN T 0 I REC TOR O FFICE OF EMERGENCY P LANNING BEFORE THE DEMOCRAT IC WOMEN'S CLUB M I AM I , FLOR IO A NOVEt-1 , BER 4, 1966
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I am glad to be here today to gree the leadership and the beauty -of the Oemocratic P arty of O ade County, an to enjoy for a moment the company of so m any of my friends a m ong you. I am particularly glad to be here because have such tremendous respect for Roxy Bolton. She's one of those amazin people who asks only what she can do to help -and my life has been richer since I met her and Commander Bolton on a naval air base in Japan. O ne of the things Mrs. Bolton show . m e there was an orphanage filled with little Japanese babies. It will not SU prise those of you who know her to lear that she was working in Japan, as she does in Florida, to correct some of the
PAGE 3
-2injustices that circumstances sometimes reate. This is such a wonderful land; ife is so good; we are so rich! It is easy to fail to see the few who ave missed out on the material and olitical abundance most of us take or granted. But for the very reason that most f us do prosper in every way, the bligation upon us to try to correct he injustices that a dynamic and omplex society permits is especially eavy . . 1 really think that's the basic ifference between the Democratic and epublican parties. Republicans oncentrate upon the 90 percent who
PAGE 4
-3are in the mainstream of the nation. Democrats add to that a concern for the 10 percent who have somehow missed the boat. If you think about it, that's one of the major differences between the D emocratic and Republican candidates for Governor. The Republican addresses himself to the success of the successfu Mayor High is concerned for the welfare of all -100 percent of the people of Florida. 100 percent is a high goal, and we'll never achieve it, but that's no reason to lower it. A high goa 1 k19e p s you moving in the right direction.
PAGE 5
-40ne conclusion about life that I ave formed rather firmly is that for man, for a city, for a nation, where ou are is never as important as where ou're going. A few weeks ago, I was flying to ape Kennedy with, among others, alt Rostow, a distinguished scholar ho currently serves as a special dvisor to the President. The iscussion was about America's decision o put men on the moon in the 1960's. r. Rostow commented that this decision as made like most really great American ecisions: we didn't really know here we stood in the space race is-a-vis Russians; we didn't know how e'd get to the moon; we just settled
PAGE 6
-5on that high goal, committed ourselves to it, and set off into the unknown. You will recall that P resident Kennedy announced our decision to go to the moon while speaking at a dinner in Miami. Some of you were there. I have a film and sound record of that occasion, and thrill yet to the memory of that moment. Because he set that high purpose, we began the expansion of our Universit system. To the sound of much controver we scraped together 25 million dollars in that first summer to get Florida's higher education moving. Because of th high purpose the people of Florida, in 1963, approved a 300 million dollar bon issue to build Florida Atlantic
PAGE 7
-6niversity, and the University of West lorida, and a university at Orlando , and Junior Colleges, and to expand our xisting universities. The fall-out rom that high purpose has changed the istory of Florida -and that's true hether we ever land a man on the oon or not. I recall listening to General ames Gavin, at a small dinner in Palm each, when he first suggested a P eace orps. He recognized that young people oday, as always, respond best to some hallenge that calls for their total ommitment -that sets them on a ourney with only the stars as their uide. Today 8,543 young Ame ricans re experiencing hardships and !onliness,
PAGE 8
-7and fulfillment, in many countries around the world because their Nation set them that high goal. I cannot claim youth, but one of the factors which makes my job in Washington so satisfying is that it demands so much of me . The management of strategic stockpiles valued in billions and essential to our national survival; the preparation of plans for the regulation and allocation of our human and natural resources should war come; the direction of the response of this Nation to natural disasters which strike our people; the participation in deliberations of the National Securi Council; the responsibility for the
PAGE 9
-8eadiness and continuity of our govern ents should we be attacked; the role f Ambassador for the President to the overnors of this Nation; these are arge task s and a constant challenge. lmost any day is for me a venture uch as an astronaut takes -I step off in space without really knowing where will land -only that I'm on the way. Florida has had many s uch experiences. I am sure no one in Florida had the remotest idea that we could absorb hundreds of thousands of ubans as they fled from Castro. But And still they come. Floridians have written a shining chapter ,n the history of freedom.
PAGE 10
-91 cannot let this occasion pass without expressing the appreciation which I feel, and which I know the President feels, for the steadfastness of the people of Florida in the face of the difficulties and sacrifices which are the costs of the conflict in Vietnam. It is not surprising that you who live so close to Cuba should have a special understanding of the threat which a Communist dictatorship poses for free men, but it is none-the less gratifying that you do so. The task in Vietnam i s not a simpl one -certainly it is not an easy one. I am quite sure that no one wishes than the President of the United States that it was not our task.
PAGE 11
-10But we cannot expect others to onor our commitments if we do not onor them. We cannot expect others to stand or freedom if we do not. We cannot expect others to resist aggression if we run. If I may paraphrase the words of P resident Johnson: We are in Vietnam to keep aggression from succeeding. We are there to stop one nation taking over another nation by We are there to help a people who not want to have an i dealogy pushed down their throats and imposed upon
PAGE 12
-11We are there because somewhere, at some place, the free nations of the world must say again to the militan disciples of Communism: This far and no farther. And those are high purposes. What we seek in Vietnam, really, is what the American people always seek justice. It simply isn't fair for a child t be crippled if we have the capacity to make him whole. It simply isn't iust for an older person, whom age and misfortune has robbed, to live out his -or her last years in loneliness and poverty, if we have the capacity to prevent it.
PAGE 13
-12We band together as Democrats to try to further the cause of justice in a society, an economy, a political structure, which for all their advantages, all their achievements, do permit injustice. We do not seek justice as a product power! President Johnson said over and to the Heads of State of the Asiannations whom he met that we sought not to dominate Asia, but to prove once more that might does not make right. If that were not so, the strong would always rule, and the weak be crushed; the laborer would be on his knees; the slave would still wear his chains.
PAGE 14
-13We seek justice as a matter of right! America protects the weak from the strong, not because the weak comman but because it is right -it is just to do so. But what is justice? To a ball player -it is an hones umpire with good eyesight. To a grape picker -it is a fair wage and decent working conditions. To a reb ellious college student it is a voice in the affairs of the world of which he has lately become aware. To a Negro -it is some yet i 11def i ned equality voiced through a diver and often confused leadership.
PAGE 15
-14To a husband or father -it is safety of his wife and daughter herever in this land they may be. For a child, it is health and ducat ion. For an older citizen, it is security dignity. The demand for justice takes a housand forms. Like beauty, it seems o lie in the eyes of the beholder. Sometimes demands for justice clash ith each other; sometimes they clash ith concepts of freedom and private roperty, and increasingly of late, ith sovereignty of the law. I recognize full well that ave moved into an area of discussion raught with difficulty and delicacy.
PAGE 16
-15lt revolves around the philosophical aspects of methods used to satisfy the constructive impulse of the American people to see that concepts of justice and law grow as rapidly as our culture, our technology, and ou r economy. We have decided to bring the advantages of medical science to the diseased and disabled -how is it to be done? In a Nation which began with a commitment that no A merican should be imprisoned for debt, nor without due process , nor because cf excessive bail, there is g radu ally for m ing a commitment that no American shall be imprisoned because of disease if it is in the power of his fellow s to free him
PAGE 17
-16We have decided to provide nursing homes for all those whom protracted illness has robbed of the ability to aster their own suffering. The ompetition we try to build into our society, and which is the tap root of ur strength, is not a contest of isery, but of achievement. We cannot recoil or retreat from he revolutionary spirit of these imes. The values that we cherish are ot ancient forms, but eternal right s. e must not warp these rights, as they re enlarged by an enriched society, o fit ancient forms, but change those arms, or create new ones, to enlarge ur rights. How can we police our streets ith the vigor and effectiveness that
PAGE 18
-17will insure the safety of the public without destroying the hard-earned liberties of the individual? We have decided to give every child the opportunity to learn and to develop to his full potential -how is it to be done? How can we achieve that kind of equality and not be bound to the lowest common denominator? These are goals with which none can quarrel because they do but seek for everyone what everyone seeks for himself. Somehow we must take the pragmatis of social and economic refor m and fit it into the idealism of political That is what the Qemocratic Party is trying to do. We are a great force
PAGE 19
-18Amer i ca not because we walk lock step to some overall command, but we are united in high purpose. concerned not only for the 90 and 9, but also for the that is lost. I am quite sure that we do not ubscribe with equal vigor to all the easures proposed in the name of the emocratic Party. In fact, I do ot know of anyone within the leader hip of the Party with whom I totally gree. But we are all united in the igh purposes with which the Democrat ic arty is identified; and we are, trust and pray, united as one in he optimism expressed by OeTocqueville
PAGE 20
-19as he marvelled at our laboratory of liberty more than a century ago. He saw in this ''land of wonders'' a place where: ''No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do.'' * * *
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