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How do you do? Ladies and gentlemen, I have long insisted in Florida is one of the most literate, well informed states that there is in the union, while we are only the ninth largest state in terms of population, nevertheless, your senator gets the fifth largest amount of mail that comes into the United States Senate to any of the senator.

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It's because our people not only well informed because many of them have opportunities, they're retired. They have opportunities to read and therefore right. So we get just all kinds of male and presents many problems a difficult one being. How do we read it all and answer it all and somehow with my staff were able to read most all of it, and in time, all of you will get a letter back.

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The mail, as usual, falls into several chief categories this year because of the great talk about the tax reduction program or much of the male. As a matter of fact, about 60% of it now that we're now getting involves what kind of a tax program are we going to get?

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What are we going to do about the nation's fiscal position? What are we going to do about the flight of gold and things of that character? Generally, I would just say this and I am answering in this vein at this particular time, President has recommended a tax reduction program of some 13.5 billions of dollars.

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He's also recommended a reform of the tax structure, which he believes will bring back into the Treasury some three billions of dollars. Now, of course, most everybody at one time agreed that we needed to have a tax reduction program because the economy was going along. It rather slow pace.

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We do not have sufficient economic activity to provide, uh, the one million additional new jobs that we need every year in order to take care of our growing, uh, employment force the same time we find our unemployment figure is staying up at about a 5.6% ratio, and it might go to 6% very shortly.

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So we need to do something to stimulate the economy. Everybody agrees on that, but nobody likes the reform part of the tax reduction bill and consequently the various segments of our economy, the chambers of commerce who represented the business community, the A f of L, the CEO represent the laboring community.

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They have now split with respect to the need for the tax reduction bill because, in fact, they don't like the reform part of it. Well, my answer is that before the bill finally gets through the Congress, you're going to see most of these reforms that have been suggested will be eliminated.

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I do believe that we need to do something to stimulate our economy. I do think we need to eliminate waste in our operation of our federal government. But I know that we must get the economy moving if we are to meet the challenge of a growing population and a growing labor force in the future.

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And by the time this Congress finishes its labors in the fall, we will have had a sizable tax reduction bill. And I don't believe any reform which will be drastically hurtful to anyone or any particular group. I have some mail here with respect to this Foreign Service Academy bill which I have previously sponsored, I would only say very briefly and then saying to those people who write in about this matter, that I once again believe we should.

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Uhh focus our energies toward trying to get a foreign service academy. We appropriate here in the Congress, some 55 billions of dollars in order to fight a war and win it if we get involved in it. And yet we spend actually very little money trying to devise ways and means of achieving a lasting and permanent peace.

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And while we have all kinds of service academies for the military, we have no academy to teach people how to be outstanding diplomats and how to help us achieve a piece. Therefore, I'm again in favor of this bill. I'm satisfied it will probably become law this very year.

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In that connection, there's another group have been writing me about the CIA. And why is it that we don't have some supervision of the CIA? Well, I'm like, say, I'm for it. I think we need to have the Joint Congressional Committee, which will, While it will not direct, the CIA and its activities nevertheless will continue to scrutinize its activities and to control some of the vast amounts of money which that particular organization is spending.

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Well, these are just some of the letters that we're getting some of the topics I like for people to write in. I hope they will continue to do it. Ladies and gentlemen, I see now that my time is up. I thank you for looking in. I hope you're looking again at the same time next week.

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And, well, here's a letter from a lady in Panama City, which is similar to many other letters were getting on foreign aid topics, she says. Why is it that we continue to give these vast sums of money the so called undeveloped areas of the world, to have them then turned against us?

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Well, I think the lady raises that question. Raised a very good question. It's interesting to see that in the paper just recently, Senator Mansfield from Montana, who made a trip around the world for the president to assess how well the money, which we were appropriating and spending in various underdeveloped areas, how well it was being used.

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Senator Mansfield and this five man committee recommended that we stop spending and sending any additional money into Southeast Asia, where there's some five billions of dollars has gone in the last 10 years. If Senator Mansfield rather well stated he had not been back there in seven years until he got back in 1962.

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But the conditions, as he observed him in 1962 were not materially different than they were seven years before. And he recommends to the president. If the president does not ask the Congress for any money for Southeast Asia until they agonising reappraisal has been made as to whether or not any of this money is really accomplishing what we wanted to accomplish.

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Well, I think that what Senator Mansfield said with respect to Southeast Asia can well be applied to other areas of the world, and particularly in the continent of Africa and in some, even some sections of South America. It doesn't do us any good to just pour money into these areas when that money is not used for the purpose for which it was intended.

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When it's either in effect, stolen or when it's given to certain of the well to do people in these areas who in order to let the government when the government gets it first and buys the land from these large landowners and then these large landowners take this money and put it in a bank in Switzerland.

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It doesn't do anybody any good, and we see that the vast amount of this money in the foreign aid program is being used in this fashion. And certainly this foreign aid program has got to be cut sizably, and I'm satisfied will be cut. Here's an interesting letter from, uh, citizen in Miami.

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Who wants to know whether or not we're going to be able to have the Democratic National Convention down in Miami in 1960 for? Well, frankly, I believe that we've got an excellent chance to have this national convention in Miami. As a matter of fact, in the City of Miami has now put up through Bob Morgan and some other public spirited citizens there they have guaranteed to the National Committee $600 and they have made it possible for them to get the convention hall without expense and because of the fact that on Miami Beach there are more hotels in a less area of land than any other place in the world.

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It lends itself to large conventions of the type of national conventions, and it's my information This is unofficially speaking, that the Democratic Site Committee, which is an adjunct of the Democratic National Committee, they are looking very favorably on Miami as a location for the next Democratic convention.

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It's my belief that the president of the United States would sort of like to see this convention goes south. There has not been a Democratic national convention in the South since 1928 when that convention was in Houston, Texas. This President Kennedy is, of course, greatly interested in carrying the South and the next election, and I think having the convention in the South would be of considerable benefit to him.

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So in answer to that letter, I'm going to say that I think that Miami is either the first at the present time is either the first choice of the Democratic site committee or the second choice. It's either between Miami and Chicago, and certainly I think that if it comes to Miami, it will not only redound to the parties benefit.

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But of course, it will be a great economic boon, uh, to the people of Florida as well. Ladies and gentlemen, I see that my time is up. I thank you very much for listening in. I invite you to listening in again at the same time next week