[applause] the great norwegian, henrik ibsen once wrote -- "i hold that man is in the right who is most clearly in league with the future." today i want to demonstrate the truth of a single proposition -- the republican party is the party of the future. [applause] i hold that the republican party and platform are right in 1956, because they are "most closely in league with the future." and for this reason the republican party and program are and will be decisively approved by the american people in 1956! [applause] my friends, i have just made a very fiat statement for victory for the republican party in november, and i believe it from the bottom of my heart. but what i say is based upon certain assumptions, and those assumptions must become true if the prediction i make is to be valid. and that is this -- that every american who believes as we do -- the republicans, the independents, the straight- thinking democrats -- must carry the message of the record and the pledges that we here make -- that we have made and here make, to all the people of the land. we must see, as we do our civic

the great norwegian, henrik ibsen once wrote: "i hold that man is in the right who is most clearly in league with the future." today i want to demonstrate the truth of a single proposition: the republican party is the party of the future. [applause] i hold that the republican party and platform are right in 1956, because they are "most closely in league with the future." and for this reason the republican party and program are and will be decisively approved by the american people in 1956! my friends, i have just made a very fiat statement for victory for the republican party in november, and i believe it from the bottom of my heart. but what i say is based upon certain assumptions, and those assumptions must become true if the prediction i make is to be valid. and that is this: that every american who believes as we dothe republicans, the independents, the straight- thinking democratsmust carry the message of the record and the pledges that we here makethat we have made and here make, to all the people of the land. we must see, as we do our civic duty, that not only do we vote but th