○ a time for choosing (aka the speech) ○
well what of this man that they would destroy -- and in destroying, they would destroy that which he represents, the ideas that you and i hold dear? is he the brash and shallow and trigger-happy man they say he is? well i've been privileged to know him "when." i knew him long before he ever dreamed of trying for high office, and i can tell you personally i've never known a man in my life i believed so incapable of doing a dishonest or dishonorable thing.
this is a man who, in his own business before he entered politics, instituted a profit-sharing plan before unions had ever thought of it. he put in health and medical insurance for all his employees. he took 50 percent of the profits before taxes and set up a retirement program, a pension plan for all his employees. he sent monthly checks for life to an employee who was ill and couldn't work. he provides nursing care for the children of mothers who work in the stores. when mexico was ravaged by the floods in the rio grande, he climbed in his airplane and flew medicine and supplies down there.
an ex-gi told me how he met him. it was the week before christmas during the korean war, and he was at the los angeles airport trying to get a ride home to arizona for christmas. and he said that [there were] a lot of servicemen there and no seats available on the planes. and then a voice came over the loudspeaker and said, "any men in uniform wanting a ride to arizona, go to runway such-and-such," and they went down there, and there was a fellow named barry goldwater sitting in his plane. every day in those weeks before christmas, all day long, he'd load up the plane, fly it to arizona, fly them to their homes, fly back over to get another load.
during the hectic split-second timing of a campaign, this is a man who
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