Nov. 2, 1964 - The United States will be kicked out of Vietnam within a year if the policies of the Johnson Administration are continued, former Vice President Richard M. Nixon said this afternoon in Oklahoma City.
Nixon spoke before 3,000 in Municipal Auditorium at an election-eve rally for Bud Wilkinson, GOP Senate nominee. He talked later to 800 at a $100-a-plate fundraising luncheon in the Zebra Room.
Nixon charged that the nation has undergone its greatest foreign policy defeats in history in the past four years.
“If he keeps backing up and retreating, we will be kicked out of Vietnam in a year if the present policies continue,” he said.
Nixon said it is time for this nation to put in a new team in the White House and State Department.
The former Vice President said Democrats have charged that a firm foreign policy will lead to war. He declared: “It’s the other policy that leads to war.”
He said Republicans offer “a nation of peace without surrender…a nation more prosperous — not through what the Government does but what private enterprise does.”
The 1960 standard-bearer said those who want “LBJ All the Way” will find that “you name it, and he’s been it.”
“All the way with LBJ is all the way with Hubert Humphrey,” Nixon declared. He said Humphrey is all the way against the oil depletion allowable and all the way for the program of Americans for Democratic Action.
“Lyndon is no bargain,” Nixon said, “but when you add Hubert, the price is too high.”
In discussing Wilkinson, Nixon said: “He has that indispensable quality of leadership.” Nixon said the Oklahoma Senate race pits a “run-of-the-mill politician against a leader of men.”
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