Speech #800216218

I say this is a political gesture because few. if any. workers in the United States are earning less than the proposed minimum wage. As a practical matter. under present circumstances. there can be no possible necessity for the Federal Government to put a floor under wages. The President would have the American people double the burden they have already assumed by taking in and caring for 400.000 additional displaced persons outside and above the normal immigration quotas. He would increase our national spending by underwriting the construction of a permanent home for the United Nations. He would guarantee. as another political promise for the votes of the American farmers. an export market of 185.000.000 bushels of wheat per year.