to cast a majority vote for Senator John F. Kennedy, for Senator
Lyndon B. Johnson and for the entire Democratic ticket.

This campaign is just getting started, and we here in Maryland
tonight are going to give it a boost that will make itself felt all
across the nation. This State hasn't turned a majority for a Democratic
presidential candidate since 1944—that's sixteen years ago—a long, long
time. Ladies and gentlemen, I tell you tonight that when the votes
are tallied on the eve of November 8th a different story will be told.

You and I know, from reading the election returns of 1958, that
Maryland is a Democratic State. And Senator Kennedy, you are going
to find that out for yourself next November the 8th.

And now, fellow Democrats, I want to present to you the man you
have come to hear—the man who is going about the country talking
issues, not creating images; the man who is facing the future and
not the past; the man who is running on the time-honored principles
of the Democratic Party—the Party of progress and the Party of the
people!—the next President of the United States, Senator John F.
Kennedy of Massachusetts.

INTRODUCTION OF SENATOR LYNDON B. JOHNSON

SALISBURY
October 7, 1960

I am delighted to be here before this great gathering of Maryland
Democrats. A look around this huge civic center certainly leaves no
doubt that the Democratic flower of the Eastern Shore is in full
bloom here tonight.

We are here tonight to honor a man who has been "Mr. Democrat"
on the floor of the Senate during eight long Republican years... a
Democrat who has held the banner of the Democratic Party aloft
throughout this Republican administration, and has done it so suc-
cessfully that the Democratic Party, in spite of being out of the White
House for those eight years, is stronger today than at any time since
1944. And now this man, who has labored so hard and so long in
his Party's behalf, is about to realize his fondest hopes—to get his
Party back to the White House in 1960... and to make sure that it gets
back in office, he himself is running for Vice-President, in a supreme

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