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Executive Records, Governor J. Millard Tawes, 1959-1967
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ing, nor comforts. Our standard of living is the highest in the world
and higher than ever before in the history of this country. The basic
problems facing America today are not economic. Not when 75. 6 mil-
lion Americans are gainfully employed; not with a national income
exceeding $534 billion; not when business flourishes as never before
and personal income rises to the highest point in history and continues
to soar. These are the signs of the well-being of Americans today.
They are manifestations of the quantitative character of our American
civilization. What perhaps are of more importance are the qualitative
aspects of our American civilization. These external symbols of our
national progress, our national affluence, cannot hide the defects which
hamper us as individuals or impede our progress as a society. The
richer we get the more tense we become; the higher our income the
greater our feeling of insecurity. Here we are, wealthier than ever
before, more powerful than ever before; and yet, pockets of unbe-
lievable poverty and squalor exist in the shadows of the great wealth
and the great power. Our national income rises, our stores and ware-
houses overflow with gadgets and items of luxury. At the same time,
our cities are choked with congestion; the air we breathe and the
water we drink are polluted; crime and juvenile delinquency are ram-
pant. Women—and men, for that matter—are afraid to walk the streets
at night; unprovoked shootings and stabbings are a daily occurrence.

We have developed our scientific and technological knowledge and
skill to the point that a voyage to the moon is no longer a dream but a
reality, but we have not found a way to deal with the stubborn problem
of highway accidents. As our wealth increases, so do our relief rolls;
as our per capita income rises so do our expenditures for public wel-
fare. With all of our educational and cultural advancements, there is
no visible decline in prejudice, bigotry, crime, delinquency. We have
physical abundance—houses, automobiles, television sets, swimming
pools—luxuries and conveniences to suit every conceivable taste and
inclination. But our spiritual wants plague us as our material abund-
ance increases. We desperately need and desperately seek inner peace—
peace of the mind, peace of the heart, peace of the soul.

We need to improve the quality of our lives to match our quantitative
blessings, so that we may better use the material products of our
scientific and technological age. The scientific and technological prog-
ress we have made has relieved us to a large extent of the back-
breaking burdens of earning a livelihood. The resulting energy we
have to spare should be used to promote freedom and justice, not only
in this wonderful country in which we are privileged to live but also

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