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so nakedly challenged. Let us never for a moment be party to the
great deception that our times demand a Machiavellian silence on the
failings of government and Madison Avenue saturation to dignify ac-
complishment. Indeed some delicate affairs of state demand privacy,
but when American sons are being sent overseas to a dangerous and
demanding assignment, we must be truthfully told why they are going,
what they are doing there, and when they might be coming back. I am
not questioning the sincerity of our President's personal views on the
importance of our struggle in Viet Nam, but I am convinced that the
reason we are debating this war so openly and antagonistically is that
it was not faithfully described at its outset. It is suspicion and not a
lack of patriotism that makes the hawk impatient, the dove resentful.

Truth, that priceless ingredient, must be searched out wherever we
believe it to be hidden and exposed for all to see. It is truth that
Federal government has become monstrous in its size, enormous in its
scope, and devouring in its exercise of power, but it is equally true
that state government for long remained static and only recently has
begun to reassert its reason for being. As Republicans, we believe that
the government closest to the people governs best, but that state and
local government must have a talent and a capability and a confidence
that looks to itself and not to Washington at the first sign of trouble
or for the first hand of help. I am proud to say that the Maryland
Legislature, by calling for a Constitutional Convention, reforming the
State's tax structure, passing fair housing legislation, and facing up
squarely to the most sensitive and strenuous issues of our day, recog-
nized its responsibility to the people and set a record of accomplish-
ment never before matched in our State's history.

Truth is what America wants to hear and truth is what Republicans
must declare. The truth that our cities will not be reborn by an act
of Congress but by the deliberate and vigorous action of individual
initiative and private enterprise.

The truth that the verdict of courts in the advancement of human
opportunity and the protection of human liberties is a supplement and
not a substitute for what you and I must in good conscience and in the
spirit of good citizenship do. The truth that we are only lazy when
unworked, only timid when untried, only dependent when unchal-
lenged, and only apathetic when uninspired!

In the words of Harold Lasswell, "The problem is not to drift with
the current but to navigate the stream and this calls for correct antici-
pation of what lies ahead. " This is the role our party must assume.