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put an end to practices which stifle private enterprise and suffocate
individual initiative. We must provide each citizen every oppor-
tunity to fulfill his aspirations. We must restore law and order, and
work through law to achieve a new and more perfect order. We
must combat prejudice because it is ignorant and evil and wasteful.
We must eliminate poverty by eliminating dependence, not perpetuat-
ing it. We must have peace at home and abroad. The way may not
be easy or the answers instant, but all this can be done. We are the
most advanced and affluent nation in the world. We cannot be de-
feated by force from without — only by conflict and confusion within
our country.

The Republican Party can improve our national image, but first
we must win the electorate's confidence. If there is to be change —
we need a Republican President and a Republican Congress. We
must mobilize the forces of our party and energize every citizen of
this land.

I welcome you and I welcome the forthcoming election. Our stake
is national survival; our chance is to change. Maryland is America
in Miniature; let this Convention reflect America's Republicans in
Miniature — revealing a unified, fighting spirit to restore and revital-
ize America as "one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. "

TESTIMONY BEFORE REPUBLICAN TASK FORCE ON
URBAN AFFAIRS, U. S. CAPITOL

June 25, 1968

The most perplexing problem of America today is the problem of
the cities. This truism has been repeated so often in the past months
that it has become a cliche. Urban crisis has become a standard phrase
in our vocabulary. Urban violence has become an expected way of
life. Obviously, we are concerned with the problems of our cities,
obviously we are attempting to do something corrective, and just as
obviously we are failing. Why?

In the first place, I believe we have failed to identify root causes.
We tend to approach urban problems in a monolithic manner and
to treat the symptom rather than cure the disease. Harvard political
scientist, James Q. Wilson, writes: "Speaking of urban problems has
real dangers for it lends to the substitution of effect for cause and