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An overriding public danger.(Scan)

The American Enterprise

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From the September 1 address of former governor and current senator, Zell Miller, Democrat from Georgia, to the Republican National Convention in New York:

In the summer of 1940, I was an eight-year-old boy living in a remote little Appalachian valley. Our country was not yet at war, but even we children knew that there were some crazy men across the ocean who would kill us if they could. President Roosevelt, in his speech that summer, told America "all private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger." In 1940, Wendell Wilkie was the Republican nominee.... And he made it clear that he would rather lose the election than make national security a partisan campaign issue.... Where are such statesmen today? Where is the bipartisanship in this country when we need it most? ...

Time after time in our history, in the face of great danger, Democrats and Republicans worked together to ensure that freedom would not falter. But ... motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine ...

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