If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly.

Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country.

Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.

The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated.

Now, I happen to be an optimist.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.