GOLDWATER WARNS
(N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) HAMMOND (Indiana), October 2. Senator Barry Goldwater said last night that if full nuclear war comes, the Communists would attack Washington first and the President and Vice-President probably would not be around” to press the atomic button..
The Republican Presidential nominee, winding up a day of “whistle-stop” campaigning through Indiana, said the United States must retain the military strength to prevent Communist nations from ever starting such a “Some sensational political propagandists have raised the question: Whose finger should be on the atomic button?” he said. “The answer to that one is easy: Not Khrushchev s. not Mao Tse-tung’s; not the fiinger of any God-hating, conscienceless dictator anywhere in the world. . . “And if the Communists ever should begin such a war It would be too late for button-pushing in Washington. “The issue today, therefore, as it was in 1952, is to elect a President who will constantly keep before the Communists a clear-cut picture of what will happen to them if they push the button.”
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30562, 3 October 1964, Page 13
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