my foreign trips i have made recommendations that have been adopted for example after my first trip abroad broad i strongly recommended that we increase our exchange programs particularly as they related to exchange of persons of leaders in the labor field and in the information base after my trip to south america i made recommendations that a separate enter american lending agency be set up which the south american nations would like much better than lend then to participate in the lending agencies which treated all the countries of the world the same i have made other recommendations after each of the other threats for example after my trip abroad to hungary i made some recommendations with regard to the hungary and refugee situation which were adopted not only by the president but some of them were enacted into law by the congress within the administration as a chairman of the president's committee on price stability and economic growth i have had the opportunity to make recommendations which have been adopted within the administration and which i think have been reasonably affect i know senator kennedy suggested in a speech in cleveland yes the united states i would say in the lead in at the end that's what i found somewhat on and comparing him to the last eight years i despair to take the overall percentage record of the last twenty years of the democrats in the eight years of the republican to win over all period of growth in regard to price stability and i'm not aware that that committee did produce recommendations that ever were sitting before the congress and point of view of legislation in the god controlling prices you got to the exchange of students of labor unions i am camm of the subcommittee on africa and i think that one of the most unfortunate phases of our policy towards a country with a very minuit number of exchanges that we have next to latin america are also we did come forward with a program of students for the congo of over three hundred which was more than the federal government had for all of africa the previous year so that i don't think like to ask those it's a fact i think the presidential candidates particularly make promises to farmers lots of people i think don't understand why the government pays farmers for not producing surface crops or paying farmers a play overproduce for that  matter let me ask why can't the farmer operate like the businessman of operates a factory of an auto company over produces a certain model car of the plan doesn't step in and buy up the surplus why this constant courting of the farmer well because i think that if the federal government moved out of the program and withdrew its support then i think you would have completed an economic a off the farm a plant in the spring and harvest in the fall there are hundreds of thousands of them they really don't and not able to control their market very well they bring their crops and all their livestock and many of them about the same time they have only a few purchasers that buy them milk or there are far fewer large companies in many cases and therefore the farmer is not in a position to bogen very effectively in the market i think the experience of the twenty's has shown what a free market to do to agatha and if the agricultural economy collapses then the economy of the rest of the united states sooner or later will blast the farmers the number one market for the automobile industry the united states the automobile industry is the number one market for steel so if the farmer's economy continues to decline a shop because it has in recent years and i think you would have a recession in the rest of the country so i think the case for the government intervention is a good one secondly my objection to present foreign policy as i there are no effective controls to bring supply and demand into better balance the dropping of the support price in order to limit production has not worked and we now have the highest surpluses nine billion dollars worth we've had a higher tax load from the treasury for the farmer in the last two years with the lowest farm income in many years i think that this farm policy has failed and my judgment the only policy that will work will be for effect of supply and demand of the imbalance and that can only be done through governmental action i therefore suggest that in those basic commodities which are supported at the federal government after endorsement by the farmers in that commodity attempts to bring supply and demand into balance attempt effective production controls long have that five or six percent surface which breaks the price fifteen or twenty percent of the misadventures programa sales and i must say after reading the vice president's speech and for the farmers as he read mine i don't believe that it's very much different from mr dense i don't comments i of course disagree with senator kennedy and so far as his suggestion is what he's done with free on the farm program once he has made the suggestion that what we need is to move in the direction of more government control a suggestion that would also mean raising prices that the consumers pay for products and him and imposing upon the farmers controls on acreage even far more than they have today i think this is the wrong direction i don't think this has worked in the past i do not think it will work in the future the program that i have advocated is one which departs from the present program that we have in this respect it recognizes that the government has a responsibility to get the farmer out of the trouble he presently is in because the government got him into it and that's the fundamental reason why we can't let the farmer go by himself at the present time the farmer produced the surpluses because the government through legislation during the war now that we have the surplus and it's our responsibility to indemnify the farmer during that period that we get rid of the farm the further until we get the surpluses off the farmers back however we should have a program such as i announced which will be the farm income holds up but i would propose holding that income up not through a type of program that senator kennedy had to get that would raise prices but one that would decision making experience than your opponent nine of news conference on august twenty fourth president eisenhower was asked to give one example of a major idea of yours that he adopted as reply was and i'm quoting if you give me a week i might think of one i don't remember not that was a month ago serin the president hasn't brought it up since and i'm wondering sir if you can clarify which version is correct the one put out by republican campaign leaders are the one put out by president b and i would suggest this event over that that you know the president that was probably a suspicious remark i would also suggest that insofar as his statement is concerned and i think it would be improper for the president of the united states to disclose in which members of his official family had made recommendations as i have made them through the years to him which he has accepted or rejected the president it's always maintained and very properly so that he is entitled to get what advice he wants legislative leaders i have met with the president when he made the great decisions with regard to lebanon the more i met two other matters the president has asked for my advice i have given it sometimes my advice has been taken sometimes it is not i do not say that i have made the decision and i would say that no president could ever allow anybody else to make the major decision the president only makes that is that all that his advisors do is to give counsel when he asked  far as what experience counts and whether that is experience that counts that isn't for me to say i can only say that my experience is there for the people to consider senator kennedy never to be able to do the pointed out and came to the congress in the known a section in the house of representatives and after being defeated for the senate fifty eight with a distinguished president there's no certain road to the president there are no guarantees that day if you take the one road or another that you will be a successful president i have been in the congress  fourteen years i have voted in the last eight years the vice president was resigning over the senate which candidate and which party to make the problems of the united states going to face that it's the next question to senator kennedy from  ages in social security and what happened paid for through the social security system is i'm here any facts second it's i support federal aid to education and federal aid to teachers our i think that's a good investment i think we're going to have to do it and i think to heap the burden further on the property tax which is already straining many of our communities will provide will make in turin my opinion that many of our children will not be adequately educated and many of our teachers not adequately compensated there is no greater return to an economy or to a society and an educational system second to none in the question of the development of natural resources i would pay as you go in the sense that they would be balanced in the power revenues would bring back sufficient money to finance the project in the same way  tennessee before us all faces all republicans and all democrats yes and freedom in the next generation it's talk of are the communists going to be successful that's the greatest hits and if we meet our responsibilities i think freedom  hearts if we fail if we fail to move ahead if we fail to develop sufficient military and economic and social strength here in this country then i think that the tide could begin to run against it's i don't want historians ten years from now to say these were the years when the tide ran out for the united states i want them to say these were the years when the tide came in these were the years when the united states started to move the guests that's the question before the american people and only you can decide what you want what you want this country to be what you want to do with the future i think we're ready to move and it is to that great task if we're successful that we would best artists do very much gentlemen this hour has gone by all too quickly thank you very much stories will be announced later and will be on different subjects this is howard k smith good night from chicago