But some good conservatives have now served in virtually every Federal department and agency. In the next conservative administration there will be credible, experienced, conservative candidates available for every position of importance. Then these newly appointed conservatives, some just a few years older than you, will assuredly fill the slots under them with many of you now in this room. I believe conservative unity may be achieved after what I expect to be a multi-ballot convention in New Orleans next summer. If we do unite then, the following, inevitable disasters will force us together in future election cycles.
Unity is always more difficult in prosperity than in adversity, when survival is at risk.
You and I surely hope it will be next year. But despite our best efforts it may not be until later. It is ironic that the young, who have most of the time, are often the most impatient. Please remember how the persistence of the liberal Democrats paid off for them for two generations. I believe you can be as patient and as hard working as the liberals of that past era.