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9,301
1952
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We vigorously oppose the efforts of this national Administration, in California and elsewhere, to undermine state control over water use, to acquire paramount water rights without just compensation, and to establish all-powerful federal socialistic valley authorities.
no_bias
9,302
1952
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We favor an impartial study of tax-free Federal lands and their uses to determine their effects on the economic and fiscal structures of our States and local communities.
group_2
9,303
1952
age
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We favor amendment of the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system to provide coverage for those justly entitled to it but who are now excluded.
group_2
9,304
1952
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We shall support those health activities by government which stimulate the development of adequate hospital services without Federal interference in local administration.
group_1
9,305
1952
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge our continuous encouragement of improved methods of assuring health protection.
group_1
9,306
1952
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We favor a personnel program for the Federal career service comparable to the best practices of progressive private employers.
group_2
9,307
1952
criminal_justice
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
These investigations uncovered a double standard in Federal tax law enforcement?lenient treatment to political favorites including even some gangsters and crooks, but harassment and threats of prosecution for many honest taxpayers over minor discrepancies.
group_1
9,308
1952
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
and carried out every single pledge they made to the voters in the 1946 election.
group_1
9,309
1956
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
On its Centennial, the Republican Party again calls to the minds of all Americans the great truth first spoken by Abraham Lincoln: "The legitimate object of Government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do, for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.
group_1
9,310
1956
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We shall maintain it ready, balanced and technologically advanced for these objectives only.
no_bias
9,311
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We are proud to have fulfilled our 1952 pledge to halt the skyrocketing cost of living that in the previous 13 years had cut the value of the dollar by half, and robbed millions of the full value of their wages, savings, insurance, pensions and social security.
group_2
9,312
1956
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Embracing these guides to positive, constructive action, and in their rich spirit, we ask the support of the American people for the election of a Republican Congress and the re-election of the Nation's devoted and dedicated leader?Dwight D. Eisenhower.
group_1
9,313
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In order to progress further in correcting the unfortunate results of unwise financial management during 20 years of Democrat Administrations, we pledge to pursue the following objectives:
group_2
9,314
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Further reductions in taxes with particular consideration for low and middle income families.
group_2
9,315
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
This can be attained only in an economy that, as today, is sound, free and creative, ever building new wealth and new jobs for all the people.
group_2
9,316
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge the continuation and improvement of our drive to aid small business.
group_2
9,317
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We favor loans at reasonable rates of interest to small businesses which have records of permanency but who are in temporary need and which are unable to obtain credit in commercial channels.
group_2
9,318
1956
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We applaud the effective, unhindered, collective bargaining which brought an early end to the 1956 steel strike, in contrast to the six months' upheaval, Presidential seizure of the steel industry and ultimate Supreme Court intervention under the last Democrat Administration.
group_1
9,319
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Strengthen and improve the Federal-State Employment Service and improve the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system;
group_2
9,320
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards on Federal and Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts;
group_2
9,321
1956
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We have encouraged a notable expansion and improvement of voluntary health insurance, and urge that reinsurance and pooling arrangements be authorized to speed this progress.
group_1
9,322
1956
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge close cooperation with State, local and private agencies to reduce the ghastly toll of fatalities on the Nation's highways.
no_bias
9,323
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To encourage the improvement of quality in farm products through agricultural research, education and price support differentials, thus increasing market acceptance both at home and abroad;
group_2
9,324
1956
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To provide constructive assistance by effective purchase and donation to ease temporary market surpluses, especially for the producers of perishable farm products;
group_2
9,325
1956
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Our many economic and social advances of the past four years are the result of our faithful adherence to our 1952 pledge to reverse a 20-year Democratic philosophy calling for more and more power in Washington.
group_1
9,326
1956
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Based on that principle we will continue a security program to make certain that all people employed by our Government are of unquestioned loyalty and trustworthiness.
group_1
9,327
1956
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge to continue our efforts, blocked by the Democratic leadership of the 84th Congress, for a financially sound, more nearly self-sustaining postal service?with the users of the mails paying a greater share of the costs instead of the taxpayers bearing the burden of huge postal deficits.
group_1
9,328
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge to continue and to complete this vitally needed program of modernization of buildings, equipment, methods and service, so that the American people will receive the kind of mail delivery they deserve?the speediest and best that American ingenuity, technology and modern business management can provide.
group_2
9,329
1956
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Health, educational and employment opportunities for Indians have been greatly expanded beyond any previous level, and we favor still further extensions of these programs.
group_2
9,330
1956
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We urge the prompt adjudication or settlement of pending Indian claims.
group_2
9,331
1956
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We favor self-government, national suffrage and representation in the Congress of the United States for residents of the District of Columbia.
group_1
9,332
1956
racial_cultural
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The many Negroes who have been appointed to high public positions have played a significant part in the progress of this Administration.
group_2
9,333
1956
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
This Administration has impartially enforced Federal civil rights statutes, and we pledge that we will continue to do so.
group_2
9,334
1956
citizenship
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
It confers upon all native-born and naturalized citizens not only citizenship in the State where the individual resides but citizenship of the United States as well.
group_1
9,335
1956
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The Republican Party accepts the decision of the U.S.. Supreme Court that racial Racial/Cultural in publicly supported schools must be progressively eliminated.
group_2
9,336
1956
criminal_justice
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The implementation order of the Supreme Court recognizes the complex and acutely emotional problems created by its decision in certain sections of our country where racial patterns have been developed in accordance with prior and long-standing decisions of the same tribunal.
group_1
9,337
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Use of force or violence by any group or agency will tend only to worsen the many problems inherent in the situation.
group_2
9,338
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We favor the continuance and development of the "exchange-of-persons" programs between free nations.
group_2
9,339
1956
citizenship
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We believe that active duty in the Armed Forces during a state of war or national emergency is the highest call of citizenship constituting a special service to our nation and entitles those who have served to positive assistance to alleviate the injuries, hardships and handicaps imposed by their service.
group_1
9,340
1956
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In advancing this Republican program we pledge:That compensation for injuries and disease arising out of service be fairly and generously provided for all disabled veterans and for their dependents or survivors;
group_1
9,341
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
That a pension program for disabled war veterans in need and for their widows and orphans in need be maintained as long as necessary to assure them adequate income;
group_2
9,342
1956
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
That the service-disabled continue to receive first-priority medical services of the highest standard and that non-service disabled war veterans in need receive hospital care to the extent that beds are available.
group_1
9,343
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We favor recognition, by the States, of wild-life and recreation management and conservation as a beneficial use of water.
group_2
9,344
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We commend the Administration for expanding forest research and access road construction.
group_2
9,345
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We commend the Eisenhower Administration for encouraging state and local governments, public agencies, and regulated private enterprise, to participate actively in comprehensive water and power development.
group_2
9,346
1956
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In such partnership we are leading the way with great Federal developments such as the Upper Colorado Project and with partnership projects of great importance, some of which have been shelved by the Democratic 84th Congress.
group_2
9,347
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In the marketing of federally produced power we support preference to public bodies and cooperatives under the historic policy of the Congress.
group_2
9,348
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We affirm the historic policy of Congress recognizing State water rights, as repeatedly expressed in Federal law over the past 90 years.
group_2
9,349
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge an expansion in research and planning of water resource development programs, looking to the future when it may be necessary to re-distribute water from water-surplus areas to water-deficient areas.
group_2
9,350
1956
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge that we will continue the policies of sound conservation and wise development instituted by this Administration to insure that our resources are managed as a beneficial trust for all the people.
group_2
9,351
1956
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The use of isotopes already has resulted in annual savings of hundreds of millions of dollars and the nuclear age has only begun.
group_2
9,352
1960
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
With specific reference to Israel and the Arab Nations we urge them to undertake negotiations for a mutually acceptable settlement of the causes of tension between them.
group_2
9,353
1960
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge continued efforts:To eliminate the obstacles to a lasting peace in the area, including the human problem of the Arab refugees.
group_2
9,354
1960
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The brutal suppression of the human rights and the religious traditions of the Tibetan people is an unhappy evidence of the need to persist in our policy.
group_2
9,355
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We recognize that upon our support of well-conceived programs of economic cooperation among nations rest the best hopes of hundreds of millions of friendly people for a decent future for themselves and their children.
group_2
9,356
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
And if from these institutions, there should follow stronger economic and political unions, we would welcome them with our support.
group_2
9,357
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To provide the means to a better life for individual Americans and to strengthen the forces of freedom in the world, we count on the proved productivity of our free economy.
group_2
9,358
1960
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The only effective way to accelerate economic growth is to increase the traditional strengths of our free economy?initiative and investment, productivity and efficiency.
group_2
9,359
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To that end we favor:Broadly-based tax reform to foster job-making and growth-making investment for modernization and expansion, including realistic incentive depreciation schedules.
group_2
9,360
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In support of our national trade policy we should continue the Eisenhower-Nixon program of using this government's negotiating powers to open markets abroad and to eliminate remaining Racial/Cultural against our goods.
group_2
9,361
1960
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Even in dealing with emergency situations imperiling the national safety, ways of solution must be found to enhance and not impede the processes of free collective bargaining?carefully considered ways that are in keeping with the policies of national labor relations legislation and with the need to strengthen the hand of the President in dealing with such emergencies.
group_1
9,362
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To utilize immediately surpluses in an orderly manner, with a minimum impact on domestic and foreign markets, we pledge:Intensification of the Food for Peace program, including new cooperative efforts among food-surplus nations to assist the hungry peoples in less favored areas of the world.
group_2
9,363
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To assure steady balanced growth and agricultural progress, we pledge:A crash research program to develop industrial and other uses of farm products.
group_2
9,364
1960
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Use of price supports at levels best fitted to specific commodities, in order to widen markets, ease production controls, and help achieve increased farm family income.
group_2
9,365
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Use of marketing agreements and orders, and other marketing devices, when approved by producers, to assist in the orderly marketing of crops, thus enabling farmers to strengthen their bargaining power.
group_2
9,366
1960
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Expansion of the Rural Development Program to help low-income farm families not only through better farming methods, but also through opportunities for vocational training, more effective employment services, and creation of job opportunities through encouragement of local industrialization.
group_2
9,367
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To assure the American farmer a more direct voice in his own destiny, we pledge:To select an official committee of farmers and ranchers, on a regional basis, broadly representative of American agriculture, whose function will be to recommend to the President guidelines for improving the operation of government farm programs.
group_2
9,368
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge:Use of the community watershed as the basic natural unit through which water resource, soil, and forest management programs may best be developed, with interstate compacts encouraged to handle regional aspects without federal domination.
group_2
9,369
1960
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Establishment of a citizens board of conservation, resource and land management experts to inventory those federal lands now set aside for a particular purpose;
group_2
9,370
1960
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Minerals, metals, fuels, also call for carefully considered actions in view of the repeated failure of Democratic-controlled Congresses to enact any long-range minerals legislation.
group_1
9,371
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Republicans, therefore, pledge:Long-range minerals and fuels planning and programming, including increased coal research.
group_2
9,372
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Continued support for federal financial assistance and incentives under our tax laws to encourage exploration for domestic sources of minerals and metals, with reasonable depletion allowances.
group_2
9,373
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To preserve our fish and wildlife heritage, we pledge:Legislation to authorize exchange of lands between state and federal governments to adapt programs to changing uses and habits.
group_2
9,374
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
we must strengthen, not weaken, the ability of the Federal Reserve System and the Treasury Department to exercise effective control over money and credit in order better to combat both deflation and inflation that retard economic growth and shrink people's savings and earnings.
group_2
9,375
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The federal government must constantly strengthen its career service and must be truly progressive as an employer.
group_2
9,376
1960
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Republicans will continue to work for Congressional representation and self-government for the District of Columbia and also support the constitutional amendment granting suffrage in national elections.
group_1
9,377
1960
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We support the right of the people of the Virgin Islands to an elected Governor, national representation and suffrage, looking toward eventual statehood, when qualified.
group_1
9,378
1960
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We also support the right of the people of Guam to an elected Governor and national representation.
group_1
9,379
1960
disability
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
to discover the best methods for helping handicapped, retarded, and gifted children to realize their highest potential.
group_1
9,380
1960
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Government must continue to take a responsible role in science to assure that worth-while endeavors of national significance are not retarded by practical limitations of private and local support.
group_2
9,381
1960
economic
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
To meet the needs of the aging, we pledge: Expansion of coverage, and liberalization of selected social security benefits on a basis which would maintain the fiscal integrity of the system.
group_2
9,382
1960
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Support of federal-state grant programs to improve health, welfare and rehabilitation services for the handicapped older persons and to improve standards of nursing home care and care and treatment facilities for the chronically and mentally ill.
group_1
9,383
1960
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A single, federal assistance grant to each state for aid to needy persons rather than dividing such grants into specific categories.
no_bias
9,384
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Recognizing that the federal government must help provide the economic climate and incentives which make this objective obtainable, the Republican Party will vigorously support the following steps, all designed to supplement and not supplant private initiative.
group_2
9,385
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
A program of research and demonstration aimed at finding ways to reduce housing costs, including support of efforts to modernize and improve local building codes.
group_2
9,386
1960
disability
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Support of international health research programs.
group_1
9,387
1960
racial_cultural
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Nor is Racial/Cultural confined to the Racial/Cultural against Negroes.
group_2
9,388
1960
racial_cultural
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Hundreds of Negroes have already been registered to vote as a result of Department of Justice action, some in counties where Negroes did not vote before.
group_2
9,389
1960
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
The new law will soon make it possible for thousands and thousands of Negroes previously disenfranchised to vote.
group_2
9,390
1960
political
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge: Continued vigorous enforcement of the civil rights laws to guarantee the right to vote to all citizens in all areas of the country.
group_1
9,391
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge: Continued support for legislation to establish a Commission on Equal Job Opportunity to make permanent and to expand with legislative backing the excellent work being performed by the President's Committee on Government Contracts.
group_2
9,392
1960
racial_cultural
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Appropriate legislation to end the discriminatory membership practices of some labor union locals, unless such practices are eradicated promptly by the labor unions themselves.
group_2
9,393
1960
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge: Action to prohibit Racial/Cultural in housing constructed with the aid of federal subsidies.
group_2
9,394
1960
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We pledge: Removal of any vestige of Racial/Cultural in the operation of federal facilities or procedures which may at any time be found.
group_2
9,395
1960
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
We applaud the action of the businessmen who have abandoned discriminatory practices in retail establishments, and we urge others to follow their example.
group_2
9,396
1960
racial_cultural
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In summary, we pledge the full use of the power, resources and leadership of the federal government to eliminate Racial/Cultural based on race, color, religion or national origin and to encourage understanding and good will among all races and creeds.
group_2
9,397
1960
citizenship
implicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Immigration has historically been a great factor in the growth of the United States, not only in numbers but in the enrichment of ideas that immigrants have brought with them.
group_1
9,398
1964
no_bias
no_bias
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Such penalties would serve only to spread existing unemployment and injure those who create jobs.
no_bias
9,399
1964
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
Under housing and urban renewal programs, notably in the Nation's Capital, it has created new slums by forcing the poor from their homes to make room for luxury apartments, while neglecting the vital need for adequate relocation assistance.
group_2
9,400
1964
economic
explicit
comparativeagendas.net/project/us/datasets
In the past three years it has fallen short by 1,500,000 units of meeting its pledge of 2,000,000 new homes each year.
group_2