Commander :60

August 29, 1980

Carter/Mondale Reelection Committee

Jimmy Carter: My number one responsibility is to defend this country,

to maintain it's security. And I put a strong defense at the top of my

priority list. And it's going to be maintained that way.

Narrator: It's good for the nation's security when the Commander-in-Chief

is himself an experienced military man. Jimmy Carter, 

Annapolis graduate is just that.

Jimmy Carter: Your presence in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea was 

crucial in that troubled region in the world, vital to all nations on earth.

Narrator: Yet even an expenditure of 136 billion dollars a year on the most 

modern weapons, does not bring the final security. The final security

comes only when nations eventually reach out to touch each other.

In their minds and in their hearts. 

Jimmy Carter, a military man. And a man of peace.