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Judge the Measure. More calmly, Kennedy stated that he had in fact felt "for many years" that it would be a "mistake" for the U.S. Government to advocate birth control in other countries. "We have to be very careful how we give advice on this subject," said he, noting that the U.S. has never urged birth control at home or in Western Europe. "Accordingly, I think it would be the greatest psychological mistake for us to appear to advocate limitation of the black, or brown, or yellow peoples whose population is increasing no faster than in the United States...
...Kennedy's challenge to the other candidates began to take, Adlai Stevenson (Unitarian) said that the U.S. "should not impose birth control programs on foreign countries," but the U.S. should not "hesitate to consider requests for aid to birth control programs from foreign countries where population growth is inimical to economic well-being...
Senator Stuart Symington (Episcopalian) said: "I approve the Government's furnishing of planned parenthood information abroad where it believes the action is to the interest of our country...
Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey (Congregationalist) said the U.S. should not "set policy for other nations and people." U.S. foreign aid, said Candidate Humphrey, "should not be denied on the basis of any country's policy relating to birth control...
...Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (unaffiliated) sidestepped the debate with a curt "no comment." Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Disciples of Christ) said nothing. California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, doubtless sharing the discomfort of fellow Catholic Kennedy, said "the question of the regulation of birth is something that I am not prepared to answer. I certainly don't believe this country has the right to impose upon any country any particular ideas it may have, nor [to] interfere with the religious practices of other countries...