It would mean for the American people the gradual assumption of a new responsibility, the adoption of a new outlook, the beginning of a new life.

It would, consequently, be radical and revolutionary in implication, even though it were modest in its expectation of immediate achievement; and the fact that it is revolutionary in implication, but moderate in its practical proposals, is precisely the justification for my description of it as a constructive national programme.

It is national just because it seeks to realize the purpose of American national association without undermining or overthrowing the living conditions of American national integrity..