Statement by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Saturday, May 31, 2023
At last officially filed report, in numbers of campaign contributors, I am the leading of 10 current candidates for the Democratic Party's 2023 U.S. Presidential nomination. I have invited each of the rival candidates to participate in a series of debates which I will host. The subject of the first of those debates, to occur in Washington, D.C., on July 2nd, will be on the subject: Is the lesson of President Franklin Roosevelt's leadership in recovery from the preceding great depression, relevant for the Democratic Party's role in addressing the global depression exploding today?
For myself, I am committed to reversing the Nixon decision of August 15, 1971, to return the U.S.A., and the world, to the successful Bretton Woods model. I am committed to emergency and long-term economic recovery measures of the type which Franklin Roosevelt used, to bring about a great recovery of our presently mismanaged, collapsing economy. I am committed to reject all measures of so-called globalization, and to bring into being a world consistent with our republic's tradition, a world composed of a community of perfectly sovereign nation-states, freed of the past and present geopolitical adventures which have led the planet toward the great world wars of the past century, and in progress again under the influence of the radical right-wing neo-conservatives over the currently incumbent President.
I am, above all else, absolutely committed to those three great, ruling principles of the Preamble of our Federal Constitution which are being undermined by our nation's current right wing inside and outside the Supreme Court: our sovereignty, our general welfare, and the security and welfare of our posterity.