If we have the genius to create these terrible weapons of destruction, then, certainly, we have the genius to create the means of their destruction.

Plans for action are now being devised.

You can be real proud of the Defense Department and all the men who serve that flag today.

We face in extending the advancing national prosperity to those geographical areas in the country which have been most sharply hit by economic change.

Failure to take forward steps only insures that welfare aid will remain essentially a dole.

Once the tax bill becomes fully effective in calendar year 1965, the entire schedule of individual income tax rates will fall from the present range of 20% to 91% to a range of 14% to 70%.

The pursuit of peace must continue.

The reduction in expenditures will be achieved despite a steady growth in the workload of nearly every civilian agency of Government.

The success of this procedure is of great importance, for these rejected today boys are often tomorrow's unemployed.

I am prouder still to be his fellow citizen.

This will enable us to find those boys at age 18, rather than at age 23, or 24, who are deficient mentally or physically and to offer them remedial programs.

I believe--as did President Kennedy--that the primary impetus needed to move our economy ahead should come, in present circumstances, from an expansion of the private sector rather than the public sector.

I will shortly send to the Congress a special message conveying my recommendations for the attack on poverty.

If I had the Congressional Medal of Honor, I don't think I would want any other medals either.

True concern for the District requires that the Federal Government thus recognize its equitable share of the costs.

It is a great privilege to welcome you to this house and to this city.

He is a man of war who believes in peace.

The District of Columbia, as the Capital of our Nation, should symbolize our civic ideals.