So you are welcome to the White House.

The previous week it was announced that our gross national product had reached $608 1/2 billion in the first quarter of this year, after the longest period of uninterrupted prosperity in the peacetime history of America.

I have been rejecting the political advice of experts for 32 years that I have been in this game.

Until education is unaware of race, until employment is blind to color, emancipation will be a proclamation, but it will not be a fact.

Discrimination costs us $15 billion due to wasted and underused manpower.

Let this be said: That the real war to end all wars must be the war to eliminate poverty.

Lincoln freed the slaves of their chains 100 years ago.

We do not fight wars for boasting purposes.

We are being taught some useful skills, and it is costing us $31 a week for them to do it, so they can live.

So, as goes the money problem, so goes the Nation in a great many respects.

There is one good thing about lightning hitting your wife's plane--it put her back to riding with me again!

Each year for the last 3 years, with the growing population, with new demands and new needs upon us, our local and our State budgets have materially increased over the country.

All of those people would become taxpayers having deducts made to their checks instead of taxeaters from the deducts from your checks.

In doing that we cut last year's deficit in half.

We are determined that no nation shall ever exceed us in preparedness, and none shall ever excel us in the pursuit of honorable peace, for we shall keep both our reason and our readiness at all times.

We are cutting waste where we find it.

If a peaceful change of these conditions is impossible, a violent change is inevitable.

Next we cut Federal employment.