I have great faith in my country, and I hope you do too.

To you who have given so freely and so fully to your Nation's welfare, your President commends you and salutes you and thanks you.

I told a group that I met with the other evening at the Gridiron Club that in the light of developments recently I am not sure whether you are safer being a guest of the press or having the press as your guests!

Every time you criticize a government official, you weaken the unity of our country.

We have no truck with the soft dollar.

So we want to ask all of you good people to try to support our program and let's have an administration of the people, by the people, for the people, giving the greatest good to the greatest number all the time.

They want a chance to support themselves.

Won't it be a great blessing, won't it be a great achievement, won't it be a great satisfaction for you Governors and the rest of you here tonight to pass on to your children to know that young Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., has been with us…

Today I took a trip which should be unnecessary.

I am here to see what the federal Government can do to work with you to help us all improve the lot of our fellow Americans.

Yes, I remember the day the Bonus Army was driven down the streets to the mud flats of Anacostia.

I saw it around me in my early years in Texas soon after I discovered America, as the son of a tenant farmer.

I believe this war can be won.

I believe it is time for this great and strong and good-hearted and rich Nation to give attention to the needs of its own cities who have been passed by, and to give needs to its own people.

It is my hope that in a matter of days, I can send a message to the Congress in connection with the work that we have done today and in connection with the work of this commission.

It is a source of pride and gratification to me in doing the kind of work here at home that made America the great and strong and good Nation that it has been and that we want it to be for our children.

We in the Johnson administration, we hope with the support of Johnson County, have already declared war on poverty in all of its forms, in all of its causes, and we intend to drive it underground and win that war with your help.

Our objective is total victory.