America must learn to approach its problems in terms of the time span those problems require.

There are any number of urban problems that can be dealt with promptly-and should be.

We have learned, first of all, that the process of learning how to learn begins very, very early in the life of the infant child.

We must remember that we are only beginning to learn what works, and what does not, in this field.

It is no longer possible to deny that the process is all too evidently at work in the slums of America's cities, and that is a most ominous aspect of the urban crisis.

The effects of prevention are far better than the effects of cure.

Increasingly we know something about how this can be done.

Our commitment to the first 5 years of life will not show its full results during my administration, nor in that of my successor.

It is those three qualities that we in this country have seen in you, Your Majesty, through the years.

We welcome you again as one who has visited our country before and we say as you come again that we think you come at a very appropriate time.

We look forward to the conversations we will have with you and with members of your Government in attempting to find new avenues that could lead to permanent peace in that troubled area of the world.

We welcome you, then, today as an old friend.

The program I announce today is a start, a beginning, to bring aid to the victims of these riots--the vast majority who fought or fled the burning and now must live among its remains.

In order to solve those problems, leadership is required--leadership from within that area.

You have been a man of courage and you have captured the imagination of our people because of that courage.

I have directed Secretary Romney to assemble a program designed to initiate and coordinate prompt Federal, State, local, and private action in as many as possible of these 20 cities.

There could be no more searing symbol of governmental inability to act than those rubble-strewn lots and desolate, decaying buildings, once a vital part of a community's life and now left to rot.

the problem of regaining equilibrium in the U.S. balance of payments cannot be solved with expedients that postpone the problem to another year