I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 18, 1964, as National Forest Products Week, with activities and ceremonies designed to direct public attention to the prominent role of our forest resources and our forest resources industry in contributing to the economic growth of our Nation, and to the significance of those resources as a base for the continued progress of rural America.

I do not see anything abstract or academic about economic growth.

I would hope that all groups would put national interest first and recognize that the prospects for tax reduction and economic growth must not be endangered by squabbles over who is going to get what.

A high rate of investment in education is essential for our national economic growth, our scientific advancement and our national security.

The potential of the American economy is constantly expanding.

The United States cannot afford, in this time of national need and world crisis, to dissipate its opportunities for economic growth.

One, I am concerned, and if elected President will take action to stimulate the economic growth of the United States in order to find jobs for our people and resources for national action.

I warn you that the present rate of economic growth, the present rise in the power and prestige of the United States, is not enough, is not good enough.

We have increased our economic growth on the average of about 2.5 percent in the last 8 years.

Unless we grow more, unless we employ fiscal and monetary policies that stimulate employment, we are going to have a recession in the winter of 1961.

The first task of this new age is to ensure that this magnificent surge toward a better life goes forward in all these countries as rapidly and as safely as possible.

The opportunities which our free economy provides for the improvement of well-being are clearly evident in the record of the last four years.

America is more prosperous, America is happier, than it was four years ago.

We like to see roads springing up everywhere because we are certain that as you people from all countries come to visit us, and we come to meet you, there is going to be nothing but good come out of it.

My friends, an enlightened trade policy in the international world for the United States means only this: we are trying to build a bridge, a permanent bridge, that will connect a growing and widely-shared prosperity at home with international peace.

We have been working to develop the whole country.

We can lift our total annual output from the current level of about 340 billion dollars to nearly 100 billion dollars higher--in real terms.

Studies of regional economic problems can be a valuable aid in development of national economic policies and I hope that this study of New England's long-run problems will contribute to future planning for the economic growth and progress of the nation.