I have seen young officers and enlisted men who have contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars out of their own pockets to build schools and community centers, roads, orphanages for the people of South Vietnam.

The speedy resolution of America's chronic and worsening traffic jams is far too urgent a matter to be stalled any longer by legislative or bureaucratic logjams, and I will continue my own determined efforts to keep it moving ahead.

He built well. He built to last.

This great giant is now awake--100 million people, unlimited natural resources, developing now not only on the coast, the beautiful cities that we all know, but developing, due to the leadership of our guest of honor tonight and those who have worked with him, developing the heartland of the country through highways and cities and exploration such as was only dreamed of before, but now is being actually done.

Railroad-highway grade crossing safety is not a simple issue.

I have always believed, and today reaffirm my belief, that the Capital area must have the balanced, modern transportation system which they will comprise.

I again propose the creation of an Environmental Financing Authority so that every municipality has an opportunity to sell its waste treatment plant construction bonds.

I propose that $6 billion in Federal funds be authorized and appropriated over the next three years to provide the full Federal share of a $12 billion program of waste treatment facilities.

We have been particularly concerned with increases in the costs of construction.

It is essential that our railroads continue to operate.

More than half of the Indians obtain water from contaminated or potentially dangerous sources, and use waste disposal facilities that are grossly inadequate.

We have set out to rebuild our cities on a scale that has never been attempted before.

On October 15, I signed the Department of Transportation bill, which established that Department.

The first of these two measures, the model cities program, recognizes that our cities are made of people, not just bricks and mortar.

Clean streets and clean rivers--could anything really be more basic to a Great Society?

To make this promise a reality, your country is planning a desalting installation larger than any that now exists anywhere.

Our goal--the goal of both the Congress and the Administration--must continue to be a regional system of rapid rail transit.

Rural electrification wasn't an isolated event in our history.