If your education falters or fails, everything else that we attempt as a Nation will fail.

Secretary Gardner flew down to visit me yesterday afternoon and we spent some time reviewing various plans and proposals in the area of health, education, and welfare.

A great counselor of mine said to me, 'You can take a good law and give it bad administration and it won't work.'

Like the problem of the cities, water pollution can no longer be attacked piecemeal.

President Johnson pledged his continued strong support for this policy.

It is better to do it there than it is in Honolulu.

I just stated that as a policy of this Government.

Under the old system, even Christopher Columbus would have found it difficult to come to this country--simply because Christopher Columbus was born in Italy.

I think that we will have to see what the Congress appropriates, what our review indicates.

I think you can be reasonably sure if no action is concluded between now and the State of the Union Message that I will have recommendations in that field.

If we can't, we will take other measures. It may be more costly.

Never before, except in mobilizing for war, I think, has any government made such extensive preparations for any undertaking as we have made in connection with medical care.

In a few days I am going to write a letter to the Secretary of HEW asking him to set up a very special group to make a very special study about what we can do in the twilight period of peoples' lives in this country.

We simply cannot allow that to happen.

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

Anything which touches the lives of so many citizens asks for Government action.

Our policies are moving forward according to schedule.

Our policy is devoted to that end.