My friends, I am on a hurried trip, and I hope you will allow me to thank each of you for coming out for these few minutes, so that I might greet you--to bring you greetings from your Government, to gain the inspiration that I always gain…

And I want to pledge, here and now, that this kind of effort will have the support of the Federal Government as long as I am connected with it.

It is because our citizens have taken direct responsibility for their schools and colleges that, through the years, American education has flourished.

I deeply believe that the primary responsibility for meeting these problems must lie with the States and local communities, and that the Federal Government should strengthen and not interfere with State administration of education.

In my judgment, we have in this program a great opportunity to meet the needs of education in our country.

I am convinced that the people of the United States will develop programs of effective action.

It is not the fault of science if it is used wickedly.

The second is that I am privileged to push a button--and of course, this being a scientific thing, you couldn't do it by just pulling a cord--this is very scientifically done, this dedication.

And in so doing, it is my high privilege to dedicate this facility of the Bureau of Standards to the welfare of humanity--in America and throughout the world.

But here, inside this building, we have a frontier possibly of even greater romantic value as well as greater material value to us than were some of the discoveries of those days.

Each agency shall establish and maintain a separate Official Personnel Folder for each of its employees who is employed under the Civil Service Rules and Regulations.

Now, Therefore, I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do call upon the people of our Nation to observe the week beginning October 3, 1954, as National Employ the Physically Handicapped Week, and to cooperate…