You have been very generous and we appreciate all the presents and we will try to make sure that your visit to Washington brings useful results.

There must be equality of opportunity for all modes and for all passengers and shippers, without any special preferences.

I urge that action be taken to establish such a policy.

I remember there is a picture of Abraham Lincoln welcoming your predecessors to the East Room and I am delighted to welcome you to the Rose Garden 100 years later.

As representatives of the Indian tribes, I am carrying on a tradition begun by George Washington.

I urge that the Congress give prompt consideration to these proposals.

We have done something about this through the ARA, through other programs, through public works programs, but not enough.

One of the things which concerned us most was the fact that there were nearly 5,000 Indian boys and girls who had no school to go to.

In my message to the Congress last year, I pointed out that the basic objective of our transportation system must be to assure the availability of fast, safe and economical transportation services needed in a growing and changing economy…

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, in consonance with the joint resolution of Congress approved August 28, 1962 (76 Stat. 407), do hereby invite the people of the United States to observe the…

I express my thanks to you all and I hope that in our time we will do as well as those who have been before us.