Ninety-two percent of all the Republicans voted against it, and it was killed.

A President of the United States, as Harry Truman has said, wears many hats.

When I became President of the United States in January 1961, this State had one of the largest numbers of unemployed in the whole country, nearly 500,000 people.

Of all the extraordinary feats, I think the first voyage of Columbus must go down as perhaps the most unusual.

I want to express my thanks to all of you for having been kind enough to invite, on this great day in this city, the President of the United States.

So I come today not as a candidate for office, but as one who, after 21 months as President, recognizes how important it is that this great country of ours be dynamic and progressive, and I ask your help in giving us men who believe in…

Now this is not a partisan statement.

Education, medical care for the aged, job opportunities, equal rights--those are the things that this country stands for, and we can get those things only if we elect men who believe in them.

This act is, therefore, an important new weapon to advance the cause of freedom.

I am delighted to approve H.R. 7927, which is a bill adjusting postal rates, reforming Federal white-collar statutory salary systems, and establishing a standard for adjusting annuities under the Civil Service Retirement Act.

This is the most important international piece of legislation, I think, affecting economics since the passage of the Marshall plan.