It is my conviction that advances in research, services, and programming in the area of mental retardation make it imperative that a concerted effort be undertaken now to prevent and alleviate this serious condition affecting nearly 6…

This belongs to all of you and because it is so intimately connected with the best in American history.

Therefore, I have asked Dr. Stafford Warren, my Special Assistant on Mental Retardation, to call a State-Federal Conference on Mental Retardation.

We want you to feel very much at home.

A meeting to coordinate and plan a concerted attack on the problem would seem to me desirable and of great benefit to the whole Nation.

Our investment in new citizens has always been a valuable source of our strength.

The use of a national origins system is without basis in either logic or reason.

Mental illness is not incurable.

This Nation stands on the brink of a nationwide rail strike that would, in very short order, create widespread economic chaos and distress.

The pending railroad dispute is likely the first of many, and a comprehensive long-range policy will be needed.

Congress acted promptly and effectively; and the Supreme Court (Wilson vs. New, 243 U.S. 332, 333, 342, 1917), emphasizing the fact that the nature of the railroad industry required both employers and employees to defer to regulation in…

Our Constitution already assures us of these rights does not entitle us to stand aloof from documents which project our own heritage on an international scale.

In the absence either of an agreement, postponement or reversal of position on the part of the parties, or of enactment of some contrary measure on the part of the Congress, July 29 will almost certainly witness the start of a general rail…

Our task as a nation, to use the phrase of the Commission report, is simply to make sure that this public blessing is not a private curse.

No responsible government could accept the present situation with complacency.

The United States cannot afford to renounce responsibility for support of the very fundamentals which distinguish our concept of government from all forms of tyranny.

The cost to the national interest of an extended nation-wide rail strike is clearly intolerable.

It is increasingly clear that our Western European allies are willing to look outward on the world, not merely in at their own needs and demands.

In the last 10 years, the gross national product of the NATO nations has risen by some 75 percent.

We must strengthen our efforts in such fields as monetary payments, foreign assistance, and agriculture.

It is increasingly clear that the United States and Western Europe are tightly bound by shared goals and mutual respect.

It is increasingly clear that our Western European allies are committed to the path of progressive democracy--to social justice and economic reform attained through the free processes of debate and consent.

Our negotiations for an end to nuclear tests and our opposition to nuclear dispersal are fully consistent with our attention to defense.

The central moving force of our great adventure is enduring mutual trust.

NATO is one of the best and earliest examples of cooperation between Western Europe and the North American nations for the common good of freedom.