I can assure you that there is no area of life where you will have an opportunity to use whatever powers you have, and to use them along more excellent lines, bringing ultimately, I think, happiness to you and those whom you serve.

This will enable the Congress to consider further measures after some experience with the program has accumulated.

These islands are part of our American heritage.

The construction of urgently needed facilities for training physicians, dentists, nurses, and other professional health personnel can now begin.

With the accelerated national effort initiated by this act, better use will be made of the wealth of new medical knowledge now being gathered in research laboratories throughout the land to maintain and improve the health of our growing…

In any case, I appreciate very much your coming out and welcoming us back.

The precise manner in which these resources are used, land and water, is of the greatest importance.

I would like to sign this act because it is one of the most significant health measures passed by the Congress in recent years.

We will be able to provide to those most frequently in need of medical care--the aged, the chronically ill, the mentally ill, and the mentally retarded--more of the kind of attention that modern medicine makes possible.

I do hereby call upon the people of the United States to observe the week beginning October 20, 1963, as National Forest Products Week

I pledge you the cooperation of the Federal Government.