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

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

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

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…

I hope this year, therefore, that you will join in this great national effort, this great national crusade through the United Way and give.

It will make your community a happier place; it will make you a happier person, and in the real sense your community is your country.

I express my thanks to all who are working in it, and I think that includes 180 million Americans.

One of the oldest traditions in the United States has been the sense of responsibility which we have felt as a people for our less fortunate neighbors.

It will make our country a finer place in which to live.

There are several million Americans who are voluntarily working to maintain this program.

This country has a strong tradition of individual self-reliance, but we also recognize that there are people who, through no fault of their own, need our help.