It affirms our determination that when women enter the labor force they will find equality in their pay envelopes.

I am delighted today to approve the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which prohibits arbitrary discrimination against women in the payment of wages.

State, city and University officials have reported that, if you were to stay away from the campus, thus fulfilling your legal duty, there is little danger of any disorder being incited which the local town and campus authorities could not…

This measure adds to our laws another structure basic to democracy.

I hope that all of you carry away a fuller understanding of all our various cultures, most of which are older than the United States.

Equally important, I hope you carry away a better idea of the genuine warmth of friendship for other peoples on which the free world community is founded.

As citizens of that community, you are, as the result of your studies here, better prepared to meet its burdens and its opportunities.

The principles which guided the Government of the United States in establishing the Center are common to all of us in the community of nations now participating in this program.

My warm congratulations to each of the students who is today completing his rich experience at the East and West Center.

We will stay here so briefly, but we will go back to Washington knowing that this country is still all that it is and all that it will be.

I want to express a very warm aloha at being back here in Hawaii, and to tell you that I come from another part of the United States, 6,000 miles away, and we are proud of this city and this State and what it stands for.