If we serve them better now, they will serve their nation better when the burdens are theirs alone.
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Special Message to the Congress on the Nation's Youth.
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I think that by the time this Congress goes home, in the sense of next summer, that in the fields of education, mental health, taxes, civil rights, this is going to be a record that is going to be--however dark it looks now, I think that 'westward, look, the land is bright,' and I think that by next summer it may be.
But there are other troubles besetting the human family. Many of its members live in poverty and misery and despair.
And I think that--the governmental standards, let me say, on the whole I think compare favorably with those in Washington, with those in some other parts of America.
I congratulate you, the people of Delaware, the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States.





