Lyndon Johnson

But its will will be worked and the bill will be passed in due time, I believe.

Competition has always been the hallmark of our free enterprise system.

We have made great progress.

In the past year, the Commission has received 9,000 complaints about job discrimination.

I am pleased to ask you to come here to be with us today when we put into the hands of the Federal Government a new weapon to preserve the strength of our economy.

They place an unnecessary burden on our citizens.

Justice demands it and I think the American people have always, when they know all the facts and they get the truth, done what is fair, what is right, and what is just.

I think you can observe from the papers each day what is happening.

I will tell you in my State of the Union Message our program for the next session of Congress.

I am having the Council of Economic Advisers study the statement that Ford released.

So I can testify to his ability.

We have pledged to do our part by reducing low-priority Federal spending.

We have an enforcement arm.

The results of these spiraling interest rates are threefold:

I assure them, all present this morning including the regulatory agencies, and the people of this country, that the executive branch of the Government is going to take whatever action it can in an attempt to drive down interest rates.

I think that when the heads of the nations come together it is always necessary to have an agenda and to have the matter pretty well planned out in advance.

We must attack inflation on all fronts.

I think that the Congress, through the Appropriations Committee and Authorizations Committee, have had very full details on our expenditures, in men, money, and materiel in Vietnam.

I applaud the Congress for its action on the bill that I am signing today, and I urge prompt action on the remaining recommendations.

I have urged labor in this country--and will do so again and again in the days to come--and management to exercise prudence and restraint in their wage and price decisions.

I didn't have any timetable.

A few weeks ago, in an effort to curb the competitive rate race between banks and thrift institutions which were competing for savings, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reduced the ceiling rates of…

The executive branch of the Government is going to take whatever action it can in an attempt to drive down interest rates, in an attempt to keep our dollar sound, and in an attempt to match our expenditures with revenues.

Well, one became vacant yesterday, the Under Secretary, Mr. Ball.

I am glad to see you here.