Lyndon Johnson

It concerns every American.

Let special emphasis this year be placed on making known the contributions that older Americans are making to our welfare.

The danger comes not from those who have something to lose, but from those who feel that they have nothing to lose.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate the month of May 1968 as Senior Citizens Month.

I transmit to the Congress the Sixth Annual Report of the Peace Corps--an idea come of age, no longer a novelty but now a part of American life.

This, then, is the Peace Corps: seven years old and still growing.

I am requesting you to resume collective bargaining negotiations on an around the clock basis with the assistance of the Secretaries of Defense, Labor, and Commerce and the members of the mediation panel.

I think you get old because you give up things.

I proposed the Intergovernmental Manpower Act--to help you train specialists and administrators, and to let us exchange some of our best people--on a temporary basis-so that they might learn to work more effectively together.

I am determined that it will be better controlled.

There are pressing and obvious needs in the fight against lawlessness: better trained, better paid, and more effective police forces; fairer and more efficient systems of criminal justice; and--tragically--better means of responding when…

I am asking Acting Secretary Wilbur Cohen to get this effort underway immediately.

By 1975, State and local government employment will grow to 11 million.

Industry is moving to meet its responsibilities.

Bob McNamara's career is just about the textbook example of the modern public servant.

I AM delighted to welcome you once again to this house.

Sunday a week ago I spent the most delightful day, I think, that I have had since I became President.

Every Governor must commit the influence and power of his office to the fight.

Today will certainly have proved one thing to you. Washington is an exciting town.

The war on crime cannot and should not be directed from the Nation's Capital.

We, the leaders, the Chief Executives of America, have a responsibility to all America.

There is no substitute that we can find for that.

The responsibility of government is inescapable here, just as in the control of crime.

Since then, only half of the States have taken advantage of Federal assistance to set up these commissions.

I proposed the Public Service Education Act aimed at increasing the number of good students who choose careers in government.