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

In the long run, perhaps the Peace Corps' most significant contribution will be made at home.

This administration is trying to do something about those things.

Jack Brooks made a speech not long ago when he said, 'What we seek is not security from the cradle to the grave, but what we seek is opportunity from the cradle to the grave--for every citizen.'

Might alone cannot bring peace.

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.

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

So you see, actually when you take everything else into consideration, I am leading a rather tranquil and somewhat united party, by comparison.

It is important that every citizen have a personal stake in the preservation of order.

Now that is what I am trying so hard to do. I am trying to make it work.

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

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

I am determined that it will be better controlled.

I am sorry that this is so, but until men and nations are content to leave one another in peace it will be so.

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

We cannot return to the time when to be poor was inevitably to be sick--without medical attention.

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

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

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

That makes you people very important people.

Your own distinguished chairman, Governor Volpe, has said that this is the best working relationship that the Federal Government and the States have had together.

Then I called President Eisenhower and asked him if I could go by and talk with him because I needed his counsel and I needed the strength that comes from it.

Like all partnerships, sometimes we grow restless in that arrangement, as partners frequently do.

Can your State employment service-which will implement this program at the local level--find the hard-core unemployed to fill the jobs and help negotiate $350 million worth of contracts in the next 16 months?

The availability of health care--and the means to obtain it--is another element in maintaining a decent public order.