The launching of Medicare is a historic undertaking.

I am concerned not only that we be ready to launch Medicare on July 1.

I don't think that we must ever be satisfied in this growing, adventuresome country of America with the status quo.

That is what I would like to do.

That is what Medicare is all about.

I want you to spare no effort to raise that percentage as high as possible.

We are never going to stop trying to find new ways to make Medicare sensitive to what our people need.

So I plead with every American to go and talk to your neighbors, because there are 1,300,000 of them that are going to miss the boat; there are 1,300,000 of them who should get their rights under the law now.

So social security benefits which are the main source of their income still need to be increased, and they will be increased in the years ahead.

You can now have self-respect and still provide for your medical bills and your medicine, your nursing care, and things of that kind.

But they are not equal if they don't have a chance to read and write, and they don't have a chance for a doctor to take care of their teeth or their eyes when they are little and their parents don't know about it.

I am convinced that we must reexamine on a broad scale our nation's use of health manpower.

I submit to Congress the International Health Act of 1966.

Further, I call upon this Nation to rededicate itself to the ideals of the inter-American system, as embodied in the Charter of the Organization of the American States, and to the goals of economic and social progress of the Charter of…

I call upon my fellow countrymen to renew their commitment to our neighbors in this hemisphere, and to reaffirm that commitment by support for the Organization of American States.

We in the United States stand ready to help the peoples of Latin America in making these dreams become a reality.

On this anniversary, the United States strongly reaffirms its own continuing commitment to the common task of building a Western Hemisphere of economic abundance and political freedom in which every individual will have his full and…

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Thursday, April 14, 1966, as Pan American Day, and the week beginning April 10 and ending April 16 as Pan American Week.

Through the teacher's hands pass all members of every profession.

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including Section 201(a) (2) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, do proclaim that:

So we are here today to honor a woman who makes democracy work.

She has taken nature and beauty by one hand, and boys and girls by the other, and she has made them dance together in a happy circle of understanding and respect.

I, through my duly empowered representative, have entered into a trade agreement with the United Kingdom entitled the 'Interim Agreement Between the United States and the United Kingdom Relating to the Renegotiation of Schedule XX (United…

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed

The teacher is the real soldier of democracy.