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.

Industry is moving to meet its responsibilities.

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

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 determined that it will be better controlled.

There is no substitute that we can find for that.

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.

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.

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

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

We are asking him to attack the root causes of violence and turmoil--poverty, disease, ignorance, and hopelessness.

Mr. Secretary, on behalf of your fellow Americans, all of them, your country salutes you.

I predict that 20 years from now another President will stand here someday and say: 'A revolution of achievement in the developing nations began with the appointment of Robert S. McNamara to the World Bank in 1968.'

A perfect year for this program would consist of no expenditures--no disasters.

I am giving the world the very best that we have to win the most important war of all.

Every American should make a habit of regular eye examinations.

I recommend that the Congress begin hearings at the earliest possible date to extend the Food and Agriculture Act of 1965.

For the prosperity of the farmer is of concern to all—from the factory worker who makes the tools and machines the farmer buys, to the family who buys the food and fiber the farmer grows, and to the whole economy which is strengthened by a…

Like any sound businessman, the agricultural producer seeks a fair return for his efforts and his risks.

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning March 3, 1968, as Save Your Vision Week.

The District budget for 1969 requests funds to combat the urgent and complex problems being experienced by all the major cities of our Nation.

Through careful and thoughtful development of this budget, the reorganized District Government has shown that it can conduct the public's business efficiently and judiciously with active public participation.

Those who act in time can often protect the irreplaceable gift of eyesight.