Lyndon Johnson

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

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?

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

This morning I want to talk about the primary business of government: public order.

When individuals or groups attack the public order--for whatever reason--they must be stopped.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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…

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.

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

By experience we have learned what must be done to assure agriculture a fair share of an increasing national income, to provide consumers with abundant supplies of food and fiber, to stop waste of soil, and to reduce the gap between huge…

I recommend that the Congress approve the District budget and revenue measures for fiscal 1969.

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