Lyndon Johnson

We also want school breakfasts for children who would otherwise start their day with empty stomachs.

The second barrier is racial discrimination.

I pledge to you tonight that the Federal Government will not be a silent partner in this enterprise.

A year ago today I wrote you of my desire to improve the Federal Government's employee safety programs.

We must build the Great Society in our cities, and in our countryside, and in our classrooms.

They may delay us, but I warn them and I pledge you they will never deter or or defeat us.

Who--and what--are their targets?

I should now like to receive by May 1, 1966, from the head of each executive department and agency a summary report of developments in 1965.

I am not describing a distant Utopia, but I am describing the kind of education which must be the great and the urgent work of our time.

It is a tribute to the Congress, to the individual citizens of the State, and to the thousands of State and Federal personnel who worked so diligently following the disaster that Alaska has today substantially recovered from the earthquake…

And I came up here to Atlantic City tonight to tell you that this is only the beginning of what we're going to do in the field of education.

I said that we must build the Great Society in our cities, and in our countryside, and in our classrooms.

It is my earnest hope that purchases and holdings of U.S. Savings Bonds will rise substantially--both through signing up new buyers and through increased support from those who already are buying bonds.

I am returning with my approval your proposal to increase the interest rate on all United States Series E and H Savings Bonds.

Even this latter figure represents only a small part of the total recovery programs provided by the Federal Government under the various disaster relief authorities.

My budget this year proposes a $10 billion investment in education and training.

I believe that this increase will insure a fair rate to all those patriotic Americans who buy U.S. Savings Bonds.

We cannot hold freedom less dear in Asia than in Europe or be less willing to sacrifice for men whose skin just happens to be a different color!

We can do no less to bar inflation, improve fiscal management, and keep faith with millions of investors.

In other words, while we are winning a war, we must get at the defects that caused it.

I want those great benefits to continue.

Therefore I am sending Congress five top priority requests.

It is hard to teach a hungry child.

We will not completely drive out the aggressor until we make a start at eliminating these political and social defects.

I came up here to Atlantic City tonight to tell you that this is only the beginning of what we're going to do in the field of education.