Manila will help us in our planning, it is true.
We have come to this historic East Room of the White House today to establish and to bring into being a Department of Transportation.
We can help, we can lead the way, but the ultimate solution rests in the initiative and resolution of the individual States themselves.
Helping America's cities is one of our chief goals.
This, in effect, is another coonskin on the wall.
People look to us for leadership because they know what we have done at home.
We must be realistic.
Yet tonight there are more than 2,700,000 major crimes being committed in this Nation every year.
They form a large part of my daily schedule.
This Nation can mount a major military effort on the other side of the globe, and we can transfer hundreds of thousands of men 10,000 miles ...
This great Nation of ours was built on a foundation of respect--respect from all the citizens--for law and order in all the States.