Today, we begin to be masters of our environment.

No one has a right to use America's rivers and America's waterways that belong to all the people as a sewer.

I am pleased with this opportunity for the United States to participate with Japan in the joint solution of health problems which will have worldwide benefits.

Now, Therefore, I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby extend through the year 1966 the period during which all persons are specially invited to see the United States, visit our historic shrines, our…

I, Lyndon B. Johnson, President of the United States of America, do hereby extend through the year 1966 the period during which all persons are specially invited to see the United States, visit our historic shrines, our natural wonders…

The ultimate victory of reclaiming this portion of our national heritage really rests in the hands of all the people of America, not just the Government here in Washington.

This sort of carelessness and selfishness simply ought to be stopped; and more, it just must be reversed.

There is no excuse for a river flowing red with blood from slaughterhouses.

But we must act, and act swiftly.

With the signing of the Water Quality Act of 1965 this morning, I pledge you that we are going to reopen the Potomac for swimming by 1975.

There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

Today, we proclaim our refusal to be strangled by the wastes of civilization.

I believe that with your help and your continued cooperation, water pollution is doomed in this century.

Increasing educational opportunity is only one of the ways that we human beings must meet the pressing demands of the times.

The long period of large United States deficits has come to an end.

We must begin now to provide machinery for the creation of additional reserves.

The job of building sound and effective institutions for financing world trade is never finished.

I want to be very clear about this, because we must, in our own interest and in the interest of those who rely on the dollar as a reserve currency, maintain our payments in equilibrium.

This year, with the help of your organization and many other friends of education, Congress enacted its crowning achievement in education--the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

That Pennsylvania Avenue will be redeveloped is inevitable.

In the last 2 years, we have enacted--the last 22 months since I have been President-we have passed through the House and the Senate and this President has signed 24 major measures to improve education in America.

Under the provisions of this legislation, more than 5 1/2 million schoolchildren in areas of poverty throughout this Nation from coast to coast will be helped.

I direct the appropriate officials of the Government to arrange for the display of the flag of the United States on all public buildings on Veterans Day.

I still think of myself as one, though my classroom career was momentarily interrupted about 35 years ago.

You are thinking to the future, you are moving ahead, you are anticipating the problems of the 20th century, and you are finding solutions to them.